Me from A to Z
Our Fearless Huntington Sharp not ONLY is a big time video star, but he also throws down a mean meme. Check him out here! Now, I've picked up the challenge...
ME FROM A TO Z
A is for age: 47
B is for beer of choice: Not big on the beer -- I like GOOD stuff. Not from a can. You're buying? You choose.
C is for career right now: Author + UC Berkeley Faculty + Writing Consultant.
D is for your dog's name? TWO! Mollie, the 9-year-old grumpy yellow lab-shepherd mix. Lola, the 2-year-old bounce-a-matic Ripple Rump Retriever: they're very rare. She's the only one anybody has ever seen.
E is for essential item you use everyday: Goddamn #%^%@ computer. And toothbrush.
F is for favorite TV: I don't indulge. (Hey, I'm on the goddamn #%^%@ computer all day, why should I look at another screen?)
G is for favorite game: Backgammon (IRL) and Scrabulous (online). Find me on Facebook. Let's PLAY.
H is for home town: San Francisco and Larkspur, California.
I is for instruments you play: Hawaiian Nose Harp.
J is for favorite juice: Ice juice. (I drink water, get it?)
K is for whose butt you'd like to kick: I'd like to kick Jessica Barksdale Inclan's butt in the Red Room contest (but gently and with grace). (Not that I really have an ultimate chance.) (But it's been fun being in first place for the first few days.) (I know, we have months to go.)
L is for last place you ate: Silver Dragon in Oakland Chinatown. Best old-style Cantonese left in the Bay Area. Try the BBQ pork won ton soup.
M is for marriage: Why, yes I am.
N is for your full name: Ericka Lutz. No, no middle name.
O is for overnight hospital stays: Ten days in Paris for pneumonia when I was 23. Two nights in Walnut Creek when I was giving birth.
P is for people you were with today: My daughter. Since my husband is off in the wilds of Madagascar (which is not redundant -- I know Madagascar is wild, but some parts of it are wilder than others. If you're interested, google earth Cap Diego, Madagascar. Nothing there. Nada. Except a really fancy French hotel with minimal and intermittant Internet access).
Q is for quote: Oooh... my favorite quote? Well since I have a collection of HUNDREDS I can't do my favorite. But try this:
"I am always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them." Pablo Picasso
R is for biggest regret: Saying "No" a couple of times too many...
S is for status: Waiting. In Between. Missing my husband who is far, far away.
T is for time you woke up today: 6:00 A.M. And before that, 4:00 A.M. And before that, 2:30 A.M.
U is for underwear you have on now: Well, aren't YOU lucky because today I am wearing my one and only THONG. (Not really. I'm not wearing ANY underwear. I'm NAKED under my morning bathrobe.)
V is for vegetable you love: Artichokes.
W is for worst habit: Procrastination.
X is for x-rays you've had: Dental, various appendages for various injuries... who knows, I'm OLD.
Y is for yummy food you ate today yesterday (I changed this from "today" because I haven't eaten yet): WOW! A good day for eating. Beautiful tapas at Cesar's with the aforementioned J.B.I. and also won ton soup at the aforementioned Silver Dragon.
Z is for the zodiac sign: Libra.
And now I throw it down, for YOU. Let's get the party started in here!
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Jessica Barksdale Inclan says:
Excellent blog!
I love the alphabet theme, and have only incoherence to offer today.
The food was fab! We must do it again. I await your missive by email ebfore Friday night! Then we are off to eastern climes.
J
Jessica Barksdale Inclan www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com
Ericka Lutz says:
Incoherent? Then YOUR alphabet goes in this order:
QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM. Try it.
Libby Gruner says:
So are curly-coated
So are curly-coated retrievers related to Chesapeake Bay retrievers? We had one once--she was a ball of energy! And had those cool webbed paws... and a very beautiful curly red coat.
Ericka Lutz says:
Ah geez, did I call her a
Ah geez, did I call her a Curly-Coated Retriever? Actually she's something MUCH more rare, Libby. She's a Ripple Rump Retriever! I'll go edit the above.
