Today I won four dollars in the Tennessee lottery.

So I’m writing a paper on this short story, “Microserfs: Seven Days in the Life of Young Microsoft,” and in fact I’m supposed to be writing it right now, as it was due last Thursday. But in this story, the narrator introduces other character by listing their “in a game of Jeopardy! my seven dream categories would be:” and I find it very distracting. so whatever.

Some projected dream categories.

me:

1) X-Men (pre-2001 exc. movies)
2) ACN's return policy
3) Jack Kerouac

4) erotic cinema and literature
5) pop music
6) armchair mysticism
7) The Sound of Music

Fly:

1) mice
2) Catwoman
3) various routes to Banner Elk, NC
4) movies about crazy people (Psycho, The Shining, Batman, etc.)
5) playing outside
6) sex with carnival men
7) playing the piano

Devon:

1) HWY 11
2) her daughter Aisling
3) Appalachian folklore
4) The Monkees
5) mixed tapes
6) Alice in Wonderland
7) worrying

Dust:

1) puppets
2) women who are angular and look kind of weird but sexy
3) indie rock and film
4) indie comics, but also all comics
5) current events w/ liberal slant
6) Norse mythology
7) everything

Lise:

1) HP Marauders
2) The Iliad
3) the tribe
4) good lines
5) Firefly
6) gluttony for punishment
7) “motherfuckin’ spokesman now--”

Doqz:

1) current events w/ conservative slant
2) various histories
3) Spike & other immortal characters
4) chicken wings
5) good lines
6) Relativism is stupid.
7) the tribe

Mel:

1) gluttony for punishment
2) Whitlams lyrics
3) malnourished fandoms
4) the pub
5) world travel
6) Australia
7) the opposite of Janeane Garofalo

--Al.