Fayrouz sent me this assignment, which I have slowly but whimsically completed. Of course, clumsy as I am, I have messed up the formatting. Sorry, everyone.
Seven things I plan to do:
- Get a PhD in Medieval History sometime in the next four years.
- Play for the NBA. This is less likely than plan #1.
- Order the expensive wine for once.
- Cover the imperetrix pulcerrima Africae Occidentalis with jewels and the finest silks of the mysterious and alluring East.
- Sigh, and wistfully pull the cord on the old chain saw one more time...
- Own an emu.
- Travel, travel, travel.
- Read a charter in Visigothic script, given enough time and good light.
- Blather on and on.
- Google efficiently.
- Panic with great elegance.
- Insult someone in English, Spanish, Latin, Italian, German, French, and Gaelic.
- Make damn good lentejas, soliciting golden opinions from all sorts of people.
- Procrastinate with an almost otherworldly intensity.
Seven things I can't do:
- Juggle.
- Appreciate Nascar.
- Convince the guard at the White House of my sincerity.
- Dunk without a trampoline and a basket only four feet above the ground.
- Rap in Latin (but I'm trying, I'm trying).
- Get this probation thing off my ankle with only a pocketknife.
- Watch reality television without feeling that civilization has fallen apart and that the barbarians are not only at the gates, but in the control room.
- &%#@*!
- What?
- Groovy.
- Row, damn you, row, they're gaining on us... and they're armed.
- Si lo pones ahi, va a estallar.
- &#^$%!
- No, it's only blood.
- Guillaume le Fou.
- Mi primo.
- Eon de l'Etoile, the mad 12th century heretic of Brittany.
- The laughing cat.
- The old man who punched me on Broadway.
- Cleopatra, asp-bitten and pale.
- Frank O'Hara, wherever he may be.
4 comments:
Hey, you finished your assignment. Thank you.
Now your readers know more about you :-)
soon i shall complete my mission.
in the meantime, i want some of these famous lentejas. i don't know man, you've got some stiff competition from an 82-year-old woman named Nona at a place called "Pedro Telmo" in San Telmo. but I'm willing to allow for the possibility of different lentejas recipes -- i suppose. maybe i'll eat my words. maybe, cuando lo ponga ahi...
LOL
"Row, damn you row..."
I love it.
Nice blog.
:)
Thanks, Talmida.
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