- and am trying to ignore the beguiling whispers coming from the vacuum and mop (they're in it together, I swear. It's a conspiracy to get me to commit cleaning), I thought I'd post some answers and one or two questions in response to a comment left by the illustrious Eli:
* Tara is Alice's other name. It's short for Tara-a-bit, meaning Good-Bye. Don't ask me why. Just does.
* Turkish delight is indeed a type of sweet. And yes, my sense of smell is somewhat...eccentric, shall we say.
- And yes, my vacuum bag DID need changing.
* Yes, prison building is expensive, but I think it's also necessary. After all, whether you believe in punishment, rehabilitation or both (both, in my case), the one thing that is certain is that there are people out there that the general populace need to be protected from. And if you're not going to kill 'em*, you need instead to lock 'em up. So I'm all in favour of any taxes I pay going towards that.
More so than I am toward building nuclear bombs to blow the planet up, anyway (but that's a rant for another time).
...As for the other; I think there needs to be less News publicized in general, really. Various members of my family disagree, siting that they like to know what's going on and therefore what's coming, but me? Nah. I'm happier in blissful ignorance.
There's a lot to be said for ignorance. I don't think that it is rated enough.
* I am indeed a lucky girl to have so many lovely woodland parks nearby to where I live, but; you don't get many pigeons over there? Seriously? How weird! I can't picture it.
- Question; is it true that several states in America are overrun by starlings?
* Bingo hasn't actually knocked me over (yet). He's come close to it many times though, and I have been sent arse over tit by various other members of the Doggy Population; the most notable and painful being caused by a pure bred black German Shepherd named Muffin. My leg was so badly sprained that somebody had to give me a lift home and I had to take a week off work to recover. It was years ago, but I still get twinges in my calf every now and again.
- Funny yet slightly unnerving side story; Bingo once savagely attacked my shoulder bag after I slipped over on a patch of ice. He was alarmed that I had fallen down and seemed hurt - I was fine, just shaken - and decided that it was the bag's fault, and well, it didn't survive. He tore it to shreds.
* Mother agrees with you that Evil exists (though I'm still on the fence. I'm not certain I explained it well. Or whether indeed I can), but I disagree that you are not clever and unenlightened.
- You are Green though, definitely. A Greener Bodied Person I have never before met.
* Oh come on! Doctor Who is great (or at least some of it is)! Read up, learn, and enjoy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006q2x0
- I'm a fan of most forms of fiction, to be honest, both written and view-able . For televised Sci Fi, I'm more a fan of the Twilight Zone, than Doctor Who, though . And as for Sci Fi books, well. You can't beat John Wyndham in my opinion.
You can find out about either of those (if you care to and don't know already) here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wyndham
and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(franchise)
(God, I love wikipedia)
- Another question: what books/shows do you like?
* ok, so it's just me. Fine. I don't care. =sniffs=
Still think they're cute. =grins=
You'd hate it here right now; There are loads of them dotted around. Along with dozens and dozens of diddy baby snails with diddy baby snail shells. Aw.
- No mass frog migration yet, though. Shouldn't be too long now. Usually it's no later than early June.
Tara, from Alice xxx
* I disagree with the death penalty on the grounds that it is impossible for any justice system humans devise to be infallible and therefore impossible to ever be 100% sure that a person is guilty. 99.9% sure, maybe, but not 100%, and unless it's 100%, there is always room for doubt. A comparably massive amount of doubt. Bad enough that innocent people be released sometimes years and years after being incarcerated with a grovelling apology and in some cases - rightly - a shed load of money; it's even worse - in fact, unthinkable - when the poor person has been executed and the only course open is to say "whoops".
- And furthermore I will add to any dissenters that may be reading this; you may disagree with me and are perfectly free and encouraged to say so on here if you wish, but please don't try and argue with me or make me change my mind, because trust me; on this issue I wont. You are entitled to your opinion just as I am to mine, and that is how it will stay. Thank you.
xxx
I'm sneaking in another comment while at work - so I'm going to just hit on a couple of points.
ReplyDelete* I live in a self-induced bubble, so when I say we don't have pigeons I mean we - as in me in my little bubble. We, as in the US and even my city, have lots of pigeons. In fact if I were to travel to our parks downtown, I'm sure I could find a pigeon or two.
The starlings . . . not overrun by them here in Florida. Can't really say about the other states (bubble, remember?). Cowbirds? That's a different story. And crows - they empty me feeders daily. Arses.
* I love me some books! I like classic literature (Twain, Woolf, Hemingway). I love poetry too - especially Dickinson. I'm fascinated by long deceased authors like Plath, Woolf, Hemingway, Dickinson, Frost, Thoreau.
I also like current literature. I'll read just about anything, with the exception of sci-fi (wouldn't you know) and gory murder stories. I read before bed and have no desire to be freaked about over some gruesome murder mystery. I like a little romance (NOT those Danielle Steel stories - too syrupy and unrealistic), a little drama, and a little mystery.
Favorite books to date on my short list: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, The Da Vinci Code by Brown (could be an all time favorite next to Huckleberry Finn), The Discovery of Witches by Harkness (although I hated the sequel)and The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (also didn't like her last book).
I usually thoroughly enjoy Nicholas Sparks books and many have been turned into some of my favorite movies - Message in a Bottle and Nights in Rodanthe. But like many authors, they produce too many books to soon and what's created is a bunch of fluff.
On to shows . . . not big on television in general. No TV allowed on in the mornings. . . and on the weekends I'm outside. But I do have a group of favorites I like - Bones (hence my dog's name), NCIS, Castle, The Mentalist, Blue Bloods and Body of Proof. That equates to about an hour a day. LOL Again - you will notice no sci-fi. You smart people and your sci-fi stuff!!! ;-)
* Not touching the death penalty thing. LOL - that's kind of like religion. Not a big fan of either one, but I suppose both serve a purpose.
How's that for a short, quick, at the office comment?!