Here's pi in your face!

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travspence did this survey, and I thought it was a cool idea. Each person answers all the questions, and then adds another one related to the next digit of pi.

3. Things in your immediate vicinity
Water bottle
Mechanical pencil
Eraser

1. thing you regret
Not trying to get an internship while I was in graduate school.

4. people you are close to
Hmm, bethe, my mom, my dad, and...does the Internet count as a person? :P

1. SECRET
I've already bought a present for Beth's birthday. (No, I won't tell you what it is.)

5. places to visit before you die
In order of what's probably most to least likely:
Lucy the Elephant
Jenny Jump State Forest
Toronto
The Deep South
England

9. songs in your playlist/ipod/WHATEVER
Pretty much ALL my songs are on my playlist. I'd get iTunes to select nine songs at random, but I don't have access to it right now, so I'll name nine that I've listened to within the past day.
All Her Favorite Fruit - Camper Van Beethoven
Playboy Mommy - Tori Amos
Sally Boy Candy Bar - They Might Be Giants
The Rhythm - XTC
555 (Part 1) - Fastbacks
Pillow Fight - The 6ths
Penpals - Sloan
Caribou - Pixies
We Both Go Down Together - The Decemberists

2. people you would like to see in a steel cage death match
Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. Hopefully there would be no winner.

6. things to eat
Pizza
Spaghetti
Cheese steaks
Hot dogs
Crackers
Donuts

5. movies you like
UHF
The Neverending Story
The Wizard of Oz
Return to Oz
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

3. things you are wearing
Dark green shirt
Black pants
Black underwear

5. cool words
Defenestration
Echinoderm
Ostentatious
Quasar
Saturation

8. street names in your town
William
Mary
Chestnut
Lincoln
Grant
Pennsylvania
Wallace
Brown

9. books you have read
The Living House of Oz, by Edward Einhorn
Thud!, by Terry Pratchett
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, by Al Franken
The Partly Cloudy Patriot, by Sarah Vowell
The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams
Dot and Tot of Merryland, by L. Frank Baum
Dave Barry Slept Here, by Dave Barry
XTC: Song Stories, by Neville Farmer

7. lucky things that have happened to you
Finding Beth
Being able to go to college (although I'm sometimes not sure it helped with anything)
Always having a place to stay
Being able to see both the Decemberists and the New Pornographers in the past month
Being born in a place with a fairly high standard of living
Having discovered the Oz series
Never having had a house fall on me

9. lives: how many have you used up
I thought that only applied to cats.

3. famous people with the same name as you
Nathan Lane
Nathan Hale
Nathan Deal (R-GA)
(I had to look that last one up.)

2. things you can't live without
Food and water

3. nice things about the person you copied this survey off
He added me without my urging.
He has interesting dreams.
He gave me a cool survey to fill out.

8. digits in your phone number in random order
74388475
(Those are actually for a phone number that I used to have, but no longer do.)

4. people who will take this survey
As much as I hate to ruin the whole pi thing, I doubt four people will. I think the two most likely are rockinlibrarian and obsessical.

6. people from history you'd invite to your dinner party
L. Frank Baum, Mohammed, Jesus, Socrates, Nero, and Leonardo da Vinci

2. favorite kinds of cheese
Cheddar and mozzarella

By the way, if you want do this survey and don't feel like looking up the next digit, it's 6.


Okay, with that of the way, let's move on to other matters.

How come Dunkin' Donuts breakfast sandwiches are sometimes really great, and other times not particularly good? Probably the freshness of the bread product involved is a major factor.

Whatever happened to the weather cooling off gradually? It seems like it went from T-shirt to coat weather in a week or so. I hate the cold. According to my mom, it'll be warmer tomorrow, so that's a good thing.

Today, I took a route that I've taken many times in the past, only in reverse, and I had trouble figuring out which way to turn. It seems like that should be easy to figure out, right? I don't know. I have a pretty good memory, but practically no sense of direction.

Speaking of directions, I usually rely on street names and signs to figure out how to get somewhere. There seem to be a lot of other people who know how to get places, but don't know street names. They go by landmarks, or some other system, which makes it difficult for them to give me directions.

"And then you go past the bank."
"You mean the one on [X] Street?"
"I don't know."

What's even worse is when people measure distances in units of time, because that always assumes that you're going to be driving the exact same speed they usually do. I'm honestly not great with distances in miles, either, but at least I have the odometer to guide me in those situations.

So, just out of curiosity, how do other people usually find places, and give directions to others?