This week's Saturday Nine:
- This song begins with the clacking of a typewriter. Did you ever learn to touch type — beginning with your fingers on "the home row" — or do you hunt and peck? I was a computer nerd as a kid (probably because my brother was and I wanted to do what he could do), so I learned to touch type when I was 9, and taught myself to code HTML at 11. I could type 120 WPM by the age of 13, which is still the average speed at which I type today.
- Much of the video for this song revolves around the office coffee room. Are you enjoying a beverage as you answer these 9 questions? I'm having some Lemon Lemon sparkling lemonade on ice, a.k.a. my new favourite drink.
- This week's artist, Dolly Parton, loves telling the story of how she once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest. What contest or sweepstakes have you entered lately? I don't enter contests or sweepstakes because I genuinely don't care about winning them.
- Dolly is one smart blonde. Early in her career she set up a company so she could retain the publishing rights for all her songs. Two alone — "9 to 5" and "I Will Always Love You" — made her a multi-millionaire because they have been recorded so many times. Do you have a good head for business? Relatively. I mean, I studied Business Management, Business Communications, and minored in Marketing when I went to university. And my job does require me to help run a part of a multi-million dollar business, which I like to think I do effectively and efficiently. But it's not my favourite part of my job, and it never will be.
- Dolly is a crusader for childhood literacy and her organization, Dolly's Imagination Library, has donated more than 10 million books all over the country. What's the last book you read? Under the Lights by Abbi Glines. She writes YA novels that are actually pretty terrible (the actual writing itself — don't know if it's her fault, or if she needs to find a better editor), but the stories are strangely addictive and the characters are memorable. So much so that I've read almost all of her books. It's kinda like watching soap operas but in text format. Not really intellectual, and sometimes downright fluffy, but entertaining nonetheless.
- This weekend may offer a golden opportunity for napping and sleeping in. Do you snore? I've been told no, but that there are periods during my sleep when I breathe really heavily, probably due to being a smoker.
- Labour Day was introduced to celebrate the achievements of the American worker. How many different employers have you had? Officially, six. I'm not counting jobs where I was paid under the table or before I was legal working age, like answering phones at my parents' businesses or babysitting.
- Will you be attending a Labour Day picnic or barbecue? Nah. It's gonna be a pretty anti-social weekend, and I am totally okay with that. I need to catch up on sleep.
- Labour Day traditionally marks the beginning of the new school year. When she was a kid, Samantha was crazy for her brand new box of 96 Crayola Crayons. It even had a sharpener in the back! What do you remember about preparing to go back to school? Back to school shopping for stationery. I was really into cute Japanese writing utensils; getting fun new pens (e.g. marble pens, milky pens, scented pens, sparkly pens, metallic pens, etc.), mechanical pencils, erasers, correction tape, and highlighters in bright colours and designs. I'd get all new pencil crayons and graphite pencils for art class (my favourite subject), and select a bunch of colour-coded binders for my academic subjects, and get dividers and lined paper for each one (plus graph paper for math, of course). I guess it's different for kids now because they're more reliant on computers, but getting new stationery was totally the best part of going back to school for me at any age.
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