Daily Blague

It was an awfully pleasant surprise to read through MS Smith's response to the following meme, which I would call Sum, because it's a lovely pun in this context, and find my own name at the bottom!

• I am writing every day. When I am not writing, I am thinking how whatever it is that I am doing would look in prose. Curiously, this doesn't make me self-conscious: the focus is on what I'm doing or what it's doing to me. I, as such, hardly exist.
• I want a couple of weeks in Saltaire.  
• I wish that you would think twice before turning on the TV. 
• I hate multitasking. It's a mirage, snake-oil, nonsense. 
• I love Paris. Also a few people whom I won't embarrass. 
• I miss going to debutante parties. Mine was a shallow, carefree youth. Actually, it was as wretched as anybody's, but at deb parties, I perked up. I only went to two.
• I fear the malignities of the Internet and other networks. I live in dread of viruses, glitches, outages, blackouts.
• I hear Keith Jarrett at the Cellar Door Sessions, which I know about thanks to the gent who tagged me.
• I wonder where we come from, but it stops at wonder. If you think you know, don't tell me.
• I regret not taking better care of myself when I was young.
• I am not good with numbers. If you remember BASIC, then my saying that I read figures as strings rather than as numbers may shed some light on the problem.
• I dance in the foyer with Kathleen whenever Dave Brubeck's cover of "Stardust" starts to play.
• I sing much less than I whistle. Strangely, my whistling does not drive Kathleen crazy; she rather likes it.
• I cry all the time, particularly at happy endings.
• I am not always as civil as I ought to be.
• I make with my hands breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I also do a hell of a lot of typing.
• I write exclusively at my desktop, at my desk. I have a laptop, but I find the larger keyboard far more convenient, and, perhaps because I'm getting older, writing is something that I do in one place. On a very nice day, it's nice to write at the table on the balcony, but it's even nicer to read, or just to sit and listen to the city.
• I confuse "right" and "left" all the time. See? I just put "left" to the right of "right."
• I need a part-time librarian to help me with my books. I can't find anything.
• I should keep it down to two martinis at bedtime and work harder on my French. 
• I start conversations whenever possible.
• I finish every book that I read, eventually. 
• I tag Ms NOLA, Tom, Max (on his own or for Amy), and George. But feel free to steal the list.