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!
I’m philosophically opposed to end-of-the-world prophecies. I was a little nervous about reading Jessica Andersen’s first 2012er book because of that, although it was quite enjoyable and never devolved into the screed I was half-expecting.
When my grandma was about 75, she was diagnosed with some variety of blood cancer. With death imminent, she quit taking care of herself, gave away all her stuff, spent her money foolishly, and ate whatever she wanted. And then she didn’t die. So there she was, coming up on 80, fat, broke, and with none of her stuff. (She’ll be 91 in February.)
So I’m having trouble picturing my life in the end-days. Is everybody aware, or just me? Is the world staying pretty much the same and I’m the only one living my life differently? Or is there just chaos as everybody decides they’re going to follow their bliss? How would you travel around the world if all the airlines folks just stopped working, because they’re following their own bliss? Would there even be people who cared if your passport was valid? Would there be anybody working in the fancy restaurants I’d want to go to?
All that said, if I knew the world was ending, I’d finish one of the novels I’m writing. Just so it can be done, and I’ll have left something of me behind for future alien archeologists.
If I knew the world was ending, I’d love to dance on stage with a major ballet company before it did. Hey, why not? 🙂
I want to travel on the Trans Siberian Railway from China to Moscow. Then run naked though the finest hotel in Moscow whilst eating ice cream.
Either that or confront the love of my life and ask him why he’s such an ass.
Forget all that travel, professional ambitions and mushy love stuff..I wanna get laid..it’s been 7 years and my old hormones are on their last gasp and demand it!
FINISH MY DEGREE!!!
(*ahem*… yeah, that’s a point of stress at the moment)
JD
I’d like to travel with my boyfriend, then just learn as much as I can.
Quit work and spend time exploring the museums in London and Paris with my husband…the love of my life who I was lucky enough to meet and marry eight years ago.
I would love to visit Australia, swim with sharks (preferably thresher sharks, but I’m not picky), find what I’m good at, and spend as much time as possible with my family.
1. read all the books on my shelf
2. have some snotty, bratty kids
3. travel the world.
*preferably not in that order.
I want to travel the world.
There are so many things I would like to do: travel to Greece, Egypt and Spain, kiss all the boys I wished I’d been brave enough to before, read all the books I can, see the ball drop on New Years at Times Square, and take my parents on a trip to Europe.
I have to pick only one thing? okay, apart from the obvious spend time with my loved ones and see the whole world thing, I want to beat Fable on my Xbox. Twice. Once as a good guy, and once as a bad guy. I’ve been trying for YEARS but never have time to get to it. So yes family, I love you, and I would most likely spend Ragnarok with you, but It’d be nice to finish this blasted game before I die. Which, even if the world does not end in 2012, may not happen at the speed I’m going.
Spamword Slowly17: I’m slowly going to finish this game, if it takes me 17 years to do it.
Learn Persian and see all the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. Also, I would like to see Machu Pichu.
I’d marry my boyfriend and go live on the beach in Hawaii, because he’s never been there.
Polish off my TBR pile and have a big O in all of the destinations on my travel list!
I’d probably quit work, sell my house, buy that sailboat. Load it up with my family and stuff and sail off into the sunset.
I love that Anna wants to see GBS in concert. Had to do a double take on it.
I’d love to go to Denali and spend time hiking up there. For warmer weather.. I’d love to learn how to scuba dive and then go back to the Great Barrier Reef and really see the Reef.
Considering the fact that one of my requests to my husband before having children was that he had to take me to see England/Scotland/Ireland—and my son is now 19 months old with a second little one on the way—I’d say the hubby is way overdue to fulfill that one before the world ends, 🙂
Aside from that, I can’t think of anything I’d do differently—just keep living my life as I see fit.
I would, of course, spend time with family & friends. Aside from that I would want to travel. I have a nice long list of places I would love to visit before I die and if I knew I only had 4 years I’d need to get going.
Security word = going41. Yeah, I definitely have 41 places I’d want to go.
