Take Five

Five lists…

Five Pet Peeves

• Smoking
• Messes left in the office kitchen
• Screaming kids in public places
• People who leave their shopping carts in the middle of the aisle
• People who are unwilling to RTFM and want life spoon-fed to them.

Five Favorite Albums (currently)

• Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
• Phish: Rift
• Patty Griffin: A Kiss in Time
• Beatles: Abbey Road
• Particle: Launchpad

Five Favorite Songs (currently)

• The Bacarolle from Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann
• In Your Eyes from Disc 2 of Peter Gabriel’s Secret World Live
• Niner Two from Don Ellis’ Live at Montreux
• Agnus Dei by Samuel Barber (aka his Adagio for Strings, but choral)
• Somewhere from Tom Waits’ Blue Valentine

Five Things I’d Like To Do Some Day

• Learn to dance
• Bike, eat and drink my way across Europe
• Live in a house again, preferably not a rental
• Learn more about art
• Find someone with whom to share all of the above

Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me

• I’ve collected almost every fortune I’ve ever gotten out of a fortune cookie and keep them in a Ziggy bank I received as a gift about twenty years ago.
• Rattlesnakes are the only critter I’ve found that scares the bejeezus out of me.
• I absolutely love being in water but am not a very strong swimmer.
• When I die I want to be cremated.
• When I was in middle-/high-school I often would put a smiley face, dot, vertical bar or some other symbol at the start of any blank line on a page of notes because I didn’t want that line to feel left out.