3 things meme
From Freshcomp.
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY
1. Liz
2. Elizabeth
3. Magoo (after Mr. Magoo, the little cartoon guy who was blind and accidentally drove his car under trucks on a regular basis. My dad has called me this since I was a baby and way before I was driving badly.)
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD
1. milton15 (I was taking a Milton seminar at the time)
2. busy_lizzie (what a ridiculous handle—I regret this one regularly)
3. Liz_Kleinfeld (easy to remember)
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
1. the color of my hair (red)
2. my ability to generally not blow things out of proportion
3. my cooking
THREE THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
1. my need for 8+ hours of sleep every night
2. my deplorable snow-driving skills
3. how creeped out I get by ridiculous horror movies, such as The Exorcist and Scream
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE
1. Irish
2. German
3. Hungarian
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU
1. small spaces with no clear escape route
2. food that has been in the fridge for over a week—even when there’s no visible mold or bad smell, I get the willies from old food
3. the thought of gigantic insects like the ones in the recent remake of King Kong
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS
1. Coffee in the morning.
2. A sun salutation.
3. Sunshine.
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1. T-shirt.
2. Jeans
3. Red Rocks Community College hooded sweatshirt
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS (or artists)
1. Sonic Youth
2. Wilco.
3. Nirvana.
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT
1. “Wise Up” by Aimee Mann.
2. “Nerves” by Terri Hendrix (the XM Kids station plays it all the time and it actually is pretty good).
3. “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (it’s been in my head since I saw the headline on a tabloid a week ago about Joan Jett and Carmen Electra being a new couple).
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS
1. writing a textbook proposal
2. turning part of my dissertation into an article
3. cross-country skiing
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (spoiler at the bottom of this post)
1. I ran the Vancouver Marathon in 2002
2. I always vote Democrat
3. I always score significantly higher on math than on verbal in standardized tests
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN’T DO
1. give George W. Bush the benefit of the doubt
2. stand to have anyone call me Dr. Kleinfeld
3. whistle
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE PASTIMES
1. Hiking
2. Cooking and baking.
3. Relaxing with loved ones and a tasty beverage.
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW
1. sleep
2. figure out a way to extend my spring break
3. overcome my email addiction
THREE CAREERS YOU’RE CONSIDERING
1. English faculty (my current position)
2. caterer
3. retiree (that's the longterm plan)
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION
1. Machu Picchu.
2. Banff.
3. Hawaii
THREE KIDS’ NAMES (that you like or know)
1. Amelia
2. Lily
3. Elvis (if Lily had been born a boy, and if I had gotten to the birth certificate before T, I’d have a son named Elvis)
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE
1. learn to surf
2. go to Barcelona and see some of Gaudi’s work
3. come to terms with death
THREE RECENTLY READ BOOKS
1. What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing by Bob Broad
2. Toward Deprivatized Pedagogy by Diana Bell and Becky Nugent
3. Parenting an Only Child: The Joys and Challenges of Raising Your Young One and Only by Susan Newman
THREE THINGS YOU’RE GOING TO DO THIS WEEKEND
1. hang out with my in-laws (who are visiting from Illinois)
2. fantasize about a longer spring break
3. make waffles
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE spoiler: #2 is a lie. I usually vote Green.
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