Random 10
Someone on the ol’ Facebook posted a random 25 things about themselves, and I’m in the mood, so here you are. ‘cept I’m a bit gabby and no one would sit through the resulting 25 pages, so you get 10. Don’t complain, or I’ll only give you 5!
I won’t be calling anyone out, so if you were looking for an excuse to get chatty, this is it.
1. My bedroom is generally a mess of clothes, technology and random bits of furniture, but I will go a teensy bit apeshit if my video camera case doesn’t have everything in exactly the right place. Maybe it’s because no one at home says, “Find that funky USB dongle you thought was useless in the next 30 seconds, or the shot is ruined!”
2. I usually draw some letters and numbers starting from the bottom. O’s, E’s, 3’s – I’ve been working over the past few years to correct it, because I think it makes my handwriting look even worse. I sometimes wonder if I might have been left-handed before retraining.
3. When it comes to being creative, I am really open-minded about the medium. Photography, poetry, graphic design, videography, editing, drawing, and music are a few of the things I’ve spent some time with, and most of those (except for the latter two) have been important enough to me to win high grades and contests.
4. I still have my christmas tree up (it’s half-size). ‘Nuff said.
5. I spent this past weekend liasoning (liasing?) at a Sci-Fi convention I go to (nearly) every year. The author, in gratitude for my good job, gave me a copy of a manuscript for a book not published yet. Yeah, I’m braggin’!
6. When I was in fencing class, the teacher said I had an incredible lunge. Also, when I used to go to the gym two or three times a week, I would frequently max out the weight on the interior and exterior thigh machines. As a kid, I could ride my bike for the entire day, and I think they’re related.
7. I can, and do, associate everything with everything else. I get a kick out of telling people about these crazy associations. I’ve done it since before I can remember (and received very strange stares for as long). I hear that using your recall that way helps to keep it strong like bull.
8. I love experimenting with different foods, but I can also be very particular. I like cooking with curry, but I dislike honey ham, for instance. I have been known to try out strange combinations just to see what’s up – the strangest off-hand was putting chocolate on chunks of summer sausage after grilling them on a campfire.
9. When I’m in bed alone and I’m late for getting out of bed, I’ll often do a maneuver that you may have seen Chun-li emulate in Street Fighter II. It’s goofy as hell, but prevents the dizzy stumbles. Most of the time.
10. I love semantics and etymology. I love knowing where words come from, how they used to be used, where they’re headed, and how our language is growing and adapting every day. I like verbing nouns and saying silly things just to hear them aloud.
I do #7 too! It does get some crazy looks, but I give ’em right back. “What? That’s a perfectly valid comparison of the gripping techniques in kungfu and chainmail. Don’t MAKE me discuss how this chain is built sorta like the stanzas in a sonnet are constructed!”
I figure, there’s very little new in this world. You want interesting, you gotta find it! ;)
True, that. My best friends are, widely, folk who take that split second to look around, see if they get my context.
So I have to ask…how did the chocolate/sausage medley pan out?
It wasn’t so bad. It is probably on par with my hotdogs and peanut butter experiment – nothing I’d elect to eat, but definitely not “bad” in any way.
The weirdest thing I’ve ever done is used grapefriut juice in coffee—as creamer.
It was actucally pretty good at the time. I’ve tried to replicate it, and haven’t been able to. (I think the grapefruit juice has to be pink and warm already… it may also have to be Sam’s Club brand.)
You can do the “spinning star kick”? Awesome!
my mom usually leaves the tree up until mid February. i left my tree up until a week before Easter. i don’t set up my christmas tree anymore though, because my sister’s evil chihuahua will harm it in some way