Tag: questions everyone should ask themselves about their life or lives whatever

  • Twenty Questions.

    Publicity photo for early-1960s gameshow, "Queen For a Day."
    This photo is public domain, but let’s all hold ABC responsible for the time it held the copyright. 

    I am wishing so hard that I could offer all the alternate names I’ve come up with for the gameshow pictured above. Sadly, that sort of content is best saved for PaperGirl: After Dark. So far, that blog does not exist, though it absolutely should. I’ll let you know.

    As I mentioned recently, I’ve had a galaxy of question marks spinning ’round my head. With a ginormous project about to launch (just a few more weeks and I can spill the beans) and a Very Big Decision I’ve made (you’re gonna flip when I tell you), I’ve been asking myself many questions. Here are twenty of them.

    1. What time is it?
    2. Was that my phone or yours?
    3. Did I seriously forget to buy yogurt?
    4. What day in November should I move back to Chicago?
    5. I’m so comfy in bed but I kind of need to pee before I turn out the light. Should I just try to sleep it off or get up and go now so I don’t have to get up at two in the morning?
    6. Are PaperGirl readers passing it along to other people because that would be so wonderful?
    7. Am I correct in thinking that a forty-year-old woman in good shape is hotter than a twenty-year-old girl in good shape?
    8. Did you hear that?
    9. Did my tenants in Chicago take good care of my home?
    10. Did I come to Washington and stay a year longer than planned because I was running away from something and if so, what was it?
    11. If I’m such a hardcore existentialist, how come I hated Crime and Punishment so much?
    12. Are you kidding me?
    13. Do I still enjoy eggs or do they gross me out?
    14. Will the person I went on the road trip with this summer be in my life in a significant way in the future or was that whole thing just a brilliant, brightly shining, but ultimately isolated moment in time? (There were less-shining and isolated moments, like this one.)
    15. Do my friends in Chicago miss me?
    16. Is it wise to have a box of chocolates in the fridge right now?
    17. Is Yuri reading this?
    18. Will I ever have enough money to have someone do my hair every day?
    19. When’s the next time I’ll be in a hospital bed?
    20. Seriously?

    Oh, this is fun. I could more. I could do really, really good ones on PaperGirl: After Dark. You’ll be the first to know.