I Am Sheep, Watch Me Meme.
Feb. 2nd, 2009 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarJust like everyone else is doing, here are twenty-five things about me:
1. I have seven scars on my face. Three are fairly easily visible- in the middle of my forehead, on the bridge of my nose, under my lower lip. The others are much more difficult to see, one of them has nearly disappeared but I can find it if I try- above each eyebrow, by the outer end of my right eye and just under my chin.
2. If I were a boy, my name was going to be Bradley Steven. Were this the case, I would have been the only one of my siblings to escape the various naming conventions that run rampant in my family. Alas, my middle name is Marie.
3. I experience random periods of a form of dissociation called depersonalization- I feel like I'm watching someone else's life from their first-person point of view. Interestingly enough, I often feel emotions slightly stronger than normal when this happens. I also experience random periods of extreme loneliness. These two things are sometimes coincidental though often not, and have occurred for as long as I can remember. My first memories of either one predate the most likely logical explaination for them by two or three years. I don't talk about them very often, mostly because they are unremarkable to me. I'm now thirty years old and have experienced them for twenty-five or twenty-six years. They don't seem to be triggered by anything in particular and as I am so used to them, do not affect my ability to function. The only way anyone ever knows that this is going on is if I tell them, and they pretty much have to take my word for it.
4. In college, I learned how to throw a football reasonably decently and dance the minuet. I no longer know how to do either one.
5. I was in my school's gifted program in 6th-9th grades. It was largely a joke. We missed reading class once a week and never really did anything that I remember in 6th grade- the teacher, who was a high school English teacher- wasn't even there half the time. In 7th grade, we had a new teacher and she gave us a list of projects that everyone picked one from. I started to learn how to speak French, but for some reason that year, we were always forced to skip the class and stay in our regular reading class for something or other going on. In eighth grade, we had yet another teacher and I don't really remember anything about anything that we did. In ninth grade, it was back to the same teacher from 6th grade when I went to the high school and everyone in the high school program would be sporadically called to the library about once a month and we would basically just have a study hall and sit around wasting time. When I changed schools in 10th grade, I did not transfer in to their program, as it would take up a class every day and did not appear to include anything that interested me. I took French instead, though my mom had to bitch the guidance counselor out before he would concede- grudgingly- to let me take Spanish and French at the same time. His comment to that was "Don't come crying to me in January when you're flunking both." In January, I walked into his office and waved my report card with A's in both French and Spanish in his face. The next year, he had retired, I had a new guidance counselor and did not continue to take French.
6. I lettered in tennis in my senior year of high school.
7. I really wanted to play soccer in my senior year of high school, for something different to do. But my sister decided that she waned to play, and after being on the tennis team with her for two years, I really really didn't want to be on another team with her. She insisted that she wanted to play more than anything, I decided to concern myself more with getting ready to go to college, and she quit the team after only a few weeks.
8. A few things that I wanted to be when I grew up included a postal worker, an archaeologist, an astronaut, an orthodontist, an eye doctor and to work for Motorola.
9. I am fascinated by really tall heights for some reason- I always want to know what's up there. I'd be the one to step to the edge of a roof just so I could look down....when I was a little kid, I would have loved to live on the two hundredth floor of a building. My mom used to try to tell me that it would get too hot in the summer and that the air conditioning bill would be really expensive. That didn't really mean anything to me, I was five years old. Tree-climbing was one of my favorite activities...sadly, we never lived anywhere with trees that were good for climbing, so I didn't get to do so very often.
10. I am one of those weird people whose shampoo and conditioner must match. I know it doesn't have to be that way...but that's my preference. If I get the strawberry shampoo for dry hair, I have to get the strawberry conditioner for dry hair. Or whatever. It also really irks me that I always use conditioner much faster than shampoo...even though it always seems like roughly the same amount is being used of each one at a time.
11. It's completely unintentional, but I collect lip balms and as a result of always using a different one, I never seem to finish up a tube. I've got at least five in active use at home right now, and two at work.
12. Whenever I wear more than one necklace, they *must* be of sufficiently differing lengths that they don't overlap each other.
13. I carry a small library around in my backpack. Partially because I really do read that much, partially because I hate it when my backpack has no weight to it, partially because it always gives me an excuse to ignore people at my convenience.
14. I attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas for two years. I was accepted to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and invited to join their Women's Honors Program. I applied to Vanderbilt University and was rejected. I filled out but never sent applications for University of Rochester, Emerson College, Smith College, Pacific Lutheran University, University of Richmond and Hampshire College.
15. I spent my senior year of high school telling people that I was planning to double major in Astrophysics and Portuguese literature and that I had decided that I wanted to become a personal injury lawyer. Needless to say, no one believed me but it amused me nonetheless.
16. The first poem that I remember writing was in second grade. It was about snow, and it was...well, it was terrible. Even at the time I thought it was really awful, and I still cringe to remember it. (Yes, I remember most of it....no, I'm not going to share it. I don't care if I was only eight years old at the time.) However, my second grade teacher thought it was just awesome and one day it was read over the loudspeaker during morning announcements. All the kids in my class made fun of me for a week. It was horrifying.
