Entries tagged with "memes"
Seven Songs
posted by srah on July 12, 2008 9:51 AM
I have a huge backlog of blog posts in the works, both the simple and mematical. So here's yet another meme, this time via Gretchen: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. "Standing Next to Me", The Last Shadow Puppets"Oxford Comma", Vampire WeekendSongs #1 and #2 have something in common: I saw the videos on YouTube before I heard the...
The Random Lyrics Game
posted by srah on July 10, 2008 9:26 PM
Via Jamelah, we have another meme. I'm not sure if I've done this exact one before, but I've certainly done similar ones. The rules this time: Put your mp3 player or music player on your computer on random.Post the first four lines from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song (Skip repeat artists).Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from. Readers, leave your guesses in the comments. Some will be super easy, but try not to cheat by Googling! Lyrics are after the jump. I have taken liberties...
Fin, enfin! (vendredi, en MUCHO retard)
posted by srah on July 7, 2008 10:57 PM
Tags: in french, language week, memes
Je suis la pire fondatrice de la Semaine des Langues! Pourquoi ai-je mis le dernier jour de la Semaine des Langues au quatre juillet, jour de l'Independence des États-Unis? J'ai été très occupé ce week-end, et je n'ai pas passé beaucoup de temps devant l'ordinateur. Alors aujourd'hui, de retour à Srahtown, j'ai enfin rien d'autre à faire et je peux écrire l'article final de la Semaine. Je vous remercie, tous les participants, et j'éspère que vous y participerez l'année prochaine aussi! Les participants: 5 ballerinas named moeAll The WineThe Curly QElisabeth WritesGoing to Uni (Again)...heather in europeHeliosphericthe holly and the...
Guten Abend, Englander scum, ein ZWEI! (Donnerstag, a little late)
posted by srah on July 4, 2008 9:07 AM
Tags: in german, language week, memes
My grandmother grew up in Germany. In college, my mother studied abroad in Central Europe one summer and visited Germany and Austria. I took four and a half weeks of German in middle school. Last year my parents had a delightful German exchange student living with them. Although I never really studied it, German was always sprinkled into language around the house. And yet ich kann nicht sprechen Deutsch.. I have picked up phrases and words here and there - not enough to actually communicate in the language, not enough to use without embarrassment in front of actual German-speaking people,...
J'y gagne, à cause de la couleur du blé (Mardi)
posted by srah on July 1, 2008 10:45 PM
Tags: in french, language week, memes, the little prince
J'ai commencé un article en arabe aujourd'hui, mais l'arabe me fait mal à la tête et je suis trop fatiguée pour y continuer. Demain l'arabe, alors! Comme je suis fatiguée, je ne vais même pas vous dire quelque chose d'originale - je vous lis deux extraits du Petit Prince. Et en plus ce sont des extraits que j'ai déjà écrit sur ce blog. La paresse! Les articles de mardi:Canucks unite (anglais/français canadien)whubistuble whubile yubou wubork (ubbidubbi)Merde. (français) Segunda dia de Semana de Lenguages (espagnol)Beichten von einer Ausländerin (allemand)Language week Tuesday - German (allemand)body language (espagnol)01/Jul/2 008: Ein Bisschen Islay Auf...
So viele verschiedene Arten Spatzen! (Montag/Lunes)
posted by srah on June 30, 2008 12:12 PM
Tags: 30 rock, in german, in spanish, language week, memes, study abroad
(Ich wünschte, ich könnte schreiben diesem Post in den Sprachen Deutsch, aber ich kann nicht sprechen diese Sprache überhaupt, so bin ich mit Google Translate Ihnen sagen, dass ich werde schreiben, die Post in spanischer Sprache statt.) En los programas de televisión y las peliculas, los estudiantes que estudien en el extranjero no son serios. Por ejemplo, Shannon en el programa "Lost" dice que pasó un año en Paris, pero no habla francés por que ella se emborracharon y no estudio. Lamentablemente, esta es una opinión típico de los estudios en el extranjero y tengo que luchar contra esta creencia...
Oh my, has it been six years already?
posted by srah on June 24, 2008 12:24 PM
Tags: language week, memes
As you may or may not know, srah blah blah is the annual host of Language Week, a meme that would be a heckuva lot more effective if I could pin it down to the same week every year, or even if I celebrated it during National Foreign Language Week instead of the middle of the summer. This year, my sister has requested that I not hold Language Week over her birthday, because she's tired of her birthday songs being written in French or something. So this year's Language Week will be held June 30-July 4, 2008. What better way...
