it's that meme.

[42itous]

Tell me something I don't know about you. Yes, you too, hoopdiver.

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[saxikath]

I am, apparently, physically incapable of turning a backwards somersault.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

I love (most) white flowers. And have amazing Yahtzee luck yet find that game mostly boring.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

In high school my friends and I kept logs of the car numbers of every subway car we rode in.

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

I can get really tough ball angles in pool,but usually blow it on the straight lines

[cutieperson]

i was a cheerleader in elementary school.

[arfur]

your elementary school _had_ cheerleaders?

[cutieperson]

yup. my sister, some friends and i started the squad when i was in fifth grade. but we did it because one of the other schools had just started one and we didn't want to be left out of the fun.

[miraclaire.livejournal.com]

For six months when I was a kid, I wanted to be a pediatrician. Then I realized how bad I am at science.

[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

You and your brother were two of my only . . . five or so friends, my Sophmore year of high school. Somehow you looked up to me, and I was so grateful for that ego boost. Away from your house, I felt utterly alone, worthless and useless. Teenage angst hit me pretty hard, and I have no idea how I would've pulled through without you and your brother.

Sappy but true!

[42itous.livejournal.com]

awwwww. So sappy. It's sad that teen angst was like that for you, but I'm glad we were able to convey our admiration sufficiently to make a difference.

[hoopdiver.livejournal.com]

Awww. Aren't you glad we're no longer teens? Happy birthday, PK!

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

I sang baritone in Sweet Adelines for a few years in college.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

baritone!?!

Actually, I find that the only time I can even come close to carrying a tune is if I'm standing next to the men in whatever group I'm trying to sing with. Not that I'd ever perform, but at my last SCA event there was an impromptu sing and I joined in for "Julian of Norwich."

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

When crafting, if I can't grok what it is that I'm doing I can't do it. Following directions is really hard for me, I really have to UNDERSTAND what it is that I'm doing before I do it.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way, with sewing but especially with cooking. I cannot follow a recipe, I always seem to leave out an ingredient or skip a step. When I want to cook something new, I find two or three recipes for it, read them thoroughly so I understand what's going on, and then wing it.

Sewing costumes, even after ~12 years in the business, I often have to tear seams out and redo them because I didn't understand how the garment goes together before I started.

[moechus.livejournal.com]

My approach exactly. In fact, I'm in the middle of preparing a baked camembert to take to sweetmmeblue's NYE party and that's what I'm doing. It's a hybrid of a couple of recipes (including some for baked brie). Fortunately, it's virtually impossible to go wrong with cheese because cheese is, by definition, good.

[moechus.livejournal.com]

One of these days I will figure out how to do those lj-tags correctly.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Uh... I baked cookies this afternoon.

And (because that one's kind of random) I usually have 5-6 knitting projects on needles at any given time.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I think I have to pick up knitting. I wanted to bring a quilting project with me when I went to UU church with my grandmother yesterday, but it was too unwieldy.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I love it. I find that having a knitting project in my bag wherever I go is 90% of the time a good decision. I love the portability (which is why it wins these days over sewing, since schlepping my sewing machine around is not an option).

[cnoocy]

My extracurriculars in HS were all based on singing or running.

[moechus.livejournal.com]

I once spent a night in jail in Thetford Mines, Quebec.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Ooh, sounds like there's a story lurking there.

[moechus.livejournal.com]

Not much of I story but I'd be happy to relate it. Just ask me the next time we see each other (whenever that might be).

Happy new year!

[merilisa.livejournal.com]

I am 34 today, and I still can't figure out how I feel about that.

[bluekniggit.livejournal.com]

You don't know much about me. In fact, I've never even commented on your journal before. (But I think we met at a party.)

What you don't know about me... Hmm..

I'm 29 and still have my first teddy bear sitting on the dresser next to my bed. His name is "Radar", though I have no recollection of how he got that name. That *is* the name of Big Bird's teddy bear on Sesame Street and so that seems most likely. Possibly, I thought that all teddy bears were named that.

This was around the same time that I had two bunnies. I knew in my little five-year-old head that a good name for a bunny would be an action verb, but I was pretty short on them at the time. As a result, I named my bunnies "Stop" and "Go".

Look, now you have *two* things about me. Oops. Please provide one about you in change and we'll call it even.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

It's a deal.

My dad read bedtime stories to me and my brother until I was in high school. He read us the Narnia books and Lord of the Rings and Sherlock Holmes and Asimov. He read us the Prydain books (The Book of Three, the Black Cauldron, etc) when I was about nine -- I remember this because I had a stuffed cat named Spikey, and the character Fflewddur Fflam is always described as having "spiky yellow hair."

[bluekniggit.livejournal.com]

I especially loved Prydan when I was a kid. In fact, I refused to read "The High King" until I was in high school because I was so traumatized by the series ending that I couldn't open the book.

I can't tell you my unfathomable levels of disappointment with the Disney movie. I bet they have the rights locked up for eternity too, so we'll never see one done right.

[arrowtoashes.livejournal.com]

NO WAY!

My first teddy bear has the same name, and totally for the same reason.


Maybe all teddy bears really *are* named Radar.



(and I think that counts as something people don't know about me as well)

[hoopdiver.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Now I have to think of something good, since you called me out specifically. I've been trying to come up with something all morning. Pressure's on!

[hoopdiver.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm pretty sure you don't know this about me: last year I spent several weekends as an intern for a company here in SF that holds workshops for guys on meeting and connecting with women. The whole culture surrounding the place was a little weird, even cultish at times, so I stopped doing it, but I did learn a lot while I was there.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Huh. What sorts of things did you learn?

[ceo]

I can scratch my entire back without assistance.

[gosling.livejournal.com]

As a kid, the only place to which I ever decided to sneak off to without my parents' knowledge was the local public library. (I had to cross a very busy street and go about a mile along roads with no sidewalks and poor visibility, hence my father had forbidden me to go there unless he or my mom drove me. I greatly resented my lack of independent mobility; this is why I flatly refuse to ever live anywhere without sidewalks, especially now that I have a child.)

[sagawizard.livejournal.com]

I once got held at gunpoint by a miniskirt-wearing soldier in China.

Which was NOT as fun as it might sound.

- SW