Friday memes

OK it's Friday, it's traditional, and these are very late owing to my recent hiatus.

Book meme nicked from tvor (who nicked it from someone else)

Da rules:
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favourite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

OK I read the rules, but the CLOSEST (sic) book is the friggin' dictionary, so I'm going with this one:
"That's all she wrote; those were the twelve lines. But beneath the workmanlike description of a button, the poem was living and breathing on its own. The button was a button, yes. But it was also the embodiment of a daughter's grief, her attempt to fill the missing space. Sewing on a button was the last chore she would ever perform for her father."

from "Word Painting - A Guide to Writing More Descriptively" by Rebecca McClanahan.

...and an OLOGY meme nicked from tvor (who again purloined it from elseone):

tell us about yourself and head the post with your name plus -OLOGY

Diggerology

*FOODOLOGY*

What is your salad dressing of choice?
Salad cream. Cos I'm cheap, unsophisticated, and from de Norf. And I like to leverage preconceptions.

What is your favourite sit-down restaurant?
I'm assuming this is some sort of North American code for a restaurant where you are served by waitpeople, rather than helping yourself, or a fast-food joint, because really, I never heard of a stand-up restaurant.
So on that basis I'd have to go with Terpsis, in Pefkos, on the lovely island of Rhodes. God, how I miss that place.

What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
Curry. And then I'd do another two weeks.

What are your pizza toppings of choice?
pepperoni, salami, jalapeños, peppers, and extra cheese.

What do you like to put on your toast?
"Mummy's" home-made marmalade. And real butter, obviously.

*TECHNOLOGY*

What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A cartoon girl holding up a big paisley-pattern heart with "I Love You" written on it in a scrolly font. Nikki made it for me :o)

How many televisions are in your house?
two

What colour mobile phone do you have?
silver

*BIOLOGY*

Are you right-handed or left-handed?
right handed

Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
quite a few teeth, one or two sebaceous cysts and a very short section of vas deferens ;o)

What is the last heavy item you lifted?
The study door. I took it downstairs to paint it, and brought it back up again.

Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
no

*BULLSHITOLOGY*

If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
no

If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
anything I wouldn't have to spell out every time someone needs to write it down.

Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1,000?
no

*DUMBOLOGY*

How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
none. Seriously, do *you* know any blokes with flip-flops?

Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
The most recent time I was caught speeding by a real cop as opposed to a freakin' camera. He let me off. (The damned cameras never do that)

What do you want to be when you grow up?
dead

Last person you talked to?
my team-mates on the weekly voice conference

Last person you hugged?
Nikki. Why is this in "dumb" ology? Hugging's not dumb! *stamps feet*

*FAVOURITOLOGY*

Season?
spring

Holiday?
christmas

Day of the week?
saturday

Month?
may

*CURRENTOLOGY*

Missing someone?
yeah. Two someones.

Mood?
edgy

Listening to?
human highway, by Jim Witter And Cassandra Vasik (from the Out of the Blue movie soundtrack)

Watching?
the time tick past until the next voice conference

Worrying about?
whether i'll ever enjoy my job again

*RANDOMOLOGY*

First place you went this morning?
bathroom

What can you not wait to do?
see The Musical Box perform the original set from the Trick of the Tail tour, tonight at Manchester Apollo

What's the last movie you saw?
in the cinema: The Dark Knight.
at home: Erin Brockovich

Do you smile often?
yes