Now I want to do the Virginia Reel. We used to do that in camp, or something, and the best time ever was "accidentally" being across from the Boy I Liked.

Plei, maybe the last weekend in January or the last one in February?

Okay!

Either! Both!

I can draw, kinda. Not as well as I once could, but practice and all.

Also, did we know about Jon Stewart:

It was mentioned as a rumor, but that looks pretty official! Yay!

It took me forever to learn to tie my shoes. I was wearing slip-on (pre-velcro) sneakers well into an age where it was embarrassing.

I used the bunny-ears method of shoe-tying for years and years, Sue. I blame my left-handedness.

Hell, I tell you! Hell.

Exactly.

The first time I ever tied my shoes, I had them on the wrong feet.

It kind of took away from the triumph.

Speaking of Jon Stewart, did anyone watch last night's TDS? Loved the Big Brother/spying kitty bit, as well as "This Is Wiretap."

I can't draw. I can't dance. I can move in rhythym, because I am musical, but the movements are not particularly pretty.

Music's where I'm at. Since age 11, the longest stretch I've gone without being in at least one chorus is 6 months, after I graduated college in December, and auditions for Symphony Chorus weren't until July or August. In high school, I was in three choruses, plus voice lessons. In college, I had chorus, voice lessons, and four years of Madrigal dinner. I've sung from Soprano I to Alto II, I've sung in a capella Christmas carolling quartets, I've done church jobs and weddings, including one where the participants disliked the patriarchal implications of "Lord", and rewrote the words to hymns.

Someone asked about this recently...

The 2006 [hurricane] season officially begins June 1, but any tropical storms that form at any time this year would be part of its tally. The first name on the list is Alberto.

11pm on Friday is often just-getting-off-work time for me.

Okay, question: how many people here fear swimming in deep water? in the pool? in a lake? in the ocean?

I don't have a fear of the depth of the water so much as trepidation about the size of the critters that could be in the water.

Of the folks I hang out with during the summer I'm the least likely to swim and I'm the one raised in the most urban environment. I don't know if it's cultural, or if I'm just a weaker swimmer because of lack of opportunity.

can you ride a bike? Do a cartwheel? Catch, throw, hit a ball? Jump rope? Skate?

Yes to all of the above, although I doubt I could do a graceful cartwheel now and I had trouble hitting a ball until I got glasses. I was better with a skateboard (old school narrow board) than with skates.

I can play several woodwinds and some percussion, but every time I pick up my guitar I have to re-learn the same chords.

I can kind of understand square dancing in elementary, but they really shouldn't have made us do it in Jr High. That was lame.

My mother insisted that I take several years of cooking and sewing classes in 4H (urban 4H clubs are just sad). So now I hate to cook or sew even though I know how.