It’s the start of Eight Crazy Nights: a giveaway every day for Hanukkah, the festival of fried foods and wrestling bits of candle wax out of the menorah after cramming the candles in their bases each night for a week-plus-one.
But that’s beside the point. Our first giveaway is for an ARC of Jessica Andersen’s Dawn Keepers. We have three to give away, and Doc Jess will select randomly from your comments, provided you answer her question:
If we posit that the world *is* going to end on 12/21/2012…what is one thing you absolutely want to do between now and then?
Leave your comment, and you’re entered to win. You have 24 hours – ready, set, go!
Thing number one: sink a whole lotta money into designing and building a ship so I can colonize another habitable planet!!
Hmm… having so short a time span influences the answer a lot… Normally I would have said I wanted to find true love and have children, or bought the house of my dreams, or found my true calling in life and realized how I could make the world a better place. But what use would those be if the world was going to end in 4 years?….So I think I’d do something completely selfish and go work on a cruise boat that travels around the world – the goal would be to visit all the countries I haven’t seen yet before they don’t exist anymore! At least see my current top 5: Egypt, Morocco, India, Ireland and Peru. Plus all the islands I might cross along the way :-DDD
I want to see Great Big Sea perform on their home turf in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and belt out “Rant and Roar” at the top of my lungs in the middle of a crowd who can sing it like they mean it.
Give up work, live off my savings, and spend the time in my garden. I’m reclaiming a quarter of an acre of steep scrubland overlooking the sea, turning it into a terraced garden. I don’t have a deadline for finishing, because a garden is never finished, which is both a blessing and a curse. A four year deadline, with no work to get in the way, is just about perfect.
PS I might still spend quite a lot of time reading, too.
See a unicorn
Make it to Ireland to kiss the blarney stone and take the time to really say goodbye to my extended family.
See the country. I’d love to go to Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, Montana and Maine.
Stop watching my weight and eat Krispy Kreme donuts for breakfast, pizza for lunch and fried chicken for supper with a milkshake at every meal and never eat another salad!
My first answer isn’t for public consumption (hee!), so I’ll have to go with my second answer. I would have to take a trip to New Zealand. Have you seen the pictures of that place? Just wow.
Only 3 years and a few days left, I would adopt a child and make a difference in their life for as long as we have. Unfortunately the process takes so long, it probably wouldn’t happen.
I would live without regrets, love with all my heart, and embrace both the joy and sadness each day brings.
Take a fastfood and rollercoaster ride-hopping trip across the U.S.
I think I’d end up doing a lot of boring things I’ve put off because I can’t stand the thought that the world would end with my laundry undone and dustbunnies in the corners of my apartment. I want a day of knowing all that junk is DONE DONE DONE.
go on a world cruise and see all those places I yearn to see.
Get somewhere near the bottom of my TBR pile.
First of all, there is no correlation between the end of the world and my turning fifty. No, really.
Personally Dec 12, 2012 should be my champagne reception for my latest bestseller.
When Isaac Asimov was asked what he would do if he found out he was dying, he said “Write faster.”
Ooh, Leslie, I like that one. Write faster. I’d work harder, but I’d live harder, too. I’d live to love and spread that love with my children and husband. Nothing profound, I guess.
When I was a teenager, my answer to that would have been, “Have (good) sex” and then “Bear a child.” But I’ve done those, now, very happily, so I don’t have a very long list.
I would spend three years working and saving as much money I can, then spend a year traveling the world. I would like to see Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, as many states of USA as I can, Ireland, Iceland and several other places. And then the last week I would like to spend with my family.
LOL Leslie! (but the end of the world comes when you look in the mirror and see that you look like your mother’s friends)
My end of the world list:
1- Read Rehv’s book
2 -Read the 750 books Nora Roberts has already written that she has put away for future publication
3- possibly spend time with my family… as long as I don’t have to cook the Last Supper
I’d finish the d**n book (that I’m writing and have been writing for the past I don’t want to think about how many years).
First Kiss. I want one…would be awesome if it was with a specific individual, too…
Oooh. Want.
Let my 4 y/o experience whatever she wants. Live at Disney World if she wants. Spoil her rotten since I won’t have to worry about raising her to be a good person 😛
Oh, and I’d totally start smoking again because I guess I won’t care too much about lung cancer at that point!
Time to get that villa in Tucsany. I’ll eat all the fine Italian I can lay my lips on, and lay all the fine Italian men I can get my hands on.
Take time off from working and travel to see more of the world, so I can remember all the fascinating places wherever I end up after.
I would take my internal filter off and tell friends that I love them and tell others how their negative behaviour effects others. I’d spend my time doing the things that I love – and fight to prevent the end of the world. Because really – I’m a smart bitch and I’m sure that I can help!
When I was 5 years old, my mother read to me (with me??) Barbara Cooney’s book
Miss Rumphius
, and I’ve always held her goals as the marks of an ideal life at the back of my head. So, if the world is going to end, then I would like to have said that:
1. I have traveled,
2. I have lived by the sea, and
3. I have made the world more beautiful in some way.
I would ditch my practical job, and move to New York to work in the theatre. It wouldn’t even have to be a job onstage; I would be willing to dress sweaty actors or make prop food.
Buy nearly every book in existence, then every bag of M&Ms;in existence, then consume them all 😀
I want to tell my downstairs neighbors that an inability to speak English, does not mean an inability to common courtesy. And while doing that, I want my dog to drop a giant poo on their doormat.
And cuddle my family more, too, I guess.
Finally get a dog (or three).
I always said I’d travel. I’d love to go to Australia and Japan. Although I look at my “to read” pile and I’m pretty sure I’d try to read as many as I can, discarding anything that doesn’t capture my attention asap.
Pack up my husband and son and move to Japan for a year. Maybe even forever, since forever’d only be like four years.
Easy—backpack across Asia from as soon as I can get my Passport re-validated to the very last day on earth (with occasional stops to see my family).
Start with that bicycle trip from one side of the United States to the other – the Women Tours one I always look at and wish I had the time to do. Follow it up with Michigan’s Shore-To-Shore ride, a 250 mile, 5 day horse ride from one side of the state to the other ( I did part of it in 2004, but was drugged up beyond belief because I cracked ribs early in the week – I remember sand and chafing, that’s it).
the first thing i’ll do is QUIT SCHOOL. being a doc isn’t going to do much for me when the world ends, loll .. then im going to bum around the world.. to finally come back home and spend the rest of the time with my family (would also like to experience love once).
I would wake up each morning and do whatever it is that I want to do that day. No matter what it is. Travel to see friends far away? Yes. Go see the world? Absolutely. Visit family? For sure.
I would spend it seeing and doing everything that I ever wanted to. The one thing I do not want is to have it end and me be thinking “I wish I would have….”
Travel. It’s a stock answer but I love to travel only I don’t do it because I’m too concerned with money and being able to take time off work and what do I do with the cat? If I knew the world was going to end I’d go every where I want to go like Egypt and Scotland and I’d go see the Grand Canyon. I wouldn’t care about money, hell I’d go into debt, and I’d take the cat with me.
Travel! See everything of the world I can and hopefully fall in love along the way!
I’d also like to travel more before everything goes kablooey.
My answer is like the 3-more-wishes wish: I would stop it from happening! I like my life! I don’t particularly like the world, but I do wish to stay in it. And see all over it.
-anin
Travel and spend as much time with my family as I can.