Category — Microblog Mondays

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The BBC had an article about whether a country can really have a personality, and what that even means in regards to its residents.  For instance, do you think YOUR country has a personality?  I’m willing to hazard a guess that you describe the personality of your country in positive terms, whereas other countries are mostly ascribed neutral or negative terms.  (Unless, I guess, you hate where you live.)

And, next, is that the average personality of the people in your country?  Because, if not, what does the personality of a country even mean?  So let’s assume that you agree — the personality of your country is a reflection of the average resident of your country.

Lastly, do YOU fit your country’s personality?

Try to answer these questions BEFORE you read other comments below.  It will be interesting to see how residents of the same country answer.

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Atlas Obscura had a post about wind phones: disconnected phones set up in Japan so people could call their lost loved ones.  The article begins:

When Itaru Sasaki lost his cousin in 2010, he decided to build a glass-paneled phone booth in his hilltop garden with a disconnected rotary phone inside for communicating with his lost relative, to help him deal with his grief.

I clearly found the idea touching, but I also found it strangely comforting.  Yes, I know it’s a disconnected phone and that I could just speak my words into thin air, but there is something about holding a tangible object as you speak.  I would do anything to get to speak to my grandmother again, to feel like I’m communicating with her even if I don’t get an answer.

Who would you call on the wind phone?

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Linus’s breeder announced that she has a few new guinea pig babies that will be ready for homes in the next month.  There is something about hearing this news coupled with Easter and the onslaught of baby animal pictures that is making me open up an email to her and then close it without sending.

I want another guinea pig.  I don’t want another guinea pig.

Maybe I just want a Cadbury egg.  The ice cream shop at the beach posted a picture of sweet cream ice cream with chunks of Cadbury egg, drizzled with caramel.

Are you off for Easter?  Are you doing anything good with your day off?

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The ChickieNob beat me in cards, and I told her that she could pick the prize.  She narrowed it down to a Buffy soundtrack or a Buffy episode, but that was as far as she got.

We talked about it a lot, and I pointed out that it was a pretty low stakes decision.  She could (1) play me in cards again and probably beat me a second time (if not on the first try then some point in the future) and (2) she had the money to buy herself the soundtrack AND the episodes.  But she still couldn’t make up her mind.  It was like knowing she had a prize was even better than choosing the prize.

The Wolvog is the same way.  It is so hard for him to choose what he wants to do when we go hang out somewhere, even when I promise him that it’s a low stakes decision: we can go out again the next week and do something different.

As someone who held onto a massage gift certificate for years because knowing I had it was better than using it, I get it.  The apples didn’t fall far from this neurotic tree.

Do you like to choose prizes (or use gifts) quickly or hold onto them indefinitely?

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The Paperback Princess had such an interesting post about the books she hasn’t read.  It was really hard to come up with my “not read” list because I also have a problem remembering what I have read.  For instance, I started listing out books and then realized that I not only owned the book but my handwriting is all over the inside of said book.  So… thinking I read those ones.

But I definitely haven’t read Middlemarch, Naked Lunch, Atlas Shrugged, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Tropic of Cancer, or any of the Outlander books.  And with the exception of Heart is a Lonely Hunter, I also have no intention of reading any of these books.

How about you?  What haven’t you read that you probably should have gotten to by now?

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