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[sab]

I nabbed this from jenavira and I would appreciate it if you all would respond. For we are all Friends, here. You can even tell me something I already know.

To wit:

I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. I read your fic, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."

I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal.

ETA: my mood, because elke_tanzer asked so nicely, is now appropriately quixotic.

Comments

[furies.livejournal.com]

i can read french. i overdosed on flinestones vitamins when i was five. i don't understand why the sky is pink when it snows and that terrifies me. i like flip-flops and fairy tales, alliteration, and things in threes. and you're my long lost older sister.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

The sky's pink because the light's diffuse for the clouds. The yellow of the sun gets refracted pink because of the...stuff...in the atmosphere. Same as a sunset.

Now, why light refracts, why we see color, and why the sun is yellow to begin with -- I can't answer these questions and they make my head hurt.

I like all the other things you like. And I just sent my girl Sputnik to read your S&tC Miranda vignettes. So.

[ladysorka]

I am addicted to the Food Network.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I have crushes on both Susan Feniger and Mary-Sue Milliken, does that count? Susan's more my type, but I think Mary-Sue's got her head screwed on a little better, no?

But Susan wears those rings so well...

[corianderstem.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Alicia K, and music is my passion! I sing a lot and used to play the piano really well, but I'm horribly out of practice.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I thought you were re-picking-up the piano, so to speak? You should. You're still in a chorus, no?

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

*grin* I like spinach.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Cheater! No re-spinaching. You owe me a new one. *g*

[cofax7]

I am cofax. I believe in buying footwear as seldom as possible, and therefore it's okay to spend over $100 for a new pair of boots, right? Right?

I like spinach, by the way, and believe it is unjustly maligned. As is broccoli. Both of them are marvelous with cheese. Mmmm, cheese.

Machetes are also wonderful. Don't you agree?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Me, I love shoe shopping. But I tend to only have one pair of shoes in "active duty" at a time. I'll wear them for six months or a year, then swap out for a new pair, depending on the climate and season.

I'm all for expensive shoes, comfortable and solid and sexy and smell good. If you ever want to go shoe shopping, call me and I'll be there.

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

There's one place my husband and I visit that has an old-fashioned ice-cream parlour, and I always have a rum'n'raisin cone, even in the winter, because it's a ritual, y'see.

B

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Is it on the Connecticut coast? Near Jimmie's Lobster Rolls? I think I've been there.

Ah, man, now I'm nostalgic for New England, any time of year. Mmm, lobster roll.

It's near where my mom grew up, so the family makes it out there about once a year, assuming we're all on the right coast, for lobster rolls, ice cream, and a drive along the Sound.

[tangleofthorns.livejournal.com]

I like cheesy music and non-romance-related reality shows. And bisque-y soup.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Me too, with the reality shows. I do. I've liked every single Survivor. I watched the original Mole. I watched Celebrity Mole. I wish I were the Mole.

Maybe I am!

[runpunkrun]

I just had a sandwich.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I just had turkey chili. Also, did you get my e-mail?

Also, you were in my dream AGAIN last night. Did you get the first dream, with Connie and the winter sports?

Me.

[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

I play flute. I hate beets. When I was not-quite-eight, I fell out of a tree and broke my arm. I'm a TKE little sister. I was in Bush I's inaugural parade.

Re: Me.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I also hate beets. What's a TKE?

[intl-princess.livejournal.com]

my middle name is Helena. i can count to ten in maori and sing all the words to jesus christ superstar. i would read anything douglas coupland wrote. nothing makes me happier than riding in the back of black london taxis. i don't like eating foods that are green, so that rules out spinach.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I can also sing all the words to JCS, and I can say I Love You in thirteen languages. So far, neither of these things have gotten me very far, but I continue to sport them proudly.

The name "Helena" rocks.

I too like spinach. Tell your friends!

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

I also like boys named Daniel and meteor showers and Space Ghost and ice cream and fresh laundry and you. Sab is cool, yo.

