This meme was handed to me by Joel. His answers are more interesting than mine. Feel free to take it up yourself and pass it on.

Seven Things To Do Before I Die:

1. Clean out the garage
2. Organize the papers in my file cabinet
3. I would like to build a house from the ground up
4. Learn to speak a foreign language (I’ve tried several times)
5. Move out of the city
6. Learn to fish
7. Take a cross-country road trip

Seven Things I Cannot Do

1. Read my own handwriting
2. Balance a checkbook
3. Remember where I left the _______ (fill in the blank with any handtool)
4. Watch TV without holding the remote in my hand
5. Find anything on my desk
6. Throw away anything
7. Follow directions

Seven Things That Attract Me to Blogging

1. It disciplines me to write something regularly.
2. Contact with people I would otherwise never meet.
3. Having an actual audience to write for.
4. It has taken the place of the journal I used to keep
5. It also gives me somewhere to display the photos I enjoy taking.
6. Being able to get news and opinions from somewhere other than the regular media.
7. Now that I have a laptop I can do it while I am outside.

Seven Things I Say Most Often

1. I’m starving to death.
2. Okay
3. Yes, dear
4. I’ll be there in just a minute
5. Love you, too
6. What?
7. Uh, oh.

Seven Books That I Love

1. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
2. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
3. Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald
4. Passing Time by Michel Butor
5. Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
7. The Rabbit books by John Updike

Seven Movies That I Could Watch Over and Over Again

1. Psycho (I could as easily pick several other Hitchcock films)
2. Some Came Running
3. The Big Sleep (I’ll just pick one Bogart)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. The Shop Around the Corner
6. Chinatown
7. A Place in the Sun