I was planning to do this meme, because Belvane asked.
… however, I will do it on my own terms, and rather than give straight, simple answers, I will natter on and prevaricate. She should know me enough by now to expect that.
Five people I love who aren’t family:
Removing the obvious ones is totally cheating, I think, but someone’s already set the precedent. Leaving out kin, lovers and the handful of friends that make life endurable, and you wander into a vague list of nice people that you admire. Let’s see if I can make that more entertaining by going for the obscure picks.
- Nehama – best neighbour I’ve ever had.
- Ami Berenstein – my remarkably passionate high school biology teacher.
- Ophir – because I could hug him, bullshit with him about anything, and count on his awesome drive to make me do things I would never find the energy to do myself.
- Asi and Itay – each my best friend at a tender age, each still close to my heart.
Five things I can’t live without:
I’m supposed to go with a list of ideals that bare my emotional core, like “Love” or “Internet access”? Well, I think I’m pretty sure I can live without a whole lot of things I wouldn’t like to live without. But there are places where I draw the line.
- Modern western toilets – when I went through the army, I remember I told my brother I’d rather serve in armoured cavalry than in the artillery corps.
Are you crazy?
he said,you want to get burned up alive in a tank?
Well, I answered, they have normal toilets in basic training.
Nuff said. - Escape – the ability to get away from reality, whether through messing with stories in my head or running the weekly RPG session. Need this.
- Putting down “Electricity” is cheating, right? So instead I’ll go with the most mundane indespensable and put down “hairbrush”.
- Last technology item: Car. Trumps cellphone, and probably even Internet. Getting places is apparently more important than communicating with the world.
- Oh heck. Love. Can live without it, but that’s life with no axis to center it.
Five foods/drinks I love:
If you skip family in loved ones, I really ought to skip chocolate, ice-cream, hummus and steaks here. So:
- Mangoes – yes they stink. But it’s a heavenly stink.
- Watermelon
- Water – the ultimate drink deserves its due.
- Schnitzel – because this list needs something fried and fatty to keep it honest. And meat trumps potatoes.
- Trifle!
Five things I always have with me:
Again, trying to dodge the obvious stuff (wallet, keys, cellphone):
- A few sheets of A4 paper folded together in half, printed on one side with a proof of some story for the Tenth Dimension, and with the other side scrawled with a few key words, notes from one RPG session or other. I usually have 2-3 of these.
- A pen, unless someone pinched it.
- The last two bills I paid.
- In the past year, I started carrying deodorant. And a book.
- The ring belongs on this list, even if it isn’t polite to mention.
Five things I will forever hate:
- Fundementalism, narrow-mindedness, and all that.
- Boss talks.
- Powerpoint attachments (most Office document formats have their horrors, but let’s pick one).
- The IRS. Evil bureaucracy in general, but I think the IRS is the scariest, even if there are more annoying examples.
- Being rushed.
- Being too quiet, being too loud, saying something that sets off an awkward silence, being a wimp, being a klutz, being angry, being violent, being dismissed. Being, in general.
Yes, I know that was six. I got on a roll.
Five people to be tagged:
Hasn’t everyone else already done this meme?