Adherents of the Repeated Meme
Gacked from taraljc:
Write 20 random facts about yourself; then tag the same amount of people as minutes it takes you to write the facts.
1. I was homeschooled until the age of sixteen, and still hate elementary math. Algebra, however, is fun.
2. As is evident from the time of this posting, I often stay up waaaay too late.
3. Over a period of seven or eight years, my brothers and I, who had only seen two or three Power Rangers episodes on other peoples' TVs, wrote an epic four-act radio script starring The Mighty Moron Flower Rangers which we never produced because they all lost interest. I still think it was hilarious.
4. I first read Hedda Gabler from one to three in the morning for an English class, and closed it in a haze of ABSOLUTE FURY, but couldn't do anything about it as everyone in the house was asleep. (I later vented my rage in a term paper, which won an award.)
5. There were chickens in my backyard until I was twenty-one (they were still mine, even when I wasn't living at home). The single rooster who's left spent three months this spring walking around with his head at a ninety-degree angle to his body. Then he reverted to type with no apparent ill effects. I love chickens -- they're insane.
6. My first story was written at the age of three, airborne on the way home from my grandparents'. The only reason I remember it is because my dad wrote it down on his primitive laptop. It involved my then-only little brother, the family cats, and a mysteriously acquired ability to fly.
7. The first science fiction story I submitted to a magazine (the venerable Weird Tales) garnered a rejection slip written by the actual editors. (Squee!) They said it left them, and I quote, 'completely conufsed', and advised me to submit something else, which they also rejected.
8. I once grew carrots. That is, I planted seeds and grew one carrot, about the size of the baby carrots you get in supermarkets. I don't know how long it was, because when I pulled it up something had eaten the tip.
9. My favorite ice cream is chocolate, but I'll take mint chocolate chip in a pinch.
10. My three favorite trilogies are The Lord of the Rings, Foundation, and The Riddle-Master Trilogy. My three favorite stand-alone books are The Guns of Navarone, Around the World in 80 Days, and (I have to admit) the mostly-finished novel I'd be working on right now if I wasn't so busy job-hunting.
11. I have seen spectral entities on two separate occasions. They didn't seem very spooky... just otherworldly. I have also seen a UFO, but it was a long time ago and no one believed me.
12. My ears are not pierced. I never got around to it, and now feel that I can leave them unpierced if I want to.
13. At the age of five, I crawled into the bottom of a sleeping bag with a pair of pinking shears and gave myself a haircut. My mother was not pleased.
14. I have climbed to the top of thirty-foot trees (and fallen out of them, too).
15. I have very mild scoliosis (you can't tell it's there, and I don't agree with my mother, who blames one of the times I fell out of a tree), and wore a back brace for three and a half years. This didn't straighten my spine, but it did improve my posture.
16. The first thing I noticed about Jason Isaacs in COS is that I have a crooked tooth in exactly the same place he does.
17. There is a six-inch papier-mache TARDIS on my desk, surrounded by nine pipe-cleaner Doctors with coats that I sewed myself. Hee.
18. I don't drink coffee.
19. Once in a while I pull out my acrylic paints and start large pictures that I usually don't finish for lack of time. I'd like to, though. There's a great picture of the Shadow in my portfolio, and he's basically finished, but the other figure on the canvas (the Shadow's wireless expert, Burbank) is only blocked out because I can't find a good picture of a telephone headset circa 1932.
20. I once made acorn flour. And let me tell you, cracking two thousand acorns with a rock is no joke. The kernels had to be baked, smashed, baked again, boiled three times, each time draining off the tannic acid, baked yet again, and then pulverized; but the resulting three cups of flour had a pleasant nutty taste and smelled absolutely heavenly.
I was doing other stuff while writing this, so if you haven't and you're interested... hey! you're tagged!
Write 20 random facts about yourself; then tag the same amount of people as minutes it takes you to write the facts.
1. I was homeschooled until the age of sixteen, and still hate elementary math. Algebra, however, is fun.
2. As is evident from the time of this posting, I often stay up waaaay too late.
3. Over a period of seven or eight years, my brothers and I, who had only seen two or three Power Rangers episodes on other peoples' TVs, wrote an epic four-act radio script starring The Mighty Moron Flower Rangers which we never produced because they all lost interest. I still think it was hilarious.
4. I first read Hedda Gabler from one to three in the morning for an English class, and closed it in a haze of ABSOLUTE FURY, but couldn't do anything about it as everyone in the house was asleep. (I later vented my rage in a term paper, which won an award.)
5. There were chickens in my backyard until I was twenty-one (they were still mine, even when I wasn't living at home). The single rooster who's left spent three months this spring walking around with his head at a ninety-degree angle to his body. Then he reverted to type with no apparent ill effects. I love chickens -- they're insane.
6. My first story was written at the age of three, airborne on the way home from my grandparents'. The only reason I remember it is because my dad wrote it down on his primitive laptop. It involved my then-only little brother, the family cats, and a mysteriously acquired ability to fly.
7. The first science fiction story I submitted to a magazine (the venerable Weird Tales) garnered a rejection slip written by the actual editors. (Squee!) They said it left them, and I quote, 'completely conufsed', and advised me to submit something else, which they also rejected.
8. I once grew carrots. That is, I planted seeds and grew one carrot, about the size of the baby carrots you get in supermarkets. I don't know how long it was, because when I pulled it up something had eaten the tip.
9. My favorite ice cream is chocolate, but I'll take mint chocolate chip in a pinch.
10. My three favorite trilogies are The Lord of the Rings, Foundation, and The Riddle-Master Trilogy. My three favorite stand-alone books are The Guns of Navarone, Around the World in 80 Days, and (I have to admit) the mostly-finished novel I'd be working on right now if I wasn't so busy job-hunting.
11. I have seen spectral entities on two separate occasions. They didn't seem very spooky... just otherworldly. I have also seen a UFO, but it was a long time ago and no one believed me.
12. My ears are not pierced. I never got around to it, and now feel that I can leave them unpierced if I want to.
13. At the age of five, I crawled into the bottom of a sleeping bag with a pair of pinking shears and gave myself a haircut. My mother was not pleased.
14. I have climbed to the top of thirty-foot trees (and fallen out of them, too).
15. I have very mild scoliosis (you can't tell it's there, and I don't agree with my mother, who blames one of the times I fell out of a tree), and wore a back brace for three and a half years. This didn't straighten my spine, but it did improve my posture.
16. The first thing I noticed about Jason Isaacs in COS is that I have a crooked tooth in exactly the same place he does.
17. There is a six-inch papier-mache TARDIS on my desk, surrounded by nine pipe-cleaner Doctors with coats that I sewed myself. Hee.
18. I don't drink coffee.
19. Once in a while I pull out my acrylic paints and start large pictures that I usually don't finish for lack of time. I'd like to, though. There's a great picture of the Shadow in my portfolio, and he's basically finished, but the other figure on the canvas (the Shadow's wireless expert, Burbank) is only blocked out because I can't find a good picture of a telephone headset circa 1932.
20. I once made acorn flour. And let me tell you, cracking two thousand acorns with a rock is no joke. The kernels had to be baked, smashed, baked again, boiled three times, each time draining off the tannic acid, baked yet again, and then pulverized; but the resulting three cups of flour had a pleasant nutty taste and smelled absolutely heavenly.
I was doing other stuff while writing this, so if you haven't and you're interested... hey! you're tagged!