Because I am too lazy and/or busy for real content right now
posted by srah on June 4, 2008 5:15 PM
A meme! I have seen Craig and Schmutzie¹ do slightly different versions of this meme (that's a fascinating thing about memes - how they can mutate slightly as they spread around the blogosphere), and I've adopted Schmutzie's list of questions. It's fascinating to try to guess the answers to the questions that people gave that led to the pictures they selected. I will answer any questions you have, but I think it's fun to speculate and guess first! The concept: 1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. 2. Using only the first page of...
She Probably Died of Acute Smoochitis
posted by srah on May 23, 2008 12:08 PM
I've been tagged by Princess Sparkle Pants for this meme where you have to write your epitaph in exactly six words - no more, no less. This is a six word epitaph meme. The rules: Write your own six word memoir or epitaph. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you want. Link to the person who tagged you in your post. Tag at least five more blogs. Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play. After deliberating over it for days (when I remembered to think about it), I finally found...
It's after six. What am I, a farmer?
posted by srah on May 8, 2008 8:02 PM
Tags: career, drinks, frosting, hospitality, infomercials, memes, six things, srahfam, waffles
This meme is going around again, and Elisabeth has tagged me. I've done it before, but - heck - I'll do it again. Post the rules on your blog:- Write six random things about yourself in a blog post- Tag six people in your post- Let each person know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog- Let the tagger know your entry is up I don't like most frosting, and therefore I don't like most cake. I will usually have a small piece of your birthday or wedding cake in order to be polite (and to test...
Madam, I may be drunk but BLEAUUUUURGH...
posted by srah on May 3, 2008 8:06 AM
Tags: holidays, memes, national adjective day
EV is off getting married (and is not even getting a panther ring out of it, so I don't know why she's bothering!) and so I have once again been named Emcee¹ of National Adjective Day! In honor of National Adjective Day, let me teach you a little something that I only learned within the last year! While the word "nauseous" is often used to describe the feeling of being sick to your stomach (and most dictionaries now accept the use of this word for that purpose), the original definition of the word is something that makes others feel...
Weekend Words
posted by srah on March 10, 2008 8:02 PM
Apparently we are describing our weekends in two-word increments. I don't know why we are doing this, but it is The Internet so I must stop questioning and instead follow blindly. So let it be written, so let it be done! Friday: Dad's birthday drove north excessive snowfall slippery conditions didn't die gymnastics meet hot dog steak dinner Saturday: viewed exhibit leftover steak Battlestar Galactica pickle soup fell asleep Sunday: mix CD Red Lobster drove home changed clocks Auberge Espagnole...
Song she brang to me
posted by srah on January 23, 2008 10:00 PM
Tags: george harrison, memes, music, neil diamond, simon and garfunkel, the beatles, they might be giants
I'm not in a terrifically bloggy mood right now, but I have just noticed that I have blogged on January 23 every year since 2002. That's a pretty good record and I hate to blow it. I wonder how many other days that's true for. So here's a musical meme for you, via J! Bloggity blog! My Top 10 Most Frequently Played Tracks in iTunes 1: Simon & Garfunkel - "America" 2: They Might Be Giants - "Man, It's So Loud In Here" 3: The Beatles - "If I Fell" 4: Mathieu Boogaerts - "Sens" 5: Neil Diamond - "Forever...
Kind Captain, I've important information
posted by srah on November 6, 2007 12:16 PM
Tags: beer, clowns, coffee, fashion, hot chocolate, ice cream, lists, lyrics, makeup, memes, music, nablopomo, nablopomo 2007, study abroad, super powers, three dog night
I have been tagged, so I bring you: 7 Random And/Or Weird Facts About srah When I was in elementary school, our music teacher, Mr McDonald (who had an imaginary friend named "Boo-Boo McGillicuddy") was the one who introduced me to Oliver! (and therefore to my first fictional-character crush) and I have the impression that he had us sing an awful lot of Three Dog Night. I don't know if it was part of the district-mandated curriculum for elementary-level music classes, if it was in our music book, or if Mr McDonald was just a huge fan of Three Dog...
The great mofo delurk
posted by srah on October 3, 2007 6:54 AM
Tags: delurking, memes, questions
So, who's lurking out there without commenting? Today - according to Schmutzie and friends - is the day to comment on everything that you read! Come out of hiding and tell us something about yourself. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream or soup or ice cream-soup? What are you doing this weekend? What do you want to be when you grow up? How long have you been lurking here? What would you like me to blog about? Do you watch Heroes? What is up with that show? Will anyone admit to watching Cavemen last night? How bad was...
Spreading the word
posted by srah on September 27, 2007 6:09 PM
Next Wednesday is for delurking, you lovable little mofos!...
