27 Things about Spo
1-I never tire of pasta
2 -I avoid watching celebrity trials; I missed OJ, Michael Jackson etc.
3-I was punched only once in life; it was a patient.
4-Oatmeal is the breakfast of choice
5-I have never seen a professional football game other than TV
6-I born on the 7th day, of the 7th month and 7AM
7-I love to go to casino but I don’t gamble. I order a drink, read a book and watch the people.
8-Operas I want to see but never seem to find < Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Der Freishutz, The Hand Maiden’s Tale, and Orpheus in the Underworld.
9-I was 30yo when I first heard of Patsy Kline.
10-My grandfather had a cabin cruiser on which we traveled the Great Lakes. At 7 years old I though him, the boat and The Great Lakes larger than life
11-I have the double whammy of high cholesterol (mother’s side) and high blood pressure (father’s side).
12-Snowstorms and winter in general cheers me up – a sort of “antiSAD” wiring.
13-In 2007 we are likely to get a dog. After 15 years with cats, it will be a quite a switch.
14-My family had four dogs – all Schnauzers, all named Hans (Hans I, Hans II, Hans III and Hans IV) A sort of royal succession of pooches
15-I miss our black cat Tiberius. It doesn’t seem Hallowe’en without him to reign as king of the cats.
16-I was bullied and harassed throughout most of junior high school. I don’t know how I survived without going nuts or turning to drugs.
17-I was raised a Congregationialist. These are the direct descendants of the New England Puritans. I don’t have any negative memory for this church.
18-At last count I have done nearly 800 psychiatric evaluations since I started working in Arizona last year.
19-A neurosis of mine that won’t go away is the fear of not catching a flight.
20-“Eloise” by Kay Thompson was and still is one of my favorite books
21- I prefer the company of my brothers to most other people.
22-When I am in restaurants and they ask me ‘for my name’, I use Ralph rather than Michael. With so many Michaels I always hear Ralph it is called.
23-The year of my internship was so miserable that for years I used to say I was one year younger than I was, for I did not want to count it.
24-I have a minor case of Tourette’s Disorder. I have to be watchful that sudden blurts of statements and expletives don’t come out in inopportune times.
25-I drank beer for the first time in Junior year college. My microbiology partner was British and made his own ale. Having no reference, the dark Guiness like brew he made has been my ‘baseline’. So I prefer the dark ales.
26-Speaking of alcohol, my favorite wine is Stag’s Leap WineCellar from Napa
27-Cities I want to see someday < Paris, Sydney, Montreal, Athens.
posted by Ur-spo at 7:26 AM
14 Comments:
Great list...I'm sorry, the southerner in me is having a hard time with the Patsy Cline thing...honey, were you under a rock?
What kind of dog are you and Someone looking at adopting? I've had nothing but dogs (allergic to cats).
Hi Ralph!?
I like it when people do these lists.
I'll be happy to welcome you to Montreal. And if you don't mind, I'll tag along for the others. I sorta have the same list.
Like Steve, do you know what kind of dog you guys will be getting?
Can't wait to see the little guy!?
Have fun!?
Hey Ralph!
I am a dog person. I have never owned a cat. I can not remember the last time I hung with my brother. I have too many neurosis to go into here. I am going for another psychiatric evaluation in two weeks (for school). I was raised United.
Have a great weekend
A) I like oatmeal, especially Supreme Oatmeal, but it gives me an acid stomach at breakfast time.
B) You might buy Tiberius one of those gross fake-fur Halloween cats and put a nice voodoo reanimation spell on it so he can hang around the house still. Just a suggestion. That's the kind of thing I do to feel better.
C) I wonder at your palsy-walsy relationships with your brothers. It's always been open warfare between me and my brother, chilly indifference between me and my sister.
While going through my wife's albums, I came across someone I'd never heard of. As I hated country music, I asked: "What's this Patsy Cline shit?"
She was incredulous that I'd never hear of her (I came from a family who liked Big Band and Jazz), and made me sit an listen.
I fell in love, instantly. I was 30.
It is a funny thing, and maybe it is a Southern thing...I think I was singing Patsy Cline before I ever said Momma...LOL
Love the Country Twang.
Ralph, huh? hmmm.
I assume you are taking care of / watching the cholesterol and b.p. I got the b.p. from my mother's side, but I think I bit the bullet on the cholesterol. I got the tremors instead.
There are a lot of good thinkers among the Congregationalists.
Cats. Dogs. We've had both. Right now we're on our third dog. It doesn't matter. They are not pets. They are little people who dress up in fur suits and only take them off while we humans are sleeping.
I like the list. Like you and Patsy Cline, today I learned of something new... "Congregationialist". That's a new one for me :)
You fear of not catching a flight is interesting. I never WANT to miss a flight, but I'm always relaxed in thinking if I do... there will be another one.
the pooch will probably be a 'rescue' from the local pound.
Hanuman - I eat oatmeal mostlyl in the winter time as it is too hot otherwise.
Die Frau Ohne Schatten and Der Freischutz are done in Vienna sometimes. But be careful. The quality of opera performances in Vienna isn't what it used to be. They seem to have turned a major European cultural institution into a tourist trap. They are, however, generally OK with Richard Strauss. Where do you go to see opera in Arizona?
Now THAT is one diverse list Ralph! That is why you are such an interesting man!
Great list!
I still can't get over you being punched by a patient!
I'd like to punch my Health Insurance provider, but NOT my doctor!
Thanks for #21! It is very much the case with us too! (however this blogging seems to have become a cruel mistress to Someone and the rest of us are worried you'll never join us in Paris, Sydney, Montreal or Athens if you don't get away from the computer!)
#24 is quite odd... isn't that just the inherited impulsive behavior associated with our ADHD and high blood pressure & cholesterol?
Love the lists that you do. And as I said before it's great that you only do 27, no more, no less. You didn't say whether you liked Patsy Cline now that you know her. That's the music that I grew up on and it will always have a special place in my heart.
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