"Hi, you've reached Eddie Bloom. I'm not available to take your call right now, but if it's an emergency or school related, you may try my office phone at 212-555-6763, extension 661. Otherwise, please leave a message, and I will get back to you as soon as I can."


[You may contact the mun here as well.]

Due to RL constraints and a quiet muse, Eddie is going RP only. I've pulled her from the couple of prompt communities he was in, and while I may post the occasional ficlet or meme that interests her here, he won't be responding to the prompts on a regular basis anymore. I don't really have the time to keep up the way I should and there are louder voices in my head at the moment that are screaming to be heard, so -- Eddie's been pushed to the background a bit.

If he comes back, louder than he was before, I'll maybe pick her up and put her into some communities again, but otherwise, he'll only be available for RP.

If you would like to RP with Eddie, don't hesitate to poke me -- I'm sure he'd love to get out and chat every once in a while.

Reasons Why Eddie's Not So Fond of His Birthday:

- I stopped getting all the good presents ages ago.
- I'm just turning another year older -- I don't see what the big deal is.
- Yet Sandy always insists on making a big deal out of it.
- Something always, always goes wrong.
- I went through way too many birthday punches when I was a kid.
- I have to call my mother and get the long winded rant about why she doesn't have any grandchildren yet.

95. A genie has granted you TEN wishes. What do you wish for?

1. For the defense of my thesis to go well.
2. The perfect gift to get my sister for our birthday.
3. For my sister to start to allow the eating of foods she may not deem the healthiest of choices.
4. Decent beach weather when I'm actually at the beach.
5. For the semester to end faster.
6. For my parents not to pick a fight with either Sandy or myself about our life choices on our birthday.
7. For the controversy over what is really just a multinational sporting event to be put to a close (not that I agree with China's actions regarding Tibet, but people, really -- it's a sporting event).
8. An end to the current war.
9. For my sister not to come stumbling in at two in the morning as loudly as she possibly can when I have an eight AM class in the morning.
10. World peace?

Websites You Frequent:

- Yahoo Mail
- Google
- Livejournal
- NYU Campus E-mail
- FreePress.net
- NPR
- NYU Library Online
- Wikipedia (I don't use it as a source and I wouldn't recommend it to take it on total authority, but it's very good at breaking things down simply.)

93. TEN daily routines.

1. Get up -- usually around seven, seven thirty.
2. Shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, etc.
3. Take the subway or a cab to work.
4. Teach class.
5. Hold office hours.
6. Talk to my thesis advisor.
7. Go home.
8. Eat dinner, usually with Sandy.
9. Watch some TV, usually while grading papers.
10. Go to bed.

Things You Hate Doing:

- Grading papers where students clearly didn't put the effort in that they should have.
- Cleaning up after the cat.
- Having to hide the cat every time the super comes up to do a random inspection.
- Wondering where my sister is.
- Sitting in Midtown traffic.
- Being stuck at work on a beautiful spring day.

Reminders:

- American History has a paper due Thurs.
- Sandy asked me to pick up cat food and litter on the way home.
- Sandy is working tonight.
- Need to set a date for my thesis defense.
- Cousin Annemarie's wedding is next weekend -- need an excuse to bail.
- Don't leave laptop at work.
- E-mail Masters about final pages of dissertation.
- Start looking for openings in the New York area.

Excuses:

- Sandy stole it.
- The cat -- well, you don't want to know what the cat did to it.
- Traffic was horrible.
- I've been having a really bad week.
- Forgot my [insert appropriate technology here].
- Still waiting on a few papers.
- My/the [insert appropriate technology here] broke.

91. TEN addictions you've had in your lifetime.

1. Sweet foods
2. History
3. Science-fiction
4. Pizza
5. The sound of my own voice
6. Lucky Charms
7. Fruit Loops
8. Count Chocula
9. Fruity Pebbles
10. Cap'n Crunch

Blood is thicker than water, and twice as hard to get out in the wash. ( Eight year-old Eddie was sitting on the counter next to the sink, trying to wretch his bleeding elbow around so that he could more clearly see the wound that had been inflicted upon him. )

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Things you need to get rid of:

- All my old textbooks that I don't use anymore
- Any clothes that are too worn to wear
- Any outdated information for my thesis

I'm not really much of a pack rat.

Special Talents:

- I can put a baby down for a nap just by talking to them.
- I can lost every battle of the Civil War in chronological order.
- I can fall asleep just about anywhere.
- I can tell you give you an actor, and then give you about five movies that the actor has been in, whether I've seen the films or not.
- I have an amazingly high tolerance for sugar.