(Actually, she's a Yolo County rescue pup. She's black and cute and I tell her that her grandpa must have been a poodle.)
But I love Chesapeakes.
HuntingtonSF says:
Abcdefilicious!
Thanks for the shout-out, Ericka. Way to take the meme and run with it!
Huntington Sharp, Red Room
Ericka Lutz says:
You're my inspiration.... !
You're my inspiration.... !
shaynexus (not verified) says:
What do you teach at my old alma mater?
My bet is that you're in English or American Literature. Your honed wit would be misplaced in the sciences (including political).
And no middle name? Here I bet that you're just showing off as being a feminist. Even if there is no middle name on your birth certificate, if you took your husband's surname, then Lutz could be your middle moniker. And if Lutz is your married name, and you dropped your nee surname, then you're intentionally making a lot of work for future geneologists. They'll have to check through the 100,000+ Ericka Lutzes around the world in hopes of pin-pointing you.
Too, you should have made "X" stand for best Xmas gifts received. I'd bet here, that you could have written another entire page of autobiography for us.
Lastly, if you feel you're old at 47, ha! "Just you wait, 'enri 'iggens. Just you wait."
Ericka Lutz says:
Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!
AH, Dennis, you're striking out today... I teach at the business school; I teach writing to MBA candidates. (Though I also teach creative writing through UC Extension.) AND I did not take my husband's surname -- my only name is Ericka Lutz, no middle, no married, no maiden.
There actually aren't that many Ericka Lutz's -- if you google me, it's pretty much all me, though there's a young 'un coming up in the midwest somewhere. (Just make sure you get both the C and the K in there).
AND if you want to hear about how I feel about "Xmas," go here, Dennis!!!
You're sweet about the wit though.... :>
shaynexus (not verified) says:
Sorry that my mention of Christmas evoked such a response.
Ericka, let me say, "Whew!" before I dare admit that I had added further comment to you, immediately after the one posted above. It was in regard to your comely Red Room photo, more specifically, about who it reminded me of. Apparently, the editors behind the scenes chose not to print it. And if my mere mention of Christmas so upset you, I can only thank them.
Eric Nichols says:
A is for Alaska...the place
A is for Alaska...the place where I live
B is for Belle Yang, who's going to make me writch and famis
C is for Chinese, a language I'm studying
D is for drivel, the stuff that I write
E is for Electronics, what pays my bills until Belle Yang makes me writch and famis
F is for Fairbanks, the closest town
G is for grape, my favorite ovoid fruit
H is for ham radio, which is what I spend a lot of time doing.
I is for Italian, my favorite food next to Thai and Chinese and Japanese, and German, and Mexican
J is for Jennifer and Jessica and Jasmine, my three daughters, and for the letter that my son David doesn't start with.
K is for the last letter in duck
L is for Lichtenstein, a place I have no particular interest in.
M is for Morse Code, which I can receive at 45 words a minute. It's also for Malaria, which is what I try to avoid when I go to Thailand.
N is for Nichols, my last name.
O is for Ohm's Law, my very favorite law.
P is for Priscilla, my wifeypoo's name.
Q is for Q-machine, a very important instrument in Plasma Physics
R is for Radio, which is what I' ve been doing for my entire career
S is for Silicon Valley, where I grew up...except it was Vacuum Tube Valley back then. It's also for Stanford Linear Accelerator...a very cool science thing
T is for Thailand, where I go whenever I can
U is for Urdu, which is a language I don't speak
V is for Violin, an instrument I don't play
W is for walnuts, my favorite nut besides cashews, filberts, pecans, peanuts, Brazil nuts , pistachios and almonds
X is for reactance, a very important electrical property that I teach in my electronics classes
Y is for yo yo, which I'm pretty good at
Z is for zylophone, my favorite misspelling of Xylophone
Now you know,
eric
shaynexus (not verified) says:
Ha! As Monk is wont to say, "I solved the case."
By pure chance and my fortuitous contact with Ericka Lutz, I solved an unrelated mystery, "Who is Steel Stonehenge unmasked?" Just clicked on Eric Nichols and lo! up popped the Stonehenge URL.
Eric, you made it too darned easy.