saxikath

ghostowl tagged me, so...

The Rules:
1. Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
3. At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people.

1. I am physically incapable of turning a backward somersault. (I go over sideways.)
2. Bright sunlight makes me sneeze. (It's called the photic sneeze reflex, and it's genetic.)
3. I can touch my nose with my tongue.
4. Over my life, I've studied at least a little of Spanish, Latin, Russian, American Sign Language, Welsh, French, and German. Spanish is the only one I can actually use. I also know a little Italian from singing.
5. While I'm an avid (some might say insane...) LARPer now, I started the hobby late compared to most people. I didn't go to my first LARPlike event till I was 30. (I did do SCA in college and grad school, though.)
6. The creepiest place I've ever been is the Chapel of Bones in the Church of St. Francis in Evora, Portugal.
7. I have a growing collection of critters on the shelf above my desk. It currently includes a stuffed flu virus and a stuffed white blood cell, a hedgehog alebrije from Oaxaca, a mini purple rubber duck, a stuffed hermit crab puppet, a carved wooden sea lion from the Galapagos, a teddy bear named Buttercup, a seal balancing a pen on its nose, a stuffed llama with people on its back from Ecuador, and the most recent addition, a green stuffed triceratops I bought the other day. There's also a stuffed dog who perches on the monitor.
8. I have an unhealthy love for the two peanut butter varieties of Girl Scout cookies. (Tagalongs and Do-Si-Dos.)

And I tag... nah, I don't do the tag thing. If you want to do this, by all means.

( ...apparently I wouldn't be a tree. )

More substantive update soon.

From all over, a quotations meme. Go here, and keep hitting “refresh” until you’ve found a total of five quotations that are meaningful to you, or mean something about you, or you agree with them, or whatever criteria you choose, I guess. Then post those five. (Or, in my case, seven, because I couldn't decide.)

( My choices of the moment. )

To quote a Con conversation: "Not necessarily, but in this case... no."

( A meme that gets it wrong. )

...but no actual content.

( Arrr! )

And, via kightp, the rules of LJ etiquette in the style of Jane Austen and that ilk. For one like me who collects Victorian etiquette books, most entertaining.

I'm mostly doing this because I need more userpics. Maybe this will inspire me, or someone else.

From bookishfellow and acroarcs.

( Cut for your friends page protection. )

( Wings meme. )

Someday, dammit...

I've done this before, but sure, why not. From kightp, this time around.

1. Think of the first word or term that comes to mind when you think of me.
2. Go to: http://images.google.com and search for that word.
3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (but do not tell me the word). (Or post a link to the image if you don't want to hotlink it.)
4. Put this in your own LJ so that others can do the same. (if you want)

And just because I can't leave well enough alone: If you do, then I'll respond with an image that's either based on a word that reminds me of you, or found by free-associating from your image.

(Not necessarily right away, however ...)

From various people, most recently greenlily.

1. For the things you've lived through, put numbers in the boxes instead of X
2. Repost with the subject "I have lived through _ of these 158 things"

( I have lived through 91 of these 158 things. )