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 don’t know that I’d really change anything. Maybe be a bit more fearless. Work a little less, play a little more. Don’t know that I could spoil the neice and nephew more than I already do. I’d probably go ahead and take them to all the places I want them to see as they get older.
I’d love to have the grand tour of America, visiting all those places I’ve only glimpsed through my lovely novels…
I would take my kids to disney world and spend as much possible time with my family that I can.
Twice I had earned trips to Egypt and twice it was called off due to terrorism. But WTF, if the world is going to end soon-might as well see the Pyramids, Abu Simbel, etc. and take my chances.
I’d switch majors from engineering to modern foreign languages and learn as many as I can. That would be the first thing. I have too many things I’d like to do to list here and you only asked for one 🙂
I would finish college. Then I’d get married and move to Japan with my husband, but first I have to learn japanese. 😉 And while there I’d finish reading all the books in my tbr pile.
I guess I’m a little stuck on what the definition of “world ends” might be. An asteroid wiping out human/animal/plant life for a proscribed amount of time, or an asteroid (okay, stuck on asteroids, but seriously, what else reasonably kills an entire planet in one day?) actually destroying this ball of rock beyond planet status?
Cause if it’s the latter, then yeah, what’s the point of doing anything beyond the selfish, since you can’t take it with you. Live in the moment. Do what you want, not what society needs/demands/expects.
But if it’s a case of “everyone and everything who’s alive NOW will die, but there’s potential for future life” I imagine there might be value in putting together a project designed to help the next wave of sentient Earth inhabitants, organic or not, to figure out how to avoid some of the crap we’ve done in our time here.
It really comes down to why we all get wiped out on a certain day, yanno? Is it our fault (climate change)? Is it a big rock from outer space that we can’t dodge (that asteriod again)? What do we have to offer future inhabitants—and most importantly, how do we offer a sense of legacy, of continued existence that we currently manage through other means, such as art and procreation?
Yeah, I’d wanna know that before I commit to my 2009-2012 schedule. 🙂
I’d say do a lot of traveling, but let’s be honest: I’d like to make it through even a little bit of my towering TBR mountains!
I think I would continue what I am doing, I’m retired!
It’s days72, but I hope there are many more!
I’d keep writing, keep teaching, keep loving my children, and maybe slip in a trip to Hawaii or anywhere off of the goddamned continental U.S., because I’ve never been anywhere outside of the US besides Canada.
I’d also teach something meaningful. I’m mortally tired of this teach to the fucking test bullshit that has poisoned the youth of America, and I’m ashamed to be a part of it. (story96—but I’ve got a lot more in me!)
Spend the whole time with my family, kiss them, hug them and tell them that I love them.
Deidre
Anonny Miss has the spaceship angle covered… but if it really was The End of *Everything*… It would be fun to juggle at the top of some other mountains (not sure Arthur’s Seat in Scotland counts as a mountain, but I juggled there!)… pull my kid out of school, do some world tours with the whole family. Swim with the dolphins in Namibia. Make pancakes for Terry Practchett.
Either finish redoing my house, or burn it down and just forget it.
I would sell our home and husband take a early retirement and get a house on the sound and buy a boat, wake up early to sit on my porch overlooking the water and watch the birds and spend every moment showing my kids what’s important in life.
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Sell the house and hit the road with lots of unread books. And as I finished each one, I’d leave it for someone else to find and read: “Joe, you won’t believe what I found on the top of the Eiffel Tower, and I just can’t stop reading it!”
I’d spend a lot of time with my family, eat whatever I want, read all the books I have delayed reading, and watch all the movies I have delayed watching. I would do some traveling. I have always wanted to see England, Scotland, Greece, and Australia. I wouldn’t worry about debt as much so I might go on a shopping spree – just to know what it feels like to really splurge.
Stab myself with a balloon sword, and go, “Oh, fate! How cruel thou has treated me!”
Seriously. I would kill to do something like this.
Spam: now16. Apparently, even spamwords think I should do it now.
I would desperately love to take my husband to see Manchester United on their home turf. He got to see them when they played an exhibition game here a couple of years ago, but I’d really love to take him to see them in England.
Pack up everything and travel the world and read while doing it. I studied Maya Archaeology and loved it. Maybe that’s why I have actually dropped everything to complete my dream in reality. Maybe deep down I think the world is going to end and I am really following my dreams??
Lol, I was blocking it out the end of the world myths, but the Nightkeepers have brought it all back up.
Travel Europe. If I’m gonna see it, I guess now would be the time. Though I suppose I’ll want to take the hubs and kids with me, so no hookin’ up with foreign hotties. Oh well. lol
Find True Love and well be totally irresponsible…I want to play like when you were a kid, without worry and with total joy and abandon.
I’d like to Scuba dive with my S.O.
..It’s not as easy as it sounds, I’m medically prohibited from underwater activities. 🙁
I would travel to every continent and have amazing adventures!
Throw caution and social stigma to the winds, fly to Florida, and marry him. Who cares that he’s 10 years younger? He makes me happy.
Blow all my money on a fantastic vacation during which I outfit myself in custom-made designer clothes every day, get my hair and makeup done every day, and spend a lot of time with my husband and children.
Umm… my security word is decision38.
There’s a lot of things I would want to do between now and then, but 38.
One thing for sure, the celibacy will come to an end.
not 38. That was what I meant to type.
security word this time is over32. No, it’s not been over 32 years of celibacy.
Have a child.
I just have to find myself a scotsmen to see what he wears under his kilt.
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See the northern lights!
Go to Hawaii and find a hunk on the beach.
I would…. move into a library and learn as much as I can or write that book that I keep thinking about.
I would hope to have had one of my manuscripts published by then.
Hmmm three years to go. No, four. Four years to go exactly, huh? Hmmmm.
Move to Switzerland and live on the side of a mountain in a little hamlet/cottage thing that they’ve got going there, visit all the Scandenavian countries, drive from London to Beijing (so I get to go through all of eastern Europe, far eastern Europe/middle of Asia and Mongolia). Go over to Japan, get in a cruise ship and float over to Hawaii, then up to Canada, across Canada (I Love Canada), and get in another cruise ship and float over to Ireland. Then I’d live in my little hamlet with my husband (because hell, with that short a time left, we’ll get married, so I can live in Switzerland too) and just live. Grow a bumper vegetable patch, learn how to make my own furniture, and other homey stuff.
Write that recipe book and Mills & Boon 😀
Go to New Orleans!!
I would give up the career that I am going to grad school for—I like it well enough, but it’s not for me. But I have too much debt to do anything else for awhile.
Instead, I would travel the world, working different jobs, meeting different experiences, living life to the fullest and making to regrets. Student loans be damned.
The one thing I would want to do is never have to between now and then is to go on vacation with my husbands family again. Ever.
They have actually managed to ruin Disney for me. Forever.
Go on safari in Africa. No question. It’s been on my life list since before I had any concept of a life list.
believe85
That’s *got* to be significant.
i’d go diving.
in the mountains, in the atlantic, in the pacific, in the mediterranean, over by australia, in asia. all over the world.
i’d go hang out in a desert, to see what it is like.
Spend every moment with my husband watching my son grow. (I can’t help it—I’m feeling pretty sappy today. Otherwise…go to India.)