I am back! Have a meme!
I originally planned to use this icon when I was still at school and it really fit my mood, but I'm going to go ahead and use it now anyway.
I can't remember which Compendium entries I've linked to for the semester just past-- which, long story short, I survived-- so I'm just going to post an index of them here:
In which I move into my apartment
In which I almost miss my first day of teaching
In which grad school is hard, yo
In which the pros and cons of academia are weighed
In which I partake in debauchery
Now, this meme was on cleolinda 's journal last month, and I did it way back then and just never posted it, so here it is:
01. Answer each of the questions below the cut using the [Flickr] search engine. (ETA: I've changed the URL so it will automatically search "Most Interesting" for you.)
02. Choose a photo from the first three pages.
03. Copy the URL of your favorite photos [here].
04. Then share with the world.
(If those links don't work and you want to do this, check cleolinda at the end of November.
1. Name: Erin. I got lots of pictures of Ireland, and this one was my favorite. I love the overgrown house and the colors. It looks like fairyland, and speaks very much to my interests and I think my personality. It has a nice atmosphere of possibilities of enchantment.
2. Favorite food: Strawberries. Sometimes I wonder if I just say they are my favorite because I've been saying it so long, but it's really true. I'll eat anything with strawberries in it, the strawberries are the first fruit I go for in a fruit salad. I like the girl in the picture, too, dressed sort of like a cross between Strawberry Shortcake and Alice in Wonderland. Very whimsical.
3. Hometown: Indianapolis. Say what you will about it, I think Indianapolis has a really pretty downtown. This is the Soldiers and Sailors monument lit up for Christmas-- my familiy drives down to the circle to see it every year.
4: Favorite color: blue. Really I prefer light blues, like sky blue, but I love that this butterfly sort of has all of the shades of blue in its wings. Isn't it gorgeous? Especially set off against the purple flowers, which are probably my second-favorite color.
5. Celebrity Crush: My pretend boyfriend, John Krasinski. Look at that picture! How adorable and hot he can be at the same time!
6. Favorite Drink: I don't like any alcoholic beverage well enough to make one my favorite, but I love me some Dr. Pepper. I remember when I first discovered this-- it was at the free soda fountains at Holiday World and I was like, "Wow! This tastes like candy!"
7. Dream Holiday: Really, it would be all over Europe, but I especially want to go back to the UK. I chose this picture of Tower Bridge because it combines the new and the old-- both of which worlds I love and want to see so much more.
8. Favorite Dessert: Honestly? Ice cream cake. I had to think about that for a while, but that's what it is. It doesn't take a fancy dessert to make me happy. Okay, this picture of of kind of a fancy ice cream cake, while usually I would go for something more traditional, but this looked SO GOOD.
9. What I Want to Be When I Grow Up: A writer. Yes, still. I love how graceful this picture is-- this is the reason I still write my rough drafts longhand.
10. What I Love Most in the World: My family. In the "there's more than one type of family" sense-- which includes my real family and also the handful of really close friends whom I consider to be family. I could not live without you guys. I chose this picture because it's a family, but it's not the traditional parents-and-two-kids picture, and I like how they're doing something together, holding out against the tide and the dusk together. That's what family does with you, right?
11. One Word That Describes Me: I kind of cheated and did searches for "dorky," "geeky," and "nerdy," searchinig for a picture that fit me, because I don't distinguish between the terms. I finally found this picture of a book under "nerdy," and there hadn't been a picture that reflected my love of reading yet. When I saw that the book was Beowulf in Old English, I was sold.
12. My livejournal name: Lily Handmaiden. Apparently there is a brand of yarn called "Handmaiden" with a color scheme called "lily pond," or something. I liked the colors, and sort of warmed to the idea after a while. I finally chose this one because it's the start of something, but it's not complete-- it's not neatly sewn up and the yarn goes off in different directions. If you go with the life-is-a-woven-cloth metaphor, this is about how my life is right now: not complete, not organized, but with the potential of prettiness and definitely going somewhere.
I've loved looking at these and seeing how they really do reflect the people who made them. I think this one is pretty "me."
Here are my photo credits:
A DESERTED IRISH COTTAGE, IRELAND., 2. Strawberry Fields Forever..., 3. Up the skirt, 4. Blue Morpho, 5. John Krasinski, 6. Dublin Dr. Pepper, 7. Tower Bridge - London - United Kingdom, 8. Chocolate Raspberry Ice Cream Cake, 9. The Writer, 10. Family outing, 11. Photo Friday: Nerdy, 12. Beginning the Tuscany Shawl