(Perry and Della – the unbeatable team)
These topic suggestions have egged me on. Such a strange expression – makes me think of someone pelting me with raw eggs to set me in motion.
What’s the best way to find out about new books you might like? Go to the Word Press Home Page and click on the Books topic. Lots of people out there are reading like crazy and sharing their experiences. All of the e-books on my Kindle come from Amazon of course, and the reviews and suggestions there are great. The “customers who bought this item also bought” thing can be very helpful too if you’re looking for books that are similar to, or just as interesting as, the ones you’ve already enjoyed. It never hurts to have friends who read a lot and like to make suggestions. And I love bargain book tables. Although those aren’t piled high with new books, they’re usually new to me and there’s always the possibility of discovering some obscure gem.
How do you spend the majority of your non-work time? Non-working. Eating, sleeping, reading, blogging, playing games, keeping up a house, washing my hair.
If you were going to redecorate your home, what would you change? A better question might be, where would you start? But frankly I’ve spent a lot of years changing things up and around, and now I’m at the point where I don’t really care that much about it anymore. Our house is too big for just the two of us. If we ever move to something smaller I’ll think harder about the whole decorating thing.
Are you an early bird or a night owl? Nope I’m not really either one. I don’t get up excessively early, and I don’t go to bed ridiculously late. So I’m one of those boring intermediate chronotypes with no sleep disorders, unless you count liking sleep a lot as a disorder.
What creeps you out? Unexplainable mystery noises in the dark. The kind of strange sounds you’re not quite sure you actually heard, because they might have been part of a dream, so you listen so hard you stop breathing but you don’t hear anything else. And so you drift back to sleep. And promptly hear something slightly different that could have come from the same unidentifiable source so you have to start the whole listening without breathing process all over again. Or you get up to investigate and make your own mystery noises in the dark because you only knock over extremely cacophonous objects when you’re trying really hard to be quiet.
You can pick one chocolate from the box. What kind of filling do you hope is inside? Deliver me from sweet cream fillings that burn my throat and hard chewy centres that stick to my teeth for three hours. Just give me chocolate covered nuts – in fact, how about a whole box of them so I don’t have to read the quide and try to figure out the pictures and decide what exactly might be inside a Himilayan Pink Salt Peanut Butter Red Velvet Dark Chocolate Truffle From Hell.
What’s your most treasured possession? My brain. Such as it is.
Who are your all time favourite authors? Absolutely impossible to say because I have no idea even where I might begin. Every single person who writes has something to say, ideas to get across, stories to tell, insights to share. If I read a book I particularly like, I’ll always see what else that author has written but it’s not good to get bogged down in any one particular genre. There is brilliance everywhere. And complete garbage too, but how would you recognize the great stuff without the crap?
What were your favourite tv shows when you were a kid? We didn’t get a tv until I was nine years old and then we had only one channel so we watched whatever stupid thing happened to be on. We especially liked staying up later than our normal bedtime to watch a show, which meant that The Ed Sullivan Show and Bonanza (on Sunday nights all the way to ten o’clock) became our favourites by default. Later on I liked to watch Dr. Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare, and argue with my sister about which one was more sexy and swoon-worthy. I liked Perry Mason a lot too, because he never lost a case, and I was convinced that Della Street was the main reason why.
Now seriously, who would not prefer those sexy hairy arms and Ben’s brooding good looks to Dr. Hairless Wonder there on the right who looks like he’s fresh out of grade eight? (My sister isn’t here to defend her heart throb from the ’60’s so I feel like being a bit ruthless). We argued about hockey players too, pretty much just for the sake of arguing because it rarely had anything to do with the game or their hockey skills. And then we moved on to male singers (Mick Jagger vs. Eric Burdon, for example). It’s an endless list for a fun game of ‘have an opinion and defend it, no matter what’. All in the spirit of egging eachother on.
Today I was at the airport around 5:15 a.m. The reason that’s admirable and a bit astounding is that I’m not the one going away. I foolishly mentioned yesterday that I could drive W out there and much to my dismay he accepted my offer and wouldn’t let me retract it. Gawd. Although we were going about 10 klicks over the posted speed limit, at least a dozen taxi cabs went flying past us on the half hour drive, so that when we got to the drop off at departures they were all stopped in every available stopping spot plus blocking traffic to exit the bloody place. What a zoo. His flight to Winnipeg was scheduled to leave at 6:30 a.m., so apparently it’s never too early to get the hell out of Edmonton.
Breathing Space 
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