meme time again!
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floatingleafTagged by gairid:
A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it".
1. I drink hot tea after every meal. Or, at the least, after every substantial meal. It is the most obvious and natural thing for me and I can't get over my coworkers teasing me about it like it's something weird (I usually respond by saying that drinking tea several times a day is perfectly normal in most countries around the world - EXCEPT the United States, LOL).
2. When I discover some new music that I love, I usually play it ad nauseam for several days/weeks, until I have pretty much memorized it. I can't seem to get enough. Even if I do feel a bit disappointed once the novelty wears off and it starts sounding like something I've been listening to for years.:P
3. I have a deep-seated revulsion towards the advertising industry - in particular, the highly commercialized, consumerist frenzy that seems to surround all American holidays. It has put me off wanting to actually celebrate anything. For example, seeing pink hearts and ribbons EVERYWHERE two weeks BEFORE Valentine's Day simply makes me gag. By the time the actual date rolls around, I'm so sick of it all I just want it to be done and over with. Same goes for Christmas, Thanksgiving, you name it. I feel like it's all being brutally shoved in my face - and my natural reaction is to either totally ignore it, or bitch about it. I think it's significantly more considerate of me to choose the first option.;)
4. I hate money. I hate that everything in our everyday world seems to revolve around it - especially for those of us who don't have enough of it to be able to stop thinking about it all the time. I hate the corruption, inequality and sick power games that money creates. I wish I had the courage to just drop out of the entire evil money-based system and live in a hermit cave somewhere, feeding on roots and berries. But I don't have that courage, obviously, because I am too attached to my simple comforts (like hot water and high-speed internet - to name but a few). Which makes me feel trapped and helpless. And, yes, a coward.
5. I am fascinated by trees/forests. I have this irresistible urge to walk among the trees when I see them. Whenever my parents took me somewhere as a kid, I tended to just wander off into the woods, lol. I was always terribly disappointed when they called me back (once I got totally lost and nearly gave them both a heart attack, but that's another story :P). One of my most frequent recurring dreams includes following a seemingly endless forest path, with a sense of great inner peace, but also excitement and anticipation. Of course, I always wake up before I can discover what the excitement is all about.:)
6. I can read pretty fast, but I don't like to. I prefer to go slowly and savor every sentence. Especially if the reading material in question is worth it. If it isn't, then I'd rather not read it at all. Of course, reading slowly makes me notice all the little, insignificant errors, which sometimes throws me right out of the story - but it also makes me appreciate true language skills all the more. If I really love a book or a fanfic, I will purposely put off devouring it too quickly, because I know I am going to miss it once I am done.
7. Watching porn seems to have lost all its appeal for me. In most cases, I find it boring and/or mildly disgusting. Reading porn is a different story altogether - but only if it's well written. So, summa summarum, I seem to be getting off more on words than anything else... lol. Good example: vampire fiction. Erotic bloodsucking. Under a good writer's hand, the description of it can be terribly sexy. However, actually SEEING blood drip down someone's neck can totally make me nauseous. Same goes for a graphic close-up of someone's genitals - male or female, I might add. In most cases, it's actually a turn-off. Tell me all about the way this person is feeling as s/he is being touched 'down there' - but I don't really need to see all the anatomical detail. Unless they are a fantasy creature (like an elf, for example) and look absolutely perfect. Which can only happen in writing, of course. And let's not, for the moment, try to figure out what that says about me. It's not flattering, I'm sure.:P
Taggingdissonant_dream, gattodoro, illuins_lair, mellacita, stormatdusk, surreysmum and taelyn_sass.
Also, big thanks totaelyn_sass for the bear hug! :) *hugs back*
gairid: A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it".
1. I drink hot tea after every meal. Or, at the least, after every substantial meal. It is the most obvious and natural thing for me and I can't get over my coworkers teasing me about it like it's something weird (I usually respond by saying that drinking tea several times a day is perfectly normal in most countries around the world - EXCEPT the United States, LOL).
2. When I discover some new music that I love, I usually play it ad nauseam for several days/weeks, until I have pretty much memorized it. I can't seem to get enough. Even if I do feel a bit disappointed once the novelty wears off and it starts sounding like something I've been listening to for years.:P
3. I have a deep-seated revulsion towards the advertising industry - in particular, the highly commercialized, consumerist frenzy that seems to surround all American holidays. It has put me off wanting to actually celebrate anything. For example, seeing pink hearts and ribbons EVERYWHERE two weeks BEFORE Valentine's Day simply makes me gag. By the time the actual date rolls around, I'm so sick of it all I just want it to be done and over with. Same goes for Christmas, Thanksgiving, you name it. I feel like it's all being brutally shoved in my face - and my natural reaction is to either totally ignore it, or bitch about it. I think it's significantly more considerate of me to choose the first option.;)
4. I hate money. I hate that everything in our everyday world seems to revolve around it - especially for those of us who don't have enough of it to be able to stop thinking about it all the time. I hate the corruption, inequality and sick power games that money creates. I wish I had the courage to just drop out of the entire evil money-based system and live in a hermit cave somewhere, feeding on roots and berries. But I don't have that courage, obviously, because I am too attached to my simple comforts (like hot water and high-speed internet - to name but a few). Which makes me feel trapped and helpless. And, yes, a coward.