17. My first online identity was the AIM screen name Io No So, which means "I don't know" in Italian. Everything I tried to pick was taken, and I made that one up in frustration. The account still exists, and I can still sign into it but I never use it.
18. In June 2003, I moved to Baltimore on a week's notice with $50 to my name, no job and basically just the hope that things would work out.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dcnblus helped me move and I slept on seaya's sofa for almost two months. I was hired at Rite Aid within a week of moving, but for several weeks, I only had that original $50. I mostly ate ramen noodles and entertained myself with lots and lots of library books. I also worked at a Subway for about two weeks in this time but they would only give me so many hours, and they conflicted with the hours that Rite Aid wanted me to work. Rite Aid was giving me more hours, so I quit Subway pretty quickly.
19. Five months later, I was hired by the company where I am still employed. I originally learned about the job fromding_0_ when I first moved here but didn't apply at the time because I didn't think I could do technical support. I was finally convinced to apply by Dominic in October when he started working here, and I just wasn't making enough money at Rite Aid (I was barely making above minimum wage, and wouldn't be considered for a raise for several more months.) I sent in a resumé, received a call within an hour for an interview first thing the next morning, and had an email offering me the job waiting for me when I got home. I left for six months in 2006 when the contract that I worked for was canceled, spent that time collecting unemployment and putting just enough effort into looking for another job to satisfy the state before I came back to work on another contract.
20. I was almost killed when a typewriter fell on my face when I was about 18 months old. This caused one of the visible scars mentioned in fact #1- the scar on the bridge of my nose.
21. I hate Coke. I like Pepsi. I taste a very definite difference between cherry Coke and cherry Pepsi, but I like both and will drink either one with a slight preference to cherry Pepsi.
22. I like sleeping, but I wish I didn't need to.
23. I had a letter to the editor published in a newspaper in some town in Illinois a couple of years ago when a town park decided to paint over its stage because there was a star in the middle of it, lest people should take it as a Satanic symbol and start doing sacrifices there. I read about it on the web, and wrote a letter pointing out how there are stars all over the American flag, the presidential seal, US currency etc but you don't see people trying to remove those.
24. I have never smoked- tobacco or otherwise, nor have I used any smokeless tobacco products, or any illegal/recreational drugs. I've also never been drunk, only slightly buzzed.
25. I have very dark green eyes- they usually show up as black or a greenish-tinged black in photos. No one else in my family has eyes of the same color, nor does anyone remember anyone else with eyes of the same color- most of my family members have brown eyes, a few have grey. When I cry, they become a lighter, much brighter shade of green.
1. I have seven scars on my face. Three are fairly easily visible- in the middle of my forehead, on the bridge of my nose, under my lower lip. The others are much more difficult to see, one of them has nearly disappeared but I can find it if I try- above each eyebrow, by the outer end of my right eye and just under my chin.
2. If I were a boy, my name was going to be Bradley Steven. Were this the case, I would have been the only one of my siblings to escape the various naming conventions that run rampant in my family. Alas, my middle name is Marie.
3. I experience random periods of a form of dissociation called depersonalization- I feel like I'm watching someone else's life from their first-person point of view. Interestingly enough, I often feel emotions slightly stronger than normal when this happens. I also experience random periods of extreme loneliness. These two things are sometimes coincidental though often not, and have occurred for as long as I can remember. My first memories of either one predate the most likely logical explaination for them by two or three years. I don't talk about them very often, mostly because they are unremarkable to me. I'm now thirty years old and have experienced them for twenty-five or twenty-six years. They don't seem to be triggered by anything in particular and as I am so used to them, do not affect my ability to function. The only way anyone ever knows that this is going on is if I tell them, and they pretty much have to take my word for it.
4. In college, I learned how to throw a football reasonably decently and dance the minuet. I no longer know how to do either one.
5. I was in my school's gifted program in 6th-9th grades. It was largely a joke. We missed reading class once a week and never really did anything that I remember in 6th grade- the teacher, who was a high school English teacher- wasn't even there half the time. In 7th grade, we had a new teacher and she gave us a list of projects that everyone picked one from. I started to learn how to speak French, but for some reason that year, we were always forced to skip the class and stay in our regular reading class for something or other going on. In eighth grade, we had yet another teacher and I don't really remember anything about anything that we did. In ninth grade, it was back to the same teacher from 6th grade when I went to the high school and everyone in the high school program would be sporadically called to the library about once a month and we would basically just have a study hall and sit around wasting time. When I changed schools in 10th grade, I did not transfer in to their program, as it would take up a class every day and did not appear to include anything that interested me. I took French instead, though my mom had to bitch the guidance counselor out before he would concede- grudgingly- to let me take Spanish and French at the same time. His comment to that was "Don't come crying to me in January when you're flunking both." In January, I walked into his office and waved my report card with A's in both French and Spanish in his face. The next year, he had retired, I had a new guidance counselor and did not continue to take French.
