10 Things Meme
I've been having fun with this meme outside of Red Room, so thought I'd bring it here too. Feel free to answer here and/or take it to your own Facebook or email world.
10 Things About Me
This is like the 25 Things note going around, but easier.
- Copy this whole thing into a new email or Facebook note.
- Replace my answers with yours.
- Tag or forward it to 20 people for them to answer the questions, too.
The Questions -
1. I look like this famous person or cartoon character:
2. I’m more afraid than the average person of (spiders, heights, public speaking…):
3. It ticks me off when:
4. This is the family member I’d most like to win the lottery:
5. This is the friend I can best count on to cheer me up:
6. Basically what I do in my job/school is:
7. Common sounds in my home:
8. Special or hidden talent:
9. I love this game, book or TV show:
10. This motto, saying or lyric sums up my life right now:
[Include this note: These 10 questions are pulled with permission from the fill-in journal book PICTURE OF ME: Who I Am in 221 Questions (Kate & David Marshall, Broadway Books, March 2009). More questions are on the “Picture of Me” Facebook page http://tinyurl.com/bzkn6u or www.marshallbooks.net]
My answers -
1. Maybe a cross between Felicity Huffman and Eeyore.
2. Dying alone and destitute in a wet cardboard box. And public speaking, but I’m getting better about that.
3. Double plastic bags for small purchases already hermetically sealed in heavy plastic. Go naked or cloth!
4. my brother-in-law
5. my son!
6. Fight adult illiteracy one short vowel at a time. I play matchmaker between adults who read at/below a sixth grade level and volunteers who want to tutor them. I enrolled a former Sherpa as a student last week.
7. If kids are not home: "This American Life" on the radio, coffee grinding, keyboard tapping, French doors sliding, dog slurping water then burping, clothes tumbling in the dryer. If kids are home, add to that a layer of music, pots and pans clanging, cells ringing, guitar picking, laughter and general commotion.
8. I have double jointed thumbs. I try to hide it because it freaks my son out.
9. Scrabble, Boggle, Pictionary/ Shantaram, anything by Dave Eggers/ 30 Rock
10. One day at a time.
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Dale Estey says:
Beyond The Iron Curtain
1. I look like this famous person or cartoon character:
When I was one year old I looked like Winston Churchill after someone had taken his cigar.
2. I’m more afraid than the average person of (spiders, heights, public speaking…):
Looking like Winston Churchill.
3. It ticks me off when:
People tell me I look like Winston Churchill.
4. This is the family member I’d most like to win the lottery:
My cousin who lives in London near where Winston Churchill worked.
5. This is the friend I can best count on to cheer me up:
Rebecca does a waaaay cool Winston Churchill impersonation.
6. Basically what I do in my job/school is:
Attempt to get headquarters re-named The Winston Churchill Centre.
7. Common sounds in my home:
The speeches of Winston Churchill and the lighting of cigars.
8. Special or hidden talent:
Being able to spell the name Winston Churchill backwards in under a minute.
9. I love this game, book or TV show:
"The Winston Churchill Cigar and Tonic Hour" (short lived)
10. This motto, saying or lyric sums up my life right now:
"If you can't do a 'Churchill', you're shit out of luck."
Kate Marshall says:
Ha!
Well done, Dale. Would you rather look like Winston Churchill or Eeyore? My mother told me when I was an adolescent that I looked like Eeyore when I sulked (during moments of clarity when I realized how awkward and pathetic being an adolescent was). At least Winston Churchill was a clever fellow.
Jessica Barksdale Inclan says:
This one seemed so much
This one seemed so much easier than all the others I've read!
1. I look like this famous person or cartoon character:
Sometimes I get the Bette Midler thing, but I think it's because I'm excitable in front of a crowd. Once someone told me I looked like Ingrid Bergman, but that only happened once and I can't claim it or her.
2. I’m more afraid than the average person of (spiders, heights, public speaking…):
I don't have a phobia, but an even patina of fear of known things.
3. It ticks me off when:
People's music is so loud I can hear it through their headphones while we are at the gym.
4. This is the family member I’d most like to win the lottery:
My oldest son.
5. This is the friend I can best count on to cheer me up:
Sue Adams, nutbar par excellence.
6. Basically what I do in my job/school is:
Write and talk about writing.
7. Common sounds in my home:
coffee grinder, heater, computer sounds.
8. Special or hidden talent:
I am a good cook.
9. I love this game, book or TV show:
My favorite thing to play is a contract rummy game called May I. Only a few people play it, so when I find one, it's an all day festival.
10. This motto, saying or lyric sums up my life right now:
Put on your big girl panties.
Jessica Barksdale Inclan
www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com
Dale Estey says:
Rather Boggy and Sad
The sad thing, Kate, is that I look like Churchill but have the personality of Eeyore.
Kate Marshall says:
Big girl panties
Jessica, are big girl panties big or small? Christian or atheist? Last week someone forwarded to me a sketch about thongs versus Christian panties on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xv7REV2HEY
Carolyn Burns Bass says:
Big girl panties
That was the funniest comedy sketch I've seen lately. Just posted it on my FB page.
Ryoma Collia-Suzuki says:
Hi Kate!
Hi Kate, did this elsewhere but thought it would be better to put the responses on your blog with everyone elses. :)
1. I look like this famous person or cartoon character:
I haven't the faintest idea! Some people have commented that I resemble Jackie Chan sometimes. I Personally would prefer to look like an oriental version of Keanu Reaves!
2. I’m more afraid than the average person of (spiders, heights, public speaking…):
I have an irrational fear of heights and strangely I used to be better at speaking publically but have developed a sever aversion to it as I've grown older.
3. It ticks me off when:
When I meet a fundamentalist 'anything', but in particular a fundamentalist religious person although I have to say it's *very* funny to see how long it will take for them to tell me I will burn in their version of hell - I think 2 seconds after introducing myself was the quickest. LOL!
4. This is the family member I’d most like to win the lottery:
Gina.
5. This is the friend I can best count on to cheer me up:
Gina.
6. Basically what I do in my job/school is:
I sell unique, intelligent specialist software solutions to the Transport, Logistics and Distribution sectors. Basically I save people a lot of time, money and effort while helping the environment at the same time - brilliant stuff!
7. Common sounds in my home:
The sound of Gina typing almost constantly from morning to night except when we are talking, debating or having a jolly good laugh and the sounds of bruxing and pipping (the gentle teeth grinding sounds and rhythmic 'pip' sounds that rats make when they are super content).
8. Special or hidden talent:
None I'm afraid, I'm a very average Joe.
9. I love this game, book or TV show:
I love The Elder Scrolls:Oblivion and Resident Evil games,
love Terry Pratchett and Gina's books, like a lot of things like Friends, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, 30 Rock. Love Sci-Fi (Battlestar, Stargate, X-Files) and supernatural stuff (Supernatural, Medium) as well.
10. This motto, saying or lyric sums up my life right now:
What goes around comes around. Mwahahaha! (Supposed to be an evil laugh!)
Kate Marshall says:
bruxing
"bruxing" and "pipping"? Can those also be applied to husbands who grind their teeth the night before a big presentation? Perhaps not if contentment is a requirement.
And I hearby declare you Sir Reaves of the East.