Cerise

P.S. Sorry, Michael. I already told you that you’re fascinating and that still stands.

http://www.xanga.com/sc0tlas/578146191/100-things-about-sc0tlas.html

Cerise

I’m kinda sorta skirting around cleaning it up a bit. As a Joss Whedon fan I have ample fodder for borrowing original ways to express surprise or irritation. We’ll see.

Cerise

Regarding “sex fantasy projects,” glad to hear that the scrolling mechanism corrected itself. Was a PC involved?

Regarding cuss words, I agree that overuse demonstrates lack of imagination, and that spewing for shock is both lame and disrespectful. On the other hand, I think it’s a misplacement of moral outrage to get too uptight about a well-timed expletive or two (as per Tony Campolo’s famous illustration at an APU chapel). It’s all about content, context and intent. I should add, however, that I don’t appreciate God and Jesus Christ being downgraded via profanity.

I think there are two things that really bug me about swear words. The first is when people use them intentionally for shock value, like their flaunting how little they care about what other people think about them. It’s sometimes the verbal equivalent of a high-school kid’s sneer.

The second thing that bugs me is how unoriginal it is. Really? That’s the most creative use of language you can come up with to express your opinion?

So, that’s all. Carry on, my friends, and please don’t feel awkward around me.

Potty mouth.

Cerise

My first thought was, “jeez, I thought they were educated. That’s one hell of a sentence fragment.”
My next thought was, “I’m not sure they should be sharing that with us.”
My last thought was, “Dear Corey, you scrolled while reading and mixed two numbers together. You’re a dumbass.”

4. (48 hour video game) Back in the Civil War (1984) we used to throw Chad and Carrie in bed and then play the original Zork for hours on our Atari 800. There was only text, so you had to use your imagination. We also flushed way too many quarters into Galaxian machines.

7. (Science fair) I pretty much b-s’d my way through my undergraduate senior project, which had to do with attempting to alter a person’s perception of pitch by blasting them with a loud tone for a while and they playing a different one and seeing if it distorted their pitch perception (like where you stare at a red dot and then look at a white paper and see green). Whatever. About halfway through the project I decided it was totally pointless, but had to bluff my way through in order to graduate.

8. (Eagle Scout). Grammy’s estimation of you just went up. She also wants to know if you finished your Spanish classes at APU. I did Cub Scouts, where I learned a game called “Bonschmeer,” which involved passing a ball to someone and then piling on him. Nine-year olds thought it was a great game. I thought the Boy Scouts looked like a bunch of hoods, so I never joined. Grammy did Girl Scouts when there was no equivalent to Eagle Scouts, since the girls were all supposed to be married by then.

9. (Setting things on fire) I really loved blowing up my Revell models with firecrackers.

12. (Adoption) We didn’t know that. Your parents chose well.

13. (Skimming rather than reading). Grammy notes that most Christian and self-help books have an article’s worth of material expanded to 200 pages. She does the same thing as you. I am always reading about 10 books at once, because I have reading-ADD.

16. (Making out to make ex-boyfriend jealous). I was once nearly set up on a blind date with Grammy when she was trying to get back at a guy who had dumped her. I got a hot tip and was waved off. Eight months later Grammy and I were cheerfully making out on our own recognizance, and it seems to have turned out well.

25. (Corey Witt) TMI.

29. (Sohpie’s intelligence) Of course she’s a genius. We know one when we see one.

31. The growth under your skin sounds like a sebaceous cyst. I can remove it some time if you’d like, preferably before beer and barbecue.

32. (Embarrassing but lucrative projects) We really need to know the story behind these. Did either of them involve “Magic Jewel Barbie”?

38. (Youth group) Sounds like a familiar problem.

40. (Getty) Actually the patio at the Getty is better than Rome. Grammy thinks that Venice is more romantic.

43. Susan Sarandon?? Eewww. Grammy reminds you that she thought she was the sexy older woman in your life.

44. (Inferiority or ego-maniac) Grammy says that you may wrestle with this for two more decades before you figure out that you’re pretty much okay, and always were. The sooner you realize it, the better.

47.( Depression and insomnia) Join the club. There are meds for this, but sex often works just as well.

48. What kinds of books have you started? Grammy and I both have sci-fi and fantasy projects stuck in a drawer somewhere.

We just passed Velvet Elvis!! Ask Chad.

49. (Criminal record) B-b-b-b-b-bad to the bone! Just kidding.

53. (Opera) I’m still composing my post about Babywise, but in the meantime I have one already written about why opera drives me nuts.

