The Monday Mission
1. Are you good at responding to emails and/or Blog comments? Occasionally good. Sometimes I’m bored and I actually look through my inbox to see if there’s someone to email. Most people who comment on my site leave pretty close-ended comments that don’t need responding. There are a few emails that are burning up the inbox but they’ll probably stay that way for a while.
2. Does it make you crazy when people won’t reply to your emails even though you know good and well that they are reading them? Sure. Although most of the people I know are good about getting back to me. There are only a few turkeys.
3. I recently watched the FOX special “101 Things Removed from the Human Body” which was quite disgusting in a can’t-help-but-watch kind of way. It got me to thinking about many of the accidents I had as a child. I remember climbing over a fence after T-ball and catching my palm on the top of the chain-link fence. Went through my hand and tore it right open. What’s the most unusual thing you’ve had inside your body? Um. Ew. I was one of the smart kids and didn’t swallow anything untoward. I’ve never had a deep cut like the example so colorfully presented here. I’ve gotten stapled while trying to un-jam the stapler, so I guess that counts…
4. What person from your past would you most like to run into and visit with for an afternoon? Why them? What person would you like to not ever see again as long as you live? How come? Well, I just saw Ross the other day (he’s the crush from most of college) and that was “a pleasant surprise” (his quote). yay. And I don’t feel so bad now…another WU grad still living in StL with parents. Whoo. Someday I’ll get up the nerve to ask him to do something. Until then I’ll just remember how snazzily he dresses. lol.
5. What was the last bad meal you (or your special someone) paid too much for? What’s the story there? Er. Bad meals? Paid for? You’re kidding. I have some bad meals at home which usually feature too many mushrooms or asparagus, but I’m unlikely to pay for something that has the potential to be bad. Really, I just can’t think of anything right now.
6. If out-of-the-blue you were forced to find a new career, if there was just suddenly no need for your field of expertise, just what job do you imagine you would seek out? Do you have any skills you can “fall back on?” (If you stay at home or are a student, adjust to fit your situation) If there were suddenly no need for science, I think the world would stop. However, I can make a reasonably good website and I can draw…and maybe then I’d have time to write my book.
7. If you were to open up your own restaurant, what would it be called and what type of food would you serve? Describe the “feel” of the place (the decor, the music, etc). It would probably be something worldly, as I enjoy chinese, french, italian, mexican, and plain old american foods all the time, and I’d probably tie it in someway to my book, so it’d be called Etoile or something like that. “Jenny’s” is too boring and sounds too similar to “Denny’s”. “The Shew Place” has some potential, although I bet some people wouldn’t get it. Any ideas?
BONUS: How long can you stand the heat? As long as I have to. But it better be for a reason.
They’re rather vague, so I’ll interpret them as I see fit 
You know the elf. Heck, he probably lives with you