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Return of Memoryfest - Day 31/31

Jan 30, 2007 23:12

Last day. *sniff* Suddenly I am assaulted with ideas for memories, and room for only one of them. Let’s go back to the beginning. Or one of many beginnings.

31. Pre-school, Kindergarten, possibly Elementary School

( Early reading memories, and a bonus photograph. )

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jadesfire January 31 2007, 12:56:51 UTC

Sadly words are more my thing than photos, so you're stuck with the emu :D

My favourite game when I was about 3 was a word one. Mum had small cards with simple words on them that she'd spread out all over the (rather small) living room floor. Then she'd read a word out and I'd have to jump on it. At that age, this about as exciting as it gets, which is probably why I still get such a kick out of reading.

Actually, she maintains it was purely selfish, teaching me to read as soon as possible - as a single parent, she needed something (preferably cheap) to keep me occupied while she got on with her work, and reading was ideal!

bironic January 31 2007, 13:00:38 UTC

At that age, this about as exciting as it gets

Heh. That does sound like a lot of fun. And selfish motives or not, if it got you reading, and so early, your mum's to be congratulated.

(Is it weird and/or pretentious for an American referring to an Englishperson's mother to say "mum" rather than "mom"?)

P.S. There are far worse things to be stuck with than an emu. The photo made me laugh.

jadesfire January 31 2007, 13:08:43 UTC

(Is it weird and/or pretentious for an American referring to an Englishperson's mother to say "mum" rather than "mom"?)

Nope! I don't think of her as my 'mom', so that would have been weird ;) The emu makes me smile as well, and, boy, do I need that today...

bironic January 31 2007, 14:01:22 UTC

It would seem, then, that we both do. Hope things, whatever they are, start looking up for you.

OK on the "mom"/"mum," then. Hard to tell whether it's better to risk sounding pretentious or to mildly offend the other person by enforcing an Americanism on him/her. :)

jadesfire January 31 2007, 14:05:53 UTC

I have a small stuffed dog keeping me company, and that's working wonders. Um, there's an explanation at my LJ *blushes*

On the spelling, I tend to think it's sensitive rather than pretentious, as it proves you know the difference! I had a (relatively) huge crisis over the spelling in my latest story, as it's Americans in America, but as the primary show is British and I'm British, I decided that we had the casting votes. *grin* But when I write House or Criminal Minds, I use American spelling, because, well, it just seems appropriate. Sorry to ramble - language fascinates me :D

bironic February 2 2007, 02:31:55 UTC

Ramble on! You're in sympathetic company. I went through a similar "crisis" when I wrote a Harry Potter story over the summer. The characters were English, in England, but I'm an American writing in America; I ended up keeping American spelling and punctuation but making sure the characters spoke only with British phrasing. But HP fandom has been hopelessly polluted with American writers, anyway, so it wasn't out of the ordinary at all for the story to have double-quotes ("") and "z"s for "s"s and so forth.

(See? I ramble too. :))

Hope you're feeling better. That was funny about people not thinking the teddy bear was strange. You were the one with the story about losing an Eeyore cell phone case, right? and people thought it was cute rather than silly?

jadesfire February 2 2007, 09:08:41 UTC

*blushes* yup, the phone case story was me. I'm actually not nearly as soppy as those two stories make out, but somehow that doesn't seem to come across. :D I think it's more that I'm just willing to admit to these things! It's either a certain simpleness of approach or shameless exhibitionism. I'll get back to you...

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