Re: I too like spinach. Tell your friends!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

You know what else I like? Shampoo. And things that smell like shampoo. Like, if they made a candle that smelled like shampoo.

Ask runpunkrun. We spent some time shopping for perfume that smelled like shampoo.

It's harder than it sounds.

Also. I love spinach. I adore spinach. I may need to correct the thesis statement above. And, my first love was a Daniel. Nice Jewish boy, natch.

Mostly, I like you. And your nerd genius cool.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I have a scar on my forearm from making jam cookies.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Was it the jam's fault?

[tsiankiio.livejournal.com]

I once broke a finger falling over a handicap ramp. Also, I am obsessive about buying school supplies. Goes off to buy more pens...

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Okay, so _maayan and I went to the desert. We spent two days in the middle of X-Files-brand nothingness, all frightening and tumbleweedy and sandy and dry.

As we crested the mountains to return to civilization (Temecula), a mini-mall winked on the horizon, the red neon of a Staples humming in the afternoon sun.

We nearly kissed the ground. We bought pens and folders and three-ring binders and filing systems and accordion envelopes and index cards and day planners.

Mmmm, school supplies.

[thestylus.livejournal.com]

Me: I have a weakness for dusk and leather bracelets and boots. Also for lazy Sundays in bed with a real newspaper. And tea.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Leather bracelets. I love 'em. Nothing like a knobby wrist on a wiry babe with a leather bracelet wrapped around. And maybe shorts that stop barely at the knee?

[infinitemonkeys.livejournal.com]

I buy too many books. I detest vinegar on or in anything except crisps. I like poetry but don't write it any more. I think my own judgment is deeply suspect. I'm afraid of meeting people because I'm not good at it.

My favourite kind of TV is the repeats of 80s and 90s political thrillers on UK Drama. I think the best TV show I've ever seen is "Edge of Darkness" (though this changes). I think you would love it.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I already love your show. And I've never seen it. Can I get it on NTSC? I'm a sucker for 70s political thrillers, myself, American style. I can only assume the 80s in Britain comes with the same bad hair, low-rider automobiles and smarmy spies? With smart, funny banter and love-hate relationships between powerful women and caddish men?

I trust your judgment, so there. But you do suck at meeting people, though it's no fault but your own. You're too cute and smart and witty to be so shy. Speaking of which, when are you coming back to LA?

I love vinegar. On anything. Even my pulse points, like a fine cologne.

[lenadances.livejournal.com]

I love the dusty-orange kind of smell that a certain kind of crumbly pure-sugar candy and some floor cleansers share. I can remember trying out the hair-twirling/chewing thing when I was seven and deciding I liked it, but now I've been doing it so long that the only way to make me stop is to cut off all my hair. I hate tags in my clothes (and the seams in my socks) with a fierce passion. I used to be able to sing D above high C but I somehow think it is now lost to me forever.

Will that do? ::g::

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I used to chew my hair too, but it's been too short for about ten years now. I can still remember that great, sort of vaguely burnt taste. Mmm, hair.

I also hate tags, seams, sleeves that are the wrong length, socks that are the wrong length, turtlenecks that are too tight or anything irritating, itchy, or wrong.

I can't sing much of anything at all, however. That'll do. *g*

[pene.livejournal.com]

seriously, don't you already know everything I'd tell? remember how much I talk??

um. I have barely shopped for clothes or jewels or such since I left New York. mostly because I no longer have a girlfriend who'll shop for me. so I look exactly the same and am wearing all the same things as I was then. some of the clothes are yours. and it's pretty cool cause that doesn't feel weird.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

um. I have barely shopped for clothes or jewels or such since I left New York. mostly because I no longer have a girlfriend who'll shop for me.

eBay. I have a new obsession with 1960s bakelite/lucite/plastic jewelry. Where else can you get an enormous brooch in the shape of a scottie dog for four dollars?

Hey. Will you send me a picture of you?

