My college friends and I were unafraid to be freakish and random and unabashed. And therefore the inside jokes grew thick and lush and, well... freakish. There was the famous "you are!" game, which I did not invent but latched onto with wild abandon, the Short Word Game, which I hated with a fiery passion (or, I should say: "which I did not like much at all"), and then there was "I want!"
The rules were simple: you point at the thing you want and announce that you want it. In a certain unspeakably annoying tone that evokes elves and helium and untimely death. With the pointer finger on the job, the phrase became remarkably versatile. "I want!" could mean anything from "Pardon me, Jessica - could you please be so kind as to pass the butter?" to "Professor? I didn't get a copy of that worksheet. Might there be any extras?" to "See that particularly nice-looking gentleman who apparently spends much of his free time moving heavy objects from one place to another? I wouldn't turn him down if he asked me out!"
In the spirit of old times, I present to you: things that I WANT!
I want to go home!*
I want to change it all from "to do" to "done"!
I want 8 hours of sleep a night!
I want more co-workers!
I want someone else to do my laundry and wash my dishes!
I want to remember people's birthdays!
I want a circle of closeness in my town!
I want a hybrid! Or a SmartCar!
I want you to shut up and listen to me sometimes!
I want my CD burner to start working again!
I want to be sentimental on command!
I want to walk as a child of the light!
I want to stop using these exclamation points! They're exhausting!
What do you want?
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
I want!
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I want boys to stop being stupid. I want [X] to stop being wicked-witchy. I want to stop complaining about the worst people in my life and instead learn to appreciate them (or at least to acknowledge that they are also God's children).
I want to be the first person to post a comment on the "I want!" blog entry. Well, at least that one's achievable.
This reminds me of an internet party game. Type your name and the word "needs" into google and see what you get. I tried this with my nickname "Zen" which for obvious reasons doesn't seem to "need" much! So I had to do it with my real name. Next I'm going to try it with the word wants and see how that works!
Zen
Jennifer needs a cold shower
Jennifer needs a smack daddy
Jennifer needs time to heal
Jennifer needs to do five things
Jennifer needs prayers
Jennifer needs space
Jennifer needs to keep improving
Jennifer needs to get away
Jennifer needs the earth energy
Jennifer needs help
Jennifer needs heavy visual depiction of her subject
Jennifer needs to be punished
Jennifer needs to be in a mental health facility
Jennifer needs extra time to complete assigned tasks
Jennifer needs to be made comfortable with the tension and conflicts
Jennifer needs an adviser with exceptional listening skills
Jennifer needs to take some advice from Paris Hilton
I did Jennifer wants too. But I don't want to take up too much of your blog. Anyone interested in what "jennifer wants" will just have to visit me at my blog! Ha! How's that for reeling you in!
Zen
Oh, the possibilities!
I want people to stop asking me stupid questions!
I want people to stop sending me stupid e-mails!
I want a new pair of shoes that fit perfectly and feel great!
I want more tea!
This is fun. :)
I want more hours in a day!
I want my coworkers to be consistent!
I want a vacation! NOW!
I want to read books for fun!
I want to feel appreciated!
I want friends nearby!
I want sleep!
I want to keep procrastinating because I really don't want to be working!
That should do it for now...
I want the war overseas to be over!
I want to take a trip home.
I want to go back to Germany.
I want plumbers to actually be plumbers.
I want January to be over so that I can have an alcoholic drink.
I want my New Year snog to get his arse in gear and actually get me out on a date.
I want to feel confident that I can actually cope with the coming year.
I want some stress free brain space to dedicate to thinking about other people!
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