Friday’s Feast

Today’s Friday Feast:

Appetizer
List 3 emotions you experienced this week.

1. Nervousness, on Monday, when I had to read aloud to my English class Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est. Being rather introverted, I’m not very fond of having to stand in front of people, with all of the attention on me.
2. Happiness, on Thursday, in my math class. My professor is such a nice guy, and regularly makes jokes / acts silly to keep us interested in the material.
3. A bit of exhiliration, while reading the section of Sharpe’s Tiger which detailed the British assault on the western wall of Seringapatam. It was very well written.

Soup
Name a car you’d love to have.

Totally apathetic. I don’t really care what kind of vehicle I have, as long as it is capable of taking me from point A to point B, and then back to point A.

If I were forced to choose, and gas prices weren’t so outrageous ($3.30/gallon right now where I’m at!), I’d probably get a Hummer. A real Hummer, though, not one of the civilian ones.

Other choices might be:

• An Aston Martin DB5 - If it was good enough for Bond, it would be good enough for me.
• A German WW2 Kubelwagen, simply because I think they’re a neat looking car. They’re supposedly fairly effective, too.

Salad
Describe your typical morning routine.

Get up, take a shower, get dressed. Make a pot of coffee and have a cup or two. Wake my son up, get him dressed, take him to daycare. Come back home, have a bowl of cereal or some other breakfast item, then head off to class. I’ll sometimes, if I have time, have a brief meditation session somewhere in there.

Main Course
Have you ever emailed someone famous? If so, who, and what did you say to them? Did they reply?

I once emailed John Howe, one of the fellows who has done copious amounts of Lord of the Rings artwork. I don’t recall what the email was about - it was some years ago - but I do know that he responded.

Dessert
Do you listen to podcasts? If so, which ones?

Off and on. There are many on my iPod, most of them being German language podcasts. Some include Alltagsdeutsch, as well as Sprachbar. I’m also subscribed to In Our Time. If I could ever figure out how to introduce 15-20 more hours in a day, I’m sure I’d listen to more podcasts than I do.