Meagan has tagged:
I’m wondering about “favorites”– but not books, movies, etc. That’s been done before. I’m interested in the minutiae of daily life, which can also reveal something about who we are.
Okay, I’ll see what gets revealed.
Favorite laundry detergent:
Tide. Any type. I mix it up. I have no hatred of scent.
Favorite item used for an unintended purpose:
I don’t like to rig stuff; if I need to do something, I usually make sure I have the right tool for the job. But my apartment, which is pretty small, sometimes forces me to stack things on other things. Right now, my guitar amp is being used as a table next to my keyboard because I can’t find an actual table small enough to squeeze in there. A lamp, my chord book, my iPod and my phone have found a home on top of the amp. But I still use it for its intended purpose, too.
Favorite way to buy music:
Well, I’ve had two hard drive crashes, I like cover art and lyric sheets, and I’m rarely interested in buying just one song. So I buy CDs, usually new, at a record store or online.
How clean is your car?
Oh, it’s clean.
How clean is your apartment/house/room?
Also clean. I just checked. There’s a glass and spoon in the sink, a DVD on top of the TV, and a pair of socks on the bedroom floor because I kicked ‘em off in my sleep last night. Other than that, everything is in place, vacuumed and dusted, etc.
How clean is your office?
Well, I share my office, so it’s pretty crazy. But since I’m never actually there, my corner is nice and tidy.
Favorite weekly free time:
I don’t have any weekly rituals, other than TV. So I’ll say Tuesday night: Hell’s Kitchen followed by The Riches.
Is there a word, phrase, or gesture that is identifiably yours?
The blank stare.
Most effective medicine for one (or more) of your ailments:
We didn’t really grow up with “medicine” or “doctors” or things like that. It was more of a grit-and-determination approach to wellness: if you have the flu, throw up until you don’t have the flu anymore. But I do associate orange juice with being sick, which sometimes makes it hard to drink under more pleasant circumstances.
A favorite thing you try to sell/push/encourage your friends to try:
Music of various types. I don’t do any strong pushing, really; I deal in volume. Throw a bunch of stuff at people and some of it will stick.
Favorite new (or new-to-you) thing:
Google Reader for RSS feeds. I recently abandoned the Sage plugin because it didn’t work after I upgraded Firefox. I’m hesitant to use web-based versions of anything because, well, they’re slower; that’s why I don’t use web-based email. But Google Reader makes up for its web-basedness by doing some things more efficiently than Sage or Bloglines (which is just a messy sucky mess, sorry): it groups all new posts in a group of feeds onto a single screen and marks them as read as I scroll by them. In other words, although I subscribe to almost 200 feeds, I can buzz through them in about 15-20 minutes a day. Now that’s progress.