Via LlamaButchers and others, there's a new meme spreading 'round the blogosphere: Three Things. Here's my take on them:
THREE THINGS I DON’T UNDERSTAND:
1. Why everyone seems to wears jeans or sweatpants all the time.
2. "Anti-war" protests
3. Spinning hubcaps.
THREE THINGS ON MY DESK:
1. A huge jar half-filled with Hershey's Kisses.
2. A photo of my dearly-departed Arizona Mountain Kingsnake
3. Kolen & Brennan's Test Equating
THREE THINGS I’M DOING RIGHT NOW:
1. Waiting on an analyst to give me a calibration dataset.
2. Fighting with SAS to make it give me the boxplots I want.
3. Listening to Meat Beat Manifesto.
THREE THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I DIE:
1. Visit the Galapagos Islands and swim with marine iguanas.
2. Learn how to strike a match with only one hand.
3. Visit a fresh crime scene with a homicide detective (NB: not if the victim is someone I know).
THREE THINGS I CAN DO:
1. Cartwheels.
2. Give a cat a pill, quickly and easily (seriously!)
3. Make linear regression equations understandable to college students.
THREE WAYS TO DESCRIBE MY PERSONALITY:
1. Balanced.
2. Sarcastic.
3. Extroverted.
THREE THINGS I CAN’T DO:
1. Drink tequila.
2. Play chess.
3. Balance a chemical equation.
THREE THINGS I THINK YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO:
1. Me.
2. Lacuna Coil.
3. Someone who's gone to the trouble to read the original source.
THREE THINGS I DON’T THINK YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO EVER:
1. Commercials.
2. Gangsta Rap.
3. Anyone who prefaces a comment to you with, "You know, I hate to tell you this, but..."
THREE THINGS I SAY:
1. "You have GOT to be kidding me."
2. "Who's my cutest little baby kitty ever?"
3. "If I have to go to one more meeting today, I'm going to kill someone."
THREE THINGS I'D LIKE TO LEARN:
1. Patience.
2. How to tell jokes in public speeches.
3. How to eat chocolate without gaining weight.
THREE BEVERAGES I DRINK REGULARLY:
1. Hot tea
2. Vodka
3. Guinness
THREE SHOWS I WATCHED WHEN YOU WERE A KID:
1. Tom & Jerry.
2. G-Force
3. The Mickey Mouse Show.
THREE THINGS I WISH PEOPLE WOULD LEARN TO DO:
1. Look at the big picture
2. Not be afraid of statistics
3. Look before they leap, especially with respect to romantic partners and traffic intersections