“It works like this: if you use Flickr, go to the sixth page of your photostream and pick the sixth picture there, then post it to your blog, and pass it on to six other people.”

Wallaby, Austin Zoo

I’m tagging anyone who wants to do it!

Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title.

Boat’s Up The River And It Won’t Come Down

There is trouble in the world today
On rides the captain and three hundred soldier lads
I hear what you’re telling me but that don’t make it so.
Well first you gotta want to get off

At first I didnt understand when she walked through the door
You’re like a cool breeze to a hot spell
He’s so fine
Can’t you see I love you

Hey porter, hey porter would you tell me the time
Let me tell ya little ’bout this lady I know
When I’m alone and I’m staring at my wedding band
Whoa my oh my oh my I’m falling in love again

You came home and that’s all right
Oh Susie Q baby I love you Susie Q
What kind of love have you got
It was my first night in paris
Girl, don’t tell me that it’s morning

I guess I should have known by the way you parked your car sideways
The full moon is glowing out so bright it’s right out on the highway
Reveal to me the mystery

Song list
Tim O’Brien – Boat Up The River

The Toasters – Properly
Full Frontal Folk – Blood & Gold
Deana Carter – I’ve Loved Enough To Know
Johnny Cash – Bull Rider
Lila McCann – Changing Faces
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Let Me Into Your Heart
The Chiffons – He’s So Fine
Joe Dowell – Wooden Heart
Johnny Cash – Hey! Porter
The Blenders – Drive By
Super XX Man – Usual Way
The Dansettes – Oh My!
A Brand – I do as I please
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Susie Q
The Eagles – Victim Of Love
Eric Blakely – First Night In Paris
Great Big Sea – Boston and St. John’s
Prince – Little Red Corvette
Jack Ingram – Drivin’ All Night Long
P.O.D. – Sleeping Awake

(I skipped instrumentals and a couple of 1920s blues songs that were unintelligible where google failed me)

This photo meme is kinda cool – I swiped it from awdrey_gore.

01. Answer each of the questions below the cut using the [Flickr] search engine.
02. Choose a photo from the first three pages.
03. Copy the URL of your favorite photos [here].
04. Then share with the world.

01. First Name: Jennifer
02. Favorite Food: Steak
03. Hometown: Oregon City
04. Favorite Color: Purple
05. Celebrity Crush: Johnny Depp
06. Favorite Drink: Dublin Dr. Pepper
07. Dream Holiday: Scotland
08. Favorite Dessert: Ice Cream
09. What I Want To Be When I Grow Up: Historian
10. What I Love Most In The World: Rob
11. One Word That Describes Me: Geek
12. My LiveJournal Name: jenbooks

Originally published at Jen’s Corner. You can comment here or there.

American Civil Literacy – take the quiz – No cheating, now!

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 78.0%
Average score: 78.0%

I missed two on economics, which doesn’t surprise me. Hm. Maybe I should make an economics class my “unrestricted elective”.

I love history.

Originally published at Jen’s Corner. You can comment here or there.

Stolen from Ponks

01. Take a picture of your bag.
02. Now dump everything out and neatly adjust them, and take a picture [no matter how embarrassing].
03. Talk about the items inside. Details, plz.
04. Tag 6 people.

My current bag. Bought it a week or so ago at Charming Charlie, and so far it hasn’t annoyed me much at all! This is unusual. Perhaps I’ve found a bag I can live with?

Click the image for notes on everything.

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Hey, maybe some real content tomorrow! It could happen…

the Observer Test finished!

you chose BZ – your Enneagram type is FIVE. “I need to understand the world” Observers have a need for knowledge and are introverted, curious, analytical,and insightful. How to Get Along with Me Be independent, not clingy. Speak in a straightforward and brief manner. I need time alone to process my feelings and thoughts. Remember that If I seem aloof, distant, or arrogant, it may be thatI am feeling uncomfortable. Make me feel welcome, but not too intensely, or I might doubt yoursincerity. If I become irritated when I have to repeat things, it may be becauseit was such an effort to get my thoughts out in the first place. don’t come on like a bulldozer. Help me to avoid my pet peeves: big parties, other people’s loud music,overdone emotions, and intrusions on my privacy. What I Like About Being a Five standing back and viewing life objectively coming to a thorough understanding; perceiving causes and effects my sense of integrity: doing what I think is right and not being influencedby social pressure not being caught up in material possessions and status being calm in a crisis What’s Hard About Being a Five being slow to put my knowledge and insights out in the world feeling bad when I act defensive or like a know-it-all being pressured to be with people when I don’t want to be watching others with better social skills, but less intelligence ortechnical skill, do better professionally Fives as Children Often spend a lot of time alone reading, making collections, and so on have a few special friends rather than many are very bright and curious and do well in school have independent minds and often question their parents and teachers watch events from a detached point of view, gathering information assume a poker face in order not to look afraid are sensitive; avoid interpersonal conflict feel intruded upon and controlled and/or ignored and neglected Fives as Parents are often kind, perceptive, and devoted are sometimes authoritarian and demanding may expect more intellectual achievement than is developmentally appropriate may be intolerant of their children expressing strong emotions Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele The Enneagram Made Easy Discover the 9 Types of People HarperSanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages You liked the test? so please RATE it :-) You are not completely happy with the result?! You chose BZ Would you rather have chosen: AZ (THREE) CZ (ONE) BX (NINE) BY (FOUR)

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 41% on ABC You scored higher than 0% on XYZ

Link: The Quick and Painless ENNEAGRAM Test written by felk on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

]]> http://www.robandjen.com/jen/2006/02/26/ok-ill-bite-the-two-question-enneagram-test-2/feed/ 2 http://www.robandjen.com/jen/2005/12/07/year-in-review-meme-ganked-from-geodyne/ http://www.robandjen.com/jen/2005/12/07/year-in-review-meme-ganked-from-geodyne/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:32:00 +0000 jenbooks http://jenbooks.wordpress.com/2005/12/07/year-in-review-meme-ganked-from-geodyne/ This is a neat meme – it’s a review of the year, as seen by your LJ. Take the first sentence of the first entry of each month of 2005. There’s your year in review. Now, I cheated somewhat in that if it was a meme, I took the next entry. :)

January: Fireworks have been going off since 7 pm.

February: I’m not dead yet!

March: So this morning, as usual, I have eggos for breakfast.

April: I was going to post this huge entry about how Rob and I were pregnant, but then I realised I’d never be able to be convincing.

May: So after the debacle last year, we decided not to go to Scarborough for our anniversary this year. (This post was much more upbeat than the first sentence seems to imply)

June: Whups, it’s been a while. It’s just been my plain ‘ol boring life, but gosh it takes up time.

July: O’ Connor is retiring.

August: Nichols said the toddler ran for the bong.

September: You know, this was a hurricane.

October: This has been a really fun, geeky day.

November: Thought I’d dust off the LJ posting client for a moment to say that Batman Begins is a seriously fucking awesome movie.

December: Does anyone know if there’s a way to convert Impulse Tracker files to MP3? (I ended up using winamp on a windows box to convert it to wav, then I was able to convert it into iTunes.)

Note to everyone: The Blenders are FABULOUS. I’m completely enamoured of this Christmas album, and I’m getting one of their non-Christmas albums as well. Great stuff.

Libertarian

Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating
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