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Oh happy day! A post just for me!!

Okay, for some reason I felt compelled to post the complete list for you:

1. Didn't I see you on the grassy knoll?
2. Can I buy you a spatula?
3. Bet you're wondering why I have no nostrils.
4. Your crawlspace or mine?
5. You look like the kind of person who appreciates [word removed for awkwardness].
6. May I lick your forehead?
7. Do you always wear your shoes over your socks?
8. Smeep. Smeep. Smeep.
9. What's your favorite flavor of wood?
10. You've stolen my heart, but I have three more back home in the freezer.

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Does an awkward sip accompany that word removed?

My husband and I love hiking - it's mainly how we spent our time when we were also busy falling pretty hard for each other. I miss hiking in Colorado but I'm looking forward to hiking with the babies in Germany.

Also, thanks for the book recommendation - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - after reading about it here I went out and bought for the plane ride to Germany. Good stuff.

- M. Duncan

I like your new background and that picture of you guys at Brasstown Bald is beautiful!

ahh, court, of course we're still your friends! it was so beautiful and worth the oxygen deprivation! My favorite part was the butterflies and the snail. I have lots more favorite hikes to go on, this was definitely worth, highly recommend to anyone!

Ang

I know! I need a haircut, too!

SOunds like a GREAT summer! Let's plan to get together sometime.

I'm taking a trip in June and around the 4th of July, but that's it. I can't wait to catch up on all the reading and painting and projects around the apartment and basic things like laundry and scrubbing floors that I've fallen behind on all year (ok, so maybe not that last one...).

Woo-hoo!

(I will miss some of my kids, too, but I think I will be able to teach some of my favorites in Advanced 10th next year, which is nice.)

Ooo, I'm so jealous. My job mosies on . . . through the summer. I can't complain, though. The weather is great and we have a few trips on the docket. Now if I could just get Chris to hang the bedside sconces so we could read at night . . . .

I have dibs on E is I.

Darn your French. Your real French, that is - not the four-letter kind (darn that kind if you're using it, too). I was looking FOREVER for a place to comment.

I am jealous of your summer reading list. And, i just blogged. For you.

I have to agree with you. Smells bring back more memories for me than any other sense too.

Like, damp cut grass.

Yup, I feel the same way. Did you ever used to think people's houses all have particular "smells"? I do. I can get a whiff of something and it'l instantly put me back in my grandmother's home (camelias) or a friend's house (a certain woodsy smell) or even the home I grew up in (that one I'll never be able to describe.)

BTW, what girls' camp did you attend? I went to Saddle Rock in Mentone, AL, and when it became Riverview I came back as a counselor and eventually head counselor. I miss camp. And s'mores. And afternoon rain showers. And the smell of the tops of trees.

one of the most identifiable smells for me is that of sweaty ice hockey gear. i covered the university of michigan ice hockey team in college, and so was required to enter their lair rather frequently.
in hockey, you sweat a ton, and it all goes into all those pads and, apparently, never goes out. it was pungent, to say the least.

at any rate, miss preston, your post begs the question - if not your sense of smell, which sense would you give up?

i've sometimes thought losing your sense of touch would be so weird. like, have you ever tried walking when your foot was asleep? it's pretty hard and weird.

more posts on books!
well, I haven't heard of a lot of those books, but I'd be curious to hear (you read aloud) a Kundera. And I love Ed. of Little Tree and that's on my students' list (and hence mine).

That's a GREAT list. And I've only read one-- The Crying of Lot 49-- which actually reminds me of an early DaVinci-code type book yet more postmodern and with no resolution...but for some reason I liked it.

And ones that I haven't read but are on my wish list-- Education of Little Tree, Monster, Eragon, Blue Shows, ANYTHING by Philip Roth or Walker Percy, and Ava's Man by Rich Bragg. We read "All Over But the Shoutin'" my freshman year of college and Rick Bragg spoke at commencement.

You've inspired me to post my own list, once I figure out what it is... :)

* education of little tree is probably one of my favorite books.

oh Kate, just wait!

allison- we read "All Over" in class this year- got mixed reactions, but it was fun the part where he lived in Atlanta and they were like "that's Grady stadium" and "hey- I've been to that Krispy Kreme!"

and not sure how I've made it this far in life without reading little tree

nope- public!

hey Courtney, I found your blog through Brett's blog. I too have a book buying addiction. It can get kinda sick. I have a category in our budget for books. But the library makes me think of studying in college, which I never did, but I still don't like thinking about studying. I think need to give the library another chance.

Katherine and I went to the library for the first time in a VERY long time about 6 months ago and it was just as you described...like meeting up with a very old friend. I had to give myself a Dewey Decimal System refresher. It was nice to get back in there though, although it has tapered off the past couple of months. I live my life from one obsession to the next.

Oh Katie, public libraries are so much friendlier than university! I bet that little one on the corner of Flat Shoals in East Atl is wonderful. And Brett, Dewey- a welcome relief after the Library of Congress system in school!

Ha! I love the Idiosyncrasies Anonymous comment!

I love salt and vinegar and sour and cream and onion potato chips equally as much! This could be an IA issue.

i thoroughly enjoyed this post. hurray for blogs and a fun place to share our thoughts.

what's up with the word verification step all of a sudden?

Patty- welcome to the blog!

Kate- I've seen lots of my friends' blogs lately that appeared to have spammed comments on them- I don't want any!