Well, since it turns out that I’m spending my President’s Day holiday at home trying to cough up a yummy lung-fungus instead of doing something fun outside in the sunshine, how about Yet Another Meme™? Here’s one from (who else?) Jaquandor:

1. What is in the back seat of your car right now?
   The Polygamy Porter baseball cap that keeps the sun off my bald dome when I have the top down, an empty Coke can, and ice scraper, and a City Weekly I haven’t gotten around to reading and/or throwing out yet.
2. When was the last time you threw up?
   A few weeks ago, when I had food poisoning.
3. What’s your favorite curse word?
   Um, “felgercarb?” Honestly, and I rather hate to admit this, but I do seem to use the more conventional F-word quite a bit these days, although I do try to curb its usage when I’m around friends or other people who I know are offended by that one.
4. Name three people who made you smile today?
   Hm, well, you see, I’m all alone at home so I haven’t really encountered three people who’ve made me smile.
5. What were you doing at 8 am this morning?
   Sleeping in.
6. What were you doing 30 minutes ago?
   Writing about Molly Ringwald’s birthday.
7. What will you be doing 3 hours from now?
   I don’t know, I rarely plan that far ahead.
8. Have you ever been to a strip club?
   I probably shouldn’t admit this in mixed company, but yes, I have. I was young, I was on a road trip with a buddy, there were these enticing ads on the radio… you get the picture. I had a pleasant time while I was there, but the next morning felt rather foolish and ashamed, especially when I noticed how much lighter my wallet was and how little I’d really gotten in exchange for my money. Which I guess is how a dirty one-night-stand with a sex worker is supposed to go, when you think about it.
9. What is the last thing you said aloud?
   “No, Mr. Kitty, you don’t want to eat cough drops.”
10. What is the best ice cream flavor?
    I’m rather partial to Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia.
11. What was the last thing you had to drink?
    A cup of coffee.
12. What are you wearing right now?
    Levi’s, a Darth Vader “skull and crossed-lightsabers” t-shirt, and slippers. A.k.a. “home office casual.”
13. What was the last thing you ate?
    A bowl of oatmeal.
14. Have you bought any new clothing items this week?
    I pre-ordered an Indiana Jones t-shirt from StarWars.com. Does that count?
15. When was the last time you ran?
    I had to run to catch my train a couple weeks ago.
16. What’s the last sporting event you watched?
    I don’t watch sporting events. I couldn’t care less about sports. Paradoxically, I really want to see George Clooney’s Leatherheads. Go figure.
17. Who is the last person you emailed?
    My buddy Chenopup.
18. Ever go camping?
    Pretty regularly when I was a kid, but not in many years.
19. Do you have a tan?
    Not at the moment. Wintertime, you know. Fortunately, I have a fairly dark complexion that prevents me from looking too cadaverish when the January temperature inversion hides the sun for weeks on end.
20. Do you drink your soda from a straw?
    Not when it’s in an actual glass, no. That would be uncivilized. If we’re talking a Big Gulp in the car, of course.
21. What did your last IM say?
    “ok — I’ll call anne in a bit”
    Exciting, eh?
22. Are you someone’s best friend?
    I hope so.
23. What are you doing tomorrow?
    Hopefully not coughing so damn much.
24. Where is your mom right now?
    I believe she’s at the grocery store, buying me some more cough drops.
25. Look to your left, what do you see?
    A window. A lamp. My old Sony Vaio desktop PC that I haven’t decided how to dispose of yet. A filing cabinet with a stack of books on it.
26. What color is your watch?
    I have several, but the one I seem to wear most often is a silver bracelet style with a gunmetal-blue face.
27. What do you think of when you think of Australia?
    Okay, that’s random. Um… the Sydney Opera House? Koala bears? The last of the late, great V-8 interceptors? The usual cliche’d stuff, I suppose…
28. Would you consider plastic surgery?
    If I had an accident or something, yes. But not for simple vanity. People who’ve had facelifts look weird, and I like my factory-issued nose just fine.
29. What is your birthstone?
    I had to look it up; it turns out to be the blue sapphire.
30. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru?
    Inside, almost always. Because I happen to agree with Joe Pesci’s rant in Lethal Weapon 2.
31. How many kids do you want?
    I’m an only child and not at all comfortable around large crowds of kids, so I honestly can’t imagine having more than one or two. Besides, I imagine they’re expensive.