Its Mommy Time

[gracie100.livejournal.com]

I have multiple degrees and I spend a large part of my day chauffeuring my children around. I hate ellipsis in writing, except in posts like this. I almost never do paperwork anymore, but I used to do a lot of it. I am in the middle of my mid-life crisis.

When I get to the end of it, I shall let you know how it turns out.

Re: Its Mommy Time

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I also hate ellipsis, but I have this problem because Microsoft Word, when you end a sentence with an em dash, like so --, flips the quotation marks around. Which is to say.

"Aidan, don't open that--"

If that were in Word, the closing quotes would be flipped around as opening quotes.

And rather than actually *solve* the Word problem, I've found myself using ellipses where I'd normally use an em dash.

Foiled again! And I hate 'em.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

I don't have a middle name, so I use my confirmation name, which is Johanna, instead. It's on everything but my birth certificate.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

My father doesn't have a middle name, so he uses NMI, for No Middle Initial, on documents that require said. He's Arthur NMI Sab'sDad.

[epj.livejournal.com]

I'm dating a man (semi-seriously) for the first time. This is exciting and fun and somewhat freaky.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

You get my zha zha zhu icon, for that.

That's fantastic, honey child. How long have you been together? Are you feeling the sparks? Are you having fun? Are you getting your own personal space when you need it?

[kernezelda]

I wanted to be Captain Kirk when I was a kid. After seeing Star Trek:Generations, I cried for hours and hours.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

At least he died saving the universe. Better than leaving him in that...space place, with the horses, and the eggs.

And remember -- since the Nexus exists outside linear time, there's probably a section where Kirk's still chopping wood till eternity, just crying out for a Kern/Kirk Mary Sue fic to call his name... *g*

[unsated.livejournal.com]

Hi. I'm John. I think you might know that, but I am not sure. I think you friended me long ago and we occationally comment. We have fics in common me thinks.

About me? I write but can't finish anything. I always make passes at girls who wear glasses... but not anymore cus one pinned me.

Aged Sumatra rocks.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

You got pinned? Or was that nailed? Details, pal, details.

I knew you were John. Or sometimes John's icon. Espresso for everybody!

[ratcreature]

I have only one plant, a lemon tree, which I got as a sapling (a gift from a friend who had grown it from a seed), but now it's almost as large as I am. It doesn't bloom yet though. I'm actually not sure whether trees you grow from seed in the lemons you buy are even viable that way at all. At least its leaves smell citrusy.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Good question! How do you make new lemons, though, if not by the seeds from other lemons? And if they're (the "they" who does things like this, natch) going to the trouble of making the seeds of commercial lemons non-fertile, why not just engineer a seedless lemon?

I'll bet it makes lemons. It just might take a couple more years. What climate are you in? Do you live in a land where lemons are indigenous?

[se-parsons.livejournal.com]

I really AM mean. It's not just a reputation. I wish I could sit down and do one thing until it's finished instead of starting millions of things and only doing a half-assed job on them. Cabbage products make me ill.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

You are really *not* mean. You're just straightforward. Actually, your puritanical midwestern no-nonsense streak more often manifests itself in kindness and generosity than in bona fide meanness. You are loyal and hardy. Not to be confused with Laurel and Hardy.

And I am with you, as you know, on the easily distracted finger in a million pies thing. But I like cabbage a lot.

And you're not mean. Cranky, maybe. But one of the most stubbornly loyal and kind people on the internet.

[logovo.livejournal.com]

Many, many years ago, before I even knew what fanfic was I wrote by hand a Star Wars/Battlestar Galactica story that I'm sure was awful but I loved doing. Not bad for a 15 yr in Tijuana in 1985. I was born for fandoms :)

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I wrote a Star Trek:TNG spec script when I was 15 that had implied Picard/Q slash in. And I had no idea about fanfic, just wanted to see them being Very Best Friends.

I'm going to come down to TJ soon, in the next couple weeks. Want to hang out, get a beer somewhere, you can show me the town?