Category: this week’s friday five

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Sorry. Late again. Same reason. But you will be pleased to know that as I sip a latte in a small cafe in Wahiawa, Hawaii (far, far outside Honolulu), after all kinds of struggling and thousands of words, I have finally come up with a meetcute that’s cute and kind of funny. So I hate myself slightly less than I hate myself on a normal day of NaNoWriMo.

I’ll change the bullets to numbers later today.

• Who inspires you to be your best self?
• When has taking the high road proved to be the best path?
• What are some of your favorite comfort foods among things you can prepare yourself?
• What can you do this week to make the world better?
• What can you do this week to take extra special care of yourself?

Thanks for participating. Have a safe weekend, and may we all make the world safer for each other in whatever ways we can.

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Sorry this is so late. All I have to say for myself is: NaNoWriMo. 😐

1. What is usually the cause of your being late for something?
2. How has your punctuality changed with the seasons of your life?
3. What is something you are pretty much never late for?
4. What are you behind on right now?
5. Who among your friends and family can most be relied upon to be on time? Who can most be relied upon to be tardy?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful weekend. And if you’re in the United States, please vote, and don’t be late with your ballot!

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1. In your city, where might a visitor find a wretched hive of scum and villainy?
2. When did you most recently do something you didn’t think you could do?
3. If a robot could do all but two of your regular menial chores, which two would you continue to do?
4. Who best qualifies as a mentor in your life today?
5. How are you at chess?

Thanks for participating, and have a gorgeous, safe weekend full of new hope!

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This week’s questions (and their explanatory introductions) are inspired by this Mental Floss article about words in other languages without English equivalents. We did a first round of these words in October, three years ago, so feel free to use these as well, if you missed them the first time!

1. In German, fernweh is a longing for distant places, perhaps even places you’ve never been. What place you’ve never been do you have fernweh for?
2. In Finnish, myötähäpeä is “the kinder, gentler cousins of schadenfreude, something akin to “vicarious embarrassment.” For whom did you last feel myötähäpeä?
3. In Japanese, shouganai means “there’s nothing we can do about it, so we accept it, rather than waste time worrying or being angry.” How good are you at saying shouganai and putting it into practice?
4. In Scots, tartle is the “panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can’t quite remember.” When did you last experience tartle and how did you handle it?
5. In Georgian, zeg means “the day after tomorrow.” What are you doing zeg?*

Thanks for participating, and may your weekend be safe and lagom!

* I’m sure many languages have a word meaning “the day after tomorrow.” In Japanese, it’s “asatte” (明後日), but I already used Japanese and I wanted five different languages for these questions.

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I’m posting this really late today. Sorry. Friday completely snuck up on me, as did almost everything else this week! 🙁

1. When did you last have fresh cut flowers in your home?
2. When did you last have a guest not related to you in your home?
3. When did you last have a service or delivery person in your home?
4. When did you last have nobody at all (including you) overnight in your home?
5. When did you last have an unexpected visitor at your front door?

Thanks for participating, and have a wonderful, stress-free, safe weekend!

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1. What is the most grownup thing you did this week?
2. What is the most adventurous thing you did this week?
3. What is the most foolhardy thing you did this week?
4. What is the most community-conscious thing you did this week?
5. What is the the quietest thing you did this week?

Thanks for participating, and have a grown-up, adventurous, foolhardy, community-conscious, quiet, safe weekend!

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Stick with me.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is a collection of Robert Fulghum essays published in 1986. The title essay, which you are surely familiar with (however; if you are not, here is a PDF with a couple of errors in the title and spelling), articulates literally and figuratively lessons frequently taught in American kindergartens.

A sample from the text:

These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you are sorry when you hurt somebody.

Some have criticized the wildly popular essay as being simplistic, trite, or treacly, but these people don’t remember the seed in the polystyrene cup or the bugs under the rock, or they have never had to come up with a good idea for a short, fun writing assignment for ninth-graders.

1. In your essay, “All I Need to Know I Learned from [insert title of a favorite television series],” what are some lessons you’d include?
2. In your essay, “All I Need to Know I Learned from [insert name of a favorite musician],” what are some lessons you’d include?
3. In your essay, “All I Need to Know I Learned from [insert one of your hobbies],” what are some lessons you’d include?
4. In your essay, “All I Need to Know I Learned from [insert title of a book you like],” what are some lessons you’d include?
5. In your essay, “All I Need to Know I Learned from [insert something you’re terrible at doing],” what are some lessons you’d include?

Thanks for participating, and have a stupendous, splendid, super, safe weekend!

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1. Which partially-read book would you especially like to finish someday, and why didn’t you finish it last time you read it?
2. Which partially-watched TV series would you like to complete?
3. Which half-completed task is nagging at you most insistently?
4. Which incomplete project is likeliest to get some attention in the near future?
5. Which half-consumed item in your refrigerator or pantry are you thinking about right now?

Thanks for participating, and have a charming, quaint, idyllic, picturesque, safe weekend!

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1. What’s so funny ’bout peace, love, and understanding?
2. How’s it going to be?
3. What’s new pussycat?
4. Why do fools fall in love?
5. Can you feel the love tonight?

Thanks for playing, and have a music-filled, safe weekend!

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In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home (the first place) and the workplace (the second place). Examples of third places include churches, cafes, bars, clubs, libraries, gyms, bookstores, hackerspaces, stoops, parks, and theaters.

1. What is your usual third place these days?
2. How are your third place needs different today from some other time in your life?
3. What’s missing from your third places these days?
4. What kind of third places do you see yourself never frequenting?
5. Which third place in a television series would you most enjoy?

(and why is it Cheers?)

Thanks for participating, and have a better-than-decent, safe weekend! Go Raiders!