54. I don’t support public radio because their fundraising breaks during “Prairie Home Companion” drive me nuts. Like opera.

55. Forget about being a fan of anyone except Jesus, Gretchen, Sophia and Peanut 2.

58. (T-ball) We’re all artists rather than athletes (except Erica, who is both). We feel your pain.

59. “People who live in grass houses shouldn’t stow thrones.” Benjamin Franklin.

64. (Selling a video character for $600) Whoever paid you that money was an idiot, and you definitely got the better end of the deal.

65. (Theology graduate school) Boy, do we feel dumb. We thought that the Kalaam Cosmological Argument involved elvish armor.

68. 1450 on the SAT?? Way to go! Bet you can’t sell that for $600.

71.(Random trivia) Have you tried out for Jeopardy yet? It’s a humbling experience, but the pay is good.

72. (Swear words) Grammy says, “No shit! You’ll get over it.”

73. Grammy wants to know who is your favorite sci-fi author. (What, you don’t like Christian fiction?)

82. (No television until age 13) What was the first thing you watched? We got our first color TV when I was 13, and I thought I had gone to heaven.

85. (Pig tailed wig and gingham dress on Korean television) So that’s why your family didn’t get a TV… Is this one of the two gigs you’re embarrassed about? If not, make that three.

88. (Hugh Hefner at the Barfly) Here’s an arithmetic word problem: Hugh Hefner had seven bunnies. Hugh Hefner lost all of his money. How many bunnies were left?

89. (Angels in 2002) I became a Dodger fan listening to Vin Scully on the radio in 1958. He’s still the best there is, the best there ever will be.

90. (College textbooks next to the bed). We guess that explains the 1450 SAT and the trivia recall.

94. (Making money playing all of those instruments) Grammy wants to know if the accordian gig was one of the two you were embarrassed about. If not, now you have four!

95. (Trying marijuana) Grammy says, “Meet me next Friday night…” Juuust kidding.

96. (Three things written about the U.S. in 500 years) Grammy says there will be a fourth – Bill and Monica. I would add a fifth – the pig-tailed wig and gingham dress.

97. (Meal with Melissa Etheridge) What was awkward?

98. (Academic position) See our response to number 44. Go forth and bloom. You’re in this position for a reason.

99. (Mac fan-boy) Grammy reaffirms her delusional opinion that PCs are wonderful. Like opera, public radio fundraisers and the winds of Mojave, where we’re now getting gas, PCs drive me nuts, only worse.

100. Congrats on a wonderful post. This kept us occupied for a couple of hours!

“31. There’s a growth under the skin on my back that I’ve been ignoring for 9 months.”
That’s actually your ass. Leave it be. It’s supposed to be there.

“72. I still cringe when people around me use swear words. It’s a remnant of my conservative upbringing.”
This makes me feel pretty bad, and makes number 25 a little more special. Thanks for your tolerance. For all of our kids’ sake, I’m working on my potty mouth.

So that’s your secret.

What’s inconceivable? That I would call myself an evangelical, or that it might mean something other than what some people think?

Yeah, this is a much longer answer than I can give in the comments section, and maybe I should write a post about it. Basically, I think college have become process oriented, and they view higher education as a system that you move students through. I think it functions more appropriately as a learning community, with peers and guides.

Most 18-year-olds are not equipped to participate in a learning community, and really have no desire to. They want the process, the piece of paper, and the next step please.

#32 - That’s what we call a cruel irony.

#62 - Everyone’s still waiting for me on this one.

#65 - No. Kidding. Totally in agreement. The bar of “higher” education is continually lowered so more people can pass through the factory unscathed. Thus, it goes the way of the SAT, in exchange for self-esteem.

#74 - That’s inconceivable.

#43 yeah, still can’t believe that one
#49 seriously, no one’s going to ask? :)
#55 Amen
#91 and now I’m crying

This is a beautiful image right here and makes me sad to live in TN. Although I do not miss the traffic or the smog and live next to a lake…

I’m lost, but then again, I did not get a 1450 on my SATs OR grow up reading economics. In fact, I only learned how to spell economics after having to type it about 10,000 times this year in the UG Registrar.

Cerise

You suck at T-ball, but can ski double-black diamonds.

And yeah, “Shout to the Lord” can go.

You are fascinating, my dear. And now that you’ve done this on your blog and it’s not nearly as dorky as I thought it would be, I’m doing it on mine. Thanks for testing the murky dork waters for me, man.

Cerise