make a list

Jobs I'd like to have:
- spy
- governess at a country mansion in Shropshire
- WW I nurse writing letters from dying soldiers to their lovers and mothers
- advice columnist

Things I either nail or fail miserably:
- parallel parking
- leaving phone messages
- pie crust
- giving hair cuts (ask Little Rat)

Words I can't come up:
- the lack of satisfaction that comes with being right is known as ________.
- _________ means that something (say, a book) was so good that you just want to expire right now, to leave life on this high note.
- When we expect the worst but hope for and imagine a miracle we are ____________.

Happiness money can buy:
- colorful mixing bowls
- a pound of bing cherries
- a box of envelopes
- lipstick

Dumb phrases I say to my students:
- Mouths closed, books open
- Being rude is never clever
- Would you like me to discuss this with your parents?
- Perhaps you'd like to rethink your position.

My ideal man is equal parts:
- George Clooney
- George Will
- George Straight
- George Foreman (ha!)

I cry when:
- Someone yells at me.
- I think of my parents getting old.
- the smell freshly cut grass hangs in the twilight air
- I'm really, really tired and am helpless and out of laughter.