An Ongoing, Erratic Diary

Lists of Five

If I had committed some horrible crime, and was about to be stranded on a desert island with NO internet connection, but could take five of the following, what would I pick? These are not always very literal...

Books

• The Harper Hall of Pern -- Anne McCaffrey
• The Canterbury Tales -- Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Sound and the Fury -- William Faulkner
• The Dark is Rising series -- Susan Cooper

  Ready-Packed Meals of

• Rice and my mother's chicken/potato curry, extra spicy
• California roll sushi (with wasabi and soy)
• A huge green salad with lots of raw veggies and a mustard dressing
• Chicken soup with matzo balls
• Black-pepper honey turkey with sundried tomato spread, lettuce, onion, and cream cheese on a toasted bagel

  Plays

• Hamlet -- William Shakespeare
• Waiting for Godot -- Samuel Beckett
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead -- Tom Stoppard
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf -- Edward Albee
• Dr. Faustus -- Christopher Marlowe

  Drinks

• Strongbow hard cider
• A decent Merlot
• Stash Chai (with milk and sugar)
• Twinings Darjeeling (ditto above)
• Chamomile tea

  Sounds

• summer thunderstorms
• Irish jigs and people dancing and laughing
• waves crashing on an empty beach
• Kevin talking, about almost anything
• wind on a cold, blustery day

  Restaurants

• The Medici, Hyde Park, IL
• Bangkok Thai, Salt Lake City, UT
• Axum Cafe, San Francisco, CA
• That sushi place that starts with a K in Berkeley, CA
• The Red Sea, Oakland, CA

  Cities

• The Bay Area (it's a unit, really), CA
• Hyde Park, IL
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• Salt Lake City, UT (just temporarily)
• London, England

  Places

• The gazebo in my backyard, in March, when the greenery is running rampant
• The reservoir near my parents' house, in Connecticut, in late September
• The quadrangle at the University of Chicago, in early May; probably sitting on the steps of Bond Chapel, or Eckart Hall
• Kevin's apartment in the winter, with the snow falling outside and everything very quiet
• My bed, piled high with appropriate blankets, stuffed animals and people

  Actors (Male)

• Patrick Stewart
• Matthew Broderick
• Harrison Ford
• Hugh Grant
• Sean Connery

  Scents

• jasmine oil
• sandalwood incense
• skin washed clean with Ivory soap and hot water
• rain-drenched green things
• the salt sea

  Clothes

• my black ballet shirt that goes with everything
• a full dark green skirt to replace the one that fell apart with much wearing
• the heavy wine-colored sweater, that's so warm
• my purple pajama bottoms and a white tank top for bed
• Kev's dark green flannel shirt

  Poets

• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Anne Sexton
• e.e. cummings
• Dorothy Parker
• William Butler Yeats

  Movies

• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Sense and Sensibility (do you sense a trend?)
• Star Trek II
• Star Wars I
• Ladyhawke

  Names for Children

• Christopher
• Keith
• Jacintha
• Katharine
• Lisette

  Pieces of Music

• Pachabel's Canon
• Something long and complex by Bach
• Something suitably dramatic by Rachmaninov
• Something mellow by Enya
• Ditto, by Clannad

  Actors (Female)

• Jeannene Garafolo
• Emma Thompson
• Nichelle Nichols
• whoever plays Kira on DS9
• Whoopi Goldberg