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10 Things: Backpack
Friday, October 15, 2010 at 1:31PM 10 Things participation has been very low lately. Apparently everyone has been Working when they should be Writing 10 Things. We must put a stop to this productivity right now.
Stop what you’re doing.
Take out a writing implement.
Write the first 10 Things you think of when I say BACKPACK!
Write yours first. Read mine if you want to. Put yours in the comments. Or put them on your site and link back here. Whatever floats your pack. Go go go go go.
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My 10 Things for BACKPACK
1. You need to know what’s in your BACKPACK. If your friends put things in your BACKPACK, then you must be able to trust your friends. Better yet, don’t let anyone else put anything in your BACKPACK.
2. A tiny Sonar, in a sweatshirt, sleeping in the kid BACKPACK on Partner’s back, while Partner washed clothes at the laundromat and I read dusty books, and wrote 20 pages treatises that were only ever read by two people.
3. BACKPACKing across Europe. A Euro-rail pass and a change of clothes. Can anyone over 30 or with children do this?
4. BACKPACKs filled with books and lunch, on a kid, on the way to school.
5. BACKPACKs for kids, a school-supply charity drive.
6. BACKPACKing in the mountains with extreme-weather gear that weighs mere ounces, and carrying tiny tubes of gourmet spices.
7. A jet-pack on your back. No, not on YOUR back, on Connie Chung’s back at the Republican National Convention, circa 1984. Am I remembering that right? Who remembers this? Political conventions are apparently good opportunities for weird stunts.
8. Rolling BACKPACKs are nuisances in schools.
9. BACKPACK as euphemism? Anything can be euphemism. There must be a way to spin BACKPACKing as euphemism for something. It should include a monkey. Like a monkey on your BACKPACK. But NOT a monkey BACKPACK.
10. The BACK PACK, a lesser-known cousin of the Brat Pack. Who would you put in the BACK PACK? People with hairy backs like Robyn Williams? Or perhaps quarterbacks and fullbacks?
Some weeks are harder than others!
What’s coming out of your BACKPACK??? It must be better than mine. Share it. Now!
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Reader Comments (6)
You can get a 6 things from me. If you aren't happy with that, you can have your money back. pack.
1) Camera backpack. How much gear can I fit in my camera backpack? Never enough, it's never enough...
2) Just a basic going to school backpack, and how glad I am to be done with it.
3) Hiking/camping/exploring the wilderness with one of those enormous metal framed, manly man backpacks. No, I've never done this.
4) Dora the Explorer. I'm ashamed of this one. But, I have a 3 year old, so I'm afraid it came to mind.
5) Bumming around through Europe. Great minds think alike, I guess.
6) Kiddo1's princess backpack for going to preschool. What does a preschooler need with a backpack? I guess in case they have a potty accident they need a change of clothes, and of course they send all our "homework" for the parents in the backpack. Kiddo1 doesn't even like the princesses, but when she was given this backpack, she didn't want to exchange it for anything else. Oh well.
Nom Nom Nom Muy delicioso
Wait--Cab, you admit to Dora, but you've never listened to Lady Gaga?! I'm, I, you... *sigh*
I admit to being aware of Dora, due to the presence of a very small person in the house. And in truth, she is not really a fan of Dora; she's only watched it a few times. She does have some movie on DVD, but Dora is not at all a frequent guest. The limited (although not as limited as pre-kiddo2, sadly) TV that she watches is usually something like Curious George, Clifford, Ni-Hao Kailan, or Little Einsteins. I could entertain you by singing theme songs from all of those if I really tried.
Listening to Gaga would require me to choose that for my own listening "pleasure" as opposed to simply being present when something like Dora is on for someone else's entertainment. My tastes in music run much more to the the classic rock end of the spectrum. I've never been very interested in top 40 type pop, and honestly I wouldn't even know to what station I'd have to tune to find Gaga. Besides, it would interfere with my driving enjoyment of all my vast right-wing conspiracy radio. ;-)
Since I'm too lazy to actually explain these associations, how about I just do a random word association thing?
- ing
- books
- straps
- L1-S5
- overhead compartment
- broken glass
- patches
- dental floss
- LL Bean
- monogrammed
Oh, Sarah, the broken glass one is the most intriguing to me!
And Cab, seriously, Gaga would be better for your moral fiber than right-wing conspiracy radio. Also, try Sid the Science Kid with the little people. Love him.
Sid is great. She likes him sometimes. She gets to watch a limited number of shows in a day, and her tastes vary. Sid was at one time the odds-on favorite, but not so much currently.
Maybe I'll listen to a Gaga song once, just for you. But in general I'm pretty entertained by RWC radio. And my moral fiber is beyond reproach. ;-)
"I love my mom" ... "uh-huh" ... "my mom is cool" ... "uh-huh" ...