lisachau: [Friday Five] 21 Nov 2003

FRIDAY FIVE (tip o' the nib to lisachau):

1. List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.

Have a relationship
Obtain netaaskee
Find a purpose in life
Find a home
Take a vacation far, far away

2. List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.

Su Suyin (Beijing U) - did it this week
Patricia Chu (Beijing U)
Hiou Kenji (Hita-shi, Ouita-ken, Kyuushuu: 11th Grade)
Jane Monaghan (high school)
Beth Moone (since I was four)

3. List five things you'd like to learn how to do.

Program in several languages (C, C++, Java etc.)
Understand minimalist syntax
Leave my house without having massive panic attacks
Defend myself physically from pig-men (knife, gun etc.)
Learn a few foreign languages well

4. List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).

Buy netaaskee
Live summers in Finland and then in New Zealand (cyclically)
Take my mom on vacation somewhere remarkable (longstanding lottery promise)
Go to graduate school. Frequently.
Take endless art and writing courses and open a bookstore

5. List five things you do that help you relax.

Napping
Blogging
Watching TV: AdultSwim, Angel, Enterprise
Linguistics & computing things
Listening to a wide variety of music

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I am currently listening to: Family Guy on AdultSwim

I am currently reading: F. T. Siebert Jr., Resurrecting Virginia Algonquian from the Dead: The Reconstituted & Historical Phonology of Powhatan, in J. M. Crawford, ed. 1975: Studies in Southeastern Indian Languages, Atlanta: U-GA Press