21 | January | 2012 | FiftyFourandAHalf

It’s more of a disease than anything. Think Contagion. Think Outbreak. Think the combined scourges of tuberculosis, bubonic plague and flatulence with the Love Boat Theme playing in the background, with no mute button.

Yes, that’s how I describe the “meme” I got from Lori at Sunny Side Up.

A meme, according to Wikipedia, my bible, is:

an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures.

Yes, it’s a chain letter.

But, as I am a girl who can’t say no, here goes.

1. Describe yourself in 7 words:

Irreverent
Snarky
Chatty
Storyteller-at-any-opportunity
Smart
Curly
~~Liar~~ Literary-license-taker

2. What keeps you up at night?

The fear that some perve is going to want to know what I’m wearing right now.

3. Who would I like to be?

The Queen

4. What am I wearing right now?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

5. What scares me?

Repeating myself. Repeating myself. See Nos 2 and 4.

6. The best and worst of blogging:

Having an outlet to write and be appreciated

Falling into the black hole of posting, reading posts and comments, where there is no other reality and where no serious writing projects get done because blogging is just too damn much fun

Having things you wrote appear in weird boxes like this even when you don’t want them to.

7. The last website I visited:

I did medical research just now here: http://www.theslanket.com/

8. What is the one thing I would change about myself:

My liposuction appointment is on Wednesday, so I’m working on that one.

9. Slankets…yes or no?

Absolutely. How can I possibly resist something that will keep me warm AND fed while I fulfill my duty as a couch potato?

"Nicks Lunch" (no apostrophe) available for $29.99 at TheSlanket.com

10. Tell us something about the person who tagged you:

Lori of Sunny Side Up likes to give me stuff. She gave me my first award, the Liebster , which is for blogs with fewer than 100 followers. (I have dubbed it “The Award for Blogs Nobody Reads.” But that caption has NOT caught on.)

But Lori is unfailingly happy, optimistic, sunny. And I thought the world of her until she was Fresh Pressed and I wasn’t.

Seriously Lori. Don’t try that FP trick again. Cause I’m watchin’ you.

Now, according to the chain letter, meme tradition, I am supposed to name folks who can carry on this chain letter tradition. But I am a non-traditionalist, so I figure I’ll give an open invitation to anyone who wants to tell about themselves, who needs a list to do it with, and who has strong feelings about slankets.

Go For It!

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Sometimes blogging is an enriching, uplifting experience. Sometimes, in researching a post, I learn strange and wonderful things. But today I realized something frightening. If a meme is “a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices,” our culture is doomed. And all because of blogs. Remember the Slankets. And be afraid. Because the fall of civilization and society always follows when a society forgets how to dress nicely.