(best question ever, tunesy :), hard to do it justice)

bells
trains
waves lapping
a key turning in a lock
thelonius-y/coltrane-y/miles-y/mingus-y sounds
a nudibranch sighing contentedly after consuming a meal of bluebottle jellyfish tentacles

truck honking far away in the night
rhythmic crickets
clicks and cuts
50 hertz bass drones
tibetan bowls
cat meowling to say hello

the sound of a pin dropping in space when there's no one
around to hear it and so on.......

ooh, and a tiny baby kitten's heartbeat

and something else, very tingly and sweet and slightly esoteric.

and the kop singing 'you'll never walk alone'

that's my voice, dear.
:p

I don't think Craig Johnston is taking this thread seriously.

the best sound in the entire world: the sound of feet.

the clip-clop of shoes on pavement. the click-click of dressy heels on linoleum. the slappy-pat of bare feet on hardwood floors. the soft thumpity thump of running in cushy socks. back in the late 90s fell in love with the video game "crash bandicoot" based solely on their attentiveness to feet noises. miyazaki films have great feet noises.

in college i used to go out at night with a small tape recorder at my side, recording my own feet noises. sometimes they're the same from night to night. sometimes for unknown reasons they change. it's an ever-presence, and your perspective on it never changes. you can never walk away from your feet noises. they're as ever-present as the sound of your own breath.



(i tried to explain this to the spouse very early in our relationship. his response was, "you're going to have to marry me." now i love feet noises even more.)

^ gave me a happy, auntie. I'll have to listen for them in Spirited Away next time I watch it :D

camera shutters opening
the crunch of boots on freshly fallen snow
hearing your heartbeat in a pillow
the soft whushing of someone sleeping's breath
the pings and pongs of table tennis
the scratch of fine-tipped pens on paper
a whispered conversation through a wall
distant wind
the momentary silence after an amazing performance (well, that's lack of sound)

New question for Jan 8 2008:

¿ In which jobs have you already worked ?

mystery bus tour guide
au pair
checkout chick
personal carer
registered nurse
(antique) shop assistant
second hand dealer

office girl (chained to the copier)
railway construction site worker (tough, but fun)
babysitter (for extraordinary brats)
aide in Hungarian-Bavarian restaurant/pub (day) and Cuban bar (night) (<--same owners)
student assistant at spectroscopy chair

cafeteria salad-bar lackey
live-in house painter
potter
sign painter
bartender
sea-kayak tour guide
tarot reader
reporter
data entry hell
operations management
grant writer/501(c)(3) development assistance
corporate internal communications
finance

pfft umm...

administrative assistant
folder folder, folder stapler and folder in envelopes putter, also sticker on folder envelope putter
promotion chick
telemarketing interviewer
customer service employee
service desk employee
help desk employee
incident controller
service liaison
escalation manager (can't translate this one properly)
change controller

didja get worker's compensation for all the papercuts? ;)

no, no office hazard compensation! :mad:

Paper boy
Movie Usher
Fry Cook
Video Store Clerk
Costume Store Clerk
Copy shop clerk
Nude Model
Valet/Bellman
Manny (male nanny)
Chef's Apprentice
Waiter
Dishwasher
Draughtsman's' supply salesman
PD & PR for children’s' author
Coffee Roaster
Tea Broker
Computer services bureau manager
Online Broker
IT & AT training specialist

those are just off the top of my head-there are more...

babysitter
cashier
office filer/typist
camp counselor
hospital food line server
hospital cook (yuk!)
park dept. recreational employee (FUN!!!)
teaching assistant - landscape arch. dept.
campus mechanical eng. dept. draftsperson/designer
landscape architect intern
nursing home cook
nursing home nurse's aide (hard work)
landscape architect city park and rec. dept (absolute heaven :D !!!)
landscape architect - engineering/planning firm (absolute hell :mad: !!)
landscape contractor
master gardener

parent - the most rewarding but sometimes most difficult of them all.

babysitter
busgirl
hand-tossed pizza chef
baker's assistant
college dorm night security guard
sex store customer service rep (dildo slinger)
children's museum aide
audio assistant
audio engineer
journalist/writer
marketing/writer/web designer
marketing/writer/web designer/e-commerce & e-content specialist
marketing/web designer/e-commerce & e-content user experience specialist
marketing/e-content & user experience specialist/channel manager/program manger

give me a couple years, there won't be enough pixels on the screen to accommodate my full job function.

^^ Did you put the sex store job on your resume for the children's museum?

I love seeing the progressions.

Paperboy
Retail clerk
Warehouse worker
Phone psychic
Office temp
Bike messenger
Waiter
Web designer
Programmer
Wine tasting room manager

question for Wednesday, January 9, 2008:

How would you define your relationship to clothing?

Well, I wear them, wash them, let them dry, wear them, and so on...

For a woman, quite a loose relationship I guess: clothes should look halfways good on me, be affordable, easy to wash, should not necessarily have to be ironed and should not dare to hide much longer than 20 minutes from me when I search them in a store.

They are so many times removed, I don't feel relationship to them any more.

^*claps*

utilitarian, occasionally eccentric.

crucial

it's a tense, accusatory relationship. like an unhappy married couple who have grown to hate each other over the years but are too accustomed to depending on that hatred to actually part ways.



...well i may have skewed the description a bit...

mawkish

loved - hate - donated

i like clothes

Hostile, resentful.

about to go from a "casual" to a "business casual" relationship with them

New Day....
 

Committing stupidities (usually but not exclusively with someone of the male gender involved) under alcohol influence and remembering everything crystal clear later on (usually the case, damn brain).
I don't care actually if/how much the other party remembers, my embarrassment towards myself (can one say that so?) is the worst embarrassment for me.

7 yrs old, caught stealing two uninflated balloons from the coffee table at karen white's 7th birthday party.

in short, it involved a phone call and a casual question left on an answering machine that came out all wrong, and in the process of correcting myself i found myself helplessly babbling as i descended rapidly into something between apologizing and groveling. and there was a witness on my end who quite clearly was beyond baffled by my actions.

it was a "let's never speak of this again" moment.

it might not sound bad, but it was bad enough to top my list. that's how bad it was.

So hard to pick just one............

New q (11.01.08):

¿Favourite country/region/state/city?

that's like asking for my favorite color...can't do it.

I like where I'm living now, though. Salt Lake City. it haz a flavr. salty. with undertones of weird.

^So let's say your favs are the whole of the colour spectrum and planet Earth (being something like a region within the solar system, or not?)!


The Mediterranean and Berlin in summer (when it's quite Mediterranean too).

Sweden

New England

Maine

Tie: Rome/Hamburg/Boston

i run the risk of being boring here but: new york city