Weekly Meme Fix

Part I: Friday's Feast
Friday's Feast for Friday, 2 March 2007.

Appetizer What does the color pink make you think of?
Pepto Bismol. Sorry, that's really the first thing that comes to my mind.

Soup Name something you thought you had lost, but later found.
My biochemistry book. More on this later today.

Salad In 3 words, describe this past week.
Routine. Snowy. Tired.

Main Course What are you obsessed with?
Nothing, because I feel that obsession is unhealthy. But when I teach for someone, I try to leave very detailed notes on what happened that day—how the lesson(s) went, any extremely disruptive or extremely helpful students, the general behavior of each class period by period, that sort of thing. That's the closest to obsessive behavior I get, and it pays off. I get a lot of callbacks from teachers that I've substituted for.

Dessert What kind of perfume or cologne do you like to wear?
I don't know that I've ever worn cologne, to be honest with you. I do wear Bath & Body Works' after shave lotion, though.

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Part II: Top 5 On Friday
Top Five on Friday from The Music Memoirs:

Top 5 "Ranting" songs (interpret as you see fit)

» "Corporate America" by Boston
Ranting about: How humanity is screwing up the planet
Fare thee well, global extinction's forever
So what the hell, order your Mercedes in leather
Veal crates, ozone holes, and toxic waste
And don't count out religious hate
Who can survive this manmade fate?

» "Cap In Hand" by The Proclaimers
Ranting about: Scottish independence
I could tell the meaning of a word like serene
I got some 'O' Grades when I was sixteen
I can tell the difference between margarine and butter
I can say "Saskatchewan" without starting to stutter
But I can't understand why we let someone else rule our land
Cap in hand

We fight when they ask us
We boast, then we cower
We beg for a piece of
What's already ours

» "Hooked" by Toto
Ranting about: Addiction and when life gets out of control
It's sex, it's drugs,
And then we all fall down
Get hooked, on life
Or join the underground

It's oil, it's guns,
Bad guys we never see
It's war, dead sons,
Be all that you can be

It's meds, it's feds,
Don't need no PhD's
Load down, those sounds,
We love our MP3's^*

It's crips, it's bloods
It's pimped out S.U.V.'s
It's court, prime time
Those lawyer S.O.B.'s

» "Shakedown" by The Start
Ranting about: Commercialism
Two-headed monster on the big blue screen
They tell you how to spend your dime
Now all the minutes change to hours, then the days fly by
And nothing occupies your mind

Beautiful people tell you what to wear
And who to be and what to buy
It's time to leave it all behind and...

Rise up! Dance to a different beat
Rise up! (Hey!) Shakedown!
Rise up! Free your mind of what they say
Rise up! (Hey!) Shakedown!

» "Shaft" by Micky and the Motorcars
Ranting about: A bad breakup
Well there’s one thing that I am dealin’ besides the pain
That you promised that I’d never have to see you again

Cause I won't need your s*** after all the hell you put me through
Yeah, It'll be awhile before I can love again
All the ripping and the tearing you did to my insides
Well, It's safe to say you took me for a ride

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^* The words "We love our MP3's" are sung to the same melody as "I want my MTV" from the beginning of Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing". Classic reference.