I would like to be more original and be inspired by a cranky number like 11 or 17 but it’s “lucky 7” that keeps coming to me ever since reading the Michael Martone piece (at Cynthia’s blog Catching Days) that I mentioned in my July 2 post (just below). Today my shorty is a 7-part personality quiz, the really infuriating kind marketed to women at the checkout counter on the cover of a bad magazine showing off the puffed-up cleavage of some anorexic actress. Fun to write.
Working Title: Know Thyself
1st Sentence: Ladies, do you wonder what people are thinking about you?
Favorite Sentence: Your mother worries about your self-confidence and suspects that allowing the doctor to induce labor deprived you of as much as two crucial weeks of prenatal development; you would be a doctor, yourself, she thinks, if you’d had those two weeks, maybe a state senator.
Word Length: 489
Photo of the 7 Lucky gods of Japan by Steve from Nagoya, Japan, August 2007.
Daily Shorty 
Oh my gosh, I LOVE your favorite sentence! It’s delightfully complex and full of tone. And thanks for the shout-out to the Martone piece.
Ha! Thanks! No, not autobiographical at all, of course not…. Re Martone, it’s a great post. Just love him.