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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

if i were a ... i'd be

 A day :: tomorrow
A month :: October
A time of the day :: just before dawn
A planet :: mars
A side :: the third side of the coin
A thing :: a question
A drink :: top shelf vodka martini, just a little dirty.
A sin :: blasphemy
A number :: pi
A colour :: red-orange
A flower :: orchid
A weather :: warm sun and cold snow. and a steep slope in front of you.
An instrument :: piano
A music :: a guitar, simple chord progression, Johnny Cash's voice.
A feeling :: anticipation
An animal :: heh. vampire finch.
A sound :: the background hum of activity
A style :: nerdslut, with a touch of punk rock.
A book :: Invisible Cities -- Calvino
A dance :: just a little shuffling of the hips
A movie :: Casablanca
A place :: the badlands
A scent :: lavender
A taste :: nearly-but-not-quite-ripe guava with sugar, salt and crushed fresh chile peppers.
A word :: mamahlapenatapei (Tierra Del Fuegan for that silently significant look/moment that passes between two people in which both know that it's significant, but if you say anything the whole thing breaks.)
A verb :: do
A part of the body :: that hollow behind the collarbone (the word for it in Thai means something like "pickled fish jar")
A facial expression :: one raised eyebrow
A shape :: moebius strip
A season :: deep summer
A wish :: for my vocation to always be my avocation.

My own additions:
A cheese::Appenzeller (my roommate tells me this. little did she (or I, at the time) know that my Swiss family is from that region, so actually I *am* Appenzeller.)
A kitchen appliance::rice cooker
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