A to Z, part 2

[A is for aspirations:]
To be a good teacher.

[B is for beauty:]
The Gregorian Chant on the radio and the hot, strong coffee.

[C is for choices:]
Living in this place.

[D is for doubts:]
Whether I can always be this patient.

[E is for envy:]
People without cellulite.

[F is for favorite food:]
At the moment, fresh tomato and mayonnaise sandwich on fresh bread.

[G is for games:]
Scattergories!!!

[H is for hopes:]
That I will always remember to pause & enjoy.

[I is for If ...]
... I have to see that 6 Flags commercial one more time, I will scream.

[J is for just once...]
... a trip to the moon might be nice.

[K is for kids:]
That could be fun.

[L is for love:]
Found unexpectedly, amazingly, right here in Blogland.

[M is for memory:]
The way the sun blazed and glistened off the frozen branches at sunrise, and I went weak at the knees from the beauty of the sight, so that I had to sit down for the cry.

[N is for never:]
done cocaine & never will.

[O is for overdo:]
melted cheese.

[P is for phobias:]
Spiders. Drowning. Fire. Face eaten by cougar.

[Q is for quotation:]
"I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling."
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[R is for regret:]
That one thing ... lost forever.

[S is for sweets:]
Peanut Butter, Banana, & Honey Sandwich

[T is for thankful:]
for good health.

[U is for understand:]
Chemistry and physics.

[V is for vegetables:]
Edamame, sugar snap peas, summer tomatoes, eggplant, garlic from dad's garden, herbs.

[W is for worst:]
When I am joking and you don't get it.

[X is for excellence:]
Getting you to understand a difficult concept.

[Y is for yearn:]
for cool sand on my feet and the smell of October in the wild, wide ocean.

[Z is for zodiac:]
Scorpiette.

Spinning through the Year: a meme I am pretty sure I made up.

I've seen a meme here and there in which you have to go back in your archives & post the first sentence from the first post of each month of the year. Fun! I thought I'd adapt it and post sentences in which I mention each month; now my very own meme has been born! Yes, it has slithered forth from my creative uterus to span the Internets worldwide!!! This also gives me a chance to see how good my writing was before I stopped blogging for real (did anyone notice?) ... please go back and read some of my old stuff and rediscover why this blog is so fabu!!! And happy closing of the year to you, my cyber-lovers. ~xo, Spinnerina

* Monkey and the Spinning Wheels in January 2006 (Grab an Oar ... )

*I can’t believe random people in cars have the capacity to hurt my feelings. Today, I got the “Go ahead, go ahead, no you go, go already!” wave from somebody and I could tell from the tone of their fingers and wrist that the hand was pissed at me. It bothered me for a good long time. It’s such a gorgeous day today. I can’t even conceive of how February will feel. My feet look f-ing fabu in these shoes. (Pad Thai Meditations)

*28. In March of 2004 I drank 3 bottles of wine by myself and scared myself so much that I never want to drink again.(100 Things, or However Far I Get)

*April showers bring May flowers. Happy spring HNT! (HNT: In Bloom)

*This past May, my roommate A. (A for Anyhoo) and I battled: Wasps, Carpenter Bees, Millipedes, and Spiders. I like the hymenopterae from a distance (not so much when their stingers are engrafted in my foot), but millipedes creep me out (have you noticed that they smell?) and spiders haunt my darkest night-time imaginings. (Close Encounters of the Bird Kind)


*Teachers pretend not to like snow days, and moan about the time having to be made up in June, about the quadratic formulas that won’t get practiced today, the verbs that won't get conjugated. (Wintry Mix)


*When I started blogging in early July, my main mission was to vent out some things that needed venting. My early posts were a mish-mash of ire-filled rampages (since deleted, so don’t even look) that nobody read. (This Posting Life)

*On August 26-29 of 2005, the London Zoo presented an exhibit known as Human Zoo, in which Real! Live! Humans! were put on display in an old bear enclosure next to the reptile house. It was so ridiculous. The one good thing about HZ is that it inspired me to write 3.5 really good posts in which I pretended to be a participant. (Back to the Zoo)

*I felt like the world dropped out from under me on September 11, 2001. (The Down & Dirty Blog Frolic I: My Ass is on Fire!)

*Then when all/most of the pinkies are up, I chant, "pinkies in the air ... pinkies in the air ... now do a dance!" and we wiggle in a circle.* Now I have their attention and I can talk. To this day the students who were on my bus to Boston in October pass me in the halls and put their pinkies in the air. (School of Life II: The Bag of Tricks)

*Shopping at Macy's last Sunday was a head trip. They are playing Christmas Music. Christmas music!!!! On November 6th! Apparently, according to their customer service, by "customer request" they start the music the same time they start their holiday displays, which is now. (Pomegranate Meditations)

*My desk drawer complete with cigarettes from Uruguay that Quilting girl found in a NYC taxicab on our trip in December, then hid in my luggage to find later. (a late but very special office Supply Wednesday)