Meme of the Sevens

So I saw that Kate mentioned that her friend Rob had something interesting on his blog, so I took a peek and saw that he got it from Jeri who got it from Robin who got it from Michele who got it from Patti who thinks she was tagged by Candice who was tagged by aerought who was tagged by Melissa who was tagged by Tess who was tagged by Margaret who was tagged by Carla who neglects to mention who exactly tagged her so we aren't able to find out who exactly started this meme and ask them why.

Be that as it may, and none of these are in any particular order...

Seven Things to Do Before I Die:
1. Get published
2. Hike the parts of the Lewis & Clark expedition that aren't in Oregon
3. Visit Chateau Gaillard ( and Europe in general )
4. Learn Latin ( started to once )
5. Finish playing all these video games I own
6. Read the entire Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection
7. Own a sail boat and sail around the world

Seven Things I Cannot Do:
1. Whistle
2. Snap my fingers
3. Drive ( took Drivers Ed once, used to have a permit )
4. Teach ( learned that one teaching a course for PSU some years back )
5. Eat alfredo ( worked at an Italian resteraunt once, blegh... )
6. 'Walk the Dog', I know a bunch of other yo-yo tricks but not that one
7. Remove malformed red blood cells from my system ( damned missing spleen... )

Seven Things I Say Most Often:
1. Frick!
2. The conquest of Mars!
3. Blue?
4. Uhm...
5. So... Yeah... Anyways...
6. Hamsters! An army of giant hamsters!
7. What were we talking about again?

Seven Things That Attract Me To People:
1. A smile that is warm and open and not aware of how good it looks
2. Eyes that are clear and that will look back at you if you meet them
3. A sense of fun and adventure and being willing to try silly things
4. Someone who likes themselves and isn't angsty or depressed
5. An awareness of the world outside of just the small area around you
6. A degree of selflessness, being willing to put others before yourself
7. A sense of humor where you are comfortable laughing and not nervously telling jokes

Seven Books (or Series) I Love:
1. 'Memory, Sorrow, Thorn' by Tad Williams
2. 'A Song of Fire and Ice' by George R.R. Martin
3. The two Alice books by Lewis Carrol
4. 'The Green-Sky Trilogy' by Zilpha Kently Snyder
5. 'The Gap Cycle' by Stephen R. Donaldson
6. 'The Dresden Files' by Jim Butcher
7. Issac Asimov's short stories and Robot and Foundation novels.

Seven Movies I Can Watch Over And Over:
1. You've Got Mail
2. Bladerunner : Director's Cut
3. TRON
4. Hard Boiled
5. Ghostbusters
6. The Princess Bride
7. Casablanca

Seven People I Want To Join In On This:
1. Doyce
2. Jackie
3. Kate ( Ha! I beat you to this! )
4. Boulder Dave
5. Mal
6. ***Dave
7. (Anyone and everyone else who actually reads my blog, throw up a comment if you do try this so I can find your blog and list to read)

Rob also added...
Seven New Dwarf Names:
1. Scruffy
2. Stumpy
3. Skanky
4. Dorky
5. Slappy
6. Grippy ( for those Colbert Report fans... )
7. Yiffy ( oh, the dwarf in the cat girl costume... don't ask... )

Seven Places I’d Rather Be:
1. Puget Sound on a sail boat watching the Seattle city lights across the water
2. Cape Disappointment out on the jetty
3. Up in the old apple tree that used to be in my mother's backyard
4. My old apartment, several apartments back, in downtown Portland
5. Powells Books
6. London, England
7. Anywhere, as long as I had friends with me

Seven Favorite Comicbook Series:
1. 'Transmetropolitan' by Warren Ellis
2. 'Planetary' by Warren Ellis
3. 'Astro City' by Kurt Busiek
4. 'Usagi Yojimbo' by Stan Sakai
5. 'Fullmetal Alchemist' by Hiromu Arakawa ( so this is manga, I cheated a little )
6. 'Hellboy' / 'B.P.R.D.' by Mike Mignola and others
7. 'Lone Wolf and Cub' by Kazuo Koike

To which I would add (though I doubt if everyone can answer this one)...
Seven Favorite Anime:
1. Fullmetal Alchemist
2. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
3. Haibane Renmei
4. Record of the Lodoss War
5. Bubblegum Crisis ( original and 2040 )
6. Akira ( still a classic )
7. Appleseed ( the new movie )

Which takes it to eleven sets of seven. All of these answers are pretty much just off of the top of my head, though I think I would at most change maybe just one entry on the book and movies and comics and anime bits if I put more thought into it. Anyone else who wants to try this, until Rob it had just been seven sets of seven, so you might as well stick with the first seven statements / questions and not bother with his three additions or my one unless you are really interested in sharing your answers to them.