Day 56: February 25, 2009

Question 12:
If you got a tattoo, what would you get and where would you put it? Why? (Or, if you already have a tattoo, what did you get, where is it, and why did you choose that?

Responses:

• I do have a tattoo of the big dipper and the north star on the left side of my lower back, basically my left love handle. Its the symbol from the Alaskan flag. I spent the summer before college on a 42 day canoeing trip on the Noatak river in Alaska with 5 other girls. It was one of the best times of my life. After the trip, before school started, we all went out together and got the same tattoo of the Alaskan flag in honor of the summer we spent together in Alaska. I chose to put it on my back because it's easy to cover up for professional reasons.
• I would get a snake to cover up a scar I received from a car accident many years ago in my right buttocks.
• I already have a tattoo. I love it when people ask me if I have a tattoo. I say yes and then they look at me quizzically because I don’t look like the type to get a tattoo and I’m also the type to mock those who do get them. People challenge me and I like to bet them. After we have negotiated the terms of the wager I pull up my shirt and show them the dot I have on my sternum where I was marked for a center line for radiation treatment. People always get uncomfortable and then a little angry because not only did they lose but it’s a downer to talk about cancer and it’s barely a tattoo. But it is and that makes me smile.
• Have one—upper back. Of a Pride triangle and Libra symbol

Song:
Is There a Ghost, by Band of Horses

Lyrics:
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?

I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
My house...

I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
My house...

I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
When I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
My house...