Personal trivia meme.

[saxikath]

Sure, why not. I've picked this up from rishikanta and gnomi.

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. 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 person who friended me would do this. Yes, even those I know really well. Then post this in your own journal, if you feel like it.

Tell me something you think I don't already know. I'm curious.

Comments

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

I really like Lemon Poppy seed cake/bread/muffins.

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I used to sit with both feet behind my head. Ahhh, the joys of being flexible when you were young.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

When I was in high school, I used to take notes simultaneously in Hebrew and English (a perk of being simultaneously ambidexterous and fluent in languages that are written in opposite directions).

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

You know that trick about hanging a spoon off your nose? Well, it's been a while since I tried it, but once upon a time I could hang four spoons simultaneously off different parts of my face.

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

I never learned to ride a bicycle.
(This is making it significantly harder to teach Michael how to ride one.)

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

I rode my bicycle from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2001.

[cnoocy]

I didn't read The Lord of the Rings until several years after college.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

I still have a hard time getting through the The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Sad but true.

[navrins]

I have never read it, and don't plan to. The first hundred pages of The Hobbit bored me to... well, to not reading any more of it. Twice.

I didn't like the first movie, haven't seen the second, and don't plan on seeing the third.

[totient]

ever since I was a very small child I have slept with my head under the pillow and my feet sticking out from under the blankets.

[qarylla.livejournal.com]

There are so many options.

1) I used to have a dark brown-ish purple hair in the back with pink and orange bangs that looked like I had a sunrise. My hair has also been teal, fire engine red, silver, and blue. It might have been green, but I don't remember.

2) I used to be on both the swim team and the track team in high school. I eventually want to get back to that and run a marathon.

3) I never finished Wellesley College. If I had the money, I would go back and finish, but I would major in English and Japanese Studies rather than Biochemistry.

[lemurtanis.livejournal.com]

I once ran away from home for about 45 minutes. I was 16 at the time.

[navrins]

On my fifth-grade math final, I determined I was going to do well, so I did every three-digit division and four-digit multiplication problem over and over again till I got the same answer twice, or reversing the problem (multiplying the quotient by the divisor to get the, um, big number I started with) till I was sure I was right.

It took me three days to finish. I was still taking it on the last day of classes.

Then I went to MIT. :-)

[zenala.livejournal.com]

You had math finals in 5th grade? Where I went, we had no formal math instruction till 7th grade pre-algebra... Luckily, I'd gone to a different school through 3rd grade, but we had some little "self-esteem" exercize in 5th grade, I think telling us it was OK not to know stuff, and on it were some long division problems which I knew I could do in 3rd grade, but realized could no longer do, and I got upset, and the teacher tried to tell me how people could learn math just fine if they started later, and she didn't quite seem to get the point that I had forgotten how to do something! I mean, learning later is all well and good, but losing skills you once had is damn disturbing... Still, later that year, there was a state-wide math contest test, and kids who the teacher thought would do well got math instruction for a few weeks. I wasn't one of them.

Guess who got the top score in the school?

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

I once placed third in a fencing tournament.

(of course, I say that fulling knowing I was never as good a fencer as Jade was.)

[ex-colorwhe.livejournal.com]

Daisies make me happy.

once upon a time when I was wack

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

In the Mather House dining hall, I put up fake "nutritional underground" stand-up tabletop signs, featuring the food value of invertebrates.

Re: once upon a time when I was wack

[ex-colorwhe.livejournal.com]

wudda bad boy!

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

I haven't started reading Return of the King yet.

[jangler.livejournal.com]

The very first CD I purchased for myself was Flood.

[tmcay.livejournal.com]

When I was applying to graduate schools, the University of Colorado made a clerical error and sent my application packet to the school of telecommunications instead of the school of theatre. An admissions counselor at the telecommunications school contacted me and offered me a full scholarship.

(After the error was discovered, my packet was forwarded to the right office where it was quickly rejected. In retrospect, I wonder if I should have changed disciplines in order to get the free ride.)

and yet...

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

...you do a phenomenal job as game show host (and writer, and and and!). Maybe telecom would have suited you in some ways?

The Rifleman

[cazique.livejournal.com]

I am actually a pretty good shot -- I have an Expert Rifleman rating in 50-foot rifle shooting. (I've never hunted anything, though, just paper targets.)

[mixedborder.livejournal.com]

My cat Enzian has travelled with me to Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria & Denmark.

[evelio.livejournal.com]

I have crooked pinkies.

[blkdrgn.livejournal.com]

I think I got into MIT because of sports, of all things.

[mlstrm.livejournal.com]

I once won first place in the kids' division at a tongue twister contest at the Oregon State Fair. The contets was sponsored by Fuddruckers. I kid you not.