FQ1: How have you decorated the walls of your living space (photos, posters, works of art, etc.)? The walls of my house are stark and bare. The colours are neutral and non-committal. My house has the feeling of a fly-by-night shonky timeshare space meant to fool the casual observer into thinking it's a cosy home but with the ability to up-and-leave at 30 minutes notice. FQ2: How have you decorated your body, both intentionally (piercings, tattoos, etc.) and unintentionally (wounds, scars, etc.)? A couple of drunken weekends in Wellington with every intention of marking my body with ink and needles failed due to my inability to co-ordinate such endeavours under alcoholic influence. saying that, most tattooists worth-a-damn won't tattoo a drunken bum, let alone a shapely ankle. I do have scars: one on my forehead where I head butted the corner of a concrete step when I was 2 years old. A nice one on my heel where I tried to slice it off by jumping into the compost bin from swinging on the clothesline to find a sheet of glass (presumably the glass was on top of the compost bin to encourage the heat) laying on the top and smashing through it. I didn't notice I'd cut myself until I got yelled at for leaving blood on the kitchen floor. I wasn't very big - I remember my mother lifting me up to sit on the side of the kitchen bench with my feet in the sink. I needed a number of stitches to hold my heel together which was kind of cool. As far as adult scars: I just checked but the welding scar I had on my neck has faded to nothing over the years so I won't mention it. FQ3: How have you decorated your computer's "desktop"? Post a snapshot if you want. I decorate my desktop by saving everything to it. I have more folders, pdfs, zipped files and general crap on my desktop than anyone, anywhere, anytime. There is no way I'm posting a screenshot it's just far too embarassing. FQ PROJECT: Decorate your blog today! Create some art with an online Etch-a-Sketch (like the one here) and post a snapshot of your efforts (or, if you're not an Etch-a-Sketch fan, draw us a picture using whatever you want).

FQ1: Admit it, sometimes you are not the sharpest tool in the shed. What's something stupid you've done recently? (The FridayQ doesn't count!) I think the last stupid thing I did was work all one all-nighter followed by working next 3 days at 20 hours each. THAT was *reallly* stupid. I got the work done but I should've just said the deadline vs. work was unreasonable. Watched The Bachelor. FQ2: Children do idiotic things all the time because they just can't seem to help it. What's something stupid you did as a kid? I did four things that, at the time didn't seem related. Nor supid. But months later, they all came together in my brain when my father went to finish making the concrete block wall and I realised I'd been stupid: 1. Collected tadpoles from the creek in large preserving jars 2. Put the large storage jars full of tadpoles in the unfinished concrete block retaining wall - two jars per concret block - they fit perfectly 3. Continued this task throughout the first few weeks of a very warm summer until every block along the wall held a jar of tadpoles. 4. Forgot what I was doing. FQ3: Sometimes, being a bit of an idiot is required (or fun!). What's something stupid you will be doing in the future? I'm a purest - true stupidity is never planned. It's myopic and both narrow and single-minded. FQ OBSERVER: People are morons. Without naming names, what's something stupid you've seen somebody else do? I know too many morons and mostly i can't write about her.