Friday Five
Apr. 21st, 2006 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tmcg1. When is the last time you were broke?
Dead broke, with nowhere to stay and no one to call, walking past houses with a warm yellow glow in their windows, out of the populated area until there were fields on all sides and I could pick my way between cow patties to find a spot by a hedge to curl up in my rain poncho and sleep for a while...about twenty years ago in another country.
2. What makes you lose focus?
Schmutz on my glasses.
What causes lapses in my attention? Fatigue. Excitement or worry about other things. Interruptions. Ideas I have to write down before I forget them. Cats.
What distracts me from what I'm doing? Interesting music coming from somewhere. Late at night, the distinctive rhythmic vibration of a tug or cargo ship passing by in the channel, because I have to turn the lights out and run to the window and watch it pass. During the day, anything that sounds like angry yelling or a kid or an animal in trouble. So, hmm...sounds, I guess. I don't listen to music much anymore while I write, or while I copyedit either. That's probably why. Adrian Legg and Leo Kottke are okay, though.
3. How tall are you?
5'4". An inch taller than Buffy. Hah.
4. Are you brave or cowardly?
Both. It's not bravery if you're not scared to begin with. But sometimes I err way to the wrong side of caution.
5. What's in your pocket?
Wallet, phone, keys, a crumpled-up shopping list I haven't gone to fill yet, a 128meg memory stick I just got and think is nifty cool, and a pair of nail clippers. The office cat's claws need clipping, and I never remember to bring the clippers down with me when I go. This way I'll have them when I go to give him his supper. I could just buy another pair, I suppose, but I'd probably forget to bring that down too.
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Dead broke, with nowhere to stay and no one to call, walking past houses with a warm yellow glow in their windows, out of the populated area until there were fields on all sides and I could pick my way between cow patties to find a spot by a hedge to curl up in my rain poncho and sleep for a while...about twenty years ago in another country.
2. What makes you lose focus?
Schmutz on my glasses.
What causes lapses in my attention? Fatigue. Excitement or worry about other things. Interruptions. Ideas I have to write down before I forget them. Cats.
What distracts me from what I'm doing? Interesting music coming from somewhere. Late at night, the distinctive rhythmic vibration of a tug or cargo ship passing by in the channel, because I have to turn the lights out and run to the window and watch it pass. During the day, anything that sounds like angry yelling or a kid or an animal in trouble. So, hmm...sounds, I guess. I don't listen to music much anymore while I write, or while I copyedit either. That's probably why. Adrian Legg and Leo Kottke are okay, though.
3. How tall are you?
5'4". An inch taller than Buffy. Hah.
4. Are you brave or cowardly?
Both. It's not bravery if you're not scared to begin with. But sometimes I err way to the wrong side of caution.
5. What's in your pocket?
Wallet, phone, keys, a crumpled-up shopping list I haven't gone to fill yet, a 128meg memory stick I just got and think is nifty cool, and a pair of nail clippers. The office cat's claws need clipping, and I never remember to bring the clippers down with me when I go. This way I'll have them when I go to give him his supper. I could just buy another pair, I suppose, but I'd probably forget to bring that down too.
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