Me-me memery
Because these are all about moi:
If you have less than 50 interests, pick every fifth one. If you have between 50 and 75 interests, pick every seventh one. If you have over 75 interests, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List them on your LJ, and tell everyone exactly what it is about these things that interests you so much:
As I have 150 listed interests, I decided that every fifteenth one was quite a long enough list:
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(the correct usage of) A poor much abused and misunderstood punctuation mark: The Apostrophe Protection Society defends it.
Charlotte Yonge
Prolific and best-selling Victorian writer. Her works reflect her small-c conservative Anglican view of the world, but place the experiences and moral struggles of women at the forefront. I much prefer her novels of contemporary life to her historical novels, which have dated much more.
Dr Johnson
Because who doesn't like him? Love what he does with the English language
G B Stern
Neglected early C20th writer of novels and memoirs (her 'ragbag chronicles' are almost a proto-blog). I write about her quite a bit. Have thoughts of trying to write a biography of her myself some day, because there is an intriguing opacity about her self-revelations
Jane Gaskell
Writer of gaudily gothic fantasies (the 'Atlan' sequence, set in a prehistory where Atlantis has not yet submerged, are probably her best) and some novels of contemporary life, very early to mid 60s just pre-feminism. Although as far as I know she's still alive, she hasn't written much for years. Sun Bubble, a novel set in contemporary London, was the first one for quite a while, and I don't think there's been anything since.
Marie Lloyd
Late C19th and early C20th very popular music hall star, who was able to infuse relatively innocuous lyrics with enormous amounts of innuendo. The most famous story told about her, though, is completely apocryphal: none of her known songs involved the phrase 'she walks among the cabbages and peas' although one of the music halls at which she was a regular feature did have to make a case for the renewal of its license after moral campaigners tried to get it revoked during the 1890s.
Noel Coward
Love many of the songs, and several of the plays. The wit, the language, the interplay of words and music, even if some of his songs do begin to sound a little samey.
Robin McKinley
Ever since first reading The Blue Sword on its first publication. Lovely books.
Suzy McKee Charnas
Ever since first reading Walk to the End of the World some time during the 1970s. Part of those days when there seemed to be more of this good solid feminist science-fiction coming along (though memory suggests that there was a fair amount of fairly ghastly stuff as well).
Working out
The gym 2-3 times a week, and currently yoga once a week. I'm not very good, but it does me good.
From here:
The Birthdate Analysis Thing (omitting rather boring calendrical minutiae)
You were born on a Tuesday
under the astrological sign Libra.
Your Life path number is 1.
Your birthstone is Tourmaline
The Mystical properties of Tourmaline
Pink Tourmaline promotes female balance and protection. Green Toumaline promotes male balance.
Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)
Opal, Jasper
Your birth tree is
Rowan, the Sensitivity
Full of charm, cheerful, gifted, without egoism, likes to draw attention, loves life, motion, unrest and even complications, is both dependent and independent, good taste, artistic, passionate, emotional, good company, does not forgive.
The Name Analysis Thing
There are 13 letters in your name.
Those 13 letters total to 50
There are 4 vowels and 9 consonants in your name.
Your number is: 5
The characteristics of #5 are: Expansiveness, visionary, adventure, the constructive use of freedom.
The expression or destiny for #5:
The number 5 Expression endows with the wonderful characteristic of multi-talents and versatility. You can do so many things well. The tone of the number 5 is constructive freedom, and in your drive to attain this freedom, you will likely be the master of adaptability and change. You are good at presenting ideas and knowing how to approach people to get what you want. Naturally, this gives you an edge in any sort of selling game and spells easy success when it comes to working with people in most jobs. Your popularity may lead you toward some form of entertainment or amusement. Whatever you do, you are clever, analytical, and a very quick thinker.
If there is too much of the 5 energy in your makeup, you may express some the negative attitudes of the number. Your restless and impatient attitude may keep you from staying with any project for too long. Sometimes you can be rather erratic and scatter yourself and your energies. You have a hard time keeping regular office hours and maintaining any sort of a routine. You tend to react strongly if you sense that your freedom of speech or action is being impaired or restricted in any way. As clever as you are, you may have a tendency to make the same mistakes over and over again because much of your response is glib reaction rather that thoughtful application. You are in a continuous state of flux brought by constantly changing interests.
Your Soul Urge number is: 3
A Soul Urge number of 3 means:
With the Soul Urge number 3 your desire in life is personal expression, and generally enjoying life to its fullest. You want to participate in an active social life and enjoy a large circle of friends. You want to be in the limelight, expressing your artistic or intellectual talents. Word skills may be your thing; speaking, writing, acting, singing. In a positive sense, the 3 energy is friendly, outgoing and always very social.
You have a decidedly upbeat attitude that is rarely discouraged; a good mental and emotional balance.
The 3 Soul Urge gives intuitive insight, thus, very high creative and inspirational tendencies. The truly outstanding trait shown by the 3 Soul Urge is that of self-expression, regardless of the field of endeavor.
On the negative side, you may at times become too easygoing and too optimistic, tending to scatter forces and accomplish very little. Often, the excessive 3 energy produces non-stop talkers. Everyone has faults, but the 3 soul urge doesn't appreciate having these pointed out.
Your Inner Dream number is: 11
An Inner Dream number of 11 means:
You dream of casting the light of illumination; of being the true idealist. You secretly believe there is more to life than we can know or prove, and you would like to be provider of the 'word' from on high.