Friday Five: Revenge of Mish-Mosh!

[cherydactyl]

1. Remember the scene with Molly Ringwald putting lipstick on by holding it in her cleavage? Name one really bizarre thing you know how to do. No matter how small.
Is there anything really bizarre left in the universe to do? Okay, fine, I gotta think for a moment.
Slow my heart beat and lower my blood pressure through breathing exercises? True, but not that bizarre.
I don't know; nothing is popping out. Anybody have a candidate for my bizareness to put forward?

2. What's your favourite way to pass the time?
With others: play a game, of course. Solo: Read. Or find people to play a game. :)
Or, actually, by teaching math. Teaching is like saying, "Isn't the universe cool?!?!?!?!," but in a useful way. Learn something? See, I told you I have too many interests.

3. What's your favourite restaurant and why?
Jerusalem Garden. Mostly because my older daughter and I have been there a few times now, she enjoys it (yay! new cuisines!), it's cheap and yummy, and their outdoor seating people-watching potential is huge.

4. Which TV/Radio show did you like that's not aired any more?
Firefly (following the likely herd here...)
Bill Radkey's old public radio show, whose name I am forgetting
Le Show, put on by Harry Shearer on public radio as well (though maybe it's just that the local station stopped carrying it?)
Almost Live (comedy show from a troupe including Bill Nye before he was a public science geek, out of Seattle)

5. if you had a choice of learning another new language, what would you choose? what do you think that reflects about you?
Sanskrit.
Seriously. Then I could read ancient and sacred texts in their original, with connotations intact instead of shredded by the translation process, and understand more about the culture that gave birth to yoga and to Buddhism.

Unless maybe you could download written Japanese into my brain?...logographic languages give me problems. Then I might want Japanese, which I currently have at 0.02 out of 10. That is, I can say hello, thank you, ask where the bathroom is, ask "What?" and not much more. Heck, I think I could communicate more effectively in American Sign Language than Japanese, even after a year of college study.


Haven't done this for a while. I guess some of these F5 questions piqued my fancy.