Meme of random narcissism

[chanaleh]

Here's a meme that was going around again recently.

Five random idiosyncratic things about me you probably don't know:

1. I have to have at least two kinds of shampoo and three kinds of conditioner in my shower at all times. (Not always the same two or three kinds, although I certainly go through phases. But I have to have an active rotation.)
   
2. I have

Comments

[cos]

Huh. I knew all of the "obvious" ones but of the first set, I don't remember knowing #3 or #4.

[firstfrost]

I am drawn to objects that use text as a decorative motif.

The one piece of Real Art I own is an ink work called "Red Lit Room" by Claudia Goulette. (You can see it here if you go a couple of pages forward). It's all just text, writ fine and variously legible and illegible. I saw it hanging in Soprafina on Beacon St. in Somerville, walking home one day years ago, and I just stopped outside the gallery and ogled it. Then the next day I walked home again and ogled it. Then I made other people walk to the store with me and look in the window, and they all mostly nodded and said "mmm hmm." Anyway, I finally bought it, and it's hanging in the living room, and people look at it and say "umm... what is that picture supposed to be?" and all I can explain is "It's words. Look closer. It's all words." They mostly give me funny looks, but I think you might ogle it too. :)

[chanaleh]

That does sound cool. But I think you are a typographer at heart also. :-)

[drwex]

I knew you'd converted and remember being surprised when I found out - it's not just that you "pass" well; it's that converts are so rare it's statistically silly to assume any random Jew you meet is a convert.

Of course, I've never heard the _reasons_ why you converted, nor do I think I ever knew what you were raised as...

[chanaleh]

http://world.std.com/~muffin/conversion/ :-)

And I see your point about the statistics (despite the abnormally high occurrence in my personal sample set; at our first-night seder, for instance, someone pointed it out and we counted four or five out of 14). But there are some people who kinda set off one's radar -- their looks, mannerisms, whatever. I'm not one of those. (Although the very intuitive, like ablock, put it together once they pick up a few other key pieces of background information.) Even when I was at Brandeis, going to Hillel, well before I converted: "Your name is Erica Schultz and you're NOT Jewish??" I expected that being 5'10" and fair-haired would give me away, but it really does not.

[drwex]

Isn't everyone from the midwest 5'10" and fair-haired? *grin*

Thanks for the link to your story page. Very interesting!

[nightstalker]

1-3 on the first list apply to me too.

And add me to the list of people who didn't know you were a Ger.

[chanaleh]

Well, how would you, really? :-)

[nightstalker]

Jewdar?