Meme and stuff

[mrissa]

I did this in greykev's journal, so I'm playing by the rules and doing it here:

respond to this in my journal and....
1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your journal.

Except that there are a lot more of you on my friendslist than on Kev's, so I will do as many of those things as seem appropriate, at least including 1 and 7, and I exempt you from 8 if you do participate.

My plans for the evening include finishing writing another chapter of Zodiac House (edited to add: done!), finishing reading matociquala's book (Carnival, and don't you just love that I have to specify which one, Bear? I would think that would be a neat feeling), working out, scruffing the doglet's head, and finding something else to eat. I am really not all that good at feeding just myself when I try to do it in pieces. It's better for me to eat in pieces -- better for the hypoglycemia -- but that's only true if I don't suck at it. Which I do. I end up whining at my body, "Oh, come onnnnn, I gave you a salad two hours ago, what more do you want?" The second avocado had gone south. I had planned on eating that avocado. Now I have to think of something else. Wailie woe. This is the drawback to feeling antisocial when markgritter is out of town and timprov's sleeping during the evenings: when I make dinner plans with friends, not only do I get to see them, but there is a firm notion of Food To Eat. Also I haven't got any food projects for just me this week because I have food projects for other people. So. Um. I think this is why I keep banana muffins in the freezer. Not that you cared, now that I've typed all this.

In other news, I apparently have a new title, "The Knee-Capping Princess of the North." As a title rather than a secret identity, I do not believe this supplants any of my superhero names.

That is all. You may return to your homes.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

*loff*

Thank you.

[eposia.livejournal.com]

I won't repost the meme, but I'll play here.

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Me, please?

J is reading Carnival too. It won't be my turn until he finishes.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pass on 8. I'll play! Your sandbox, respond whichever and however you want.

Oooh! Oooh! Scruffs!

[missista.livejournal.com]

I like sheeps. Even meme sheeps. And scruffs.

Re: Oooh! Oooh! Scruffs!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We can play Sheep if you want. I'm almost done with this chapter, and then we can go play Sheep. Just keep being a good girl and lying on the bed -- or running into markgritter's office to post, I guess....

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

I know you don't know me well--or at all, really--but I'm curious to see what you come up with. :)

[guipago.livejournal.com]

murrup?

[ckd]

I'm curious to see what you have to say, but I almost certainly won't fulfill 8.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I'm not certain I qualify for memery, but whatever.

I like memes like this. They have potential-- a survey's a survey, a quiz is just a quiz, a sigh is... never mind, but open-ended character-driven writey things can become much bigger. They don't have to be (which is why I can reply without guilt) but there's room to stretch.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Fun meme! I'm in.

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

Oh yes do me! I would need a brain to do #8 so I won't, but I'm finishing some of my art-giveaway projects this week.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I would love any of those. I might even do it myself, come the weekend. Certainly not before, unless my life is very different from what I currently expect.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Sure. I think I'm too drained by being sick to repost the meme myself (or rather, I could repost it; I just couldn't deal with the resulting obligations), but I'll bite.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Me. :)

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Fish, as they say over in ways_back_room.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Me, please, for whatever items you wouldn't mind doing. And I will repost it myself.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

No way am I doing 8, because it would eat my life, but otherwise sounds like fun!

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll bite. No promises of re-posting, but I think that could have gone without saying.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. I like your tenacity. Not only has it combined with my tenacity to make AN UNSTOPPABLE DUO -- er, sorry, I meant to say a long-term friendship -- but it gives me confidence that when you talk about making something interesting like a painting or a marriage, it'll get made and not just kind of half-assed.

2. The number of songs and movies that remind me of you is truly boggling. This is what comes of spending our teen years together. Let's go with "Young Frankenstein," because it was one of the first ones you and me and Mike and Jackie watched when we started hanging out, and Pearl Jam's "Alive" due to the AcaDec State thing. But there are stacks and scads more.

3. Coffee. Again.

4. Hap-py.

5. There was this tall kid with a cowlick who was around Math Counts and Wits Clash and Knowledge Masters, so I was spending four afternoons a week with him. And we started joking around about having an answer, even if it wasn't the right answer, and, Scott, do you know that was sixteen years ago? Dude. We are so old. (I mean, more you than me. But still.)

6. "Oh, just eat it, it's good." Alternately, "Stand back! I'll handle this!"

7. There are still things I don't know about you after sixteen years. And there are new things I don't know about you that didn't exist not to know sixteen years ago. But the thing is, I don't think any of them qualify as always wondered. I think we finished up always wondered after the first decade or so of being friends. So if you were a tree, what's your favorite color?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Is this just loff over the book comment, or did you mean that I should meme you?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

1. It is extremely obvious when faced with this icon, but I like how you smile all the way and not just kind of the polite lip-twitch.

3. Dinner again! Or con hanging out again. Or something.

7. If it's not too personal, how did you get your goddessdaughter?

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Just book-comment loff.

And you know, the usual loff.

3. Meet. In person. Someday.

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= Oh wait, I'm doing it all backwards.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

1. Thanks. An unstoppable duo, too, though.
2. I know.
5. I know, we're ridiculously ancient. When I met you, I don't know if I really believed I'd EVER get this old. I'm twice the age I was then, plus a little.
7. If I were a tree, my favorite color would be blue.