my lemming nature

[asterroc]

If you comment on this post:

1. i’ll respond with something random about you
2. i’ll challenge you to try something
3. i’ll pick a color that i associate with you
4. i’ll tell you something i like about you
5. i’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. i’ll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. i’ll ask you something i’ve always wanted to ask you
8. feel free to repost to your blog

From amavia.

Comments

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

i can't resist a meme

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

me? i already have a guess what you're going to remember about me...tell me a memory and i'll tell you if it's what i guessed...

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Hm, interesting to try and figure it out for someone I don't know in person...

1. you're an ass man
2. make some baklava
3. dark blue
4. I like that you've gone back to school after a hiatus, and are more successful at it than most are.
5. when I made a crack about praying and you said you could NEVER picture me doing it. (I'll admit I did Monday, when I thought Peeper was going to die.)
6. badger
7. why *did* you have a hiatus in your education? (I don't think you've already told me, but if you have I want to substitute with the quesiton: "why in the world do you have that migraine-producing icon?!" :-P )

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

1. you are from a well-off family
2. try going a day without any music but country.
3. baby blue
4. I like that I cannot tell your age from how you communicate. You are mature and sophisticated.
5. After exchanging a few comments with you on sammka's blog, she pointed out that you're also a "she." OMG I was so embarassed! Assuming you were 15-years-old was closer to the truth. ;) I don't however, recall what we were talking about at the time.
6. a turtle!
7. How did you realize you were gay, and what made you decide to be out about it? (If that's too personal or rude, I'll come up with something else.)

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

1. yes, a nice ass is one of my great weaknesses.
2. haha, my ninja lab skills also extend to the kitchen (although it turns out that using an HF/Methylmercury/Potassium Cyanide rub wasn't the best way to make almond chicken). I have indeed made a passible baklava, although I dislike working with fine pastry wafer stuff.
3. For once it's not an earth tone.
4. I like that too.
5. Loved ones in critical condition has that effect on people. Very glad to hear that the FSM touched Peeper with His Noodly Appendage.
6. Badger Badger Badger
7. The easy answer: made a terrible choice about where to attend college, largely influenced by family pressures. Then had no idea what to do as my next move. Screwed around, made a mess of life, got sick of it and decided to try to remedy things. The other question's answer is simple, I've done alot of acid and therefore trippy things like that amuse me.

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

1. meh, i try not to be too obvious about that...i don't want to make people hate me.
2. my mom just got the new Dixie Chicks CD, i think i could manage that.
3. i should dye my hair that color! ^_^
4. thank you! once i was talking to a 30-year-old woman online...i thought she was younger than her age and she thought i was older than mine. heh.
5. damn, i was wrong! i thought you'd remember my hair, or the fact that i was Magenta...and honestly, i don't mind people calling me "he".
6. those are really cute! ^_^
7. in 9th grade my best friend started going out with her best friend, and i realized that i was starting to dislike her girlfriend...upon further examination i realized that this feeling was actually jealousy, and was struck by the shocking thoughts that a) i was in love with my best friend, and b) i might be queer! hehehe. so, i have trouble keeping my secrets...i can keep other people's secrets just fine, but my own always end up getting spilled. so i was dropping hints on my blog and a friend picked up on it, questioned me--in his exact words, "ooh, do you have feelings for her? ;-)" so...yeah. then the girl i had a crush on picked up on the same hints the next day, so i was out to two people...that summer i was kinda semi-out at CTY, in the sense that i wouldn't announce it but i wouldn't deny it. i ended up coming out to my mom when i had a fight with the girl i had a crush on and was crying about it and my mom demanded to know what was wrong and dragged it out of me. coming out to my sisters was rather different and considerably amusing...we were discussing which Harry Potter characters we found attractive, and they were guessing who i liked and they ran through every single possible male character before my little sister guessed Ginny. XD and then...i dunno, i gradually became more comfortable with being "out", realized that there weren't people around me who would hurt me if they knew...at this point i'm all pride-y, i mean i don't dress all in rainbows but i'd march in the Pride Parade if i could.

[sarrichelle.livejournal.com]

ok, ill try it :) see if you remember actually meeting me!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

1. Asses have never really grabbed me. Um, pun not intended. But since this Gap saleswoman mentioned a few weeks ago that I'm a "pear" (it cracks me up still!), I've realized that maybe I have a nice ass. :-P
2. I'm good at cooking when I can be troubled to do it; I'm fine at baking; I suck at chemistry. It took me a whole hour to mix solutions at pHs of 4, 4.5, and 5.0 from distilled water and vinegar. And then I overwatered the plants with them (as per my groupmates' instructions!) so I probably drowned the radish seeds. I am *not* enjoying a lot of this online class.
5. I'm planning on writing a nice letter to the vet and co. Hopefully Peeper's recovery will last long enough for me to do so...
6. freakylynx has been using a Snakes on a Plane version of that.
7. I'm always impressed by returning students. They always know better what they want out of life, and it's always clear what they've had to go up against to get where they are now - I had it easy. Go you!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

