Meme-age

[darkluna]

I was tagged by rinnakins!

Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, goals, or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged. Don't forget to leave them a comment (you're it!) to read your blog for instructions. You can't tag a person who has tagged you.


1. My real first name is purely decorative. No one, including my parents, has ever actually routinely used it. My parents call me my middle name or a childhood nickname. Everyone else calls me a different name altogether, one only sort of related to my real middle name.

2. I don't dot Is or Js when I write. I don't remember why I stopped, but it's a habit now.

3. I used to be one of those people who couldn't stand to have different foods touching on the plate. (Except mashed potatoes. Those were always the exception.) Thanks to my addiction to Indian food and the necessity of mixing up rice and shahi paneer korma, I got over it.

4. Why I think my writing process is broken: I get inspired to write a scene and write it. Then another scene occurs to me, which is usually the end of the story I've just started, or something that has to happen in the middle, or in some other wise totally disconnected from the original "must write this down" scene. I have a hard time making myself sit the hell down and connect scenes up in order, so it's hard for me to finish stuff. But writing fanfic has helped me a lot with this.

5. My Wrens obsession long since peaked and abated, but I would totally jump their bass player right this very minute. (See icon on this entry.)

6. All the other boys I'd pounce on are imaginary. (But some girls I might are not.)

7. I was married for four years right out of college. Sometimes I forget this, even though he and I still talk sometimes, and meet up whenever I'm in San Francisco.

8. <-- I have that many cats. I had four and fostered four siblings, and well... Their names are: Lewis Barnavelt, Lunabelle, Teddy Ballgame, Sterling, Anyanka, Orange Julia, Mona Lisa, and Spike. (They get called: Birdie, Tuney, Ted, Sterl, Anya, Julie, Monie, and Bug.)

9. Come hell or high water, I am moving back to Seattle before 2010.

10. I almost went to Oberlin College, but I visited during finals, and the desertedness of campus really emphasized how very out in the middle of nowhere it is, so I picked Brown instead. That was the right choice; I loved college.


I won't tag anyone, but do it if you like!

Comments

[angryhamster.livejournal.com]

4. Why I think my writing process is broken: I get inspired to write a scene and write it. Then another scene occurs to me, which is usually the end of the story I've just started, or something that has to happen in the middle, or in some other wise totally disconnected from the original "must write this down" scene. I have a hard time making myself sit the hell down and connect scenes up in order, so it's hard for me to finish stuff. But writing fanfic has helped me a lot with this.

this is how i write, too, and why i so rarely finish anything.

[darkluna.livejournal.com]

I'm happy to know I'm not the only one! Sometimes I feel like everyone else writes straight through.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Yum for Indian food, and I have an Anya-kitty as well! Mine has grown from a teensy kitten to a huge cat without losing one bit of silliness.

[darkluna.livejournal.com]

This icon's my Anya when she was wee. She never got huge, but she is a diva.

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

My Ya-Baby as a scruffy kitten.



A more recent pic.

She's a total goof.

[darkluna.livejournal.com]

Oh, she's pretty. And fuzzy! My Anya was actually just sitting on my monitor like that, tail in the way and all!

[zinnia-ziegler.livejournal.com]

6. Hell yes--it's like the only appealing guys are the ones who aren't real!

[darkluna.livejournal.com]

As a bleeding-heart liberal stuck in the Bible Belt for now, I find the imaginary ones way preferable to my current real-life options!

[militsa.livejournal.com]

I went to Oberlin College! and I loved it---but the funny thing is, I visited it during a cold day in February, and it was totally cold and deserted, but for some reason, that actually appealed to me. I think growing up in NY, I was looking for something really rural and different.

One of my best friends went to Brown and loved it to.

[darkluna.livejournal.com]

I did the same thing as you, in the opposite direction. I knew I wanted to be a city girl!

[rinnakins.livejournal.com]

My real first name is purely decorative. No one, including my parents, has ever actually routinely used it. My parents call me my middle name or a childhood nickname. Everyone else calls me a different name altogether, one only sort of related to my real middle name.

Pretty much the same with me. I only get called my real first name if I'm being admonished. I... can't even remember the last time someone outside my family (or even my mother, actually) called me by my first name.

All the other boys I'd pounce on are imaginary. (But some girls I might are not.)

Same.

8. <-- I have that many cats.

I envy you. ;_;

[darkluna.livejournal.com]

I envy you.

Want them? Nah, I kid. But sometimes I am tempted to make an entry that says "Free to good home: 8 cats. Slightly used." :-/