Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Monday, March 1, 2010

The Quiz

1. Rate your whistling skills
2. You have to go without music or television for a year. Which?
3. I wish there were more blogs about..
4. Could you work alone without interaction with other people, in an ongoing way?
5. If you could eat anything at all right now, what would it be?

23 comments:

Ben McLaughlin said...

1. Rate your whistling skills
2. You have to go without music or television for a year. Which?
3. I wish there were more blogs about..
4. Could you work alone without interaction with other people, in an ongoing way?
5. If you could eat anything at all right now, what would it be?

Pedro said...

1. poo
2. music.
3. Hypocrisy in contemporary religion
4. NO!!!!!!!!
5. Chocolate cake with fresh cream.

Ben McLaughlin said...

Pete-I knew you'd feel strongly about that one, but wasn't anticipating 8 exclamation marks.

Amy said...

1. Non-existent. I can't. At all.
2. Give up the television I reckon.
3. Sarcasm as an artform
4. Probably. Though not sure what state I'd end up in.
5. Pasta, pasta, pasta...

Ben McLaughlin said...

1. Pretty darn good
2. Definitely tele. I can't go a day or two without music.
3. living with a stutter
4. Yeah, I'd love it. I'd have a little granny flat where I'd work alone and just do my own thing. This is my dream!
5. A lamb roast. It's never too early.

Ben McLaughlin said...

Amy, yeah I guess I wonder a little if I'd end up in a weird state, if I worked alone. But I think it would be fine so long as you were sociable outside of work hours.

onlinesoph said...

1. non existent
2. give up television
3. cooking on a budget.
4. I've been doing that for the past month. Probably not. I get lonely. I really miss my work friends.
5. cheese and tuna jaffle (I'm about to make one now for second breakfast).

Christine said...

1. I can only whistle and hold one note :)
2. Music - there's lots of music on TV :)
3. Connecting with our local communities.
4. Not long term.
5. Chocolate self-saucing pudding.

Ruth said...

1. sadly only mediocre, but I wish they were better. I've always wanted to be a fine melodic whistler.

2. television. I hardly watch tv at all anymore...but I could still watch dvds, right?

3. the Bible, people's genuine walk with God

4. no.

5. hot chips - I just ran through the rain and am finally home, but rather drenched..hot chips goes a treat in that scenario. Sad reality is I'm about to go make myself a vegemite sandwich. Delicious, but not the same.

Ben McLaughlin said...

Frankly I'm a little dissillusioned by the apparent lack of whistling skills out there. Come on friends, hone your craft!

Soph- You're getting lonely? Reading about it on your blog it sounded so appealing. I think my problem would probably be time management issues..

Christine- Oh yeah self saucing puds are some good eating. So easy, yet so satisfying.

Ruth- No you would totally be cheating if you watched DVD's! If it's on the tele screen, it's off limits. And no, you can't play it on a computer either.

It was really great to see you guys on the weekend, I was just sad we didn't get to catch up more. We thought you both looked very happy and relaxed.

Beth said...

1. I think pretty good....better than fair.

2. Television....

3. Food!!

4. Yes...3/4 of my college work is online and at home and I don't mind doing the work and being by myself with just music playing.

5. CAKE!!!

Laetitia :-) said...

1. Rate your whistling skills - melodic: smokin!; big, loud, attention-getting whistles: non-existent
2. You have to go without music or television for a year. Which? We did without a TV for almost 7 years (but we were able to play DVDs on the computers). We're musicians - giving up music of all forms is not possible.
3. I wish there were more blogs about.. no, no, I have enough to read as it is without actively wishing for more.
4. Could you work alone without interaction with other people, in an ongoing way? Welcome to my life: I'm currently not employed (got an agent working on that) but am an external student. Does reading other people's blogs count?
5. If you could eat anything at all right now, what would it be? That's right, Ben; make me think about food. Actually, right now I'm not wanting to eat anything; I've had morning tea and lunch.

Ben McLaughlin said...

Beth- Yeah, that sounds nice, just working alone with music playing. I could handle that.

Laetitia- I can't do the loud attention-getting ones either. But I can bust out a pretty good Rhapsody In Blue.

Ruth said...

Lol Ben - I can't believe dvds aren't in a separate category!!

It was lovely to see you guys, and to meet little i. Too cute!

Yeah, life in the Shire is great. We love it. We do miss our inner west friends though.

Simone R. said...

1. 5.5/10
2. I'd give up tv.
3. Gentle humor and normal life.
4. No. Who would I boss around?
5. lasagne. I'm making it for dinner.

Laetitia :-) said...

Hey Simone - we had lasagne for dinner last night. :-)

Ben - whistle the whole thing or just the major theme? I had to do the theme for my sax exam last year.

Wendy said...

1. Inadequate
2. TV. Do without TV most of the time anyway, Pay-TV salesmen don't believe me!
3. By friends of mine.
4. No. At least not without some kind of insanity spewing forth.
5. Cheesecake

maso said...

1. non-existent. I just can't.
2. Television
3. surf conditions at the coast (to save me the 1.5 hour drive to find out!)
4. No. I'm an ISFJ too ... but my workmates are good fun to have around.
5. Simone's lasagne sounded good :)

Georgina said...

1. 8/10. I can whistle in tune, in time and by blowing in and out. But no loud whistle thingies.
2. TV, but music would be impossible anyway. It's in my head all the time
3. I wish there were more blogs about ... working full-time as a Christian woman, not in ministry
4. No way. Makes the current coventry I am in at work even worse.
5. Lemon Meringue Pie. Mmmm....

Helen said...

1. Pretty good tune wise but can't whistle for a dog to come or anything.
2. Tough call. Does it mean we can't sing to ourselves/at church?
3. Being a minister's wife/being a speechie.
4. Yes. Pity my 3 main jobs involve working with people! It's pretty draining when you aren't bent that way.
5. Top Deck.

lu said...

1. on a scale of 1-10: 3
2. music
3. christian families raising children with asperger's/autism
4. yes - although i'd talk to myself a lot
5. chocolate, of course

soph said...

1. pretty average
2. Television. Music is the life blood! TV is poison!
3. everything I'm interested in rolled into one
4. I kind of do, and it's hard but I like the solitude
5. something savoury, perhaps a hot chip

Ben McLaughlin said...

Simone- 'gentle humour and normal life' I like the sound of that, I look for more stuff like that too.

Laetitia- Not all of it, it gets a bit out of hand after a couple of minutes. But the first minute or so, I can rock that out something chronic. The trick is to start low.

Wendy- Yeah I wish more friends blogged too. It's hard to get converts, I find.

Maso- ISFJ's unite. We should start a brotherhood.

Georgina- Oh yeah, I love a good lemon meringue pie..

Helen- Yeah, I agree, it's kinda tiring if you're not really inclined that way.

Lu- I'd talk to myself a lot too. I do already.

Sophg-A hot chip? One? How can aybody only eat one hot chip?