Caterwauling

RPM rides again:

1. Are there any foods you do not allow yourself to eat, even though you love them?
Lord, I should. Because moderation is not my friend — I have to deprive myself because I do not have the slightest inclination of how to approach self-control. I figure, life’s hard enough without feeling depressed and hungry and deprived of basic pleasures while you’re plodding through it.

2. Have you attended any of your high school or college reunions?
I wouldn’t set foot into a high school reunion. I got a very enthusiastic e-mail a few years back from an old classmate about our 10-year, and I was pleased as punch to be in the middle of moving to D.C. (from Pittsburgh) on that very date.

College is a different story, although I would rather just get together with some of the old clique rather than do a mass reunion. I sometimes go to events my college sponsors in D.C., where they bring current students to meet alumni. Well, I go to see my old professors rather than see overly tanned 21-year-olds in belly shirts, giggling and acting as stupid as I hope I didn’t back then.

Actually, going back to high school cliques. There were four of us who were friends who had agreed to meet 10 years from a particular date, at a particular hangout. It was a “just in case we fall out of touch” thing. So help me, I was already in D.C. and not making a special trip back to see them when, even as we made the pact to come back, I knew deep in my heart that I would never in a million years keep that date. And I have never really wondered whether any of them had made the effort, either. I hope their lives turned out the way they wanted them to, but I wasn’t inclined to find out.

3. If you could trade lives with another blogger for a week, who would you pick?
Amalah, no question. As if she’d give up that delicious, delicious baby for a whole week, though!

4. What’s your favorite thing to do on a chilly, drizzly day?
Shop or go to a movie. Rain depresses me to death these days — I used to love it but then after I was unemployed for awhile, it only served to make the world look even more dismal. Unlike the weekdays where I long to be near a window, a rainy weekend is just cause for suspending one’s disbelief at the local AMC or for taking home pretty, shiny things to distract from the gloom and doom at hand.

5. What kind of cell phone do you have?
Motorola ROKR. I’d heard mixed reviews on it but, all in all, it works for me. My only bitch to pitch is that I can’t use any of the 100 songs I store on the thing as ringtones — I not only have to buy the music to listen to, but I also have to buy it AGAIN as a ringtone.

6. Describe any piercings or tattoos you have.
Just one in each lobe and a cartilage piercing at the top of my left ear. The last one was sort of a quarter-century crisis thing.

7. What is your ideal 10-day vacation?
Luxury hotel. Spa service. Good food. Fresh air, sunshine, water. Great shopping — little unique boutiques make me so very happy. Not a whisper of e-mail, voice mail or any reminder of what I was trying to escape in the first place.

8. How many umbrellas do you own?
I’ve lost all but one.

9. What is one thing you’ve learned over the past 24 hours? That ABC is CRUEL for having a two-hour “Grey’s Anatomy” season finale tonight when I usually watch “24” and “Medium.” I’m already not happy that I never get to watch “What About Bryan”!

During the past 72 hours? I learned that even I can still be surprised. And that baby blue is really my color. 😉 I also learned that forgetting your cell phone in the office is fine if you at least remember to take home your building-access card. Othewise, you’d be screwed. Just sayin’. LOL

10. Ask me something.
What personal possession would we have to pry from your dead, cold hands that you couldn’t possibly live without?

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