32. Do you have a dog?
    Well, Shadow, the Bennion Family Border Collie, hangs out at my house quite a bit, but I don’t think he can technically be considered “my dog” since he doesn’t actually live with me. Also, The Girlfriend’s poodle is very fond of me and responds as if he’s mine, but he doesn’t live with me either. So, no, I guess not.
33. Last person you talked to on the phone?
    My mom, when I asked her to get me some cough drops while she was at the store.
34. Have you met anyone famous?
    Quite a few people, actually, at least if you define “meeting” as the 30 seconds of face-time necessary to get an autograph on an 8×10 glossy, and maybe snap a photo of yourself standing by said famous person. The list includes Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, George Takei, William Shatner, Alexander Siddig, Nana Visitor, Bruce Campbell, and Anthony Daniels. For the record, all of them struck me as decent, normal people, even Shatner, despite his reputation for being a dick. (He was somewhat standoffish and his signing session was very assembly-line-ish, but he wasn’t rude or dismissive at all.)
35. Any plans today?
    Not really. I’m thinking about maybe sorting through some of the clutter in my bedroom…
36. How many states have you lived in?
    Only one. Given how diverse the landscape of Utah is, though, do I really need to live anywhere else? (Yes, I’m showing a bit of home-state chauvinism here. Deal.)
37. Ever go to college?
    Of course. Got my BA in English lit — which has turned out to be hugely useful in my career goals, and yes, that is sarcasm you’re detecting — from the University of Utah.
38. Where are you right now?
    My cozy little office here on the fabulous Bennion Compound.
39. Biggest annoyance in your life right now?
    The oft-mentioned lung-fungus is getting old…
40. Last song listened to?
    I haven’t played any music today, but last night I watched the last 20 minutes of Ghostbusters, which meant that I heard the song “Ghostbusters.”
41. Are you allergic to anything?
    Russian olive trees, which grow like frickin’ weeds around here. (Actually, I believe they are weeds, i.e., considered an invasive species, in Utah.) In early summer, they give off this pungent, sweetish odor that I actually rather like, but about 15 seconds after I get a good whiff of it, I can’t breathe. Awful…
42. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time?
    Most days I wear a pair of New Balance walking shoes, which is weird because I honestly don’t like them very much. They’re a little too big, and a little too clunky-looking. But the sad truth is that I haven’t had a pair of shoes I’ve genuinely liked in at least ten years, so I just live with crap that I don’t really care for.
43. Are you jealous of anyone?
    Scalzi seems to have a pretty good life.
44. Is anyone jealous of you?
    Not that I know of. What would they have to be jealous of?
45. What time is it?
    1:52 PM
46. Do any of your friends have children?
    Most of them, actually. That’s a natural state of affairs when you live in Utah.
47. Do you eat healthy?
    Not really, no, but this past week I’ve been drinking a can of V8 juice every day. Does that count?
48. What do you usually do during the day?
    Surf the Internet in between proofreading jobs and try to think of ways to take over the world.
49. Do you hate anyone right now?
    I strongly dislike our current president and several members of his administration. I hate what they’ve done to this country (i.e., an immensely costly war of choice against a country that was not a direct threat to ours, legitimizing “interrogation” techniques that we would condemn other nations for using, making air travel a ridiculous exercise in humiliation and inconvenience, rolling back all kinds of environmental and consumer protections, and, oh yeah, further enriching the top one percent of our nation’s wealth-holders while the middle class stagnates and erodes). But can you really say you hate someone you don’t know personally?
50. Do you use the word “hello” daily?
    No, not really. I usually greet people with some variant of “hey.”
51. How old will you be turning on your next birthday?
    Thirty-nine. Holy crap…
52. Have you ever been to Six Flags?
    I visited Elitch Gardens in Denver during the period when it was owned by Six Flags.
53. How did you get one of your scars?
    Well, there was this time when I fell through the roof of a train car that contained a hungry-looking circus lion, and I had a little accident with the lion-handler’s whip…
    Oh, wait, that wasn’t me, was it?
    I really don’t have a lot of scars, to be honest. There is a very faint line on my right hand from an injury I received back in my old projectionist days, but there’s not much of a story associated with that. I was up in the booth screwing around while the trailer for The Three Musketeers played in the background, flourishing my imaginary rapier and generally acting like a spaz, and I banged the back of my hand into an electrical box on the wall. I had to let it bleed awhile before I went looking for the first-aid kit, so I could come up with a less-embarrassing explanation for what had happened.

And now it’s back to coughing… sigh.