Dog-and-Pony Shows

Time again for the Friday Five! This week’s topic is Dog-and-Pony Shows and after I realized they weren’t talking about my job, I was very enthusiastic about answering.

1. What’s your favorite zoo animal?

I’ve always liked the giraffes. They’re tall and elegant and seem so gentle. Okay, maybe not. And they have purple tongues! They’re not noisy like the monkeys or have pokey bits like the rhinos or flesh-ripping teeth like lions.

2. What’s your favorite circus act?
The trapeze artists. When I was a child, I wanted to fly like Peter pan and friends. I still want to fly, but I have a better understaning of gravity and physics now. So watching people on the trapeze is the closest I can get to seeing people fly.

3. When did you last attend (or participate in) a parade?
Can we count the parades at Walt Disney World? If so, we were there in May, 2009. The only parade I’ve participated in was…yes, Virginia, a Disney parade with Mom back in 2007. Good ol’ 2007, the year of the 3 Disney trips which resulted in high credit card balances that I’m STILL paying off and will be for years to come. I was dumb in 2007. But I had fun in 2007.

4. When did you last attend a sporting event?
We went to the Camden Riversharks game back in June. It was fun! I wish I could go to more big-league events, but I feel like the new and swanky stadiums and sporting complexes have priced normal people out of going. The cheapest real seats at the Phillies’ Citizens Bank park (I don’t count the rooftop bleachers) are $20 per person. And they’re not even great. Add in parking, food and bridge toll and you have a really pricey night.

5. What unique festivals does your area feature in celebration of some kind of food?
I know when you think of New Jersey, you don’t think of farms, but we’re not nicknamed the Garden State for nothing! We have strawberry festivals, peach festivals, blueberry festivals, tomato festivals and probably corn festivals. If you can grow it, there’s a festival.

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As this gets posted (yay for scheduling posts!) I’m on my way to the mall to replace my ill iPhone 1st-gen with the iphone …. (drumroll)…. 3GS. No, it’s not the 4, but at $99 it’s a steal! Plus, I hold my phone wrong so I think this’ll be a good fit for now.