Eight Things Meme

I really enjoy memes, so I found this one at Mary Says, who borrowed this from Rhea, at Texas Word Tangle.

1. Eight things I am passionate about:

1. Human Resources
2. EMS
3. Burning candles
4. Science
5. Astronomy
6. Being deleriously happy
7. Living
8. Blogging

2. Eight things I would like to do before I die:

1. Walk on the moon
2. See a lot more of the world
3. Read the rest of my books and then some
4. Set it up that I can have my iPod when I am dead
5. Watch another sunrise/sunset
6. See more full moons
7. See a volcano erupting
8. Experience another booming thunderstorm

3. Eight things I say a lot:

1. The simplest explanation is most likely the right one
2. Seriously?
3. Hiya, Sunhine!
4. Uh, no
5. I can't think of anything else that I say all the time...

4. Eight books I have read

1. Apollo 13 by Jom Lovell and Kruger
2. The Planets by Dana Sobel
3. Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffery
4. The Cross-Time Engineer by Leo Frankowski
5. Fairie Tale by Raymond Fiest
6. The Other Side of the Sun by Madeliene L'Engle
7. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Diseases & Epidemics by
8. The Cosmos by Carl Sagan

5. Eight movies I have seen eight times:

1. The Fifth Element
2. A League of Their Own
3. Hopscotch
4. Monsters, Inc.
5. The Breakfast Club
6. Apollo 13
7. Finding Nemo
8. Star Wars

6. Eight great songs:

1. Viva La Vida by Coldplay
2. October by U2
3. The Forrester by Bedlam
4. Subdivisions by Rush
5. You Wrap Your Arms Around Me by Barenaked Ladies
6. Crystal by New Order
7. Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton
8. Lie To Me by Depeche Mode

7. Eight people who have influenced my life:

1. my parents
2. Steve Gilliland
3. Lee McCombs
4. KPV
5. Joe Autera
6. Jocelyn Rondina
7. Mr. Yates
8. Bob Heinzerling

8. Eight most influential moments in history:

1. The Bubonic Plague
2. Man Walking on the Moon
3. The Crusades
4. Hitler invading Poland
5. the discovery of longitude
6. The arrival of Cassini at Saturn
7. Bloody Sunday
8. The Renaissance

Comments

Anonymous said…
Yes!

I made the list.
22 August 2008 at 18:25
ChrisMooreMusic said…
Has anyone else ever questioned who sang "Wrap Your Arms Around Me", one of the Barenaked Ladies songs on Gordon? I've always thought it was Ed, but a friend of mine pointed out that Ed's voice sounds different elsewhere on the album. We record a lot of cover songs and consider ourselves BnL experts, but we couldn't agree on an answer. Any ideas?...
30 August 2008 at 09:35
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