Friday, 24 March 2006

things I cannot do

The Superficial:

  • Distinguish between Maria Bello and Mary McCormack.
  • Distinguish between Chloë Sevigny and Zooey Deschanel.
  • Distinguish between Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal.
  • Readily distinguish between Howard Hughes and Hugh Hefner.
  • Use an eyelash curler without snipping the skin around my eyes, damage it does not need.

    Things I Haven't Tested in Some Years:

  • Jump rope when I'm the one spinning the rope.
  • Skin the cat (spinning around a jungle gym bar on one leg).
  • Spin a hoola hoop around my middle.

    Characteristically lisa:

  • Say "wapiti" only once. Wapiti wapiti! I can type it only once, at least.

    More Important than That:

  • Coordinate a meal. I can make a dish. I can bake cookies if I pay attention. But timing several dishes to be ready at once? Not so much.
  • Speak any non-English language with other than a French accent.
  • Speak French without an American accent.
  • Stop ripping my cuticles.
  • Insert my own car into my own garage (I probably could if I could practice the slope, 90-degree angle, and narrow entrance with an identical car not my own and a structure less likely to collapse at the slightest tap.
  • Parallel park in a space less than 1.5x the length of my car.
  • Do a simple flip turn when swimming laps.
  • Take my own pulse.