Jen's Friday Questions

These are my questions for today:
1. Cell Phone Usage: Do you think cell phone usage should be limited or banned on public transportation?

Jennifer: Personally, I feel like people can and should be allowed to use cell phones in public places. I think that it can be really rude, though, when people don't know how to use an indoor voice when talking on their cell phone, rather than shouting as though they were really trying to get their message to South Dakota without the aid of modern technology. I also think that in crowded places, people should only use their cell phones for 1 or 2 minutes, rather than spill all of their dirtiest secrets from the past ten years. I think that if we build up a social stigma against impolite cell phone use, then we can avoid the need for official bans and whatnot, a thing that I am always for.

Beth: I, too, enjoy the responsible use of shame as a behavior-influencing device. Thanks be to God that the old Puritan ethics that our country is founded on has a use today!


2. Keychain: Are the keys on your keychain ordered in a specific way or are they slapped onto the ring in random order?

Jennifer: My keys are mostly slapped on however I can get them. I hate having to put keys on or off keychains, so I make Matt do it, and he doesn't seem to care which way they go on, so I can't really care either.

Beth: I hate mucking up my nails to deal with the universal disaster known as the keychain. Luckily, Glenn is both handy and tolerant of my ways ("She knows what she wants." - usual comment of Glenn to others that consider me high maintenance.) So he graciously puts them on in an order that is pleasing to my peculiar rules of order that governs my life (and my sanity!!!).

3. Couch Potato For a Day: What TV-show marathon would keep you on your couch all day?

Jennifer: This is a hard one. I know from experience that there are several shows that can keep me on the couch all day, or at least half a day. If I had my way, and a week with nothing to do and a comfy couch and big television, I would watch a marathon of King of the Hill, The Torkelsons, Grey's Anatomy, and certainly The Office. In reality, though, when America's Next Top Model comes on all weekend every weekend, I usually get sucked into that for an hour or two.

Beth: Please use this moment to remember the greatness that was the Rob & Big show. We miss you RAB!!!

4. Happy: How do you define happiness?

Jennifer: Not wishing that you were someone else, living someone else's life, and dreaming someone else's dreams. (At least that is how I define it today)

Beth: Fulfillment of the situations that make your heart beat faster. If you go ahead and cater to your soul, you'll be much happier must faster.

5. Moving: If you were forced to leave your home for a location at least 500 miles away for one year, where would you choose to go? Keep in mind that your job would be secure and your financial situation would the same as it is now (mysteriously, your job would follow, and of course, if you're married or have kids or animals, they'd be able to come with you and you'd all live at the same standard as you do now).

Jennifer: I'd like to go to Europe to live for a year, probably in France. I'd also like to go live in Canada, or maybe Alaska (but I'd only want to go there during the light months; I'd get to sad in the dark ones.)

Beth: Canada most likely. Read all about how white people love canada here.