A Meme, Or Let's Talk About Me!

[annundriel]

I got tagged by marynyu

I tried to come up with really random things I haven't used on variations of this one before.

- List 7 habits/quirks/facts.
- Tag 7 people to do the same.
- Don't tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag 'whoever wants to do it'.

01. When I play any Legend of Zelda game with Tris, I do the leg- and brain-work and make him take care of the bosses. Because I AM A WUSS OVER-EXCITABLE. We had a lot of fun with Twilight Princess (which we never finished. sad.), and I wasted lots of valuable schoolwork time. Thirteen year olds are a bad influence.

02. Hermann Corrodi's Venice is one of my favorite paintings. I'm not even exactly sure why. Something about the color and light, the water, the sky. It's part of the founding collection at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and I could stand in front of it for hours just...looking at it.

It's the first one on the top left here.

03. My writing notebooks are color-coded. An idea comes to me and it just...feels like a certain color, so that's the color I use. Then if I continue it, I'll continue using that color for the ease in finding all the related parts scattered through the notebook.

DiNozzo and McGee often end up in blue ink. Maybe it's a suit thing?

04. I hate not knowing words when I'm reading. If I come across one, I have to mark it, write it down, or look it up because otherwise my brain'll get stuck and I won't be able to move on. The dictionary app on my iPhone has saved hundreds of sticky notes from ending up in a pile with page numbers and words written on them.

05. I like things (books, movies, episodes, etc.) that make me sad. I think it's a cathartic thing.

For example, I love the Pacific Northwest Ballet Company's Swan Lake I've seen it twice. It's beautiful and heartbreaking and the ending kills me. I don't think I'd love it nearly as much if they didn't go for the heartbreak. (They talk about it here, with a clip of the final scene.)

06. I have weird issues with frogs. Live frogs freak me out. If you want to know the thing that freaks me out the most EVER, do a search for "surinam toad." ::shudder:: When the females lay eggs, they get embedded on her back and then skin grows over them, forming pockets in a honey-comb like pattern. The eggs hatch and the tadpoles grow up in those pockets and emerge from her back as fully-formed toads.

On the one hand, kinda cool. On the other hand, FREAKS THE HELL OUT OF ME. THEY ARE CREEPY.

Oh, god. Just thinking about it...

07. I have never been able to get past chapter eight in Sense & Sensibility. I've read every single other thing Jane Austen has written, but I cannot get through S&S.


I don't really like tagging people (though I don't mind being tagged; memes keep me entertained), even though I know there's the option to ignore. But I'll do it anyway: ember_firedrake, ginnith, jack_infinitude, mclachlan, olivelavonne, sdrohc_ratiug, spacefragments.

Comments

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, kinda cool. On the other hand, FREAKS THE HELL OUT OF ME. THEY ARE CREEPY.

Damn, the Lakebed Temple must have been a nightmare for you. :D

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

OMG I must have blocked that out! The temple itself was fine, but that FROG THING. Yeah, I definitely made someone else deal with that.

The absolute worst thing was when I was watching a Dracula adaptation on PBS and it ended. They went to commercial and BAM! SURINAM TOAD. Mom and I both recoiled in horror and were stuck on, "WTF, PBS?" the rest of the night.

[ember-firedrake.livejournal.com]

Re: #5 That reminds me of a quote from the Doctor Who episode, "Blink"

"I like sad. It's happy for deep people."

Re: #7 I have the same problem with Les Miserables. I'm 200 pages (out of over a thousand) in, so I don't want to restart it, but I don't want to continue it when it's been so long.

I'll probably fill this meme out tomorrow, when I can come up with somewhat intelligent responses. ;)

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

BRB LOLING FOREVER.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

"I like sad. It's happy for deep people."

YES. I remember when she said that I was like, "See! There! That's what I'm talking about!" I have a cousin who thinks I'm crazy when I'm like, "Let's watch this! It's brilliant! It makes me cry!"

Ooh, 200 pages out of 1000+. That's like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Do you slog through, or do you start again? Which might only lead you to the same predicament?

when I can come up with somewhat intelligent responses

haha, I looked back at older memes and it turns out I'd used several of these before anyway, despite trying to think of new things. Oh well.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

IT WAS ON HALLOWEEN, TOO.

It's like they KNEW I was watching.

Don't let them fool you with Seasame Street and reruns of Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood, PBS is a sadistic bastard.

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

It was part of an elaborate plot to drive you maaaaad. *wiggles fingers at you*

PBS is definitely a sadistic bastard, I'll drink to that. (Mr. Rogers reruns? Ooooo. Do you know if they're selling that series on DVD yet? I need something decent for my kids to watch in the future!)

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

It is an elaborate plot. One I'm sure they've been working on since before I was in pre-school. They are long-term planners.

A quick search shows that there are a few Mr. Rodgers' episodes on DVD. It doesn't look like a complete series, though. But they do exist! If I could whistle, I'd be whistling his theme song. Alas.

[lattimore.livejournal.com]

#5. Ohhh, Swan Lake - I have such a soft spot for it, since it was the first ballet I ever saw in real life. I'll need to remember to watch that youtube clip later on.

#7. Same for me with His Dark Materials - it seems like the sort of thing I'd enjoy, and it's a fantasy classic, but I start to read and my brain just goes offline. The words don't stick at all.

Do you like S&S as a film, or you can't really take it in any medium?

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I've seen bits of other Swan Lake productions, though PNB's is the only one I've seen in person. And maybe that's where the bias comes from. :) But it is so beautiful. There's nothing about it I don't love, from the set to the color palette to the choreography.

Oh, I kind of feel the same way about the third book in His Dark Materials. I read the first two fine, but I get to the third one and just cannot do it.

I LOVE S&S as a film. Particularly the one with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet (I've only seen parts of the most recent adaptation). It's just the book. And it makes no sense to me, since Jane Austen was pretty much my very first big obsession.