Jackal:
I wonder if it is better to expect the worst and be proved right or to expect the best and be proved wrong?
Olivia:
Somewhere between expecting the best (optimism) and the worst (pessimism) is the balance called realism. If you're realistic, then if the worst happens you won't be too disappointed. If it turns out to be the best, then you can revel in the positive outcome.
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I checked Jordan's blog today and the first sentence had me in stitches:
23 June 2005 at 01:12
Vanessa's dog walks wrong
I've just been watching it, sitting here in her dad's house. It moves both legs on one side at the same time instead of alternating like normal quadrupeds.
[Olivia's note: V's dog is called Dimanche. That's French for Sunday, but she is the unsaintliest canine I've ever met.]
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Watched tennis today. Wimbledon is LOUD this year....No wonder - the Australians are there in full force, with beer and face paint. Talk about dragging down the neighbourhood...
Hewitt (AUS) vs Gimelstob (USA) - very interesting game. They keep up some amazingly long volleys, but I have never seen a player like Gimelstob. He doesn't run for the ball so much as launch himself at it. It's all a bit Mission Impossible. There are all these slow shots of him flying through the air, mouth open. This means that he hits the ground (and bounces) when he lands. I think he is inventing a new sport.
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Friday Five: Childhood Revisited
1) What things did you enjoy as a child that you no longer do?
2) What things did you enjoy as a child that you still do today?
3) What things do you do now, that the child you were never thought you'd like?
4) If you could go back to one age and stay there for a while, what would it be?
5) If you could fast forward to an age (you do get to come back!) for a while, what would it be?
1) Playing badminton, saving insects from drowning in the bird bath, eating ice lollies.
2) Feeding my imagination.
3) Eat food.
4) My early 20s - a return to an age of innocence, before 9/11, before my family changed, before I left home. Then, I was surrounded by loving friends every day at university.
5) 50 years old. I'm curious about my children and where I live, and who I married. I also want to know what sort of career I've had.
YOUR TURN!!!
19 comments:
Possibly - Holmes was a notorious realist.
Yeeeees, a goalie :D
It was too funny to watch on a tennis court.
I wish! I read all of his stories and am ready to read them again.
Perhaps I do know him somewhat. My father used to call me a little Sherlock.
Really? You hated music? C'est dommage.
Number 5 is a good idea - to fix the mistakes. Sophos.
Ah, but music is for the moment, not to see the end of it. But you like it now, n'est-ce pas?
I can't help it, I was born with music and it is in my blood.
Oops, I didn't answer 4. I got confused and thought 4 was 5 and .... ah. I will edit it right now.
Between you and me, we've already made 12...13 comments!
Hey, you got number 4 and 5 mixed up...
Here it's midnight. And it's Saturday tomorrow!
Wait, midnight means it's Saturday now.
Hahaha! Steli, 4 is going back to an age, and 5 is fast forward to an age...
If you answer this you will be number 20! I've never had that many comments before.
Really? Let me check.
Well done for helping me to break my record. Here is your reward :P
Hah!
I checked and there were other people in the mix, but it must have been exciting to reach 41 comments. I have many visitors, but not everyone comments.
You, Jia Li, and Vanessa are my most faithful commenters.
If I say bonne nuit now, and you also say bonne nuit, then it will be 25.
Bonne nuit Steliano! C'etait un soir trop drole ;)
Ooh, thanks angry pig!
Rami, that is a good idea ;)
Wonderful, I remember all 3 of those comic books, but Tintin was the best! Especially Snowy the dog.
Hello Piano, I've missed you too. Thanks for visiting even though you haven't finished your exams.
Hahaha! I think we girls all preferred ourselves at 3 years old!
Mmmm, belly dancing, sounds like good exercise.
****Bonne chance avec le dernier examen lundi!!!****
Steli, I once put a Tagboard up on my blog but no one used it. And I think it looked trop laide.
1) What things did you enjoy as a child that you no longer do? Umm, Climbing the rocks in the cove, Riding my bike around town
2) What things did you enjoy as a child that you still do today? Reading and painting
3) What things do you do now, that the child you were never thought you'd like?
Sticky rice, I had it once in Vancouver when I was 14 I think- and did not like it, and now I like
4) If you could go back to one age and stay there for a while, what would it be?
Easy 21, My 6 months in Ireland. A great time
5) If you could fast forward to an age (you do get to come back!) for a while, what would it be?
hmmm, I wounder. I do not know. I like where I'm at.
a little late, but here are my answers:
1-playing with ants. This was in france, so they weren't the fireants of TX.
2-reading, music, food.........
3- eating spicy food.
4- 23, the year i spent in France.
and 19-22- the UST years.
5-same as your answer
this was fun,
vanessa
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