6. I lettered in tennis in my senior year of high school.
7. I really wanted to play soccer in my senior year of high school, for something different to do. But my sister decided that she waned to play, and after being on the tennis team with her for two years, I really really didn't want to be on another team with her. She insisted that she wanted to play more than anything, I decided to concern myself more with getting ready to go to college, and she quit the team after only a few weeks.
8. A few things that I wanted to be when I grew up included a postal worker, an archaeologist, an astronaut, an orthodontist, an eye doctor and to work for Motorola.
9. I am fascinated by really tall heights for some reason- I always want to know what's up there. I'd be the one to step to the edge of a roof just so I could look down....when I was a little kid, I would have loved to live on the two hundredth floor of a building. My mom used to try to tell me that it would get too hot in the summer and that the air conditioning bill would be really expensive. That didn't really mean anything to me, I was five years old. Tree-climbing was one of my favorite activities...sadly, we never lived anywhere with trees that were good for climbing, so I didn't get to do so very often.
10. I am one of those weird people whose shampoo and conditioner must match. I know it doesn't have to be that way...but that's my preference. If I get the strawberry shampoo for dry hair, I have to get the strawberry conditioner for dry hair. Or whatever. It also really irks me that I always use conditioner much faster than shampoo...even though it always seems like roughly the same amount is being used of each one at a time.
11. It's completely unintentional, but I collect lip balms and as a result of always using a different one, I never seem to finish up a tube. I've got at least five in active use at home right now, and two at work.
12. Whenever I wear more than one necklace, they *must* be of sufficiently differing lengths that they don't overlap each other.
13. I carry a small library around in my backpack. Partially because I really do read that much, partially because I hate it when my backpack has no weight to it, partially because it always gives me an excuse to ignore people at my convenience.
14. I attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas for two years. I was accepted to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and invited to join their Women's Honors Program. I applied to Vanderbilt University and was rejected. I filled out but never sent applications for University of Rochester, Emerson College, Smith College, Pacific Lutheran University, University of Richmond and Hampshire College.
15. I spent my senior year of high school telling people that I was planning to double major in Astrophysics and Portuguese literature and that I had decided that I wanted to become a personal injury lawyer. Needless to say, no one believed me but it amused me nonetheless.
16. The first poem that I remember writing was in second grade. It was about snow, and it was...well, it was terrible. Even at the time I thought it was really awful, and I still cringe to remember it. (Yes, I remember most of it....no, I'm not going to share it. I don't care if I was only eight years old at the time.) However, my second grade teacher thought it was just awesome and one day it was read over the loudspeaker during morning announcements. All the kids in my class made fun of me for a week. It was horrifying.
17. My first online identity was the AIM screen name Io No So, which means "I don't know" in Italian. Everything I tried to pick was taken, and I made that one up in frustration. The account still exists, and I can still sign into it but I never use it.
18. In June 2003, I moved to Baltimore on a week's notice with $50 to my name, no job and basically just the hope that things would work out.
dcnblus helped me move and I slept on seaya's sofa for almost two months. I was hired at Rite Aid within a week of moving, but for several weeks, I only had that original $50. I mostly ate ramen noodles and entertained myself with lots and lots of library books. I also worked at a Subway for about two weeks in this time but they would only give me so many hours, and they conflicted with the hours that Rite Aid wanted me to work. Rite Aid was giving me more hours, so I quit Subway pretty quickly.19. Five months later, I was hired by the company where I am still employed. I originally learned about the job from
ding_0_ when I first moved here but didn't apply at the time because I didn't think I could do technical support. I was finally convinced to apply by Dominic in October when he started working here, and I just wasn't making enough money at Rite Aid (I was barely making above minimum wage, and wouldn't be considered for a raise for several more months.) I sent in a resumé, received a call within an hour for an interview first thing the next morning, and had an email offering me the job waiting for me when I got home. I left for six months in 2006 when the contract that I worked for was canceled, spent that time collecting unemployment and putting just enough effort into looking for another job to satisfy the state before I came back to work on another contract.20. I was almost killed when a typewriter fell on my face when I was about 18 months old. This caused one of the visible scars mentioned in fact #1- the scar on the bridge of my nose.
21. I hate Coke. I like Pepsi. I taste a very definite difference between cherry Coke and cherry Pepsi, but I like both and will drink either one with a slight preference to cherry Pepsi.
22. I like sleeping, but I wish I didn't need to.
23. I had a letter to the editor published in a newspaper in some town in Illinois a couple of years ago when a town park decided to paint over its stage because there was a star in the middle of it, lest people should take it as a Satanic symbol and start doing sacrifices there. I read about it on the web, and wrote a letter pointing out how there are stars all over the American flag, the presidential seal, US currency etc but you don't see people trying to remove those.
24. I have never smoked- tobacco or otherwise, nor have I used any smokeless tobacco products, or any illegal/recreational drugs. I've also never been drunk, only slightly buzzed.
25. I have very dark green eyes- they usually show up as black or a greenish-tinged black in photos. No one else in my family has eyes of the same color, nor does anyone remember anyone else with eyes of the same color- most of my family members have brown eyes, a few have grey. When I cry, they become a lighter, much brighter shade of green.
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Retaliation
Date: 2009-02-03 04:37 pm (UTC)