Question meme...

[fajrdrako]

I got this from brashley46:

You're on my friends list! I wanna know you. I want to know 33 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, talk every day or already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine. I just want to know you.

1. Can you cook?
2. What was your dream growing up?
3. What talent do you wish you had?
4. Favorite place?
5. Favorite vegetable?
6. What was the last book you read?
7. What zodiac sign are you ?
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
9. Worst Habit?
10. Do we know each other outside of lj?
11. What is your favorite sport?
12. Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15. Tell me one weird fact about you:
16. Do you have any pets?
17. Do you know how to do the macarena?
18. What time is it where you are now?
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22. What color eyes do you have?
23. Ever been arrested?
24. Bottle or Draft?
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew?
27. What 's your favorite bar to hang at?
28. Do you believe in ghosts?
29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30. Do you swear a lot?
31. Biggest pet peeve?
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

Comments

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

1. Can you cook? Yes.
2. What was your dream growing up? Writer, librarian, architect, park ranger...
3. What talent do you wish you had? I wish I could carry a tune.
4. Favorite place? I have three -- right here (near Seattle), Heceta Head on the Oregon coast, and Yellowstone National Park
5. Favorite vegetable? Broccoli
6. What was the last book you read? a book on Asperger's syndrome that I can't remember the title of right now
7. What zodiac sign are you ? Aries
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Yikes, no.
9. Worst Habit? I bite my nails.
10. Do we know each other outside of lj? The Bujold list. Not in person.
11. What is your favorite sport? Football, to watch.
12. Negative or Optimistic attitude? Try for the latter, usually wind up with the former.
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? Have a good conversation.
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you? My month from hell fifteen years ago, when I got divorced, quit my job, moved cross country to a new job, and my dad died the day before I was to start it.
15. Tell me one weird fact about you: Don't know if it's weird, but I am a quilt show junkie.
16. Do you have any pets? Two elderly gentleman cats.
17. Do you know how to do the macarena? No [g].
18. What time is it where you are now? 5:45 pm.
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary? Scary.
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? I wouldn't be shaped quite so like the Venus of Willendorf and I'd have thicker hair (sorry, that's two).
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? "A good friend will come and bail you out of jail... but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun!'"
22. What color eyes do you have? Blue.
23. Ever been arrested? No.
24. Bottle or Draft? Wine not beer, thanks, so bottle.
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it? Live off it for a few months (I'm unemployed ATM).
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew? Can't, I have jaw problems.
27. What's your favorite bar to hang at? Not a bar person.
28. Do you believe in ghosts? Yes, from personal experience.
29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time? Write, garden, quilt, cross-stitch, pester my cats.
30. Do you swear a lot? I've been known to turn the air blue occasionally.
31. Biggest pet peeve? People in the publishing industry who are condescending and obnoxious.
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself? Wired-for-sound [g].
33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? It's already on my LJ.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Writer, librarian, architect, park ranger...

I shared two out of the four.

I bite my nails.

As do I. I am slightly surprised (and slightly shocked) how many of my friends said this; I thought it was a rare vice. I guess not.

I am a quilt show junkie.

I don't know if it's weird, but I know a lot of people who like quilts, make quilts, and do the shows. I like quilts and love to see them, but I've never been to a show, and desite a lifelong desire to make one, never have - well, nothing larger than a quilt for a newborn's crib.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

In my family, if you're lefthanded you bite your nails. I don't know why that is, but none of the righthanded people do, and all of the lefthanded people either do or did. Verra strange [g].

Quilt shows are well worth seeking out (if there's a quilt shop in Ottawa -- look under fabric in the yellow pages), they'll know of any local guilds and/or shows.

Oh, and if you want to see my personal quilt show, here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmegaera/sets/72157594510763533/) [g]. These are pictures of all the quilts I've made that are still in my possession (probably about half my total output -- I've been at this for about twenty years).

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

In my family, if you're lefthanded you bite your nails.

How very interesting. I'm sure there's a real connection, probably something to do with neurochemistry. I'm right handed and bite my fingernails... but as far as I know, no one else in my family (i.e., people I'm related to) is a fingernail-biter.

Thanks for the quilt link!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I always figured it had something to do with the added stress -- it can get, er, interesting, sometimes, for a lefty to negotiate a righthanded world. I am borderline ambidextrous (the only thing I consistently do lefthanded is write). I have perused lefthander websites on occasion, and read about the things lefties complain about, and been rather boggled about many of them. Then I go back and think, do I do that lefthanded or righthanded? Almost every time, when it's something that I don't have a problem with, it's because I do it righthanded.

You're welcome for the quilt link [g].

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Interesting about the right-handed/left-handed thing. I really don't know much about the subject - being right-handed (and not ambidextrous at all), it isn't a subject I've had to think about much. Though I do find it fascinating when my left-handed friends talk about it.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

It's another one of those things like women know much more about men, minorities know much more about white people, non-Christians know much more about Christians, and GBLTs know much more about straights, than vice versa. Albeit on a much more minor scale. The people who are dominant in a society don't have any reason to know about the people who aren't, but the people who aren't basically have to know about the people who are in order to survive.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It happens in so many ways. Any aspect of a person that it's shared by most people. It's the unusual characteristics which are almost always the most interesting.