Guess Again
posted by srah on September 12, 2007 10:35 PM
My, there's been a flurry of blogging around here today! My blogging process is, like the Internet, a series of tubes. When one post that I perceive as particularly serious or long (like the one about Madeleine L'Engle) is in the works, it clogs everything else up. I don't want to blog anything else before I got that done, so a lot of things just hang around in the idea-stage until I finish. Anyway, here's a little meme I got from pesky'apostrophe and then it's off to bed with me!¹ Here are the [adapted] rules for the meme: Put your...
The Language Week champions!
posted by srah on June 30, 2007 9:02 AM
Tags: language week, memes
Language Week 2007 is at an end! Thanks to all of you for taking the challenge and blogging in another language! I hope you got something out of the experience. Please take a moment to look at each other's Language Week posts. We have a lot of languages in our midst! tiff (French)Elisabeth (French - and a few others)christina (German)Kinuk (Polish, French, German, Japanese)Dixie (German)Ms. M (Italian)Hilda (Spanish)ola (Polish)swissmiss (German)Anne (French, Hungarian, Polish)Elemmaciltur (German)Twango (Italian)BoonzaierBabe (Afrikaans)Betsy (German, French, Dutch)Chillmost (German)moe (Spanish)heather (Spanish, Polish)Stephen (French)bentleywg (Spanish)Ceridwyn2 (Spanish)A (French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Arabic) If I've left anyone (or any language!)...
I need to make a little rat-friend, perhaps (yom al-jumaa/vendredi)
posted by srah on June 29, 2007 11:12 PM
Tags: in arabic, in french, language week, loneliness, memes
اذهب الى السينما لان احب الافلام. Ce soir je suis allée au cinéma avec mon directeur, sa copine, et sa famille à elle. Le film, Ratatouille, était très mignon et agréable. À la fin du film, j'ai quitté le groupe pour aller faire une promenade au centre-ville. Il faisait beau et frais ce soir. Tout le monde est sorti au centre-ville et - entourée de groupes et de couples - je me suis sentie seule. Quand je reste chez moi, c'est normal d'être toute seule mais dehors, dans le monde, il semble que je suis la seule personne qui n'a...
Maybe my pants will fit better, too (huevos jueves)
posted by srah on June 28, 2007 9:55 PM
Tags: food, in spanish, language week, memes, mexico
En mi viaje en Mexico y en el barco, comí demasiada azucar y ejercité demasiado poco. Estaba dificil tomar buenas decisiones! En el barco, había mucha comida buena y postres deliciosos y los camareros me las trajeron. Y en Mexico, busqué comida y bebidas sin hielo, sin lechuga y sin agua peligrosa. Entonces tomé muchas bebidas con alcohol o azucar (como la Coca-Cola) y comí mucho arroz y tortillas y pan. Ahora estoy en mi casa de nuevo. Nadie me hace comida! Necessito hacerla yo! No es justo. Por lo menos, quizas haré selecciones mejores. (Translation below)...
I haven't used my French in about three years! (mercredi)
posted by srah on June 27, 2007 9:46 PM
Tags: in french, language, language week, memes
Alors, on est mercredi, le "hump day" de la Semaine des Langues. Je me suis habillée en pyjama, sur le sofa, et je vais écrire aujourd'hui en français, une langue qui est beaucoup plus facile pour moi que l'arabe ou même l'español. C'est cool et relaxe. (J'adore le fait qu'en français, "relaxe" soit un adjectif.) Mais voilà le problème: en arabe, je peux discuter le temps et l'éducation. En español je peux commander les margaritas et les tacos (c'était très difficile là-bas de ne pas écrire "les margaritas y los tacos") et "pedir direcciones" et c'est à peu près tout....
Language Week is spreading!
posted by srah on June 27, 2007 12:14 PM
Tags: comics, language week, memes, pearls before swine, spanish
Even the crockydiles are in on it! [Pearls Before Swine, 6/27/2007] Well, sort of....
O how the mighty have fallen! (yom al-thulatha)
posted by srah on June 26, 2007 10:54 PM
Tags: arabic, in arabic, language week, memes
Here is how much Arabic I've forgotten in the... oh, two months or so since the end of the semester: I sat down to write something in Arabic and realized that not only could I not think of how to write any Arabic phrases, I couldn't remember how to say them either. So I went to get my Arabic textbook. I couldn't find said Arabic textbook. Finally I remembered that it was in the bookcase in my "office" so I went and grabbed it. I opened it up and realized that I should consult my notebook as well. So I...
The further rules of Language Week
posted by srah on June 25, 2007 10:56 PM
Tags: language week, memes
I think that deep down, Language Week is just about getting out of your comfort zone and getting in touch with the other languages you've got inside you. It is about actually using the foreign languages you learned in school or expressing yourself in your native tongue for once. It's about writing in a foreign language even if you can't write much or if what you write isn't grammatically correct. Thanks to everyone who's posted so far - I'll do a big wrap-up on Friday. If you haven't already commented here to let us know you're participating, please do. I'd...
