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Me, A to Z

May 25, 2008, 7:30 am

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A is for age: 38 (39 in a couple of weeks)

B is for beer of choice: Newcastle or Bass

C is for career right now: Editor, Homepage & Special Projects, redroom.com. The best job I've ever had.

D is for your dog's name? I don't have one, but I take care of other people's dogs. Recent charges have been named Hal, Bruno and Oscar. Sounds like a bunch of old men playing canasta.

E is for essential item you use everyday: Scathing wit

F is for favorite TV: Battlestar Galactica

G is for favorite game: Taboo

H is for home town: Sonoma, California

I is for instruments you play: I played trombone from fifth grade through college. I still have it, but currently use the case as an occasional table.

J is for favorite juice: Apple

K is for whose butt you'd like to kick: Eh, no one's. Can't we go out for a milkshake and talk it over instead?

L is for last place you ate: One of those crepe and salad places on Haight Street. Not Squat & Gobble, the other one.

M is for marriage: I think it's a great institution, but who wants to be in an institution?

N is for your full name: Huntington William Sharp. 

O is for overnight hospital stays: Appendicitis when I was twelve.

P is for people you were with today: Well, it's still early in the morning, so no one except commenters on other people's Red Room blogs!

Q is for quote: The quality of mercy is not strained/It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven/Upon the place beneath./It is twice blest:/It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. (Portia, in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.)

R is for biggest regret: Taking my own sweet time getting to where I am now.

S is for status: Fighting the consumption. Or, you know, bronchitis. *COUGH COUGH*

T is for time you woke up today: 5:30 A.M.

U is for underwear you have on now: Mind your own business. Well, OK; I'll tell you it's from H&M.

V is for vegetable you love: Swiss chard

W is for worst habit: Procrastination

X is for x-rays you've had: Dental, appendix.

Y is for yummy food you ate today: Nothing yet. A bowl of Grape Nuts with 2% milk is in my near future.

Z is for the zodiac sign: Gemini

Now you! 

Joseph John

Joseph John says:

A is for age: 32 B is for

A is for age: 32

B is for beer of choice: Guiness

C is for career right now: Army Captain and CH-47D Chinook Helicopter Pilot

D is for your dog's name? Lieben

E is for essential item you use everyday: Microsoft Outlook

F is for favorite TV: Lost

G is for favorite game: Poker

H is for home town: Osprey, FL

I is for instruments you play: I have the musical aptitude of a fruit fly.

J is for favorite juice: Orange.

K is for whose butt you'd like to kick: My own whenever I procrastinate.

L is for last place you ate: The dining facility, vicinity Camp Victory, Iraq.

M is for marriage: Today is my six year anniversary.

N is for your full name: Joseph John. 

O is for overnight hospital stays: Never.

P is for people you were with today: Multi-National Force-Iraq Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen.

Q is for quote: "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway

R is for biggest regret: Not applying myself in college.

T is for time you woke up today: 9:00 am.  Hey, it's Sunday.  Give me a break!

U is for underwear you have on now: Under Armour boxers.

V is for vegetable you love: Carrots.

W is for worst habit: Procrastination.

X is for x-rays you've had: More than I can list here.

Y is for yummy food you ate today: All I've eaten today is sunflower seeds.

Z is for the zodiac sign: Pisces.