ToToToToT, Woollen Jubilee Edition

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It's been (almost) seven years, you guys. Well, sort of.

[Buzz]

WOOZERS! I'm getting old!!! BTW... Cool title f_d!

Holistic medicine:

YAY
or
NAY

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I took too long with the poll. I should've answered your question in the first post.

Nayish.

alarm clocks:

wind-up
digital (with a beeping sound)
or
digital (with music)?

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Digital


Do you still wear a watch?

YES
or
NO

[falling_dance]

No.

watches as

bracelets
pendants
pocket ornaments
hats (a little purpose-defeating, but whatever floats your boat)
or
_______________?

[Buzz]

Pocket ornaments


If money and bureaucracy were no problem and if you were to want to adoptable child, would you prefer:

A foreign adoption
OR
Adopt within our own country

[falling_dance]

An in-country adoption, though the preference would be slight.

Control-C
Control-X
purple Command

[Buzz]

Purple command


Books that maybe turned into voices soon:

Blood Red Road
Book Thief
Chaos Walking
The Devil in the White City
Divergent
Fallen
Forgotten
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
OR___________________


http://www.imdb.com/list/55hyZLG1FlI/

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The Bell Jar, though its future seems uncertain.

Grown-ups wearing mittens instead of gloves.

Yay
Nay
purple presumption

[l'etoile]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat? (Yay new thread!)

Yay, I think that's cute and I do that

Do you like it when it rains?

[falling_dance]

Yes.

January 5 people:

Constanze Mozart
Stella Gibbons
Jane Wyman
Sam Phillips
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Alvin Ailey
Alfred Brendel
Robert Duvall
Umberto Eco
Florence King
Maurizio Pollini
Charlie Rose
Diane Keaton
Iris DeMent
Marilyn Manson

[aftershocks]

This is fun! Happy Happy almost seventh anniversary ToToToTot...

Capricorns, eh?

Ailey, Duvall, Rose, and Keaton are the ones I know the most about. I'm also familiar with Eco, Wyman, and Manson (Marilyn, that is) --


Scariest most intimidating fight or flight scenario:


1. Giving a speech in front of strangers you need to impress

2. Being interviewed for a job you want by 3 or more company honchos simultaneously

3. Undergoing cross-examination in a courtroom

4. Being pulled over by a cop (i.e. police officer, not ISU CoP enforcer )

5. Performing a parallel parking test involving cones you must not hit or knock over (and you have to pass the test with only three attempts)

[falling_dance]

The fifth option, most definitely.

I've translated Florence King into fifteen languages and Constanze Mozart and I are likethis!

Repeat of #12...

[aftershocks]

Thanks for the introduction to Florence King! I had run across a book awhile back about Constanze Mozart: After the Requiem -- you wouldn't happen to be the book's translator, btw? Fascinating how there are so many stories out of the mainstream about unheralded people/ events just waiting to be uncovered and brought to light.

Re #12,

I've faced all scenarios and have found 3 and 4 to be the most intimidating, but manageable if remembering to breathe and trying to stay fully present in the moment and thereby perhaps rising above and overcoming the circumstances. Numbers 1 and 2, while scary and nerve-racking can be a piece of cake for me. With practice and thorough preparation, confidence can be one's ally in such situations.

My Dad first taught me how to parallel park and it was easy back then (because he took me out every weekend for practice, and he was a great instructor). I had to go through the parking test again recently and it was NOT fun. Fortunately, angels were with me and I passed miraculously after several attempts. Use a car you are very familiar with and cross your fingers -- but just not while handling the steering wheel!


Repeat of #12 (It's late and I'm feeling a bit lazy ... )

[Buzz]

Already done 1 & 5 and failed miserably. 4 can't happen because I don't have a car. Been to many interviews and hey are all scary but not as much as unemployment. So my answer is #3.


Crime thrillers:

Dial M for Murder
Sin City
Snatch
Gone Baby Gone
Mercury Rising
Pulp Fiction
Departed
Catch Me If You Can
12 Monkeys
The Maltese Falcon

[l'etoile]

Sin City

Bruce Willis movies:

Die Hard series
Sin City
Hostage
The Sixth Sense
Armageddon
Twelve Monkeys
Pulp Fiction
The Fifth Element

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12 Monkeys

I have no ideas left.

January 6 people:

Joan of Arc (I was a dithering Burgundian liberal at the time. Everything looked just like that.)
Heinrich Schliemann
Gustave Doré
Alexander Scriabin
Loretta Young
Jacobo Timerman
Earl Scruggs
E. L. Doctorow
Syd Barrett
Anthony Minghella
A. R. Rahman
John Singleton
Rinko Kikuchi

[l'etoile]

Joan of Arc.

Sandra Bullock movies:

The Blind Side
The Proposal
The Lake House
Crash
Miss Congeniality series
Practical Magic
Speed series
The Net

[falling_dance]

Speed, even though I've never seen it.

Kim's Gershwin FS at 2009 TEB
or
her Les Miz FS at this year's South Korean Nationals?

[Buzz]

her Les Miz FS at this year's South Korean Nationals

Best swan lake:

Mao Asada
Sasha Cohen
Oksana Baiul
Maria Butyrskaya
Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze