NAVEL ATTACK!: Hooray–tagged for a meme about me!

What I was doing ten years ago: Making a complete fool of myself, in the most traditional undergraduate ways. Also, enjoying my first month as a Catholic! Oh, that first Confession comes so depressingly quickly….

Five things on my To-Do list today: 1. Laundry
2. Personal and work emails
3. Dinner
4. Preparation for week-long trip: Do dishes, take out all trash, make hard-boiled eggs for the journey, check when Metro opens, reset alarm, and pack. And probably something else I’m forgetting.
5. Mail The Seventh Victim back to Netflix, once I’ve finished watching the commentary.

Things I would do if I were a billionaire: Develop secret identity. Become superhero and/or supervillain. Wear awesome costume, possibly featuring feathers and sparkly things.

Three of my bad habits: Wow, Clio’s pretty much work for me, too: “1. Procrastination.
“2. Day-dreaming. (A form of the above.)”
3. I don’t think I read terribly wicked blogs, so for my third, I’ll say spending too much money. Or for something more serious, postponing Confession, which isn’t about procrastination so much as shame and self-delusion (“I can do it on my own!” LOL NO).

Five places I’ve lived: I can only remember four: Madison, WI; Santa Monica, CA; New Haven, CT; and the District of Chaos, imagination’s capital, Downed City, home sweet hopeless.

Five jobs I’ve had: I haven’t. I’ve pretty much been a journalist and a think-tank thunker and that’s it. Yes, I can hear you from here.

Five books I’ve recently read: Ohhh this spring has been bad for reading. Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian in the World (which I liked a lot, but which sometimes got a bit too Look At My Acute Social Observations! for me–like David Brooks, but with Indians, which admittedly is an improvement); Revelation; the Gospel of Matthew; four Bagthorpe Saga books which I’m counting all together; and Heinrich von Kleist’s mind-boggling, terrific Penthesilea, on recommendation from the Cigarette Smoking Blogger. With illustrations by Maurice Sendak, for that extra hit of vertiginous monstrosity!