LJ meme / Weird meme
About My Journal
1. My username is ATDT1991. I chose it as my email address long ago, when I realized that “Xavier”, my previous pseudonym, was far too common in a community that encompasses both the French and the Spanish. It’s based off the codes sent to your modem to make it dial a phone number: ATDT = ATention Dial Tone. 1991 is the year I first started using such things as Modems.
2. My journal is titled “Taibreamh Muirear”. I usually make people look it up themselves, but just for you: Dream Charge (or Burden). There are, obviously, many possible interpretations of that.
3. My subtitle is “I am an acrobat, swinging trapezes through circles of flame.” It’s a line from “Mrs. Potter”. The other lines from the song that I didn’t quote are just as appropriate. I believe I changed my subtitle the week before I spent 30 straight hours working at school, the self-same weekend my ex asked me to get packing. You know, finals week, 2 years ago. Strangely enough, nearly 2 years ago to this day.
4. My friends page is called “We -so- own this place!” It’s a quote from Benny, while we were at Li’l Chef, our Central Hang-out location between Lansing, Brighton, and Berkley. The point has been lost to the depths of time, but the phrase remains.
5. My default userpic is myself, just like 90% of my user pics are myself or photos I’ve taken. If not, they’re icons I created. I use my icons instead of the “mood” indicator. The current icon is my “contemporary smile” (courtesy of Joey, I believe), altered by request to declare my latest (given) nickname. :)
Five weird things about me
1. I believe in exposing the deep and scary parts of my psyche, as well as any personal skeletons, as much as possible. I find it far safer than hiding in closets, and it gives someone every opportunity to really understand me; if they don’t like me with my insecurities and flaws… *spreads hands* I’ll live. Meanwhile, I get some seriously fucked up/insightful perspectives from others, and do that whole growing thing we all hear about.
2. I haven’t taken the tape off my ceiling since painting my apartment. In February.
3. I skipped third grade, setting me up for the abuse of my peers until puberty proved me to be taller than they were.
4. When I was 6 and older, my grandmother used to wake me up at 3 a.m. to take me out to Denny’s (or HoJo’s), drink tea, and talk about philosophical subjects, the truckers at the bar, or just just about anything. She was living with two women who hated each other, and is the kind of grandma who asks you why you are sitting under the table at Denny’s, and then bemusedly tells you that you should probably get up before your mom sees you. My grandmother is a weird thing about me. :D
5. I gave up watching TV on a regular basis when I was 20. I remember vividly the very moment when I realized that I could have spent those three hours doing anything else with my life except watching saharan animals mate and kill. I get absorbed into (nearly) any show I watch, and I often can’t turn away until the commercial. Even when I hate the show. Sometimes, especially so. None of that, then! I watch movies and play video games on occasion, and I’m constantly listening to music, but I usually only catch TV when I’m a guest elsewhere.
I don’t often do memes, especially surveys, but these are short and I’ve really enjoyed them in other journals, so… what the hell.
Dream Charge (or Burden). There are, obviously, many possible interpretations of that.
I love the myriad of implications. It’s perfect.
(this next bit is some probably unnecessary justification)
5. I gave up watching TV on a regular basis when I was 20. [snip] but I usually only catch TV when I’m a guest elsewhere.
I am not a huge fan of TV, but it does tend to be on in our house fairly often. I know that when you come over it tends to be on. Mostly, as something else for conversation, or enjoying Invader Zim together. Most evenings, Brian and I are more about listening to music and reading or playing guitar. That’s not conducive to socializing. While I realize that just having music on would mean that we could more easily chat until the sun comes up, sometimes it’s just nice to cuddle. I do tend to watch a little more TV than I’d prefer to, but when I sit and knit, I like to look at something. Many times it’s movies, but when it’s not, I do love educational TV, art shows, science shows, biographies, and Alton Brown. I do enjoy some TV, and I do hibernate in the winter. Maybe one of these visits we’ll do a “no TV” night and see what we can find to talk about.
And while I’m at it…as soon as the holidays die down, let’s plan a weekend in the darkroom? Marathon style?
And finally, you still haven’t come up with anything -really- weird. I’m still waiting. ;)
*laugh* Don’t worry so! I haven’t minded, and we certainly found things to talk about during Alton Brown and Zim and such. And the movies.
I’m dying to get back into the darkroom. :) Let’s do it.
As for -really- weird, well, it’s all relative, innit? I don’t pick my nose with my toes, eat peanut-butter-salmon sandwiches, or see everything in shades of purple, so I guess we’re going for a cumulative effect.
I thought of posting about my weird sense of humor, but it’s just too difficult to describe, and honestly, most of my friends seem to appreciate it, so… not so weird in this context. ;)
Oh, so you won’t tell your own girlfriend who tried* to look it up- but you’ll tell the whole world in a meme. I see how it is ;)
Pretty much ;) What good is a reference if no one gets it?
Bizarrely enough, I skipped third grade as well. *laughs*
Grandmas always seem to be that one thing that makes us a little weirder in life–we try to blame the parents, but it’s not our parents, it’s the grandparents damnit!