First: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.
Second: Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.
I was tagged by Katie.

No eight people from me .. feel free to grab this meme list, though!

Lots of pillows or just one?
One feather roll pillow from Ikea (GOSA MÅBÄR), two large feather pillows and one square soft polyester pillow.

What kind of books do you read?
Various, mostly romance, detectives and sci-fi.

What are your most awesome skills?
Difficult question .. quick to answer questions, without thinking? (not always accurate though!)

What's your occupation?
Project Manager Digital Publications at an international academic publishing house.

What's really creepy?
Underwater scenes on tv (or in books) where someone is stuck and cannot get out.

What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?
I guess Jane Austen Pride&Prejudice fanfiction, though I would not want to call it an obsession/addiction.

What flavor ice cream would you choose right now?
Lemon sorbet.

What websites do you always visit when you go online?
Google Reader, BBC News Online

What was the last thing you bought?
Black flat shoes for my grandmother's funeral.

What was the cutest thing you've seen today?
A bee stuck in my lavender bush.

Do you get cravings? If so, what do you crave?
When I have not bought them, I can crave my favorite cigarillos.

What do you do to change your mood?
It all depends on the current mood and the mood I want to change to!

What is your zodiac sign?
Pisces, according to most magazines.

Do you want to learn another language?
Of course, who wouldn't! Would love to improve my french language skills, but also work on increasing my spoken german. Also, I want to work on the XQuery and XPath programming languages.

Five things you can't live without.
Family & friends, music, books, my laptop and work.

What's something you'd like to say to someone right now?
To my parents: I love you!

What are you looking forward to?
In about a month I will be able to start physical therapy on my left knee again (currently stuck with braces and crutches, as I'm not allowed to walk using my left knee).

Say something to the person who tagged you:
No LJ meme post, Katie!
On a different note, I admire your scientific tenacity enourmously!

Created by Train Horn

[previous list: iTunes Meme]
I thought it would be fun to re-do this meme after about one year, and below is the result:

How many total songs?
5554 songs, 16.7 days, 35.29 GB

Sort by song title - first and last
'Aan de Oevers van de Tijd' by Spinvis [Dagen van Gras, Dagen van Stro]- '3005' by 4Hero [Two Pages]

Sort by time - shortest and longest
00:00:02 'Bright Moments (Excerpt)' by Rahsaan Roland Kirk [Does Your House Have Lions: The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology] - 01:25:53 'Symfonie no. 8' of Anton Bruckner by Koninklijk Concertgebrouw Orkest conducted by Bernard Haitink [120 Jaar Koninklijk Concertgebrouw Orkest]

Sort by Album - first and last
'ABBA' by ABBA - '120 Jaar Koninklijk Concertgebrouw Orkest' by Koninklijk Concertgebrouw Orkest

Sort by Artist - first and last
a-ha - 10,000 Maniacs

Top five played songs
Not counted

Find the following words. How many songs show up?
Sex: 7
Death: 20
Love: 332
You: 514
Home: 89
Boy: 33
Girl: 59

First five songs that come up on Party Shuffle
Not counted

(I still do not have the standard playlists Top Five Played Songs and Party Shuffle)

[nicked from KateF]

Italics: started but not finished. Bold: finished reading.

Download my list here : 20090222_100bookstohaveread-list.pdf

(simply because I did not feel like redoing all the bold and italics after discovering c/p did not work properly)

[sneak peak below]

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[via Bart]

One book you're currently reading: The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
One book that changed your life: The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
One book you'd want on a deserted island: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
One book you've read more than once: The Villa by Nora Roberts
One book you've never been able to finish: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
One book that made you laugh: Lucy Talk by Fiona Walker
One book that made you cry: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
One book you keep rereading: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
One book you've been meaning to read: Candide by Voltaire
One book you believe everyone should read: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Finally,
Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence
Lord Augustus: Well, what is it? What is it? [Rising and going over to Cecil Graham.]
From: Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

If anyone wants to play along, feel free!

Some beauties, it seems, are destined for the semantic scrap heap. The editors at Collins have decided that they can dispense with [-] 24 rarely-used words [...]

http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/09/vote-to-save-a.html

have I been?

visited 14 states (6.22%)
Create your own visited map of The World.

And in the US?

visited 22 states (44%)
Create your own visited map of The United States.

(At least for the US, I think I have covered them all!)(And Utah and Arizona are a bit of a fib: I was at Four Corners USA) (As for New York, I was only in NY NY)

 

 

Always fun ...

 

How evil are you?

 

Photo Friday - Misty