Una historia de México (lunes)
posted by srah on June 25, 2007 9:03 PM
Tags: in spanish, language week, memes
He pasado una semana en México (o cerca de la costa de México). ¡Me gusté mucho! Normalmente, no quiero hablar idiomas extranjeros. ¡Tengo miedo! Pero en México, hablar el español tal vez es necessario. ¡Y puedo hablarlo cuando es necessario! (O cuando estoy barracha). En estas situaciones, puedo olvider que no conozco todas las palabras o la gramática o si algo es masculino o femenino, y puedo comunicar. Por ejemplo, hay un calle muy grande en Acapulco, y nuestro barco estaba del otro lado del calle. Estaba allí con mi amiga L, y nosotros pedimos direcciones. Pero no sabía como...
Good Morning Internet!
posted by srah on June 24, 2007 5:51 PM
Tags: in spanish, language, language week, memes, ship, spanish, travel
Or rather, good evening. But I've been so lazy today it might as well be the morning for all that I've gotten done. Anyway, I'm back in the USSR. Photos from my voyage can be found here and videos of fascinating things like whales spouting and cliff divers cliff-diving can be found here. Now I must go and prepare for Language Week! All this time in Mexico and in on-ship Spanish classes has inspired me not to devote the entire week to Arabic. Soy hispanohablante, yo! Por el momento. Hasta que yo olvido todo mi español¹. Ha! What I love...
Language Week's Comin'
posted by srah on June 13, 2007 5:06 AM
Tags: language week, memes
Hide your heart, girl. Yes, soon it will be time for the fifth installment of everyone's favorite srah blah blah-hosted floating-all-around-the-summertime meme, Language Week. The rules of Language Week are as follows: You do not talk about Language Week.You do not talk about Language Week.There are no rules.Well, okay, there are a couple of rules but they're not very strict.Language Week 2007 is June 25-29. I am announcing it early so that you can study up and so that you can spread the word to the Entire Intarnest!Blog in a language that you don't usually blog in. You don't have...
Eight is Enough
posted by srah on May 12, 2007 5:32 PM
Tags: burgers, eight is enough, exercise, food, friends, low-carb diet, memes, moving, quaker corn bran, sugar
I've been tagged by Tiff for this meme. Here are the rules: Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog. Ever since I started trying to change my diet because of the whole PCOS/insulin resistance thing, I am a big weenie when it comes to sweets. Whereas I could...
"Adjective" is a noun. And I just BLEW YOUR MIND!
posted by srah on May 8, 2007 12:25 PM
Tags: holidays, in arabic, in french, memes, national adjective day
To prepare for today's National Adjective Day (Observed), I took a look the 2005 list of my favorite adjectives, only to find that it hasn't changed much since then (except I'd like to add "irreverent"). So, since EV gave the okay, I will list some of my favorite French and Arabic adjectives instead: nombreux (numerous)naïf (the masculine form of "naïve")éphémère (ephemeral)بارد ("bard" meaning "cold" because it's sort of onomatopoeic and sounds like shivering)كبير ("kabir" meaning "big" because I like the way our DVD-video-host Maha stretches it out for emphasis: "kabeeeeeeeeeeer")جميلة ("jamelah" meaning "pretty" is a person AND an adjective!)لطيفة ("latifa"...
I am anaspeptic, frasmodic; even compunctuous to have caused me such pericombulations
posted by srah on May 3, 2007 11:56 PM
Tags: holidays, memes, national adjective day
Shoot. I forgot. Today is, for the next four minutes, National Adjective Day. Fortunately I have a backup, as May 8 is the traditional date for National Adjective Day (Observed). So I will get right on that... next week. Prepare the festivities! They ought to be... festive....
A meme with seven songs - what's so fearsome about that?
posted by srah on March 28, 2007 8:11 PM
Fraulein N did this meme, and when I went to post my own list in her comments, it said I had too many links. So, what the hey. I shall bung it into the ol' blog. The directions are to: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what they are. They must be songs you are presently enjoying. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to. I went on a mashups-hunt this week, so my current listening-list is heavily influenced by that. Believe It - The RagbirdsAls de morgen is gekomen - Jan Smit...
You, on the motorcycle!¹
posted by srah on January 10, 2007 12:13 PM
Tags: de-lurking week, memes
It's the Third Annual De-Lurking Week (or so I have heard from Below the Eight, Jamelah.net and Just Hungry). So if you've been lurking around the blog for a while without commenting, feel free to drop us a line and introduce yourself. Hiya! ¹ I had to change the title of this post from a Meatballs quote to a Blues Brothers one, because it turns out I've already used "Hey you, on the waterskis" as a post title twice. I am getting senile.)...
