Friday’s Feast #192
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When you drink soda/pop/coke, do you pre­fer to drink it from the bot­tle, a can, or after pour­ing it into a cup?
I always have a bot­tle of water, to which I add lemon­ade fla­vor Crys­tal Lite, with me. I keep it in the refrig­er­a­tor, so it always starts out cold but warms up to […]

Friday’s Feast Spe­cial Edi­tion
The ques­tions this week are cour­tesy of Stone Girl at Mus­ings of a Cyn­i­cal Opti­mist.
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What is your favourite vaca­tion spot in the United States?
It might be a place I haven’t gone yet! Odds are it has a beach and I’m long­ing to return to Hawaii, but also have a long list […]

Friday’s Feast #183

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On a scale of 1–10 (with 10 as high­est), how much do you like your own hand­writ­ing?
7.
I don’t write much any more, so it isn’t as neat as it used to be. But I have a forgery-proof sig­na­ture. Took me years to per­fect it, too!
Soup
Do you pre­fer baths or show­ers?
I can’t even remember […]

Friday’s Feast #180

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Who was the last per­son you hugged?
Last night I had a dream about a per­son who once meant a great deal to me, but I haven’t seen for many years. We hugged … and then I woke up.
Soup
Share a beauty or groom­ing trick or tip with us.
Drink plenty of water.
Salad
What does the color yel­low make you […]

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How many times per day do you usu­ally laugh?
Well, it depends upon the day, of course. But on aver­age, I’d say dozens. In my pro­fes­sion, you learn to laugh at the absur­dity of it all. Oth­er­wise, you end up cry­ing a lot.
Soup
What do your sun­glasses look like?

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When was the last time you received a sur­prise in the mail, and what was it?

We received a lovely Christ­mas gift from friends. Totally unex­pected, but delight­ful and appreciated.

Soup

If you could have a sum­mer and/or win­ter home, where would you want it to be?

I’m actu­ally shop­ping for a rental prop­erty in Pismo Beach. I will enlist a rental agent to man­age the prop­erty for me, reserv­ing a few weeks for our fam­ily in the sum­mer and over the holidays.

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What was the last game you pur­chased?
An online game sub­scrip­tion for my kids. They have to main­tain good grades or I will dis­con­tinue it.

Soup

Name some­thing in which you don’t believe.

Rein­car­na­tion. I just can’t buy into it, par­tic­u­larly since I find no sup­port for the the­ory any­where in the Bible.

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What was your first “real” job?
The first job for which I earned money was work­ing in the music depart­ment at my high school. I orga­nized and filed music in the library. I believe that I made about $1.25 per hour. When I grad­u­ated from high school in 1974, I spent that […]

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When was the last time you were surprised?

About five min­utes ago when I walked into my house, sat down to read my e-mails, and saw that Ann Coul­ter once again opened her insen­si­tive, big­oted mouth. You might think that, given my pro­fes­sion, I would not be sur­prised by such behav­ior. But the oppo­site is true: Just when I think I’ve heard it all …
Coul­ter draws fire over remarks about Jews
Con­ser­v­a­tive author offends CNBC host Donny Deutsch with comment

From CNBC and MSNBC

Oct. 11, 2007

Con­ser­v­a­tive author Ann Coul­ter finds her­self in the mid­dle of a firestorm once again after remarks on a CNBC tele­vi­sion show in which she said Jews need “to be per­fected” and sug­gested the nation would be bet­ter off if it were all-Christian.

Appear­ing on “The Big Idea” with host Donny Deutsch on Mon­day, she said Chris­tians were tol­er­ant of racial diver­sity but that it “would be a lot eas­ier” for Jews if they were to become Christians.

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What is your favorite type of art?
I’m not a big art col­lec­tor, but my favorite types of paint­ings are of the sea such as this pas­tel by Karen Margulis:

Soup
When was the last time you got a free lunch (or break­fast or din­ner)? Who paid for it?
A cou­ple of weeks ago, we all went out […]

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Using only one word, how does gro­cery shop­ping make you feel?
Exhausted.
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What is your favorite part about the sea­son of Autumn?
The leaves!

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Say there’s a book writ­ten about your life. Who would you want to nar­rate the audio version?

Janet Evanovich.

Soup

Take the let­ters from your favorite kind of nut and write a sen­tence. (Exam­ple: Per­haps every avenue needs under­stand­ing today.)

A lit­tle misog­yny offends nat­u­rally del­i­cate sensibilities.