24 posts tagged “qotd”
Have you ever ridden in a hot air balloon or a helicopter? Where did you go?
ooooh a QOTD i actually want to answer! (sorry vox, there have been some lame ones of late....maybe it's just me.) a few weeks ago in hawaii, geoff and evan and sara-with-no-h and i went on a helicopter ride over volcanoes. one interesting tid-bit: evan and geoff weigh EXACTLY the same amount! sara and i do not.... at all. (i've got abt 300 lbs on her tiny self)
what is it that's so awesome about volcanoes? you're in this volcano just dying to see lava shoot up in the air but then you realize how destructive that could be and feel bad. our pilot-- we called him "shaky ray"-- was very philosophical about the great paradox of volcanoes creating (land) while they simultaneously destroy so much. sorry, geoff has all the photos. but here's one we did not take.
What shows are you looking forward to in the new fall TV season?
ugh. not "heroes." i just think it's overrated. all you people who love it: have you ever watched an HBO or FX show or even battlestar?? heroes is *amazing* for NBC but overall mediocre. sorry. i'm watching them on DVD right now. just. not. that. good. well, actually if you fast-forward everything involving micah, parkman, suresh, eden, and simone it's ok. that casting agent had a knack for hiring women who are supposedly hot, but not quite. i know that's obnoxiously catty. but i'm a girl. it's what we do.
re: new shows- wondering if "pushing daisies" can live up to the hype. and in a little pre-fall season action, i'm loving "damages" and "mad men." i think i should have been born a 1960s advertising exec.
What makes your best friend so special?
Submitted by Jessmiloo.
that he's also my husband!!
but here are some other reasons (appropriate since this wkend is our wedding anniv.)
- he not only makes me laugh, but works at it. he says he plans little IM witticisms all day hoping for an "lol"
- he always knew i'd write a book, making a deal with me three years ago that if i didn't take his name i'd have to dedicate said book to him
- he's absurdly adorable
- he's a good dad to winnie, vinnie and boo
- he likes TV and the A's as much as i do
What clothing item do you wish could be banned?
Submitted by Mike E.
this is hard for me to answer. sometimes i hate things and then they come back in a cooler, fresher way and i love them. i used to hate metallics, yellow, capri pants, animal prints. all of which i have my current rotation. (don't worry- not in one outfit.)
i think i can safely say shoulder pads. and ankle boots.
Tell us a true story that proves it really is a small world after all.
Submitted by havybeaks.
i have SO many because i lived in memphis, which is one huge small world. the most recent example: i was at BBQ fest with my ex-fiance Troy last may. (ok, that's weird enough.) so his step-mom busts into the tent we're all hanging out in and tells us this "crazy" story. she was trying to introduce this girl who's new in town to this guy and his wife who are a youngish-hip couple, only she couldn't find the female half of the couple so she pulled her husband aside to meet this girl. As it turns out, he'd gone on a blind date with her years before.
that's not all.
my first date EVER was with this guy's younger brother. when we went down to their tent so i could see what the guy looked like now, i saw one of my best friend ever's older brother, jeremy. oh, and troy had gone to school with the wife-half of the couple, who now worked with his step-mom, Jane. and one day Troy was helping his uncle who does roofing work, and he looked over and saw highschool photos of them-- he was in her house unknowingly!
assuming you could follow it, TOP THAT!
What movie cliché would you most like to live out in real life?
Submitted by Wes.
this is so corny but i think i'd have to say "All the President's Men." i mean, i've already found love so all the "rom-coms" are out. i have friends, a cool place to live, good job etc. but as a reporter being able to write that ONE killer story that changes the course of history is pretty amazing. i've always lived the hard truth that as a reporter you're only as good as the story you JUST WROTE. (which makes me pretty shitty since i last wrote a story in november) There is no basking in greatness for more than two minutes. the sole exception to this seems to be woodward and burnstein. that's pretty sweet.