And what the hell is on Joey's head?
posted by srah on January 10, 2007 12:07 PM
Tags: flickr, memes, photos, project 365
Many of my blogfriends are participating in projects/memes on Flickr where you take a picture every day for a year. I put off joining any of these so that I could get started on January 1... and then I didn't actually take any pictures on January 1. I finally got started on the 3rd, so I am now finished with a whole week. I present to you my first week in Project 365!: I hope that quality of photographs and subject matter will improve as the year goes on. Frankly I'm just impressed that I haven't missed a day yet!...
Time to put a meme all up in this joint
posted by srah on August 18, 2006 12:06 PM
Leave a comment and I'll give you a letter. Then you must think of 10 song titles that start with that letter (as well as the artist), without using Google or other cheats. I got D. Dreams - the cranberriesDa Da Da - TrioD...rocky Raccoon - The Beatles (I'm stuck)Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover - Sophie B. HawkinsDaydream Believer - The MonkeesDo Your Ears Hang Low - ?Dream Lover - Bobby DarinDavid Duchovny - Bree SharpDrive My Car - The BeatlesDiana - Paul AnkaDon't Throw Your Sushi at Me - Srah and Cher My list of the first...
Time for obfuscating!
posted by srah on August 13, 2006 12:27 AM
Tags: announcements, memes, obfuscation
Up for playing the only blog game that shamelessly encourages you to lie to your friends and family? Get your lies ready because the fourth installment of Obfuscation takes place on Friday, August 18th...... On Friday, August 18 you’ll post 3 stories.Two false and one true orTwo true and one falseReaders have to pick the false story(ies), leaving their guess in the comments. (Make sure you let them know which version of the game you’re playing.) ... More details are available at LunaNiña!...
Je me noie dans le talent
posted by srah on July 28, 2006 2:38 PM
Tags: alfie, birthday, in french, language, language week, memes, song, srahfam
Joyeux anniversaire, Tu n'es pas mon frère, Je ne vais pas te voir aujourd'hui mais j'espère que tu n'es pas en colère, Joyeux anniversaire! (Ben... c'est pas pire que les autres...) (translation in the extended entry)...
Ceci n'est pas un article de jeudi
posted by srah on July 28, 2006 6:27 AM
Tags: in french, language, language week, memes
(see extended post for translation)...
Jedi Poo-doo!
posted by srah on July 26, 2006 9:57 PM
Tags: in french, language, language week, memes, movies, star wars, star wars: return of the jedi
Mince! J'ai failli oublier la Semaine des Langues aujourd'hui! Ce soir j'ai fait du chili végétarien à la srah. Ça consisite des tomates, des haricots rouges, des champignons, des épices, et beaucoup beaucoup beaucoup d'oignons. C'est quelque chose que j'ai inventé en France quand j'avais peur de cuisiner de la viande. Ça répresente toutes les groupes alimentaires: les proteines, les fruits... et beaucoup beacoup beaucoup d'oignons. J'adore les oignons! Alors, je n'avais pas de projets pour bloguer au suject de mon chili - je voulais écrire sur Le Retour du Jedi¹. Les seules personnages au palais de Jabba qui parlent...
Aux langues, les citoyens!
posted by srah on July 25, 2006 7:14 PM
Tags: arabic, french, in french, language, language week, memes
Je pense que je vous ai dit que je vais commencer à étudier l'arabe en automne. J'ai déjà rencontré le prof; il paraît très sympa et ça m'interesse beaucoup d'étudier le Moyen-Orient et le monde arabophone¹ et de mieux comprendre ces cultures-là. Mais c'est la langue qui me fait peur! Tout le monde m'a dit que l'arabe est très très très difficile et qu'il va me falloir dix ans pour le parler couramment. Ah bon? Il m'a fallu à peu près neuf ans pour parler couramment le français (une langue qui est beaucoup plus proche de l'anglais), alors je suppose...
Projets de voyage (et de travail)
posted by srah on July 24, 2006 3:24 PM
Tags: in french, language, language week, memes, travel, work
En mars je suis allée en Israël pour visiter les universités là-bas qui acceuillent les étudiants étrangers. En mai c'était Montréal, où je suis allée assister à une conférence sur l'éducation internationale. Ce mois je vais voyager à travers le ouest des États-Unis, vers Seattle. J'irai en Angleterre et en Irlande en Octobre pour une autre visite aux centres d'études étrangers. On a parlé un peu d'un voyage en Inde en décembre pour assister au mariage de Sylvie (mais avec mes finances ça ne va peut-être pas être possible... on verra...). Il va peut-être y avoir une autre visite au...
