The Nutmeg of Consolidation

 by way of wild_irises .

Tattoos: None. 
Surgeries: Tonsillectomy @ 13; wisdom teeth extraction; repair of broken elbow.

Broken bones: Broken elbow.  Not pleasant.
Shot a gun:  Toy only
Quit a job:A few times.
Flown on a plane: Yes; first flight on M*A*T*S With family.  Prop plane from Idlewild.
100+miles in car: driven & ridden.
Gone zip lining: No.  Way. José.
Watched someone give birth: In a movie.  Eeeep.
Watched someone dying: Held someone.
Ridden in an ambulance: Twice!
Been to Canada:in childhood and to visit.
... to Europe: lived there 3 years
... to Washington D.C: Disclaves!
... to Florida: Once.
... to Colorado: Changed planes in Denver
... to Mexico: No
... to Las Vegas: Yes
Sang karaoke:  Sort of.  
Had a pet: We had a puppy for about a week.  Mom is also phobic about dogs.
Been downhill skiing: Voluntary exposure to snow and cold?  That's diseased.
Gone snowboarding: No.  See previous
Ability to read music: Sort of.  Piano lessons..
Rode a motorcycle: On the back of one   "pillion?"
Rode a horse:  Once.  As a small child.
Stayed in a hospital: Yes.  Thrice.
Driven a stick shift: No.
Ride in Police Car: No
Driven a Boat: No
Eaten Escargot: I could have in Montréal.
Seen a UFO: No
Been on a Cruise: Not a real cruise, though.
Run out of Gas: The lessons of '74 are in awareness.
Eaten Sushi: Yes
Seen a Ghost: No

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I didn't think I commented on my own stuff quite that much.
( Who comments the most on this journal? )

 Some Buried Caesar, Rex Stout.  Which I may not finish because, for the first time, Archie Goodwin has got up my nose.  Which is odd, because this is the book in which he first encounters Lily Rowan, who becomes his main albeit offstage squeeze.  But Mr. Stout's prose style is (seemingly) just this side of stilted, And it is raking its nails on how I hear the characters speak.  I don't think this book is resisting me merely because Nero Wolfe is out of his comfort zone element.  Maybe I just can't read Stout anymore.

Rereading A Dark Matter, Peter Straub.  Many fewer loose ends this time.

This has extended into 4 Weeks for Dreamwidth.  Well, this is not a celebration one can have too much of, right?

18. What don't you talk about here, either because it's too personal or because you don't have the energy?

I don't have the emotional energy to answer this question. ;-}

Full list of questions.

9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?

By now, just about everyone I've thought of suggesting someone that they might be interested in reading has already subscribed and granted access to each other.  Wait, that sounded awkward.

6. What do you wish people who read your journal knew about you?

Goodness.  Mostly that although I am a dead bore, I am interested in you and what you're up to, and I do try to comment if I have the words.  And that I don't yell at people even if they are committing Fail, although Fail will probably bring out the Sarcasm Sprite.  Also that I get silly ideas for writing that evaporate within ten feet of laptop or pen.  Also I'd like to be long-form funny.  But enough about me.  Why has humor been reduced to bodily functions?

7. What is your favorite community on Dreamwidth?

Oooooh, tough one.  I seem to be ... detached ... from my communities lately.  A lot of that is because I'll see a community post, and by the time I've excavated a response, said post is at skip=150.  If I still remember what I wanted to say.  (Yes, yes, filter to communities only and remember to do so on the second pass.  The key word there is "remember,")

Lately, I have mostly commented at capslock_dreamwidth , but that is my inner snarkmeister talking.

12. What do you consider the five most "telling" interests from the list on your profile? Why?

Well, as I don't have an interests list, I decided to let my tags do the talking.

It turns out that deaths and birthdays totally fascinate me.  Leaving out deaths and birthdays, the next five most-tagged tags are:  "music fan," "baseball," "life & politix," "politix," and the ever-popular "what?"  This is interesting (ha!) in that I hadn't expected politix to be that high; this is not the political blog.  (Life & politix is supposed to cover the interactions thereof.)  And ""what?" is really supposed to be for sheer incredulity, not that there isn't a lot of that happening in the world.  

Obviously I need to get out more.

8. What community do you wish was more active?

All of them.

However, shutterspeed  was reactivated and I haven't had my camera out (except for getting the extra shots for the April project) lately.  I really should just check the image files.  Although I think one of the recent prompts was "red," and the images I flashed on were in New York, and the scanner Doesn't Work terribly well.  I want to participate more in classicfilm  and rocknroll_n_blues_queens  but I don't at the moment have anything to say (and I'm not alone).  I see sonnets everywhere except sonnets .

bechdel_test  and capslock_dreamwidth  have been pretty active, actually.

Actually, if they were all active, I couldn't keep up. :-)

4. What do you do online when you're not on DW?

Gee. Some of the stops on the circuit have changed, but mostly I still check the rounds of sites I've bookmarked over the years, sometimes more than once a day.  I play a game.  I research music on YouTube.  Occasionally I research other things.  Oh, and check email.

10. Tell me about your default icon.

For the last 4 years, it's been my handle in Uptype with the x superimposed on a black background and demonstrating CYMK.  Lately I've been thinking of changing it to Pirate Teacup because I've been selecting that a lot lately, but I don't want to have to change all the icons, and anyway, I am realizing as I type this, there are a couple of extra things that the teacup lacks.

Too bad one can't sort posts by icon.  That would be ... odd.

13. Do you have any unique interests on your user profile? What are they? How'd they get there?

Oh, right, I still haven't posted my interests.  The tags don't help either.  Ah, well.  Maybe the occasional infection control stuff?

20. Yes, but what are your thoughts on yaoi?


Still don't actually have any thoughts on yaoi; it just doesn't speak to me.

15. What's your current obsession? What about it captures your imagination?

I still don't have that kind of obsession, but at the moment I seem to be finding videos of the Temptations wherever I go. I stumbled upon the David Ruffin documentary this last weekend and the Eddie Kendricks documentary a bit later.  And there are various ancient clips and Soul Train performances floating around in YouTube land.  There's a series, Unsung, about forgotten/lost/deceased artists which I'll need to investigate later.  

It's all about harmony, choreography, and musical hooks.

Well, it's spring. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.

How this works: You comment (no keywords necessary), I give you an age (please indicate current age so you don't have to project into the future), and you respond to the meme questions (in your journal) with what was true of you then and what's true of you now.

wild_irises picked 27 for me, which, as it happened, was a year of transitions.

I lived in:

I started out in a funny-shaped apartment in New York City; about midway through the year, I moved to another apartment in New York City with different peculiarities. I currently live in an apartment in Oakland.

I drove:

A used Chevy affectionately called the Money Muncher or the Grey Ghost. She was a beauty, but the engine was a mistake. I now drive the Crimson Falcon (my late brother's car), which comes in handy when the temp agency gets me assignments that start before the buses run. It is not crimson.

I was in a relationship with:

Memory says that I ended one relationship and put energy into another and sort of accidentally kindled a third, except that I think memory is smushing 26, 27, and 28 together. In any case, I'm not doing that now.

I feared:

Canines.

I worked at:

The legal division of an insurance company. And that is how I know that lawyers are required to fail English before admittance to law school. Yeesh. I am now a parasite with occasional temp work.

I wanted to be:

Somebody else. It took me a while to figure that out. I'm still not grown-up. This...is a problem.