tell me.... (meme)
Dec. 12th, 2003 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioThis one is going around my friends' list and looks like fun.
I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. I read your fic, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.
But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."
I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal.
I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. I read your fic, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.
But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."
I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 09:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 09:18 am (UTC)I have a dog and three cats. And goldfish. I just started worm composting, and thinking of making it a minibusiness. I'd like to grow mushrooms, next to the worms.
I think people are cool, for the most part.
I'm exploring my spirituality more lately.
I am striving to become more organized, and am speeding up the process because of the future toddler.
I want to start painting again, and doing more art.
I also want to write.
I'm a good friend, but also a good enemy.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 09:23 am (UTC)I've since learned the joys of a more "normal" breakfast, but I still can't face food until I've been awake for over an hour, so breakfast now gets eaten in my cube.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 09:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 09:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 09:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 09:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 09:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 10:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 10:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 10:10 am (UTC)I've been going to the opera for so long that I don't remember my first one. That could have been an age factor though... 5 year olds don't remember opera titles.
I have three dollhouses.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 10:14 am (UTC)Uhoh.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 10:32 am (UTC)The first time I saw...
Date: 2003-12-12 10:53 am (UTC)- a Mitzvah Mobile
- my first Pride Parade
- my first Opera (at Lincoln Center!)
was in Manhattan.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 10:56 am (UTC)Wow. This will be hard...
Date: 2003-12-12 11:02 am (UTC)My step-mother is only 4-5 years older than I am.
I've only learned to eat berries in the last 7-8 years. Something about the squishy under the popping skin...
I'm a DES baby.
I love spinach. ;-) Especially Creamed spinach. I also like Cream chipped beef on Toast.
I'm a minister in the Universal Life Church, just so I can legally officiate when friends ask me to do things for them.
I adore Christmas Carols and Christmas movies. I always cry.
I also love sports movies, significantly more than I like watching sports. However, I also love watching ice hockey.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 11:57 am (UTC)Re: Wow. This will be hard...
Date: 2003-12-12 12:11 pm (UTC)Yeah, only one man
Date: 2003-12-12 12:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 12:32 pm (UTC)Alex
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 12:35 pm (UTC)Alex
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 01:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 01:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 01:38 pm (UTC)Allan Sherman
Date: 2003-12-12 01:57 pm (UTC)It would be cool to hear those again...
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 03:01 pm (UTC)I own a stethescope and a sphygmomanometer.
When I was about 12, I created my own alphabet, including characters for common letter combinations (like "th" or "ea") and common words. I think at last count it had over a hundred characters. I still use it--the "word" characters are good for shorthand when I'm taking notes, and it's great for really boring meetings because I can write out a shopping list or a really snarky comment even about the guy sitting next to me, and it's still completely private even in plain sight.
I like spinach (especially raw, in salad), and opera.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 03:56 pm (UTC)I played the Ghost of Christmas Past in Fourth Grade, in a classroom production. I wanted to be an actress for a long time after that.
I got the "toast award" at the crisis hotline I volunteered at. I handled a suicide call every shift for about three or four shifts running, which was unusual (we didn't get too many suicide calls). So, with the paperwork for #3 or #4, I also left a note saying "If I get 5 of these, do I get a free toaster?" I think I ended up with 5 in that run of interesting times. At the next volunteer party, the director presented me with a piece of toast, which she had carefully scraped a "5" into. You gotta love black humor.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 04:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 04:23 pm (UTC)[Bonus points to anyone who can identify my senior class play without googling "Victor Bey" - which, disturbingly, will take you right to several reviews of school productions of the answer.]
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 05:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 07:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 08:51 pm (UTC)I eat oatmeal salted. Nothing else, just salt.
I have never been out of the USA.
Something about me
Date: 2003-12-13 12:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-13 04:59 pm (UTC)I am remembering summer. It's the smell of sweat, salt and sand, walking among ti-tree. Ti-tree is a scrubby-barked, small leafed tree that is never more than 4 metres high. The colours are muted: greyish-brown and greyish-green. There is often the drone of blowflies.
We go to either the front beach[ie- the bay] or the back beach [Bass Strait] To get to the back beach we scrabble over sandhills. We swim in rock pools. I am told that 35 people have drowned there in the last 7 years, so we have to be *really* careful. No one except us ever seems to swim there. It's really at it's most dangerous when the tide is coming in and washing over the rock ledges, then you could easily get sucked under. (Australia lost a Prime Minister a kilometre up the coast in the year after I was born. Whoops.) The scrub near the beach is permanently windswept- the branches grow parallel to their own patch of ground.
The rockpools are beautiful. Truly beautiful.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-13 08:29 pm (UTC)That reminds me... when's the next publicly accessible (as in, not at a con or an SCA event) On The Mark concert? :)
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-13 10:17 pm (UTC)I've worked for something like 50 to 60 different businesses/organizations, spanning almost every sort you can imagine: big companies and little companies, conservative old banks and trendy young dot-coms, manufacturers and professional firms, retailers and utilities, mass transit and an employment agency, universities and starry-eyed non-profits, a hospital, a government, and a religion (yes!).
A
(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-14 02:09 am (UTC)My real name is David. Nobody calls me that except a few family members. When I was 10 - 13 I was in a class in a Jewish school with 9 Davids out of a few short of 30 students. All of us Davids had to be something else -- I got called Del and it stuck.
I am allergic to dog saliva. I can have dogs in the room with me but can't touch one (they lick themselves a lot), or have one lick me. My plan for 2004 is to get treated for that and hayfever in the one hit.
I have almost no sense of smell. Mostly due to the hayfever.
Re: Wow. This will be hard...
Date: 2003-12-15 09:29 am (UTC)So's my friend Baron Algernon (better known these days as Dr. Foo in Discordian circles). He got the license in order to perform the ceremony for Baron Steffan and Countess Elspeth, which I was best man for...
-- He Who Does Not Like Creamed Chipped Beef or Beets
Inspired by browngirl's comment
Date: 2003-12-15 09:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-22 01:41 pm (UTC)Re: Inspired by browngirl's comment
Date: 2003-12-25 02:37 pm (UTC)One of my favorite records when I was smallish was the Man Of La Mancha broadway soundtrack. I played it over & over, and learned all the words... and my mother was just mortified the day she heard me at the school bus stop singing to myself, "I was born in a ditch by a mother who left me there, naked and cold and too hungry to cry..." She didn't say anything to me about it at the time, but she laughs about it now...
Re: Inspired by browngirl's comment
Date: 2003-12-25 08:55 pm (UTC)Actually, it's funny -- I don't remember singing most of that stuff when my parents were around, so I'm not sure they realized I was listening to those records. And the album I knew *really* well, and sang from most often, was TW3, which my relatively political mother probably would have approved of...