Behold: Language Week 4 (Electric Borgalor)
posted by srah on July 14, 2006 12:40 PM
Tags: language, language week, memes
I hereby decree that Language Week 2006 will be held July 24-28, 2006, because I will be in town that week. It would be nice if I could nail Language Week down to the same time every year, but this has never been the case. Such is the brilliant unpredictability of Language Week! Or rather, and more accurately, such is my forgetfulness. The rules of Language Week are as follows: You do not talk about Language Week.You do not talk about Language Week.There are no rules.Well, okay, there are a couple of rules but they're not very strict.Blog in a...
Meme! Hell yeah!
posted by srah on July 7, 2006 3:00 PM
There's nothing else in my blog so there will be memes. 5 Things in my Fridge: A single solitary egg (floating in perfume and served in a man's hat)minthorseradishhalf-and-halfwee little French pickles called cornichons 5 Things in my Closet: SKELETONS! OH SO MANY SKELETONS!clothes that I want to get rid of but haven't made any move to do sohamper with three dividers because I loathe separating my laundry right before I do itsleeping bagBlogger sweatshirtmany many not nearly enough shoes 5 Things in my Purse: Hecatechapstickbusiness card casecoin pursehair ties [via Below The Eight and misanthropic tendencies]...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on May 13, 2006 7:30 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Time for free associations! So there!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on May 1, 2006 10:13 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Here they are! Once again I'm way behind! Two weeks of free associations coming right up!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on April 22, 2006 8:56 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
... and then some other stuff could happen and it could be like free associations....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on April 13, 2006 8:17 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Heyyyyyyyy, it's this week's Unconscious Mutterings. I'm only, like, 8 million days late. Oh well, the associations are as free as ever....
Six Weird Things About Me That I Think Haven't Landed on The Blog Yet but I'm Too Lazy to Dig Through the Archives to Be Sure
posted by srah on April 13, 2006 8:11 PM
Tags: anastasia, boys, cabbage patch kids, exercise, ghosts, imagination, lists, memes, under the bed
I've been tagged with this meme by ze Fraulein. It's hard to find weird things about me that I haven't blogged. Well, I think I haven't blogged about these... Every night when I get into bed, I think about arms reaching out to grab my legs. This never happened when I had the same bed at my parents' house. What's particularly stupid is that there is this huge plastic box under my bed to hold wrapping supplies and it takes up all the space where the leg-grabber would be and I can see the box sitting there even as I...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on April 2, 2006 9:40 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Yet again, I have put off the Unconscious Mutterings for so long that I have two sets to present at the same time. So I shall publish my free associations and then I shall be gone, for there is a tornado watch. So I will put away my computer and hide in the bathroom if I hear a siren. Such is the life of srah!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on March 21, 2006 12:16 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
My free associations have been Biggie-sized for your convenience. They are now the size of the Notorious B.I.G. You're welcome....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on March 6, 2006 12:50 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Time to make the donuts free associations!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on February 27, 2006 6:12 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Here are my free associations!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on February 20, 2006 10:18 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Songies galore are in my head, only to be released through the power of free associations!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on February 12, 2006 3:35 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Here are my free associations for the week. Ta da!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on February 5, 2006 12:48 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Here you go. Enjoy the free associations!...
4x4 foray
posted by srah on January 29, 2006 6:19 PM
Tags: memes
Be it hereby known that there is no order, chronological or preferential, to the things I have listed below. So let it be written, so let it be done. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Four jobs I’ve had: library shelverEnglish teaching assistantstudy abroad counselorbabysitter Four movies I can watch over and over: TampopoPride & Prejudice starring Wet Colin FirthAirplane!Amélie Four places I’ve lived: Cusset, FranceAnn Arbor, MI, USAAlbion, MI, USAGrenoble, France Four TV shows I love: Arrested DevelopmentLostBeauty & the GeekHouse, M.D. Four places I’ve vacationed: North Myrtle Beach, SC, USAAurillac, FranceAberdeen, ScotlandAntwerp, Belgium Four of my favorite dishes:...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on January 29, 2006 6:11 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Ahoy, mateys. Keel haul or something. Whatever that means. There be free associations stored in the ship's hold, below deck. Yarr?...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on January 23, 2006 5:05 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
WHEREAS there is no content in my blog; WHEREAS the Unconscious Mutterings have been posted but have been sitting around festering in my Inbox; WHEREAS Unconscious Mutterings take up room on the page; RESOLVED that here are some free associations....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on January 17, 2006 12:38 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Here are the free associations. You may do them too. They are hidden for non-contamination, like....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on January 9, 2006 12:40 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
In go the words provided by pea, they are jumbled up in the tumble dryer of my mind, and they are spat out with metaphorical lint attached, in the form of free associations. Yea verily. That is indeed how it works....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on January 3, 2006 5:02 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
