Trying LJ25 challenge for a change
1. LJ appeared in April 1999, the year when I…was not born yet, but totally thought I was going to end up somewhere in Andromeda.
2. As a child, I wanted to become a…dinosaur, specifically the Yi Qi, whose fossil was discovered around my childhood, I was obsessed with paleontology.
3. My favorite school subject was…Mathematics, until I discovered the joys of looking out the window.
4. The tune of my carefree youth is...The Carpenters, On Top of the World.
5. Books (or an authors) that influenced me... Noam Chomsky, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, Arundhati Roy.
6. A city (or cities) I truly love...Kashmir and Paris(the land of Proust)
7. I started an LJ blog in 2020, because I wanted...to type my feelings out. Instead I channeled new emotions in.
8. The catch phrase that nearest and dearest recognize me by…"what a joke."
9. A movie I’m never tired to watch again...any Wes Anderson. Personally I loved the Grand Budapest Hotel and Darjeeling ltd. I love Wes Anderson, Wong Kar Wai, Martin Scorsese.
10. When I am 25, I will like…to drink coffee without sugar, and weekends.
11. I can’t live a day without....sending a meme to someone.
12. An LJ post I’d like to recommend to everyone…all of mine. thanks.
13. I’m proud of…my cat. She's done a very good job annoying everybody, she's got my genes.
15. My favorite LJ blog(s)- unsane1, btripp, annvole,fryusha, evseygribovsky
16. My favorite LJ community (-ies) your_food_today, math_in_school, math_lovers, mathart, nihilists
17. A dish (or a food product) I learned to like only as an adult...Kale leaves and celery.
18. Within these 25 years I’ve visited…Kashmir twice.
19. My favorite cure for sadness is…going to bed. It really works.
20. If I didn’t have to work, I’d do…reading all day.
21. My superpower is…acting like a posh British colonial from the 19th century.
22. A useful skill I’d like to teach younger generations is…painting dinosaurs.
23. If I could spend a day as an animal, that would be…a duck.
24. The way I’d like to grow old is…living in an old castle filled with cats (like Enya).
25. I’m grateful to LJ for…being and not being, dasein.