1. I understand. I was better off than most of my high school classmates as well, though nowadays a lot of my friends come from familes much better off than mine. For example, at a wedding this weekend, I got to see my friend's parents' new summer home. They had the fire department burn down their two cottages and build a 3-story, 10-BR, 4-bath mansion in its place. For their summer home. I just kept going in circles in my head saying "I'm never going to own a house like this." It stung b/c I'm actually starting to think about buying a house now, and it's sad to know that the only type actually comfortably within my price range are Ranches, and I'd as soon live in a trailer as a Ranch.
3. I just got some bleach and orange yesterday. I'm still pondering whether to go with streaks or the whole thing.
4. I suspect education makes a bigger difference (and perhaps class).
5. See, I don't know RHPS, so I still haven't put a face on you yet. :-P You aren't the awesome girl who dressed femme on Second Saturday, are you? B/c she rocks. :)
7. Hee, that's a cute story! I like it. :) If you get married and have kids you should tell them. (And hopefully you realize that I mean that as "gay marriage and child-rearing is awesome!" - not "you should become ex-gay and become a breeder!") In grad school I saw a sticker on a classmate's cabinet that read "Straight But Not Narrow" and realized that described me, and I've been doing my little part to push equal rights for all since.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

1. you're doing a big sister thing. How's that going anyways?
2. try sea squid - you can get it in a real Chinese resturant. It's best in oyster sauce.
3. cream - like an off white with a bit of yellow.
4. I like that whenever you start off bitching about something it turns into a funny story. :)
5. I don't clearly remember meeting you, but I've a vague impression of you sitting on meredithanne42 and unofischal's dark blue couch. Never claimed to have much of a memory...
6. stork
7. if you could go back in time ten years and tell yourself anything, what would it be?

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

5. hmm...Kai? she dressed as a drag queen...nah, i was wearing cargo pants and a t-shirt on 2nd saturday, which isn't too different from my usual style of dress, then i changed into a black halter and pinstriped miniskirt for the dance. i had short red/pink hair...
7. heh, my mom got me a sticker that said "straight but not narrow"...i asked her to get it for me before i realized i liked girls, and when she got it for me i hadn't yet come out to her so i couldn't explain why i couldn't stick it on anything. heh. and Beans got me a sticker with a rainbow that says "i don't even think straight" which is awesome but i can't really stick that on anything either. and i do like guys so who knows, i might even end up as a breeder...i don't like straight guys, though, i'd have to marry a bi one.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Hee, that sounds a bit like rosefox. ^_^ I was sad when I learned she couldn't donate blood b/c of it though. Not that I have in years myself though.

fun!

[blue102.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll tell you about when I met you! It was a few days after I moved to MA. Q was with me, and Lisa brought us over to John's apartment to meet everyone. I thought you were badass because you had short hair, and a cool velvety hippie-type skirt, AND you were from New Yawk City!

[rubicat.livejournal.com]

I did you. Now you can do me! :)
(shame we don't know much of each other. We should meet for lunch or something sometime....)

Re: fun!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Hee, you're anti-meme-ing! :)

1. you're just as paranoid about safety when rock-climbing as I am, making you the perfect partner.
2. hm, this one's a toughie. I know: live life like a normal person for a day. :-P
3. red
4. you're great at encouraging people, even when you're well above their ability level (for example, at climbing).
5. I'm sure glad you remember how we met, b/c I don't! I'm guessing the skirt was a purple one that I actually rarely wear b/c it's so short.
6. a chipmunk - always curious, energetic, and oh-so-cute!
7. I can't actually think of anything b/c you're so outgoing and honest that anything I've wanted to ask I felt safe to do so. :) So I'll cop out with: is there anything you've always wanted to tell me but didn't?

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

For my reference, you did it here.

1. you like taking pictures of your food just for fun - one of my friends does so as well, and I totally forgot to photograph the food at her wedding this past weekend. Oh well.
2. Do a photoshoot of an animal you find outside.
3. brown - an earthy tone of it, like tree bark
4. you love animals, and it really shows when you take their pictures. :)
5. ditto - somehow I conned you into making a silly little icon w/ my name in it, and I made a big deal of it. :-P
6. um, oh man, that's a tough choice. a mute swan - awkward on land and unable to trumpet, but when in your element you're beautiful and graceful.
7. may I see a crappy photo? that is, one you consider sub-par and wouldn't give to a client as part of the official set. if you'd rather not, I'll come up with another Q.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I forgot to say, lunch sometime would be cool. :) You can email me at zandperl-AT-gmail-DOT-com.

[sarrichelle.livejournal.com]

1. i dont have a little sister yet :( it's been a long wait. if i was a black or hispanic man, i would have had alittle weeks ago!
2/ um. no. i hate seafood and slimy things. especially slimy seafood- but thanks anyway :)
3.
4. haha!! i never noticed that, but thanks!
5. we met at their house i believe at the loss of kerry and also at a birthday party at the inn on the green in amherst
6.
7. stop caring about what people think of you. you deserve to be happy, so be happy. stop with the misery already!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

1. Foo, that's a shame. I guess they want you to big someone of the same race and gender. You could volunteer at a YMCA or 4H or Scouts or something.
2. It actually wasn't too bad. It tasted like beef with oyster sauce (since the sauce is so strong), and the texture was just like Jello.
5. That's right! They had those awesome maps and LOTS of red and blue crayons. :) Man, that was a blast, especially when we suddenly all realized we couldn't remember all the states' names. :-P
7. That's a hard one for everyone to learn, and not everyone does. :-\

[rubicat.livejournal.com]

I do sometimes take photos of random animals that I see on the street. My favourite was a bulldog named Meatball. This was taken a few years ago, and is not a good-quality photo, but I love it:


For a crappy photo: I had a lot of trouble with this shoot. I did two shoots several months apart, and the photos were just too dark and blurry. I did not use softboxes; rather, I bounced the studio lights off the ceiling and the result was just not enough light. Plus, my composition sucks in this photo. AND it's a bit blurry! They wanted to see the eyes, but you can't, really. Just an all-around bad photo, I think. I don't think they were thrilled with me, so I charged half price. Gah.