If it's summer, it must be time for more memeage. I got tagged for this one by The Combat Philosopher, and although I had some anxiety that everything remotely interesting about me has already been put on display here, I think at least some of these are new (whether they're interesting is another story).
1. I had a longer and more serious unicorn phase than most girls (lasting into junior high school)--despite the fact that I was never a particularly girly girl.
2. I virtually do not watch t.v. (I only just got a tiny one last year), but that's not a principled position, and I enjoy many shows when I see them; watching t.v. just isn't something that it occurs to me to do when I'm alone. On the other hand, I have NPR on all the time and will happily listen to repeat broadcasts even of programs I've just heard.
3. Among my friends, I have a reputation for knowing all the words to every remotely familiar song. This is an exaggeration. However, I am a little obsessive about knowing what's being said so that I can sing along. (The real problem here is that I can't carry a tune.)
4. I own some totally random luxury goods: a beaver-skin top hat from the turn of the previous century; a cigarette holder made out of amber and tipped with gold; a mink coat and a fox-fur stole; hotel silver from the Waldorf-Astoria. I also own 16 champagne flutes, two pewter flasks, a cut-glass punchbowl, more than 20 handbags, and an Underwood typewriter from the 1920s. It never occurs to me to wonder why I have these things.
5. If I didn't spend at least five minutes, every single day, tweezing my eyebrows, they would be noticeably out of control within 48 hours. Within two weeks, they would have nearly tripled in size.
6. According to people who know me, I have a wide range of highly individualized noises that I make to express frustration, displeasure, distress, and so on. They're the equivalent of "gah," "arrgh," and "meh," but less recognizable as human sounds--they've been compared to bird calls, crying baby animals, etc. I don't believe I would have noticed this if it hadn't been pointed out to me, and I'm somewhat self-conscious about it.
7. I'm pretty sure that I require fewer calories a day than the average person. If I'm not paying attention, I might only eat a granola bar before dinner, then make a sandwich, and call it good. I enjoy very good food (as well as yummy crappy food), but most of the eating I do is strictly to sustain life.
8. I was registered as a Republican for about two years, circa 1997-98, although I'm pretty sure I've never actually voted for one. (Oh, wait--except for Mike Bloomberg.) I just thought it would be funny, and maybe interesting to try on that identity.
8 comments:
I wish I had that particular food...uhhh...problem? I guess some people might call it a problem. I'd call it a godsend.
Sixteen champagne flutes?
..... sixteen???
Squadrato: Hey, you already knew I was a crackpot, right?? Actually, I just counted, and it turns out that I only have a dozen--six were an old set of my folks' and the other six, which are real crystal and quite beautiful, I got for 50 cents apiece at the Salvation Army. As for the why: for my 30th birthday I threw a party at which the only alcohol I served was Cava and a Cava-based punch. (But I fully expect that, at any moment, I might need them again. And the top hat. And the cigarette holder. Clearly, I have some bizarro fantasy life I'm preparing for.)
And Ianqui: aside from the fact that I sometimes wonder whether I have some kind of medical issue, I definitely don't consider it a problem. I'm sure there's a biological component, since I'm not deliberately depriving myself of food, or anything. . . but it also much be said that, unless it's in the context of a social occasion, I'm just not really that interested in food. And I kind of resent having to make time to cook, or even to eat. (Again with the crackpottery! And actually, this does strikes me as a very INTJ attitude.)
Flavia, you may be tired of memes... but I just tagged you again.
Flavia - holy crap! I have a turn of the previous century beaver-skin tophat too! I'm not joking - it was my great-grandfather's. It's too small for my head....and I have an old typewriter ca. 1910. Wait, am I you? :)
Flavia, MedievalWoman, clearly you two need to join a circus... the only place I know where top hats are worn regularly.
i'm with ianqui: i didn't even know such a food problem existed. i'm jealous.
Tophats? Cigarette holders? antique typewriters? Oooh, I'm so jealous (if you find them missing suddenly, you'll know who has them, heh).
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