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Jan. 9th, 2006 05:28 pmSeven oddities about myself, and then tag seven people?
1. My sister and I share the same birthday. She's 12 years older than I am. (These days, our birthday gift to one another is absolving each other of the obligation to send a present.)
2. I was almost named 'Dieter.' Yes. I'm a girl. Yes. My mother knows it's a boy's name. She still wishes she'd won that argument with Dad. I, knowing more about SNL than she does, am terribly grateful she lost.
3. Electronics have a curious habit of failing when I'm around. Either I secretly emit EMPs, or I am afflicted with Murphy's Black Thumb of Technological Death. ...Buying a hybrid automobile was probably a bad idea.
4. Given the choice, I would rather run than walk. I run everywhere I can get away with it (which these days, means making sure nobody is around to see me looking like a compulsive idiot). It doesn't matter if it's ten feet from the house to the garage: I'd rather run. It's a habit I picked up as a child, I suspect, and just never ditched: I used to live on a farm in hilly terrain, and the five-hundred-yard trek over to feed the chickens went: Downhill, straightway, hop-over-creek, straightway, uphill. It was a geographical palindrome, and a heck of a lot of fun to take at a sprint. Somehow I never ditched the habit. It's probably mildly psychotic, but it feels good, I enjoy it, and it helps me think.
5. I hate throwing things away. (Throwing books away is out of the question, but that's another issue entirely.) I really do lose sleep sometimes about how much crap is going into our landfills. It makes me feel especially guilty for tossing something that somebody might possibly want. Fortunately I have a lot of friends who can build space elevators out of a broken GBA-SPs, a computer monitor, and an obsolete digital camera, so I can give away all the electronics I destroy, at the very least.
6. I love unicorns. Asneherenia has said, they make EVERYTHING BETTER. <3 <3 <3
7. Since I was about thirteen, I've kept a journal of my dreams. When I was a kid, this amounted to a SUPER-SECRET PIECE OF PAPER with a one-line, much-abbreviated set of cues that I could look back at to jog my memory of the really good ones. (It had to be abbreviated, of course, because OMG EVERYBODY SURELY WANTED TO DIG IT UP and read all about the sordid details of my secret life with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) Ultimately I realized that not even I understood the bizarre abbreviations, got a notebook, and started writing everything out in detail. I find I remember a lot more as I try to put the dream into words. I'm not sure what I hope to accomplish by this, but by now I've certainly accrued enough information to assure that I will never be elected for public office. I'm pretty sure the dream about hijacking Mickey Mouse at gunpoint to star in a new Reality TV show took care of that.
(This meme's made the rounds in another form, I think, so I'll use a generic method: If you want to tell and haven't yet, consider yourself tagged! <3)
1. My sister and I share the same birthday. She's 12 years older than I am. (These days, our birthday gift to one another is absolving each other of the obligation to send a present.)
2. I was almost named 'Dieter.' Yes. I'm a girl. Yes. My mother knows it's a boy's name. She still wishes she'd won that argument with Dad. I, knowing more about SNL than she does, am terribly grateful she lost.
3. Electronics have a curious habit of failing when I'm around. Either I secretly emit EMPs, or I am afflicted with Murphy's Black Thumb of Technological Death. ...Buying a hybrid automobile was probably a bad idea.
4. Given the choice, I would rather run than walk. I run everywhere I can get away with it (which these days, means making sure nobody is around to see me looking like a compulsive idiot). It doesn't matter if it's ten feet from the house to the garage: I'd rather run. It's a habit I picked up as a child, I suspect, and just never ditched: I used to live on a farm in hilly terrain, and the five-hundred-yard trek over to feed the chickens went: Downhill, straightway, hop-over-creek, straightway, uphill. It was a geographical palindrome, and a heck of a lot of fun to take at a sprint. Somehow I never ditched the habit. It's probably mildly psychotic, but it feels good, I enjoy it, and it helps me think.
5. I hate throwing things away. (Throwing books away is out of the question, but that's another issue entirely.) I really do lose sleep sometimes about how much crap is going into our landfills. It makes me feel especially guilty for tossing something that somebody might possibly want. Fortunately I have a lot of friends who can build space elevators out of a broken GBA-SPs, a computer monitor, and an obsolete digital camera, so I can give away all the electronics I destroy, at the very least.
6. I love unicorns. As
neherenia has said, they make EVERYTHING BETTER. <3 <3 <37. Since I was about thirteen, I've kept a journal of my dreams. When I was a kid, this amounted to a SUPER-SECRET PIECE OF PAPER with a one-line, much-abbreviated set of cues that I could look back at to jog my memory of the really good ones. (It had to be abbreviated, of course, because OMG EVERYBODY SURELY WANTED TO DIG IT UP and read all about the sordid details of my secret life with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) Ultimately I realized that not even I understood the bizarre abbreviations, got a notebook, and started writing everything out in detail. I find I remember a lot more as I try to put the dream into words. I'm not sure what I hope to accomplish by this, but by now I've certainly accrued enough information to assure that I will never be elected for public office. I'm pretty sure the dream about hijacking Mickey Mouse at gunpoint to star in a new Reality TV show took care of that.
(This meme's made the rounds in another form, I think, so I'll use a generic method: If you want to tell and haven't yet, consider yourself tagged! <3)
