Association Meme
Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
azriona gave me these:
1. Queen of baby!fic
2. Funny late-night lawyer conversations
3. Boston
4. Baking (in particular a raspberry breakfast thingie)
5. Red Sox
1. Queen of baby!fic
Aww! I'm still not entirely sure how this managed to happen. I swear, I only meant to write a one-shot so that jlrpuck would give Rose and Peter a baby! And now somehow it's over a year later and I'm still writing all about those babies. But I do hope that I have managed to bring unexpected joy to at least a few people who wouldn't have read baby!fic otherwise. I see myself as an ambassador of the genre!
2. Funny late-night lawyer conversations
Heh. Most times, if you don't laugh at life, you're going to end up in tears, and that's what most of my late-night lawyer conversations have been about. There are moments when I am dissolved into laughter because my other option would be to sob. It makes it all a little bearable to have people around who are equally sleep-deprived and stressed out and crazy and can have incoherent conversations with me. So that I can then transcribe them to share with all of you kind people, which makes things even more bearable.
It's been almost a full month since I had a late-night lawyer conversation.
I do not miss them at all.
3. Boston
Ah, Boston. I spent several years living outside of Boston, and I still think the place I live is the only thing I've gotten right in my life so far. I'm still dealing with the repercussions of moving back here, but I have never for one moment regretted it. For a certain type of person, Boston is the best city in the country. It's small while still being cultural, it's close-knit and walkable, it's gorgeous in the wintertime and pretty in the spring and fall and close to beaches in the summer, it's old and it's historic and the architecture is charming, the accents are terrific, the city is both Catholic and yet liberal, there's always something fun and cute and quirky to do, and everyone moves quickly and quietly, without trying to be friendly or wasting a lot of my time, which I greatly appreciate. Plus, I'm close enough to my family to pop home for family events.
4. Baking (in particular a raspberry breakfast thingie)
Yes, I was supposed to bake a new dessert every week, wasn't I? That fell apart quickly when my job decided I wasn't allowed to have a life. I should really start up again now that I've got time, but I've been easing into resuming my regular life again, falling back on things like chocolate chip cookies and brownies. I do love baking, I just really despise cleaning up after myself. I am extremely, extremely lazy. But hopefully I'll start baking again! I did bake a new pie for Thanksgiving. I took pictures of it and everything. But we didn't really like the pie, so I never posted about it.
But that raspberry breakfast thingie was quite delicious.
5. Red Sox
Oh, yes! The other awesome thing about living in Boston? They have this really great baseball team... I didn't realize how much more baseball pervades Boston life than it does life in other cities until I moved to other cities. Red Sox fans who grow up in New England are completely spoiled. You grow up with the game in your blood, the constant soundtrack to your summers. Bostonians do not discuss the weather when they make idle conversation with strangers, they discuss the Red Sox. And I am one of this lucky generation to have an incredible time with the Red Sox. I will never, ever forget exactly what 2003 and 2004 felt like. It's as vivid to me now as it was when it was happening. My grandfather lived his whole life and never saw the Red Sox win. I saw them win twice. And I thought of him at both victory parades.
It is impossible to describe, to those on the outside, what the Red Sox mean to people in Boston. And I really wish I could. ESPN did this special that was called something like "The Offseason: Boston's Winter of Bliss," and they interviewed a psychologist who said that people are inevitably disappointed when their team wins the championship, that the high wears off and they realize their lives are exactly the same. Ben Affleck, I think, was one of the Red Sox fans who was also interviewed, and I remember he said how flatly untrue that was, and that every day he wakes up and thinks, in disbelief, The Red Sox won the World Series! I still do the same thing. I've lived through it twice now, and I still don't believe it. And I think none of us will never get over it.
azriona gave me these:
1. Queen of baby!fic
2. Funny late-night lawyer conversations
3. Boston
4. Baking (in particular a raspberry breakfast thingie)
5. Red Sox
1. Queen of baby!fic
Aww! I'm still not entirely sure how this managed to happen. I swear, I only meant to write a one-shot so that jlrpuck would give Rose and Peter a baby! And now somehow it's over a year later and I'm still writing all about those babies. But I do hope that I have managed to bring unexpected joy to at least a few people who wouldn't have read baby!fic otherwise. I see myself as an ambassador of the genre!
2. Funny late-night lawyer conversations
Heh. Most times, if you don't laugh at life, you're going to end up in tears, and that's what most of my late-night lawyer conversations have been about. There are moments when I am dissolved into laughter because my other option would be to sob. It makes it all a little bearable to have people around who are equally sleep-deprived and stressed out and crazy and can have incoherent conversations with me. So that I can then transcribe them to share with all of you kind people, which makes things even more bearable.
It's been almost a full month since I had a late-night lawyer conversation.
I do not miss them at all.
3. Boston
Ah, Boston. I spent several years living outside of Boston, and I still think the place I live is the only thing I've gotten right in my life so far. I'm still dealing with the repercussions of moving back here, but I have never for one moment regretted it. For a certain type of person, Boston is the best city in the country. It's small while still being cultural, it's close-knit and walkable, it's gorgeous in the wintertime and pretty in the spring and fall and close to beaches in the summer, it's old and it's historic and the architecture is charming, the accents are terrific, the city is both Catholic and yet liberal, there's always something fun and cute and quirky to do, and everyone moves quickly and quietly, without trying to be friendly or wasting a lot of my time, which I greatly appreciate. Plus, I'm close enough to my family to pop home for family events.
4. Baking (in particular a raspberry breakfast thingie)
Yes, I was supposed to bake a new dessert every week, wasn't I? That fell apart quickly when my job decided I wasn't allowed to have a life. I should really start up again now that I've got time, but I've been easing into resuming my regular life again, falling back on things like chocolate chip cookies and brownies. I do love baking, I just really despise cleaning up after myself. I am extremely, extremely lazy. But hopefully I'll start baking again! I did bake a new pie for Thanksgiving. I took pictures of it and everything. But we didn't really like the pie, so I never posted about it.
But that raspberry breakfast thingie was quite delicious.
5. Red Sox
Oh, yes! The other awesome thing about living in Boston? They have this really great baseball team... I didn't realize how much more baseball pervades Boston life than it does life in other cities until I moved to other cities. Red Sox fans who grow up in New England are completely spoiled. You grow up with the game in your blood, the constant soundtrack to your summers. Bostonians do not discuss the weather when they make idle conversation with strangers, they discuss the Red Sox. And I am one of this lucky generation to have an incredible time with the Red Sox. I will never, ever forget exactly what 2003 and 2004 felt like. It's as vivid to me now as it was when it was happening. My grandfather lived his whole life and never saw the Red Sox win. I saw them win twice. And I thought of him at both victory parades.
It is impossible to describe, to those on the outside, what the Red Sox mean to people in Boston. And I really wish I could. ESPN did this special that was called something like "The Offseason: Boston's Winter of Bliss," and they interviewed a psychologist who said that people are inevitably disappointed when their team wins the championship, that the high wears off and they realize their lives are exactly the same. Ben Affleck, I think, was one of the Red Sox fans who was also interviewed, and I remember he said how flatly untrue that was, and that every day he wakes up and thinks, in disbelief, The Red Sox won the World Series! I still do the same thing. I've lived through it twice now, and I still don't believe it. And I think none of us will never get over it.