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[beachlass]

Meme: stolen from jbmcdragon

COMMENT HERE AND I WILL:

a) Tell you why you should friend me.

b) Associate you with something unlikable -- a fandom, song, color, photo, etc.

c) Tell you something I like about me.

d) Tell you a memory I made up of you.

e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about.

f) Tell you my favorite userpic from your post.

g) In return, you need to tell me how awesome I am.

Comments

[thursday-kat.livejournal.com]

I think you rank as the awesomest Canadian I know and are just an all around nifty person. And I likes how you write :D

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

a) Tell you why you should friend me.
If that icon isn't a good reason to stay friends, I don't know what is! Plus - I'm looking forward to hearing about your adventures in the land of engagement.

b) Associate you with something unlikable -- a fandom, song, color, photo, etc.
Penguin poop

c) Tell you something I like about me.
I like that I usually take the time to stop and listen when I ask people how they are doing. And that I often get more information than "Fine."

d) Tell you a memory I made up of you.
Remember that time? When we were in Paris, and we smuggled and backpack full of paper airplanes up to the top of the Eiffel Tower and launched as many as we could before being hustled off by security? And then two days later, we saw one of our airplanes (and we knew it was one of ours, because we used that fancy patterned paper with the animals and stars and flowers) - clutched in the hand of a little girl in a stroller in the Rodin sculpture garden? And we were eating chocolate brioche, and laughing so hard we couldn't stand up?

e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about.
What have you been reading recently? I was thinking about re-reading Dirt by Kipnis.

f) Tell you my favorite userpic from your post.
Cleavage. Red fingernails. Green corset. *swoons* What's not to like?

g) In return, you need to tell me how awesome I am.
Yay! I think I'm transitioning between fandoms, and have lost my writing muse at the moment.

[drelfina.livejournal.com]

Do you not already know how awesome you are? :P Silly. You are the first woman pastor I know, and with so much theistic background~

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

a) Tell you why you should friend me.
Because our conversations veer madly all over the place in a manner not unlike a drunken rabbit.

b) Associate you with something unlikable -- a fandom, song, color, photo, etc.
Being an ocean away from my family. I would find that so hard.

c) Tell you something I like about me.
I'm a good cook.

d) Tell you a memory I made up of you.
I remember you sitting in my living room, one hand wrapped around a steaming mug, and the other waving as you talked. The late morning sun streamed in through the windows, and you glowed against the dull green twill of the couch.

e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about.
Fish! Tell me something about fish!

f) Tell you my favorite userpic from your post.
Did you see thursday_kat's icon? With the nails and the skin? Yum.

g) In return, you need to tell me how awesome I am.
*grins* I always learn a lot when we talk about spirituality stuff.

[drelfina.livejournal.com]

a)Because our conversations veer madly all over the place in a manner not unlike a drunken rabbit. Obviously now I need to go find some poor pathetic rabbit to get drunk. Or maybe a squirrel. I know that there's at least two living near the student union...

b) Being an ocean away from my family. I would find that so hard. Strangely enough, I find my parents (Okay, my mother) more tolerable because I'm a whole ocean away from home. It's even better that I have a 12 hour time difference too. Plus I'm now two states closer to my sister. What I do miss is the easy familiarity of knowing that someone was asleep in the same room as you. That there was someone with you, that you could lie back on the bed in the dark and talk to them. It's something I've grown up with, and when I went to NZ, I actually had a roommate (for two years) that I could do that with. Now that, I do miss. A little.

c) I'm a good cook. Yay! That totally means you should bake me cookies. and send them to me. :D

d) I remember you sitting in my living room, one hand wrapped around a steaming mug, and the other waving as you talked. The late morning sun streamed in through the windows, and you glowed against the dull green twill of the couch. Damn, that was a good one. Kinda chilly though, and I had to tuck my toes under me, cause my socks were thin, and spring's not yet warm enough. (That kinda reminds me of Mistful's Draco.)

e) Fish, eh? Apparently someone's done a spatial cognition experiment on blind mexican cavefish. She also did something about the handedness of the fish, whether fish prefer to swim with a wall on their left or their right, and so on. But that one I wasn't so sure. She did some pretty elegant experiments with little blocks in the environment of fish, and so on and so forth.

f) I saw! Boobies. :P I think the green thingy was nice. I totally didn't notice the nails. >.>

g) Really? I always have to think through my own assumptions whenever we talk. :P

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

My feet are cold right now, 'cause I forgot to put on socks this morning.

So - How do blind fish build spatial cognition? Through bumping into things? Or... I don't know - feeling in the water? We were mesmerized by a science clip on tv the other day watching people figure out how hammerhead sharks see.

*hugs you* I totally should send you a care package. But I'm TERRIBLE at getting to the post office. *hides from Nene*

[drelfina.livejournal.com]

heh. I like cold feet actually. Reminds me that I'm alive and awake.

Yup! THat's how we think blind cave fish work! They feel in the water cause of the lateral line system they have running down their sides. It's like if you tossed a blind person in a room - they'd go around and around till they learnt where everything was - sort of touching, but a little further than that. Like touching with their ears.

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

That is SO COOL.

[drelfina.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? :DDDDD

I only just discovered that not ALL fish have a lateral line system! Some of them don't have the canal system, only the skin surface neuromasts, called the superficial neuromasts. Like having haircells on their skin. Of course these fish are probably sighted fish which rely on many other things to navigate, but isn't it damn cool?

