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My personalDNA Report
My results, not too surprising: I am a “considerate thinker,” a.k.a. a boring homebody who lives in my head, but a nice one. :-)
Okay, guys, I give up. I’ve got houseguests, papers to grade, book to write, kid out of daycare, T-day dinner to cook. And not a whole lot to say right now.
What can I say? I tried.
Latest on the little guy is here.
Inspired by Besomami, but I’m changing the rules…
Original meme is “List the characters or messages on seven coffee mugs that are in your cupboard (bonus points if you can do this without looking).”
However, we purged most of our mugs after our last move, keeping only the handmade pottery set that was our wedding “china,” and a few others. Those include one from my graduate women’s studies program, and another with a beautiful gold bird pattern that was a gift from a former student, but the only others are my husband’s and not very interesting. So I’m only going to talk about the most sentimental pieces we’ve saved that I will never, ever get rid of: two plastic beer mugs from Oktoberfest 1999.
These are from our first real (non-blind) date. After meeting through the personals and having the requisite awkward dinner date, which I had to leave earlier than I wanted because I’d double booked a drinks date with someone else later that night, he called and asked me out again to Oktoberfest. We saw an amazing German “hard polka” band, The Shanes. (I ordered their CD, The Haunted House of Polka, from amazon.de for his birthday years later.) Another highlight of the evening was getting busted for going in the bounce house after all the kids were gone. But for me the most significant event occured midway through the evening, when he started talking about other local festivals and was asking me about whether I’d be interested in going to the Italian festival–the next day. I figured the fact that he was asking me out again before the date was even half over was a good sign. We’ve been together ever since.
Nope, I’m never getting rid of those mugs.
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