I adore alliteration, don’t you?

Kim at Perfectly Cursed tagged me.  I am terrible at tags, because I overthink my responses in hopes of saying something creative, but since I’ve been blog-stalking Kim, I thought I better complete this.

• Dave Matthews
• Michael Moore – I loathe Michael Moore and the noble lie that he’s the only one ‘telling it like it is’
• Julia Roberts
• Karl Marx – I would bring him back from the dead just to see him destroyed by vicious dinos.
• probably Sarah Palin. But then again, she might help contribute to further GOP-ist downfall, which would be good. Decisions, decisions.

Five drinks I love:

• Seltzer 
• Coffee
• Red Bull
• Coke, but only from a can
• Seltzer  

Five favourite quotes:

• “I build my peace through strength; that’s the best weapon you’ve got” – Dar Williams
• “The question isn’t “who’s going to let me”; it’s “who’s going to stop me?” -Dagny Taggart, in Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
• “There is no reason for anthropological optimism” – Carl Schmitt
• “We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we’re so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they’re not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. … Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it’ll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you’re living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute
  -Long Way Down (Nick Hornby)
• I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of the New York City skyline – Ayn Rand
• One more, as a bonus: “Laugh at the things that formerly bound you” – a college professor of mine, in our ‘Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom’ class

Five things to do before I die:

• Fall in love
• Live in NYC (again)
• Go to Russia 
• Have a research-y position
• Be part of the Libertarian Revolution (or at least live to see some substantial reductions in government – Pipe Dream, I know)

• Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler
• Jon Stewart
• Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler
• Hugh Laurie

Also, I HATE HATE HATE AT&T. I just spent an hour on the phone with them trying to get one of our accounts sorted out (for work) and it still is not solved. It is times like this that I am really glad I went to grad school…

Libertarian-esque-application continues to go slowly. I need a rough-final draft by this Thursday, I think. The problem is, the word limit is VERY low (we’re talking 100 words) and I don’t know if there is a danger in being too specific. Because while I would really LOVE to do A, I would also be perfectly happy doing B,C, and D. I’m afraid if I make my application too specific, they’ll think I can only do A, and if that’s not realistic, will cast my application aside.