Meme Update

[the_wanlorn]

 
Oh wow, within two days I was tagged for TWO MEMES. I AM SERIOUSLY SO EXCITED NO ONE EVER TAGS ME!!!!

orla_fey would like me to do the 10 weird facts meme.

Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks.

1. When I went to the, um, ankle-doctor after I broke my ankle snowboarding down the hill in my neighbor's front yard, he moved my (other) ankle and knee around, and the rest of the visit was pretty much this:
"Huh, that's funny."
"O.O What's funny??"
"Okay, let me move your elbow a little..."
"... but... ankle... o.O"
"Okay, now your [insert every joint in my body]."
"..."
"LOL DOUBLE-JOINTED EVERYWHERE."

2. Speaking of being full-body double-jointed, I can pop my thumb in and out of it's socket, and my hitchhiker's thumbs are so, um, hitchhiker-y that I can bend them back past 90 degrees.

3. I can't focus on one thing at a time. Literally, can not. So, I carry around stuff in my pockets to play with and fiddle with. I used to have a cigarette behind me ear all the time so I could spin it between my fingers.

4. Speaking of pockets, if you need something? It's in my pocket. I have a closet full of guy pants purely because the pockets are huge enough to carry everything. I was that little kid who was always coming in from outside with newts and salamanders and frogs and snakes in her pockets.

5. My brother is 14 years older than me, and I grew up hanging out with him and his friends instead of kids my own age. Yes, that does, indeed, make me as fucked up as you think it would.

6. I type "me" for "my" all the time. I used to think it was my finger slipping, until I realized the the e and y are not next to each other, at all. Selective dyslexia or something, I don't know.

7. I'm wicked shy in real life. Like, when I first meet you, even if I've known you online forever, I won't talk. At all. Because I am terrified of saying something dumb. But then, once I get to know you, I won't shut up, and you'll be missing the days when I never talked.

8. Name a needle-craft that isn't crewel, and I do it. No, srsly. When I was 3 or 4, I was harrassing my mum to let me sew (she quilts). Well, she didn't want to let me use the sewing machine or the wicked sharp needles, so she showed me how to do a couple simple embroidery stitches, like french knots and stuff, and set me to candlewicking a quilt's worth of bird patterns, figuring I'd A) suck, and B) give up.

Yeah, no. :-D

9. I love the cold. I am happiest wandering around outside in single-digit weather. I even do things like go out without a coat on because YAY COLD. That said, I absolutely despise wind when it's cold out. I'm not kidding, I'll be in a great mood, dancing around in a T-shirt and jeans in the middle of New England winter. And then there will be WIND and I am suddenly furious and wanting to murder the ENTIRE WORLD. I don't like things that cut through me. D:

10. I can pee standing up. Really, that's all you need to know about that. ;-)

I TAG orla_fey, katiefoolery, misscam, doona_rose, dynapink, hllangel, chaosvizier, hearts_blood, froda_baggins, nicccc!


And jamimegan wants the book meme, which I LOVE SO HARD.

1. Grab the nearest book. (Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag 5 people.

Okay, well, there's the book in my backpack, which is technically the closest. So.
"It was A.J. who put the piranha fish in Lady Sutton-Smith's swimming pool, and dosed the punch with a mixture of yage, hashish and yohimbine during a Fourth of July reception at the U.S. Embassy, precipitating an orgy. Ten prominent citizens - Americans, of course - subsequently died of shame. Dying of shame is an accomplishment peculiar to Kwakiutl Indians and Americans - others simply say "Zut alors" or "Son cosas de la vida" or "Allah fucked me, the All Powerful..."
~Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs

Do you guys have any idea how hard it is to find the fifth sentence in that book? You can't tell where they end! Anyway, the closest book just lying around? (And I actually got out a tape measure to measure which one out of the bajillion was closest)
"'There is no-' began Britomart, and then checked herself. ''Tis true, I have no squire at present. If you, Master Harold, will take the oaths and ride as my squire, that is, without a crest to your helmet, it might be managed.'"
~The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea, by L. Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt

PLZ ALLOW ME TO TAG katiefoolery, hearts_blood, froda_baggins, orla_fey, tappuri.

The Sonnet Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer (DGLDf) Romantic, hopeful, and composed. You are the Sonnet. Get it? Composed? Sonnets want Love and have high ideals about it. They're conscientious people, caring & careful. You yourself have deep convictions, and you devote a lot of thought to romance and what it should be. This will frighten away most potential mates, but that's okay, because you're very choosy with your affections anyway. You'd absolutely refuse to date someone dumber than you, for instance. Your exact opposite: Genghis Khunt Random Brutal Sex Master Lovers who share your idealized perspective, or who are at least willing to totally throw themselves into a relationship, will be very, very happy with you. And you with them. You're already selfless and compassionate, and with the right partner, there's no doubt you can be sensual, even adventurously so. You probably have lots of female friends, and they have a special soft spot for you. Babies do, too, at the tippy-top of their baby skulls. ALWAYS AVOID: The 5-Night Stand, The False Messiah, The Hornivore, The Last Man on Earth CONSIDER: The Loverboy Link: The 32-Type Dating Test by OkCupid - Free Online Dating.

Yeah, except add a bajillion pounds.

 

Comments

[emiweebee.livejournal.com]

I totally made one of those meez dealies with a horse, until I was like, wait, are you serious, I just bounce? No.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

SHUSH YOU.

But all the cats were ugly. :-(

[raphaela.livejournal.com]

We've deduced you're fully capable of a dirty fling, but you do feel that post-coital attachment after hooking up. So, conscientious person that you are, you do your best to reserve physical affection for those you respect...so you can respect yourself.

Your biggest negative is the byproduct of your careful nature: indecision. You're just as slow someone as you are accepting them.


: The False Messiah, The 5-Night Stand, The Vapor Trail, The Bachelor

: The Gentleman, someone just like you.

Link: The 32-Type Dating Test (http://www.okcupid.com/online.dating.persona.test) by OkCupid - Free Online Dating (http://www.okcupid.com).

[tappuri.livejournal.com]

Could I leave it thus and write the book all the same? A book with a blind spot. An unfinished picture,--uncoloured limbs of the martyr with the arrows in his side.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, page 123!