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It’s not fun when you snip the end of your finger with your scissors. And I wasn’t even running with them!
In honor of Veterans Day, all you have to do is comment with a page number between 1 and 611, and another number between 1 and 25, and my fingers will march through the pages of one of these books to find you some happiness.
Well, except for that ONE finger.
This photo made me oddly happy when I saw it:
Last night in New York, the three Beatle wives presented designer Stella McCartney an award as one of Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year 2009 for her fashion label and her commitment to animal rights.
Or else it’s on your shoulders when happiness becomes extinct.
Happy anniversary to Lindsey and Rhonda! Has it really been three years? In your honor, today’s Hump Day Happy assistant is one of the animals you’ve provided–who actually has humps. This camel also reminds me of our happy trip to the Renaissance Festival last year, where we saw this guy.
Anyone needing something to be happy about can comment with a page number between 1 and 611, and another number between 1 and 25, and Mr. Humps will retrieve your answer.
(Is it just me, or do camels always look like they’re smiling?)
My week so far is so without anything to post about that when I realized I was looking up lyrics to Enya songs yesterday and could put photos with them, I did NOT do it.
I expect some gratitude for this.
ETA: Note that while I’m encouraging your mockery here and on Facebook, I DO have at least a half-dozen Enya CDs and I LISTEN TO THEM. They are in my iTunes library. This counts as another confession. Internet, once you know my collection of flaws, will you still love me tomorrow?
Several years ago, my buddy Shawn over at Everything and Nothing introduced me to the self-interview. The idea is to find interview questions asked of others in the media and apply them to yourself, answering them on your blog.
A few days ago, I was reading the blog of TJB reader and Twitter friend, Daniel T., who linked to Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life. The description of the book reads:
The probing set of questions originated as a 19th-century parlor game popularized by contemporaries of Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that an individual’s answers reveal his true nature.
I’m not intending to answer the questions here and now, and probably not all at once. There are so many, and I’ve found myself giving them much more thought than memes usually provoke. Some of them might show up as the subjects of future LJ posts.
You can go to a link on the Vanity Fair Web site and answer them there, seeing how your answers compare to the “Luminaries,” or apparently even compare your answers to your Facebook friends.
Or if you want to use them to interview yourself, or maybe answer one or two of them on your own blogs or journals, the questions are:
1.?What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2.?What is your greatest fear?
3.?What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
4.?What is the trait you most deplore in others?
5.?Which living person do you most admire?
6.?What is your greatest extravagance?
7.?What is your current state of mind?
8.?What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
9.?On what occasion do you lie?
10.?What do you most dislike about your appearance?
11.?Which living person do you most despise?
12.?What is the quality you most like in a man?
13.?What is the quality you most like in a woman?
14.?Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
15.?What or who is the greatest love of your life?
16.?When and where were you happiest?
17.?Which talent would you most like to have?
18.?If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
19.?What do you consider your greatest achievement?
20.?If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
21.?Where would you most like to live?
22.?What is your most treasured possession?
23.?What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
24.?What is your favorite occupation?
25.?What is your most marked characteristic?
26.?What do you most value in your friends?
27.?Who are your favorite writers?
28.?Who is your hero of fiction?
29.?Which historical figure do you most identify with?
30.?Who are your heroes in real life?
31.?What are your favorite names?
32.?What is it that you most dislike?
33.?What is your greatest regret?
34.?How would you like to die?
35.?What is your motto?
I hope my friends and the other participants at the National Equality March in D.C. have a fantastic day! I thank all of my friends who trust me enough to be themselves with me; I’m proud to be your advocate and ally. And today’s button reminds everyone that whether or not you know it:
