Author: scrivener

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

Ohhhhhh. I get what’s happening. When I click PUBLISH in this new version of WordPress, the post doesn’t automatically publish. The software asks me if I’m sure I don’t want to check everything, and I’m supposed to hit PUBLISH again to make the thing post. Got it!

1. The Mirror of Erised doesn’t show a reflection of you at the moment, but of you and what your heart most desires. If you gazed into it today, what image would you see?
2. A howler is a blood-red letter sent to signify extreme anger or to convey a message very loudly and publicly. When it is opened, the sender’s voice, which has been magically magnified to a deafening volume, bellows a message at the recipient and then self-destructs. If it is not opened or there is a delay in opening it, the letter smolders, explodes violently, and shouts the message out even louder than normal. If you were to receive one today, who would most likely be the sender?
3. What model vehicle would be great to turn into a flying car?
4. What item in your house could use a dose of magic, and what extraordinary quality would you like to imbue it with?
5. Among people you know, who is most likely and secretly born with magical ability?

Thanks for participating, and have a lumos weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your website. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

Wherever I’ve worked, I’ve enjoyed surveying coworkers, as sort-of a way to get to know people but also to encourage inclusion. People answer whatever my question of the day is, and I say something like, “Oh, Myrna in accounting said the same thing!” Now they’re thinking of Myrna, perhaps thinking that they have more in common with Myrna than they thought. And maybe they have something to chat about the next time they see each other in the break room. “Hey, I hear you hate Star Wars! Me too!”

Yeah, this weird Friday 5 thing? It’s not just on Fridays for me. And it’s not just in this webspace. 🙂 And I’ve been known to pass around a slam book at grown-up parties. Here are some questions I’ve asked coworkers in recent years.

1. What kind of drunk are you?
2. What’s one of your language-related pet peeves?
3. What would be a good question to ask people you’ve just met, if what you really want to know is what they’re passionate about? You know, an alternative to “What do you do?” or “How do you know so-and-so?”
4. When you get home super tired and super hungry, do you usually eat first or sleep first?
5. You’re taking an exam. You aren’t sure about the answer to question 5, but you know it’s either “lions” or “tigers.” You get to question 11 and realize whatever the answer to 5 is, 11 is the other answer. Do you write “lions” as your answer to 5 and 11, thereby ensuring you’ll get one of them right? Or do you write “lions” for 5 and “tigers” for 11, risking two wrong answers but giving you a chance at two right ones?

Yeah, 4 and 5 are unusual for Friday 5 because I stay away from this-or-that questions here, but you’re a writer. Write something! Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend!

Hello, and happy Friday! Welcome to this week’s Friday 5. Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What’s something you hated as a teen but love today?
2. What’s something you recently dreaded that turned out not too bad?
3. How do you feel about February as it compares to January?
4. Who among people you know is really making the world a better place?
5. In what way is today better than yesterday?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5!  Please copy these questions to your webspace.  Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses.  Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

This is a bit silly, but here are five questions inspired by the first five tracks on the new Weezer covers album, which I listened to on endless repeat all day Thursday.

1. Where in Africa would you like to visit?
2. If you ruled the world, what would you forbid people to talk about in the company of strangers?
3. In what way do you tolerate (or enjoy) being used?
4. When did you recently have an a-ha moment?
5. What’s something you know about turtles?

Thanks for participating, and have a teal weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

• What’s a song that recently moved you?
• What’s a song that recently moved you — right out the door?
• What kinds of dance performances interest you?
• What’s a good song with the word move (or some form of it) in the title?
• How do you feel about prunes?

Thanks for participating, and have a beautiful weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5!  Please copy these questions to your webspace.  Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses.  Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

Sorry I’m late today.  I’ve been playing catchup on almost everything since the new year.  January is my favorite month, but it’s been a strange beast this year!

1. What’s got you behind the 8-ball?
2. Who would you like to see a VH-1-Behind-the-Music-style documentary about?
3. What are you likely to find behind your sofa?
4. What’s something you’d like to put behind you this year?
5. What’s something you don’t want to eat if there’s no ketchup?

Thanks for participating, and have a glorious weekend!  Lift a glass in my direction if you’re hoisting a few: I turned 50 this week.  It only hurts a little!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5!  Please copy these questions to your webspace.  Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check our your responses.  Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What’s the worst thing about something (or someone) you like?
2. What’s the best thing about something (or someone) you dislike?
3. What’s something best done in reverse order?
4. What’s something you wish you could unsee or unknow?
5. What’s the most recently released movie you’ve seen more than once?

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. As the year comes to a close, what are you looking back upon most fondly?
2. What do you do with the end slices on a loaf of sandwich bread?
3. What in your residence is approaching its last days?
4. What would be an appropriate cherry on top of your 2018 in these final days?
5. What (or who) has a fantastic tail?

Thanks for participating, and have a peaceful weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5!  Please copy these questions to your webspace.  Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses.  Please don’t forget to link us form your website!

1. What are some pencil-and-paper puzzles you enjoy?
2. What are some video (or computer or mobile app) puzzle games you’ve enjoyed?
3. When did you last work on a jigsaw puzzle?
4. What’s puzzling you right now?
5. Who is the most enigmatic person you know?

My probable favorite movie of the year (I’m probably going to see at least four more before year’s end) is Puzzle, which I saw in the theater and which is available on DVD and (I think) some streaming platforms.  “Why do we do puzzles?”  “To control the chaos.”

Have a wonderful weekend!