--Pick up to 15 OTPs (I just did TV). --Describe them in less than 15 words. --Have your flist guess the OTP.
1. They just want to get physical, but they never ever can. - Chuck/Ned from Pushing Daisies, notashamed
2. One is a metermaid, the other is a drug addict - both are dead! - Roxy/Mason from Dead Like Me, standbyme59, randijeanw, amaliak
3. Their lives were torn apart, and only brought together on the balcony of a cheap motel. It was epic. - Veronica/Logan from Veronica Mars, randijeanw, amaliak
4. She became an artist who fell in love with a Republican. RESULT: Claire/Ted from Six Feet Under
5. They space high-fived each other. - Jim/Pam from The Office, supercanard
6. Their food tastes better outdoors. - Matt/Julie from Friday Night Lights, raindrops888
7. He's one of four narcissists and she's nameless. RESULT: Charlie/Waitress from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
8. She pickaxed his thigh. - Sark/Sydney from Alias, sarkastic
9. She changed his diapers after he spent 11 months in his mother's womb! RESULT: Buster/Lucille 2 from Arrested Development
10. He finally found something the other guy wasn't good at, in a cheap foreign hotel. RESULT: Tony/Maxxie from Skins
11. She's a number and he's trying not to be boring. - Foreman/Thirteen from House, ms_madden
I think I made mine quite riddle-ish! I hope you guys can get them! :)
I'm beginning my 2009 book list because I wish to chronicle the books read this year. I hope to read as many as last year, if not more, but I'm not going for a number count. I'm hoping to find amazing books that change my life.
Environment/Economics Related: - A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright [909 W952s] - Hell and High Water by Joseph Romm [940.5421 G578h] - The Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer Dixon [303.483 H766i] - The Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge [338.9 S476n]
Novels/Personal Reading: - The Yacoubian Building by Alaa el-Aswany [FIC ASW] - a couple books by Nadine Gordimer [FIC GOR] - Q and A by Vikas Swarup [not at library] - The Road by Cormac McCarthy [FIC MCC] - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [FIC ROY] - Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut [not at library] - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - The Long Afternoon by Giles Waterfield
(The little tags are just library codes for my own purposes)
Oh, and I would totally love it if you listed books that you loved/drastically changed your life.
The richest fifth of the world accounts for 86 percent of the consumption of all goods. -- Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water
The things I have done are striked-out AND the things I desperately want to do are in BOLD
1. Started my own blog 2. Slept under the stars 3. Played in a band 4. Visited Hawaii 5. Watched a meteor shower 6. Given more than I can afford to charity 7. Been to Disneyland/world 8. Climbed a mountain in the winter 9. Held a praying mantis 10. Sung a solo 11. Bungee jumped 12. Visited Paris 13. Watched lightning at sea 14. Taught myself an art from scratch 15. Adopted a child 16. Had food poisoning 17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty 18. Grown my own vegetables 19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France 20. Slept on an overnight train 21. Had a pillow fight 22. Hitchhiked 23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill 24. Built a snow fort 25. Held a lamb 26. Gone skinny dipping 27. Run a Marathon 28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice 29. Seen a total eclipse 30. Watched a sunrise or sunset 31. Hit a home run 32. Been on a cruise 33. Seen Niagara Falls in person 34. Visited the birthplace of my ancestors 35. Seen an Amish community 36. Taught myself a new language 37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied 38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person 39. Gone rock climbing 40. Seen Michelangelo’s David 41. Sung karaoke 42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt 43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant 44. Visited Africa 45. Walked on a beach by moonlight 46. Been transported in an ambulance 47. Had my portrait painted 48. Gone deep sea fishing 49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person 50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris 51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling 52. Kissed in the rain 53. Played in the mud 54. Gone to a drive-in theater 55. Been in a movie 56. Visited the Great Wall of China 57. Started a business 58. Taken a martial arts class 59. Visited Russia 60. Served at a soup kitchen 61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies 62. Gone whale watching 63. Got flowers for no reason 64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma 65. Gone sky diving 66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp 67. Bounced a check 68. Flown in a helicopter 69. Saved a favorite childhood toy 70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial 71. Eaten Caviar 72. Pieced a quilt 73. Stood in Times Square 74. Toured the Everglades 75. Been fired from a job 76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London 77. Broken a bone 78. Been on a speeding motorcycle 79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person 80. Published a book 81. Visited the Vatican 82. Bought a brand new car 83. Walked in Jerusalem 84. Had my picture in the newspaper 85. Read the entire Bible 86. Visited the White House 87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating 88. Had chickenpox 89. Saved someone’s life 90. Sat on a jury 91. Met someone famous 92. Joined a book club 93. Lost a loved one 94. Had a baby 95. Seen the Alamo in person 96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake 97. Been involved in a law suit 98. Owned a cell phone 99. Been stung by a bee 100. Rode an elephant
