Meme ideas

Summing it Up is the Monday Meme


I was over at Jessa Slade’s blog and found this:

Find a song that sums up what you think it means to be a writer and post the lyrics on your blog and why you’ve chosen it. It doesn’t have to be your favourite song, it just has to express how you feel about writing and/or being a writer. It can be literal, metaphorical, about a particular form or aspect of writing – whatever you want.

It doesn’t have to be writer/writing. Pick anything you want.

I’ll go first.

Paperback writer

Paper back writer (paperback writer)
Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
It’s based on a novel by a man named Lear
And I need a job, so I want to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.

It’s the dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn’t understand.
His son is working for the Daily Mail,
It’s a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.

Paperback writer (paperback writer)

It’s a thousand pages, give or take a few,
I’ll be writing more in a week or two.
I can make it longer if you like the style,
I can change it round and I want to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.

If you really like it you can have the rights,
It could make a million for you overnight.
If you must return it, you can send it here
But I need a break and I want to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.

Paperback writer (paperback writer)

Paperback writer – paperback writer
Paperback writer – paperback writer

Okay, I might be overstating.

Your turn.

Like I am going to Blog on Facebook is Monday’s Meme


Facebook has this notebook thing that people treat as a blog or an overly personal journal.* So far I have been tagged by three different note meme’s. For Facebook. As if I am going to add FB to the already too long list of things I need to write.

My husband even tagged me.

A good meme idea too which meant there was no way I was going to waste it on Facebook.

Rules:
1. Put your music library on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write that song title as the answer to the question, no matter how silly it sounds! Most of the time they seem to work though, strangely enough.
4. Ok, go!
5. When you’re done, tag 20 people** in this note, and make sure to tag the person who sent you this.

Here are my answers:

1) IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OK?” YOU SAY?
I Think I’ll Just Stay Here (The Gourds)

2) WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
I Got the Feelin (oh, no, no) Neil Diamond

3) WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Armagideon Time (The Clash)

4) HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
I Hear You Knockin (Dave Edmunds)

5) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Real World (Matchbox 20)

6) WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Chickaboom (Daddy Dewdrop)

7) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Hold Your Head Up (Argent)

8) WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
You Might Think (The Cars)

9) WHAT IS 2+2?
Ski Mask Way (Eminem)

10) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Home of the Blues (JoaquinPhoenix)

11) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Saturday Night (The Bay City Rollers)

12) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Brooklyn Roads (Neil Diamond – live no less)

13) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Chantal Kreviazuk/Feels like Home (Various Artists)

14) WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Kiss the Bride (Elton John)

15) WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
High highs, Low lows (The Gourds)

16) WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Red Ragtop (Tim McGraw – though I am hoping that I have had my last wedding.)

17) WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Captain Sunshine (Fucking Neil D. again and still live.)

18) WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Afternoon Delight (Starland Vocal Band – and I did not rig this.)

19) WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Doctor! Doctor! (The Thompson Twins)

20) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Thrift Store Chair (Everclear. Totally random this shuffle thing.)

21) WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Peg (Steely Dan – and of course I won’t ’cause I don’t blog on Facebook but if you choose to do this you can do as you please.)

No one is tagged. But if you would like to share a song title that defines you at this moment or one that answers one of the meme’s queries, feel free. I always love to hear whatever you have to say.

*Which I seriously wish some of them would not do. Seriously. When I think it is TMI – we are talking me here – it’s time to step far away from the keyboard.

**It’s FB, people. The assumption is that everyone who hasn’t hidden there profiles has a friends’s list in the hundreds.

Why Does My ISP Provider Suck is the Monday Meme/Updated


Blogging may be sporadic for the next little while. Because we don’t live in town, we are at the mercy of limited choices where internet access is concerned. Our service has been – in a word – shitty for the last week and finally crapped out almost entirely Friday night. There are brief, and I mean minutes only, windows of service*, but it is too hit and miss to bother sitting and waiting on.

So today, feel free to rant about the shite service you pay for because you haven’t a choice. Our provider never returns calls or acknowledges email. They assume that if there are problems it is because the customer is an idiot. That is the way of all IT people I have ever known. It couldn’t possibly be the equipment or them. It is always the user. 

So rant people. I will check in from the library – which has equally abysmal service by the way but a bit more consistent than I have right now.

*Mysteriously, service was miraculously on all evening but I don’t expect to wake up to service in the AM. Al Gore giveth and ISP’s capriciously deny access.

UPDATE: Rob went to the ISP’s office today and talked to one of the owners. Apparently he thought we were freeloaders using the signal for free which is why he hadn’t responded to us. Rob assured him that we are indeed paying customers and the owner quickly went on to assure him that we were slated for a new radio within the next week or two because the company had just received permission to put up another radio transmitter in a location that is actually closer to where we live. Hopefully this will improve our signal and ensure less interruption of service. 

The service is actually quite good when we get it but the lack of response from the company when there is a problem is irksome. It is, sadly, typical of the kind of service a person can expect here in Alberta however. Despite the slowing of the boom economy, there is still more demand than there are workers and everyday services are very taxed by the lack of warm bodies. And, like the U.S., infrastructure really doesn’t extend much beyond the major urban ares.