OMFG memes!!!1!
Okay, I'm gonna try this in Blogger for a change. Originally I did memes on my old blog, then moved them to LJ when there got to be so many that they were crowding out the other posts. Then I moved exclusively to LJ, and the same thing happened there. So either I'll do them all here, or split them between LJ and here. We'll see.
First, Monday's A Bitch.
1. Whose was the last wedding you attended?
My aunt's.
2. Do you enjoy attending weddings, or do they bore you to tears?
I don't know; I don't remember my aunt's wedding. I was only four.
3. Would you prefer your wedding to be a lavish event with hundreds of guests, or a casual one with good friends and family? (or if you're already married, what was yours like?)
Well, if I'm lucky, there won't be a "my wedding" at all; but if I end up having no other choice, I would prefer it be done in private. Friends and family can go pound sand, and so can the public. Justice of the peace and witnesses only.
4. Have you ever been part of the wedding party?
No. And thank goodness. Dresses make me feel like a transvestite. Which would be fine if I had the slightest interest in being a transvestite, but I don't.
5. Does marriage in general make you feel goopey and warm inside, or skeptical?
Some of both. I get irritated when somebody asks me when I'm gonna find a man and settle down. First of all, they're assuming I even WANT a man, and secondly, they're assuming that only married people can be settled. But then, I suppose I shouldn't be irritated, because, you know, who I have sex with and under what circumstances is everybody's business.
Okay, I'll stop being bitchy. Most people never ask, and one nice thing about Minnesota Nice™ is that it appears to prohibit being nosy about that kind of thing. MN has historically been one of the bigger pro-gay states [up til recently, that is, when Massachussetts made us look like a bunch of Neanderthals--and rightly so]. So I can imagine people here stopped assuming anything about gender or marriage preference--or at least stopped asking.
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Next up, Tuesday's Tales. Thanks to you guys for adding me to the players list! :)
1. What is the earliest memory you have as a child? Think far back.
I think it was my bladder surgery when I was three. I remember lying on my back and seeing lights over my head. [Glad ya asked, huh?]
2. What is a special memory you have about someone? It could be a grandparent, family friend - not including your parents - that you knew as a child. What do you recall about them that makes the memory special?
I don't remember anything much that could be classified as special. We didn't have any family friends, really, and pretty much everybody in the family lived about a thousand miles away. I remember once when my grandma visited us, I invented the term "gramma rays" to describe her seemingly supernatural ability to tell what you were up to--and let it be known that she knew what you were up to--even when she was three rooms away with her back turned to you, reading a book. You could fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you could never fool her. The Gramma Rays see all. [Later, I found out the reason for her vigilance when Dad started telling me all the insanely reckless things he and his brother would do as kids. Anybody would develop Gramma Rays from raising those two.]
3. What was a favorite game you played as a child?
Among other things, I used to play a LOT of Crazy 8. I played it to the point where everybody else in the family was sick of it. But it was the only thing I could win a majority of the time.
4. What was a memorable trip that you can recall being a little kid and what did you do that makes you think about it even now?
I remember being four or five and going to the Parthenon in Nashville with my family. It's a replica of the one in Greece, so it has a lot of columns and an enormous staircase which, to a preschooler, looks like it goes up for miles and miles. I made it all the way up, but once I got inside, I got a nosebleed and had to sit down. I think I remember a uniformed security guard helping us out. I don't know why it sticks out, but the two most vivid parts of it are the humongous stairs and the nosebleed.
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Booking Through Thursday.
1. Do your reading habits change for the summer months?
Not that I can think of. I do pretty much all my reading indoors regardless of the time of year. I used to read outside sometimes, when I could find some place to go that wasn't full of people, mosquitoes or seagull poop. Sadly, there are few places like that now, unless you own your own forest. My work schedule makes it worse, as I work 3d shift; not only is it very difficult to read outdoors at 3 in the morning, it also looks suspicious to the police.
2. If so, how?
See 1.
Back soon for more...
same bitch time, same bitch channel...
First, Monday's A Bitch.
1. Whose was the last wedding you attended?
My aunt's.
2. Do you enjoy attending weddings, or do they bore you to tears?
I don't know; I don't remember my aunt's wedding. I was only four.
3. Would you prefer your wedding to be a lavish event with hundreds of guests, or a casual one with good friends and family? (or if you're already married, what was yours like?)
Well, if I'm lucky, there won't be a "my wedding" at all; but if I end up having no other choice, I would prefer it be done in private. Friends and family can go pound sand, and so can the public. Justice of the peace and witnesses only.
4. Have you ever been part of the wedding party?
No. And thank goodness. Dresses make me feel like a transvestite. Which would be fine if I had the slightest interest in being a transvestite, but I don't.
5. Does marriage in general make you feel goopey and warm inside, or skeptical?
Some of both. I get irritated when somebody asks me when I'm gonna find a man and settle down. First of all, they're assuming I even WANT a man, and secondly, they're assuming that only married people can be settled. But then, I suppose I shouldn't be irritated, because, you know, who I have sex with and under what circumstances is everybody's business.
Okay, I'll stop being bitchy. Most people never ask, and one nice thing about Minnesota Nice™ is that it appears to prohibit being nosy about that kind of thing. MN has historically been one of the bigger pro-gay states [up til recently, that is, when Massachussetts made us look like a bunch of Neanderthals--and rightly so]. So I can imagine people here stopped assuming anything about gender or marriage preference--or at least stopped asking.
***
Next up, Tuesday's Tales. Thanks to you guys for adding me to the players list! :)
1. What is the earliest memory you have as a child? Think far back.
I think it was my bladder surgery when I was three. I remember lying on my back and seeing lights over my head. [Glad ya asked, huh?]
2. What is a special memory you have about someone? It could be a grandparent, family friend - not including your parents - that you knew as a child. What do you recall about them that makes the memory special?
I don't remember anything much that could be classified as special. We didn't have any family friends, really, and pretty much everybody in the family lived about a thousand miles away. I remember once when my grandma visited us, I invented the term "gramma rays" to describe her seemingly supernatural ability to tell what you were up to--and let it be known that she knew what you were up to--even when she was three rooms away with her back turned to you, reading a book. You could fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you could never fool her. The Gramma Rays see all. [Later, I found out the reason for her vigilance when Dad started telling me all the insanely reckless things he and his brother would do as kids. Anybody would develop Gramma Rays from raising those two.]
3. What was a favorite game you played as a child?
Among other things, I used to play a LOT of Crazy 8. I played it to the point where everybody else in the family was sick of it. But it was the only thing I could win a majority of the time.
4. What was a memorable trip that you can recall being a little kid and what did you do that makes you think about it even now?
I remember being four or five and going to the Parthenon in Nashville with my family. It's a replica of the one in Greece, so it has a lot of columns and an enormous staircase which, to a preschooler, looks like it goes up for miles and miles. I made it all the way up, but once I got inside, I got a nosebleed and had to sit down. I think I remember a uniformed security guard helping us out. I don't know why it sticks out, but the two most vivid parts of it are the humongous stairs and the nosebleed.
***
Booking Through Thursday.
1. Do your reading habits change for the summer months?
Not that I can think of. I do pretty much all my reading indoors regardless of the time of year. I used to read outside sometimes, when I could find some place to go that wasn't full of people, mosquitoes or seagull poop. Sadly, there are few places like that now, unless you own your own forest. My work schedule makes it worse, as I work 3d shift; not only is it very difficult to read outdoors at 3 in the morning, it also looks suspicious to the police.
2. If so, how?
See 1.
Back soon for more...
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