5. I am fascinated by trees/forests. I have this irresistible urge to walk among the trees when I see them. Whenever my parents took me somewhere as a kid, I tended to just wander off into the woods, lol. I was always terribly disappointed when they called me back (once I got totally lost and nearly gave them both a heart attack, but that's another story :P). One of my most frequent recurring dreams includes following a seemingly endless forest path, with a sense of great inner peace, but also excitement and anticipation. Of course, I always wake up before I can discover what the excitement is all about.:)
6. I can read pretty fast, but I don't like to. I prefer to go slowly and savor every sentence. Especially if the reading material in question is worth it. If it isn't, then I'd rather not read it at all. Of course, reading slowly makes me notice all the little, insignificant errors, which sometimes throws me right out of the story - but it also makes me appreciate true language skills all the more. If I really love a book or a fanfic, I will purposely put off devouring it too quickly, because I know I am going to miss it once I am done.
7. Watching porn seems to have lost all its appeal for me. In most cases, I find it boring and/or mildly disgusting. Reading porn is a different story altogether - but only if it's well written. So, summa summarum, I seem to be getting off more on words than anything else... lol. Good example: vampire fiction. Erotic bloodsucking. Under a good writer's hand, the description of it can be terribly sexy. However, actually SEEING blood drip down someone's neck can totally make me nauseous. Same goes for a graphic close-up of someone's genitals - male or female, I might add. In most cases, it's actually a turn-off. Tell me all about the way this person is feeling as s/he is being touched 'down there' - but I don't really need to see all the anatomical detail. Unless they are a fantasy creature (like an elf, for example) and look absolutely perfect. Which can only happen in writing, of course. And let's not, for the moment, try to figure out what that says about me. It's not flattering, I'm sure.:P
Tagging
dissonant_dream, gattodoro, illuins_lair, mellacita, stormatdusk, surreysmum and taelyn_sass. Also, big thanks to
taelyn_sass for the bear hug! :) *hugs back*
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Date: 2010-02-16 06:16 pm (UTC)Tea after meals.. I must have missed something essential damnit =P
Totally understand the thing with obsessively listening to new music =P (I tend to get stuck on certain songs sometimes and love them crazily; intense lovestories like that which usually end in indifference, wearing them out.)
3,4,6) Oh yeah.
7) lol - Oh yiss madam! I soooo agree on the watching/reading porn+having wordgasms and that graphic-inyourface-sex being quite intimidating/turn-off. Though watching gayporn can work but even that gets.. I dunno, not very descriptive? frankly; quite boring.(this is really interesting, I have to think about it more - the whole porn versus porn issue..)
Oh I forgot; elvish gentials in its own category then =D
This was really fun and interesting to read, I love quirks!! *twirls you*
Wha..? tagged?!! Moi?? *squeeish gulp* OMG I´ve never done one of these meme-thingies!! *g*
Only seven bad habits then..*nods* Oh god this can be fun! *hides under desk while looking for mah quirks*
*snork*
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Date: 2010-02-17 05:31 am (UTC)2) I'm the same with music I like...or if Im in a particular mood to hear something. I will play it to death ;)
3)We have a Thanksgiving? >:D With all the Xmas stuff that goes up after Halloween, I guess I never noticed it...LOL
Hmm perhaps we would not have been friends had I still been working as I was in marketing/advertising. >:D
But I worked for litigation lawyers, so its not exactly the same...
Halloween is still my favorite holiday even
though you see stuff for it in SEPTEMBER! SEPTEMBER!! I know I wish for my bday to be closer to Halloween, but this is ridiculous! It didnt used to be that way...wtf happened? And Xmas is the worst...its like a countdown to doomsday (only 14 shopping days left...tick tick tick) Im so put off by Xmas because of all the preXmas stuff...so much that it totally glosses over Thanksgiving.
5) You secretly are Aragorn reborn, looking for your elf >:D
7) Im the same way! Guess cause we are women we connect more with the emotion/meaning behind it...most guys I know are NOT like that (you've met them can you imagine it? >:D and sadly not even the gay ones think that way (at least not the ones I'm friends with) Seems in their later years, they wanted a 'relationship' instead of living the Brian Kinney vida loca.
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