4 Things I need to spend more time on in my life:
1. Someone
2. Not working
3. Stretching
4. Sleeping
4 Things I need to spend less time on in my life:
1. Worrying
2. Dwelling on my deficits
3. Paperwork
4. Reviewing things to see if they are still there/right/OK
4 Things I wish I could spend more time on in my life:
1. Kept blank lest my relatives are reading this
2. Cooking
3. Traveling
4. Reading
4 Things I love about myself:
1. My writing skills
2. My keen intuition
3. My chest
4. My zest for the Arts
4 Things I hate about myself:
1. My stomach
2. My thin ankles and wrists
3. My shoulder shrugs/verbal grunts and blurs AKA Tourette’s
4. My tendency to be ‘Midwest” viz. assume guilt and/or appease
4 Things I love that I used to hate:
1. Tomatoes
2. Martinis
3. Dressing up
4. Whiskers
4 Things I hate that I used to love:
1. “A Clockwork Orange” (the movie, not the book)
2. Television
3. Airplane take offs
4. Sugar
4 Things towards which I look forward:
1. Road trips
2. Hallowe’en
3. Live from the Met HD operas
4. “The four annual vacations” – Key West, Flagstaff, Omro, and Canada
4 Things I dread:
1. Certified Mail
2. Licensing renewal forms
3. Facing angry people
4. Pages from the answering service
4 Things I once believed in but no longer do:
1. The GOP
2. Being good brings just rewards
3. The punishment of Heaven
4. Insurance
4 Things I now believe that I didn’t use to believe:
1. Synchronicity
2. The Collective Unconscious
3. The Communion of Saints
4. We are what we eat
4 Things I love to do despite being bad at it :
1. Play the piano
2. Cook full course dinners
3. Cryptic Crosswords
4. Stay out late
4 Things I hate to do but I do anyway (and rather well) :
1. Being cross
2. Dwell on injustices
3. Squat exercise
4. Get in touch with my inner Hannibal Lector
4 Things I did of which I am ashamed:
1. In my youth I hurt the one boy who was worse off than I was
2. I did not see the signs of a patient who killed himself soon after seeing me
3. Led on relationships I would not cleanly end
4. Acting a jerk in my internship
4 Things I did for which I am proud:
1. Become board certified in my profession.
2. Learned how to sew a shirt, without instructions or guidance from anyone.
3. Came out
4. Learned how to forgive
4 Things I didn’t do that I regret:
1. Move to the Northwest when I was a youth
2. Taking a ‘real job’ right after residency
3. Stand up for myself in my internship
4. Continue with the French Horn
4 Things I want before I die:
1. A flat stomach
2. Retirement
3. See my nephews and nieces marry
4. Cook all the recipes I’ve collected over the years.
16 comments
May 20, 2011 at 3:01 AM
Ultra Dave
Very interesting list…I may have to attempt this when I have the time this evening after work! Thanks Spo!
May 20, 2011 at 3:46 AM
Cubby
“In my youth I hurt the one boy who was worse off than I was.” This is getting to be a common theme among the bloggers doing this meme. Will you share the full story with us?
May 20, 2011 at 4:21 AM
Mark
To remember that little boy that your hurt makes you a better person.
Your Friend, m.
May 20, 2011 at 4:52 AM
Jay
All of the things you regret tell me that you are a good person.
but then I knew that already
May 20, 2011 at 5:16 AM
Nik_thegreek
Nice list… As Cubby said. Will you share that story with us?
Also, as Mark and Jay said: you are a good person
May 20, 2011 at 5:17 AM
Tai
It’s so amazing that you can sort things out like this.
May 20, 2011 at 6:19 AM
Denis
Hi Spo,
Do you really have Tourette’s?
or is this just shrink slang for
the jitters and an inclination for colorful commentary on
reality?
Love Your Blog,
Denis
May 20, 2011 at 7:40 AM
Urspo
Alas it is true; the expletive blurts in the car are particularly irksome.
May 20, 2011 at 8:10 AM
gregory
this is such a nice post. you have a way with these that lets me in to your life beautifully.
May 20, 2011 at 8:25 AM
domanidave
“assume guilt and/or appease” ‘Midwest’? Well, it’s spreading.
As far as ‘A Clockwork Orange’ goes, Kubrick changed his mind, too, and at one point withdrew it from circulation when ‘copycat’ crimes started to pop up in the UK. Airplane takeoffs, I’m with you. Used to find them exhilarating, now I just wait for the odd loud noise followed by a fiery death.
May 20, 2011 at 12:49 PM
Tiger Chanter
Very enjoyable. I shall have to appropriate this one!
May 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM
James
That was very insightful, Dr. Spo – Not sure I’d have the balls to do it myself, though.
May 20, 2011 at 5:22 PM
jefferyrn
I have given up on the flat stomach. I figure as a ball I will just roll down to hell and burst into flames get it all over with quickly.
May 24, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Ron
Again, your post has given me inspiration for a post. Thank you. By the way, I find it hard to believe that you could ever be mean to anyone.
May 25, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Erik Rubright
“A Clockwork Orange”? I’m curious as to what about it for you changed to make the pendulum swing.
May 25, 2011 at 6:39 PM
Urspo
It would take a few paragraphs to explain; if you are interested I will write it out.