[myrafur.livejournal.com]

LE'S HAVE IT, WOMAN

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

a) Tell you why you should friend me.
Because I need someone to encourage me to write the Draco-centric bunny in the back of my head. Five Times Draco Malfoy Said "I Love You" And Meant It.

b) Associate you with something unlikable -- a fandom, song, color, photo, etc.
Labour pains.

c) Tell you something I like about me.
I'm the kind of parent that takes her 10 year old to a 9pm special screening of the Death Note movie on a school night. An hour away from home.

d) Tell you a memory I made up of you.
We met at the life drawing class, remember? That first morning I was almost late, because I'd stopped for a coffee after getting off the bus, and then I got to the class with barely enough time to change into my robe before dropping it for the opening sketches. I didn't notice you until the first break, when you were muttering over one of the sketches. When I was back a couple of weeks later, holding those long poses, you brought me a coffee, and I drank it sitting by the heater, even though it had sugar in it, and I never put sugar in my coffee. You had conte smudged across your cheek, and your hair was mussed and kind of sticking up, and when the break was over, I felt naked for the first time when I dropped the robe.

e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about.
Where does the time go? And what is it about having children that changes the space/time continuum into this rushing stream where they just keep getting bigger and bigger. I remember when they were little, and suddenly they're wearing my shoes and so tall.

f) Tell you my favorite userpic from your post.
Ooohhh - as I said above, I'm awfully fond of thursday_kat's green corset icon, but I've like your Sasuke translation icon for a long time. It's really kind of him. Deadpan, direct, hidden message, trusting that the person who needs to get the message will get it. Broken little puppy that he is.

[frackin-sweet.livejournal.com]

I am always gobsmacked by your writing. And whenever you write about your life, you always seem wise, and sane, and yet somehow still sharp and funny and self-depracating and un-annoying because I'm the type of person who finds people who are too cool annoying, I'm an ass.

So, yeah. ^___^

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[beachlass.livejournal.com]

a) Tell you why you should friend me.
To bolster my ego by saying such nice things about me!

b) Associate you with something unlikable -- a fandom, song, color, photo, etc.
Oh --- the letdown from the scene when you think Starbuck is in bed with Lee, and it turns out to be Gaius

c) Tell you something I like about me.
Little things make me happy. Driving down gravel roads with fields and trees stretched out as far as I can see. Channel surfing on the radio and always, always stopping for the disco tunes. The smell of nasturtiums.

d) Tell you a memory I made up of you.
Jesus. I remember that time you pushed me up against the wall. You leaned in, eyes narrowed, and in that low, breathy, scotch scented voice asked if I was sure. The hall was so dark and narrow, and when someone walked past us, they jostled you just enough that the edge of your bracelet dug into my collarbone and the wall shuddered from the beat of the music in the bar and I couldn't even catch my breath to answer.

*grins*

e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about.

High school: The Cure? or AC/DC?

f) Tell you my favorite userpic from your post.

Well, I do love Starbuck, but seriously - did you get a look at thursday_kat's icon?

g) In return, you need to tell me how awesome I am.
Awww - seriously.... Those are incredibly sweet things to say. I'm gonna save up "wise and sane" for the days when I feel neither.

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[frackin-sweet.livejournal.com]

Srsly, save up "wise and sane" for whenever you need them. Not that you seem like you ever reach the point of "ranting and unhinged", but hey...we all get close, some days XD

As for e)...The Cure. I still have concert t-shirts from that era. And pictures, in which I was smoking clove cigarettes. Oh. god. That was a really long time ago, wasn't it.

So, were you sure? ^__^

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[beachlass.livejournal.com]

Hmm... If I'm ranting, I'm usually okay - unhinged gets really, really quiet.


Oh, The Cure. I was doing something the other day, and was suddenly reminded of the video for.... Love Cats?... Inside the box, with the finger puppets? (wanna be, wanna be, wanna be wanna be pretty...)

e) Now you don't remember my answer? I'm offended!

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

You are quite awesome. Only an awesome person would have such a Kakashi, and such a purple-and-green icon, at once.

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

a) Tell you why you should friend me.
Well. Kakashi is a pretty good reason, although I haven't written any Kakashi in quite some time.

b) Associate you with something unlikable -- a fandom, song, color, photo, etc.
My to-do list - which is overly long, and included responding to this post.

c) Tell you something I like about me.
I'm becoming handier at fixing things around our house - today I swapped out two ceiling lights.

d) Tell you a memory I made up of you.
What I remember most about the season we raced together are the downwind legs. Even with all the twitchy-ness of trimming the spinnaker, you would relax, and peel off a layer. You wore those big wrap-around polarized sunglasses, and would grin as we accelerated when the chute caught the wind.

e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about.
di'Taykan? What's that?

f) Tell you my favorite userpic from your post.
still the corset
g) In return, you need to tell me how awesome I am.

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

e) It's a literary reference. Species that invented flavored massage oil before they invented the wheel, and have some truly amazing pheromones.

Or more accurately, one of the stages of a species. There's the di'Taykan, the qui'Taykan...

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

Huh. That sounds familiar. Tanya Huff?

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

Eyup. Her 'Valor' series.

...I named my computer and my iPod after two of the characters from those books.

I am SAD.