Assuming I could scrape up the money, I’d love to tour Europe. Especially Ireland where many of my long-ago ancestors came from.
Go to Nepal, India, Bangladesh…
And agreeing with ShivC on wanting to experience love. :/
Cramming those candles – oy veh!
Honestly, I don’t know if I’d do anything differently. Maybe ask my husband to quit work so we could go traveling together. Move the Laura Kinsale books higher up in my TBR. But mostly I’d want to keep doing what I’m doing now. I like my life.
I would throw the biggest birthday party ever, since my birthday is today-December 21, and the world would end on my birthday, in 2012! “Party like it’s 1999” would have nothing on the 2012 edition! 😛
Skip out on college, marry an Irishman and go live in Ireland for the rest of my life.
I’d read as much Romance as possible between now and then. I might as well die happy!
But wait! I’m already doing that! Hmmm. I’d quit my studies, get a part time job (to feed and house me and buy me books) and spend all my free time reading. All that glorious time without studies and homework! All that money to spend on books because, what’s the point in saving when there’s no future?! I’d also spend my savings on books. . . Are you sure the world isn’t really ending in four years?
Drink a cup of hot chocolate on the summit of Denali.
i would like to get a job and move in with someone (or several someones) i love, and spend as much time enjoying myself and my friends as possible.
Do all the traveling the DH and I would like to do and get both kids through high school.
I’d say go through the joys of motherhood, but if the world is going to end I wouldn’t probably want to bring a child into the world. So I guess I would say travel the world and see all the ancient wonders. And then spend as much time with family as I can.
I’d read past my bedtime (wait, I already do that), eat whatever I wanted, drink whatever I wanted (and not worry about a hangover), make even more passionate love with my hubby, hire someone else to clean the house, get a motorcycle and travel around on it, spend more time in beautiful places! Mostly, though, not to be shmaltzy, I’d make sure I let the people I love know they were loved.
Fling my doors wide for all those travelers out there. I know I can’t get to all the places I’d want to see so I’d let it be known that I want the world to come to me. The fridge is stocked the coffee and tea is on. Rest awhile, tell me a story and don’t mind the dog hair.
Spam word hand 67 waay too obvious.
Watch my first grandchild be born. See my daughter get married. Enjoy my youngest’s graduation.
Find a way for my husband to be in the same county I am and still be able to afford food and shelter.
Take my family and my sister’s family to stay in the best hotels around the world until the money ran out, which would hopefully be on 12/20/2012.
Retire. Cash in the IRA and travel to NZ, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Wales, England although not necessarily in that order. I take that back, NZ is first up…
Definitely travel. I have always wanted to go to the U.K. and Germany and do some research on my ancestry, and also visit Japan because I find their culture to be so fascinating.
Dive the Great Barrier Reef and in the Red Sea and for sure
throw the biggest and wildest toga party for all my friends
Go on a cruise (anyplace warm!) and learn to scuba dive 🙂 as soon as I finish my degree.
Thinking tropical thoughts….blizzard warning posted for my area tonight and I have to go work. I may have to pack a few books to read in preparation for being snowed in once I get there.
If the world was gonna end on 12/21/2012? I’d probably do whatever the hell I wanted that last month (most of it pretty X-rated, so I’m not going to elaborate here!), and prior to that I’d run around passing the snark to everyone I meet. Ultimately, I want to go out with a big, goofy grin on my face and know that I made at least one person smile from now until the end of the world.
I want to travel. To see as much of the world as I could between now and then.
It would mean abandoning all my responsibilities and becoming a feckless traveller with no pay but what I could make working under the table in between hitching around, but who cares if the world will end?
Ann M@11:19:
Oh, I don’t just want to see GBS in concert, I do that every year when they come to Seattle. I want to see them *in Newfoundland*. Because that? That would be one hell of a final concert. 🙂
And they would, of course, be playing their version of “End of the World”. The only version of that song that involves two bouzoukis!