(chuckle) I've been tagged (also: new challenge grant)

by Diane Duane

(Just a quick note: Those of you who’ve been following the Big Meow situation may want to know that there’s a new challenge grant up and running now, courtesy of another [for the moment] mysterious donor who’s put up USD $1000 for other donors to meet. Details here at the Big Meow weblog.)

Meanwhile, I see that I’ve been tagged by Gerard at Presurfer. I’ve been fived!

The Five Things Tag

What were you doing ten years ago?
*Just coming back from our first Fasnacht in Switzerland. (We couldn’t make it this year, too much work pressure…annoying. Otherwise I’d be in Basel right this minute, sleeping off the Morgestraich.) Probably also writing the ST novel Intellivore and the Feline Wizards book The Book of Night with Moon, and finishing work on my final Spider-Man book.

What were you doing one year ago?
* March 6th of ’05…Blogging about the taxonomy of biscuits, apparently. (See, this is what blogging is good for….)

Five snacks you enjoy:
* Chocolate (in nearly any form, with a definite preference for Lindt bittersweet and the little hot praline waffles from what’s its face in Brugge)
* Wise potato chips (…enjoy them entirely too much, in fact. It’s probably a good thing I can’t get at them that often.)
* Goldfish crackers
* Pretzels
* Bacon rinds (of the Bac-N-Ets variety)

Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:
This is an area where I don’t particularly shine. However:
*”The Star-Spangled Banner” (having once very much impressed a bunch of sozzled Swiss soldiers with it: they asked me to teach it to them, as they really liked the high notes, at which they excelled. “It’s originally a drinking song,” I said. “It helps to be drunk.” Fortunately we were all most of the way there already…)
*Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”: but only in German
*The aria “Sempre libera” from the opera La Traviata
*The Oscar Meier Wiener Song
*The English-language version of “I’m A Pioneer” from the second season of Tenchi Muyo. (It’d make a great theme song for a “Young Wizards” TV series…)

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
* Dump a whole lot of that money onto various children’s, animal and cancer charities
* Buy houses in Leukerbad, Chur and Geneva, a townhouse in New York and an apartment in Paris, a hill house in LA, and a house in Ireland (you practically have to be a millionaire to do that these days…)
* Charter this boat for an entire summer of cruising the Med with an ever-changing crowd of friends (Protagonist 3 sleeps 11. We saw her in the harbor at Hydra some years back, and I fell in lurrrrrve with her. A big girl’s toy!)
* Buy a ticket on Virgin Galactic
* Take a year off to meditate

Five things you like doing:
* Gardening
* Eating out in a restaurant I’ve never been to before
* Watching TV with Peter
* Staring with thinly-disguised satisfaction at a finished book
* Sitting by the fire and watching it snow (cognac optional)

Five things you would never wear again:
* The fake chinchilla coat that was really soft and cozy and warm and made me look like a linebacker
* A student nurse’s cloak with the cross-straps across the front
* Come to think of it, a nurse’s cap. Starching those things is a nuisance
* A gym suit
* Shoes with pointy toes (I can’t wait for that fashion fad to go away. I hates it, my precioussss…)

Five favorite toys:
* My Sony Clié
* Ryoh-Ohki I…
* …and Ryoh-Ohki II, my Sharp laptops (even if I is still mostly dysfunctional due to having sake poured into the keyboard)
* My iPod
* My Nokia 6600

…And now I have to tag five other bloggers. Oh me…

I choose:
*Ailbhe
*Anita
*Nic
*AC
*Dónal

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