It's a big fat holiday-sized serving of Unconscious Mutterings, because I forgot to do them when I was home....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on December 19, 2005 12:39 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Here they are, this week's free associations, with a special appearance by everyone's favorite Fashion Disaster Of the Week....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on December 12, 2005 9:42 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Here you go, memely meme-meme....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on December 5, 2005 6:21 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Pow! Cracko jacko! Here are some free associations....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on November 30, 2005 12:52 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Rebecca beat me to it this week. But here I am, finally!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on November 20, 2005 9:35 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Yes, more free associations....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on November 15, 2005 6:23 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Hooray, I finally got to link to my favorite TV show EVAR. Okay, maybe not, but I do like it more than is healthy. Anyway, there are also some other free associations....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on November 6, 2005 12:03 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
WHOOMP, there it is....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on October 31, 2005 8:31 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Blogging is hard! Memes are easy!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on October 23, 2005 9:04 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Two two TWO sets of unconscious mutterings for the price of one! Because I thought I'd already done the last one! Oh lucky yous!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on October 13, 2005 8:43 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Oops. I seem to have forgotten to do this earlier in the week. These are pretty boring....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on October 2, 2005 11:16 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
I have come to keep apete company while he studies and pats my head, but I very stupidly brought the book I just read instead of the one I'm in the middle of. Thank goodness there's an Internet (or several) and free associations to do! I think I have carpal tunnel, though. There seems to be a gefilte fish in my wrist. Or something. Read on....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on September 25, 2005 7:27 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
I'm leeeeeaving on a jet plane. Tuesday's when I'll be back again. For now, put these in your eyes and smoke them! Or don't....
Archivesy meme
posted by srah on September 23, 2005 1:27 PM
Tags: memes
1. Go into your archive. 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to). 3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to). 4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. insolite - adjective - straight-up rebellious, nothing but outright mutiny - "No chocolate in Baldwin? That's boutsta make me a little insolite." - 30 October 2001 [via swirlspice]...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on September 18, 2005 12:10 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Just a little meme before heading off to bed......
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on September 11, 2005 12:02 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Ten free associations... and I even manage to fit in a reference to The Sims. I'm surprised I'm not dreaming in Simlish yet....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on September 4, 2005 9:12 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Unconscious Mutterings, Week 135: In which srah descends into a rage against the things in her mind, especially musicals about drunken unemployed carnies....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on August 28, 2005 10:43 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Free associations! W00t!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on August 21, 2005 4:21 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Here you be: free associatin' with me....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on August 14, 2005 10:48 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
I forgot to do the Obfuscation this year. :( But here are some free associations....
Blah blah blah here's some stuff about me that you probably already knew
posted by srah on August 8, 2005 7:49 AM
Tags: memes
I've seen this meme around a few places, but now I've been directly tagged. What I was doing ten years ago Hmmm. Summer of 1995. I would have been 14, nearly 15, and would have been going into 10th grade in a few weeks' time. This was a particularly unmemorable year for me, unfortunately. I can't remember doing anything remotely interesting in 10th grade! And summers were even worse! What I was doing five years ago I was about to turn 20, so I would have been preparing to leave for Grenoble. I may have been applying for my visa,...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on August 7, 2005 9:52 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
I'm so happy that I had an opportunity to quote Tobey Maguire/Dustin Diamond. *dances* Read my free associations, y'alls!...
It's Obfuscation time!
posted by srah on July 31, 2005 1:01 AM
Tags: memes
Yes, it's that time of year again! "On Friday, August 12 you’ll post 3 stories. * Two false and one true or * Two true and one false Readers have to pick the false story(ies), leaving their guess in the comments. (Make sure you let them know which version of the game you’re playing.) On Monday, Ausgut 15 you’ll post the correct response. The stories can be as crazy as you want them to be. But you want to make them all believable enough that the reader has to give the game a little thought." I played in 2003 and...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on July 31, 2005 12:56 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Yet again... it's an attack of free associations. Feel free to play along in your own blog!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on July 24, 2005 1:17 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Insanity lurks in my cranium, it would seem. All will be revealed through the medium of free associations, below....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on July 17, 2005 2:57 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
It's sleepy time! It's all over!...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on July 10, 2005 12:13 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Unbounded memification! Or something. Stop reading this part; it's boring. On to the free associations! Let's see how my mind works! Or, if you'd like to do it yourself without being influenced by my answers, click on the icon!...
Vendredi
posted by srah on July 8, 2005 1:06 PM
Tags: french, language, language week, memes
Vendredi, enfin! Cette Semaine de Langues a été très populaire et je vous remercie d'avoir participé: AnP, Armin, Christina, Elemmaciltur, In Actual Fact, J, Jamie, Jen, Katie, Marisa, Noor, Patricia, Renee, Scott et Stuart. (Écrivez-moi si j'ai oublié quelqu'un!) Et je voudrais remercier aussi quelqu'un qui m'a beaucoup aidé et m'a soutenu cette semaine: [Read the extended entry for English translation; click the Language Week icon for an explanation]...