What's the longest boat ride you've ever been on?
it wasn't a very LONG boat ride in distance. i think we just went around a lake, but it was very long in time and it felt incredibly long. it was a harrowing experience, and i think for some odd reason one of the first times i'd ever been on a boat, even though i must have been about 21ish.
it was on some lake in arkansas where rednecks like to play. i was there with my ex-fiance (then not an ex) and his large, sprawling, male dominated family. he had about 7 uncles on his dad's side, and 21 first cousins, all mostly boys. they'd all been married and divorced and remarried giving way to more kids and confusion. by this time we'd been together three years so i had who was who and the complex tree of who was who's dad mostly figured out.
anyway, we were there for some sort of crazy long weekend. they all brought boats, gear, and cases and cases of budweiser. a couple boats went out on the lake as soon as we got there. most of the girls went out on the "lady jane" the plush, comfy pink and white speedboat. i ended up on my father-in-law-to-be's camo, unpadded duck hunting boat. that wouldn' t have been to bad if a massive storm hadn't hit as soon as we set out. the boat was tossed all over the lake. i was holding onto a rope tied to the side of the boat, my fiance, and a beer screaming for what felt like hours but was probably a good 30 minutes. the waves were throwing the boat in the air and the boat was in turn throwing us up in the air several feet only to slam back down into the rock-hard boat. my beer was half water, but i was still gulping it down, terrified, but also at times laughing at the sheer bizarreness of how things like this always tended to happen around this family.
within an hour i was on land, and bruised most everywhere. and i was drinking another beer. amazingly, i went back out on the boat later that afternoon.
What time is your alarm clock set for? Do you use the snooze button?
I DON'T HAVE AN ALARM CLOCK!
ok, not totally true, but we don't set it. that's right. we wake up naturally. geoff and i both agree the alarm clock sound is one of the worst things on the planet and since neither one of us have to work graveyard shifts or wall street hours, we just wake up when we wake up. it's an amazingly better way to start the day and we somehow still get up about the same time as we were trying to get up by hitting the snooze button for an hour.
What was your favorite TV season finale this year?
Submitted by Kristine.
i haven't seen all of them yet because i'm behind on my TV.....but watched LOST last night and it was pretty rad. i totally called the end shocker!! in fact, the bigger shocker to me was how sad i was that charlie died!
you know, it's become popular to bash lost, but i think they've consistently brought it this year. the trajedy of
i think this finale shows that lost is not going the route of x-files just continually expanding the same mysteries. i love the courage to give us answers, while raising new questions. or reshape the fundamental tension of the show, while still building on it.
geoff thinks ben was in the coffin. what do you think?
What's that secret dream job you've always believed you'd be good at, but never gone for?
Submitted by wedgeh.
my last post was so boring i figured i should bury it with something more fun. and this question is EASY! my dream job is being a roller derby girl. that's where the "sarahcuda" moniker comes from. (courtesy of my brilliant husband.) i got really obsessed after watching the A&E show "rollergirls." it's everything that i like about being a girl: you can be sexy and girly and flirty but also be a total butt-kicking, take-no-prisoners bad ass. in fact, i like to think it's how i operate as a reporter. I'm nice and very southern-girly until you cross me then WATCH OUT! because you are about to go flying into a padded side rail.
i can totally imagine that i'm wearing shorts, ripped fishnet tights and skates and a tank top with "SARAHCUDA" emblazoned on the back -- maybe in flames! I'd be wearing very very heavy black eyeliner and have all kinds of drawn on fake tatoos. of baracudas maybe? or maybe more flames? or maybe the classic barbed wire around the arm....
in case you missed it before, this is me demonstrating my moves. i'm shoving a competing girl who's trying to pass me:
i actually decided one (tipsy) night in Memphis over christmas break that i was going to go undercover as a roller girl once my book was done and freelance some brilliant article about it somewhere. just write something totaly different than all the businessy pieces i've done for the last ten years and get out all that pent up book frustration and stress too. but then i realized i can't skate. and i'd probably million-dollar-baby out during the first bout.
so i think this dream will just stay a fantasy.
ooooh! i wonder if there's some fantasy camp where totally unskilled people like me can "pretend" to be roller girls? or maybe i could just be one for halloween?
