For A-train: just because you made me laugh

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18 and find line 4.
This is the line: "air, but then, bracing both feet against the edge of the"
Here it is in a complete sentence:
"He went in headfirst--his hair was plastered flat and parted from swimming and diving; he pulled in his back and hips, kicked once at the empty air, but then bracing both feet against the edge of the hatch, pushed down into the dusky cool aquarium, floodlighted through open portholes: nervous sticklebacks, an immobile school of lampreys, swaying hammocks, still firmly attached at the ends, overgrown with seaweed, a playhouse for baby herring." -- Cat and Mouse, Gunter Grass

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can, what do you find?
Some kind of fancy-schmancy plant thing from my mother.

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
I walked in the living room while my wife was watching "Miracle Workers" or some nonsense like that. She alternated between giggling incessantly when something good happened, to crying whenever something horrible was shown. The last thing I watched on purpose was Mavs vs. Kings

4. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Not a damn thing. Everyone is asleep.

5. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
This afternoon. Getting my Shakespeare book from the truck.

6. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Andi's blog.

7. What are you wearing?
White T-shirt, house shoes, and my basketball/stripper pants --the kind with the buttons up both sides. Don't laugh, they come in handy sometimes.

8. Did you dream last night?
Nope. And I've been having enough dreams lately.

9. When did you last laugh?
Reading Andi's blog

10. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
My undergrad diploma, some African masks.

11. Seen anything weird lately?
My brother-in-law acting bizarre after he got shitfaced the other day, but that's fairly common.

12. What do you think of this quiz?
I never do stuff like this because it's gay.

13. What is the last film you saw?
At home: Hostage with Bruce Willis
At the movies: Munich

14. If you turned a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
My freedom.

15. Tell me something about you that I don’t know.
I always wanted to be six feet tall.

16. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt and politics, what would you do?
I would prevent stupid people from breeding

17. Do you like to Dance?
Yes, but not with everybody.

18. George Bush.
Poor bastard.

19. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Been there, done that.

20. Imagine your first child is a boy, what would you call him?
Been there, done that.

21. Would you ever consider living abroad?
No, I would never want to be that far away from Commerce.

22. What would you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
Don't worry about it. I probably wouldn't have believed either.

23. 4 people who must also do this meme in their journal.
I don't even know four people.