Four, four, four for my headaches
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ventaI just started writing up my answers to the four-things meme, then stopped when I realised it was crashingly dull. This is not intended to be a comment on other peoples' answers; just that mine in particular were dull.
Four jobs ? Unless I count two roles at the last one separately, I've only had three[*]. Places I've lived ? Two, unless you let me count different roads in Oxford. Four TV programs ? I think I might have watched four this year - that is, four episodes of QI and bugger-all else. I don't watch films over and over, in fact I don't really watch films.
The biggest problems I have, though, in answering questions like those is, firstly, to think of four places I'd rather be "right now". As it is, I'm sitting on the sofa, I'm quite comfy and I'm quite happy. OK, so it's not the most exciting venue in the world, but if I were right now ski-ing down a glacier in New Zealand I'd have terrible trouble getting back for work in the morning. Also, I can't ski. I appreciate that this isn't really the point of the question, but it's the way my mind works. Even in my flights of fancy I demand a certain element of realism, and being somewhere significantly else this evening just isn't going to happen. I am practical to the point of mundanity.
Secondly, I don't have favourites. I never really have. So, four favourite foods ? I can tell you four things I like, but as I rule I couldn't rank them or claim to be consistent two days running. I couldn't tell you my favourite book, or favourite song, or favourite place, though in each case I could give you a selection of examples that I thought were pretty good.
At a confirmation class when I was about 14 we were instructed to bring the following week our favourite possession. I forget what the point of the exercise was, but I simply wasn't able to come up with a sensible answer. Various people tried asking questions like "what would you grab if you had to run from a burning house?" but really, I still didn't know. Nowadays I suppose it would be my wallet and phone for convenience; a pet if I had one. There are many possessions I'd be sad to lose, but nothing that really stands out.
Does every else have clearly delimited favourites ? Books, films, foods ? If so, is that a long-standing list or does it change regularly ? Do you have something you'd refer to as a favourite possession ?
[*] The possible only piece of interest in my entire meme-answer was that the other two were agricultural labourer and ballet-school pianist.
Four jobs ? Unless I count two roles at the last one separately, I've only had three[*]. Places I've lived ? Two, unless you let me count different roads in Oxford. Four TV programs ? I think I might have watched four this year - that is, four episodes of QI and bugger-all else. I don't watch films over and over, in fact I don't really watch films.
The biggest problems I have, though, in answering questions like those is, firstly, to think of four places I'd rather be "right now". As it is, I'm sitting on the sofa, I'm quite comfy and I'm quite happy. OK, so it's not the most exciting venue in the world, but if I were right now ski-ing down a glacier in New Zealand I'd have terrible trouble getting back for work in the morning. Also, I can't ski. I appreciate that this isn't really the point of the question, but it's the way my mind works. Even in my flights of fancy I demand a certain element of realism, and being somewhere significantly else this evening just isn't going to happen. I am practical to the point of mundanity.
Secondly, I don't have favourites. I never really have. So, four favourite foods ? I can tell you four things I like, but as I rule I couldn't rank them or claim to be consistent two days running. I couldn't tell you my favourite book, or favourite song, or favourite place, though in each case I could give you a selection of examples that I thought were pretty good.
At a confirmation class when I was about 14 we were instructed to bring the following week our favourite possession. I forget what the point of the exercise was, but I simply wasn't able to come up with a sensible answer. Various people tried asking questions like "what would you grab if you had to run from a burning house?" but really, I still didn't know. Nowadays I suppose it would be my wallet and phone for convenience; a pet if I had one. There are many possessions I'd be sad to lose, but nothing that really stands out.
Does every else have clearly delimited favourites ? Books, films, foods ? If so, is that a long-standing list or does it change regularly ? Do you have something you'd refer to as a favourite possession ?
[*] The possible only piece of interest in my entire meme-answer was that the other two were agricultural labourer and ballet-school pianist.
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Date: 2008-02-19 09:55 pm (UTC)I can occasionally pass off "favourite" as "thing I'd most like at this moment", especially with food. Though that would always be a different answer - very hungry on a winter's day wants a very different thing from just had tea on a blazing summer evening.
I think Bea's got the right approach :)
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Date: 2008-02-19 10:26 pm (UTC)There are a few things which are my famous 'favourites' but they won't even be used consistently as answers by me - I like potatoes a lot but even they won't be my favourite food in the middle of a hot summer :-)
Films, music anything like that and it completely goes. No chance of a favourite. I believe this lack of favourites is one of the things which made it onto a small scrap of paper listing the things
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Date: 2008-02-19 11:39 pm (UTC)It is indeed ;-)
I have some 'canonical favourites' which I can mention when people ask (if you ask me my favourite book, I'll probably say The Robber Bride, and I will claim Little Earthquakes as my favourite album), but most of the time they're no more favourite than many other similar things I could equally have said - it's just an easy answer that is probably right on average more than most of the other possibilities.
Purple, of course, remains my favourite colour in all circumstances.