Talking about myself:
Jan. 24th, 2009 02:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7I was tagged. You get no explanation.
1) I've met Pat Morita
2) I've had a disturbingly accute grasp of human phsyiology and how to make it work or not work, since I was Very Young.
3) My father developed cooling systems for plasma canons.
4) I've taken Tae Kwon Do.
5) I can identify people I know by their posture, gait, and the sound of their footsteps.
6) I am very bad at math.
7) I used to be so good at math that Johns Hopkins wanted me to attend their summer programs.
8) I forget what eight was for.
9) I went to elementary school with famous people.
10) My paternal grandfather lost an eye building one of the most well-known bridge-tunnels in the DC area.
11) When I was little, my father once told me that the very long prominent scar on his leg was obtained from an encounter with a Land Shark.
12) I built part of my high school.
13) I have taught both 6/7th graders and college students how to think more effectively.
14) I practice magic.
15) I hate the use of the spelling "magick," even though I feel compelled to, in some way distinguish the things I love from stage or up-close illusions.
16) When i was four, I fell down the three interior steps of my montessori school, onto my face, deadening a baby tooth. I had to have a root canal. To this day, that tooth still feels weird, to me, and i worry about it.
17) I know a lot of lawyers, including my mother, who is also a minister.
18) I would like to learn to hunt game in the woods, with a knife, and nothing else.
19) I think that it would be great to get to learn all of the things the military and CIA have to offer, if only I didn't then have to do that whole "Putting Them To Use For Someone Else," thing.
20) I hate listing things about myself. I can never think of things that sound interesting and revealing Enough, without the potential to creep people out, or outright Frighten them.
There. I'm done. I'm not tagging anyone. Do it if you want, but I only did it because someone asked.
Honestly, I want to know things about you. So if you don't want to do this, just message me a secret, or screen a reply, here.
It's bed time.
1) I've met Pat Morita
2) I've had a disturbingly accute grasp of human phsyiology and how to make it work or not work, since I was Very Young.
3) My father developed cooling systems for plasma canons.
4) I've taken Tae Kwon Do.
5) I can identify people I know by their posture, gait, and the sound of their footsteps.
6) I am very bad at math.
7) I used to be so good at math that Johns Hopkins wanted me to attend their summer programs.
8) I forget what eight was for.
9) I went to elementary school with famous people.
10) My paternal grandfather lost an eye building one of the most well-known bridge-tunnels in the DC area.
11) When I was little, my father once told me that the very long prominent scar on his leg was obtained from an encounter with a Land Shark.
12) I built part of my high school.
13) I have taught both 6/7th graders and college students how to think more effectively.
14) I practice magic.
15) I hate the use of the spelling "magick," even though I feel compelled to, in some way distinguish the things I love from stage or up-close illusions.
16) When i was four, I fell down the three interior steps of my montessori school, onto my face, deadening a baby tooth. I had to have a root canal. To this day, that tooth still feels weird, to me, and i worry about it.
17) I know a lot of lawyers, including my mother, who is also a minister.
18) I would like to learn to hunt game in the woods, with a knife, and nothing else.
19) I think that it would be great to get to learn all of the things the military and CIA have to offer, if only I didn't then have to do that whole "Putting Them To Use For Someone Else," thing.
20) I hate listing things about myself. I can never think of things that sound interesting and revealing Enough, without the potential to creep people out, or outright Frighten them.
There. I'm done. I'm not tagging anyone. Do it if you want, but I only did it because someone asked.
Honestly, I want to know things about you. So if you don't want to do this, just message me a secret, or screen a reply, here.
It's bed time.
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I don't have twenty. You can unscreen this if you like.
Date: 2009-01-24 01:41 pm (UTC)The only thing that any of this makes me believe is that I am somehow strongly coincidence-prone.
2. My hearing is not particularly acute, but it's as important to me as vision in determining who or what I'm initially attracted to. Also, pornography (when it's something I can stand listening to) is more useful to me if I can hear it but can't see it than vice-versa.
3. My favorite cocktail is the Sidecar, and I've been to all of two bars that have made me a decent one.
4. One way I maintain composure is by mentally repeating lyrics to a song my dad taught me when I was very young (to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"):
"My Bonnie has tuberculosis,
My Bonnie has only one lung!
She coughs up a bloody cirrhosis
And rolls it around on her tongue."
I'm pretty sure "Cirrhosis" was not the word I learned, and I know it doesn't make physiological sense at all, but it rhymes better.
5. My current musical instrument of choice is the Nintendo Entertainment System, which I am learning to make beep and boop the way I ask it to. Still, I've started more projects that have never seen one completed recording than I can count, because my interest always shifts right as I get there. It's absolutely infuriating. The more I learn about music, the more I prefer to work on it on my own, but I never get anything finished without band members relying on it.