Jeudi
posted by srah on July 8, 2005 12:11 AM
Tags: arabic, french, in french, language, language week, memes
J'ai passé toute la journée à regarder les nouvelles de Londres à la télé (même s'il n'y avait pas vraiment de nouvelles, parce que rien n'a changé depuis le matin londonien!) et le résultat, c'est que j'ai oublié d'écrire l'article de jeudi. Alors le voilà, très tôt vendredi matin. Comme j'ai dit hier, je suis allée à la bibliothèque pour chercher un dictionnaire espagnol-anglais. Ce que je n'ai pas dit, c'est lorsque j'étais là, devant les livres et les cassettes de langues étrangères, j'ai pris le décision d'étudier une autre langue. J'ai tenté d'apprendre des langues plusieurs fois dans ma...
Miércoles
posted by srah on July 6, 2005 5:52 PM
Tags: in spanish, language, language week, memes, spanish
Bueno. ¡Mi español es aun peor que mi francés, entonces perdonenme, por favor! Hoy día fui a la biblioteca para buscar un diccionario español-inglés. Hace dos años que perdí mi mismo diccionario. ¡Es difícil, escribir en español con diccionario, porque no sé buscar las palabras! Empezé a aprender el español cuando estaba en Francia por primera vez y compré un libro para "Apprendre l'espagnol en 30 leçons" o algo como eso. Así, aprendí un poco de español en Francia. Después, regresé en los Estados Unidos y estudié el español en la universidad durante un año. ¡Después, regresé en Francia y...
Mardi
posted by srah on July 5, 2005 5:00 PM
Tags: food, french, in french, language, language week, memes
Punaise, que je suis nulle! Je viens de decouvrir que j'avais supprimé le fil RSS de Kim de mon agrégateur sans me rendre compte. Ça explique, un peu, pourquoi je n'ai pas eu de nouvelles de sa part depuis quelques semaines (je dépend des fils RSS!). Craints pas, cherie! Je t'ai rajouté et j'ai ajouté le fil de from rooster to donkey en plus. Alors, c'est assez difficile de bloguer tous les jours en anglais et c'est même plus difficile en langue étrangère. Mais aujourd'hui c'est Kim qui est mon sauveur (ma sauveuse?), parce qu'elle m'a transmis une mème en...
Tuesday is Chooseday
posted by srah on July 5, 2005 1:00 PM
Tags: memes
I haven't done this in a while, but it was calling to me... Would you rather: be chased by a mob of angry squirrels OR a mob of angry protestors? Man can make no laws to control the actions of squirrels, grasshoppers. If the two groups wanted to do bloody murder unto me, the squirrels would go ahead and do it, whereas the humans would have to take into consideration things like laws and morals.take a shower every hour OR once every month? It would be like ye olde dayes. I would slather myself in perfumèd oils: frankincense, myrrh and...
Lundi
posted by srah on July 4, 2005 6:46 PM
Tags: 1776, fourth of july, french, holidays, in french, language, language week, memes, movies
(Voilà le début de la Semaine des Langues chez srah blah blah. Je vois qu'il y a, déjà, beaucoup plus de participants que la dernière fois et je vous remercie! Parmi ces participants: Anyhoo, Armin, christina, Elemmaciltur, in actual fact, J, Jamie, katie, Marisa, patricia, Renee et Stuart) Alors, aujourd'hui on est le 4 juillet, la fête nationale des États-Unis. Notre famille vient de visionner 1776, l'un de nos films préférés, et ce qui est devenu une activité traditionnelle pour fêter le 4 juillet chez nous. L'été dernière j'étais en France et j'ai passé la plupart de notre fête nationale...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on July 3, 2005 1:04 AM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep......
Language Week Three: Electric Beagle-ey
posted by srah on June 28, 2005 6:28 PM
Tags: language, language week, memes
It's that time of year again... LANGUAGE WEEK III July 4 - 8, 2005 There are rules!: Blog in a language that you don't usually blog in. You don't have to blog a lot if you don't want to - a few sentences will do, as long as you continue, once a day, through the week (or at least Monday to Friday). You can blog in one foreign language for five days, you can blog in five different languages or you can find some medium between the two. What the hell. If you only want to blog in Swedish once...
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on June 26, 2005 2:01 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Blah blah blah blah here is an introduction. And now for our feature presentation... free associations....
Unconscious Mutterings
posted by srah on June 20, 2005 2:10 PM
Tags: memes, unconscious mutterings
Hey, thar be bloggage on this front page. And here be a little more. These here associations is free....