box meme

[cellio]

From autographedcat and others:

So, say you were meeting a new person -- blind date, new friend, who knows. And you wanted them to have some idea of what kind of person you are, and who you are. But you can't actually tell them in so many words. Instead, you have to give them a box, with a dozen things in it for them to look at/read/listen to/taste/whatever. What would you put in the box? And a copy of your journal or a link to your LJ would be the same thing as just telling them directly, yourself, so that's not allowed.

1. An On the Mark CD.

2. A copy of Lapsing into a Comma: The Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print, and How to Avoid Them, with post-it notes recording my annotations and corrections. :-)

3. A siddur, probably Sim Shalom, maybe a marked-up leader's copy.

4. A catalog from URJ Press (that's the Reform movement within Judaism).

5. A photo album with pictures of me and my family, including pets.

6. My SCA Laurel scroll, or facsimile. (The SCA is a medieval/renaissance re-creation organization. The Laurel is the highest award they give for achievement in the arts and sciences. The scroll is a document -- really a work of art itself -- that comemorates this.)

7. A complete run of Babylon 5, augmented with the smuggled episodes from the UK.

8. A copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

9. A copy of Joy and Jealousy, a book on renaissance Italian dance that I co-wrote, with accompanying CD. (I arranged all the music.)

10. A bag of polyhedral dice.

11. A copy of my current software-documentation project. (Ok, technically this would require an NDA...)

12. A bowl of perfectly-cooked mattar paneer, somewhat spicier than usual.

And the final part of the meme:

What one thing would you add to the box to represent me or my tastes?

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