6. I once cited "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats in an academic paper.
And one to grow on:
Date: 2009-01-24 01:57 pm (UTC)My favorite kanji is 鯨 (kujira), "whale." It's made up of 魚, "fish," and 京, "capital."
Re: And one to grow on:
Date: 2009-01-24 02:53 pm (UTC)Re: And one to grow on:
Date: 2009-01-24 02:59 pm (UTC)I had a love-hate relationship with kanji until I met the word for "airplane," which made me a believer. When I had those characters down, it was no longer just hikouki - it was 飛行機, the Flying Go Machine.
(飛ぶ, "to fly;" 行く, "to go;" 機, "machine.")
Re: I don't have twenty. You can unscreen this if you like.
Date: 2009-01-24 02:52 pm (UTC)Re: I don't have twenty. You can unscreen this if you like.
Date: 2009-01-24 03:02 pm (UTC)Re: I don't have twenty. You can unscreen this if you like.
Date: 2009-01-26 06:07 pm (UTC)Two Februaries ago, I went on a road trip of melodrama. I had discovered that pulling objects out of one's pants pockets, while seated-and-seatbelted, in a timely manner, was an unlikely proposition to say the least. To combat this, I decided to put my phone into my shirt pocket rather than my pants, such that I could answer it without killing anyone.
Somewhere along the way, I realized that it was... moving. Not ringing, not crawling, but it was moving nonetheless.
4) Hah! I totally haven't heard that one in over a decade, but I have heard it.
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Date: 2009-01-24 02:11 pm (UTC)For some reason that seems like it ought to be an oxymoron. Or something. No offense to your mother, of course, I imagine she's outrageously amazing.
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Date: 2009-01-24 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-24 05:07 pm (UTC)see, though, but yours were awesome, mine were eh.
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Date: 2009-01-24 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-24 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-24 05:13 pm (UTC)Nothing to fear
Date: 2009-01-27 01:20 am (UTC)1: I sung in a music series for tapes accompanying music textbooks.
2: I've set off a metal detector with my chest. Pulled up my shirt, they ran the wand over it, Beep. (They did the wand thing because, of course, I'd set off the regular metal detector several times).
3: If you search around four years ago, I called an ice storm on Atlanta. Temperatures dropped dramatically in the next few days. I believe I posted something along the lines of, "told you so."
4: Did you know Cthuhl-ade bubbles if you bless it? You never learn these things if you don't try them.
5: I've walked from Decatur, to downtown Atlanta, to the Arts Center, all at once.
6: I've jumped over a tree twice my own height.
7: I have stood on a tightrope for half an hour.
8: I have studied ninjutsu, aikido, and tai chi.
9: I have glasses that were run over by a car on gravel and came out unharmed. They weren't kidding about "scratch-proof lenses."
10: When I go in the labyrinth at the Renaissance Festival, I walk through the walls at least once, to remind myself they aren't real.
11: I dropped out of chemistry in high school when I sank a bag of air in water. I determined that science, and me, we didn't have, what's the word...chemistry.
12: My final math project in college was an essay on Sun Tsu.
13: I once made an A on an essay that was poorly organized, because the essay was on the topic of how seemingly poor organization in works like The Color of Magic and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy nevertheless had a central driving force in the mentality of their authors.
14: My mother sent me to Japan with a free ticket a Delta employee gave her for healing his broken leg. She has also healed eyes, phobias, torn ligaments, and diseases.
15: She comes by it honestly. Grandpa Kenneth healed a leg injury in weeks, when doctors expected it to keep him wheelchair-bound his whole life. He also ignored what, according to x-rays, was a slipped disc that should have paralyzed him.
16: In spite of a family habit of skiing, the incident where Kenneth's achilles tendon pulled a chip of bone off the back of his leg is the only time anyone on mom's side of the family has broken a bone.
Hint regarding number 6: I was running down the side of a mountain at the time.
17: I've climbed up the wrong side of Stone Mountain. It's steep.
18: In a divorce and two remarriages, three of my four parents have a Masters in Divinity.
19: I attended my high school when Lorraine's hair was BLACK. It was there I learned how to pickpocket a man when I was five years old, and that people don't like you doing it, and that I'd never be a pickpocket because I can't just walk away with someone else's stuff. It was there I struck gold, there that I learned herbalism, there that I threw a frisbee across the gym into the basketball net without looking.
20: I can walk across mud without sinking into it. I learned how in Biology for Non-Majors, when we went to study swamp life.