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Rules: When you're tagged, youhave to are asked to write an entry about six weird or bad habits. Then you tag six other users who get to do this.
- I hate using the phone. It's ok to call (close) family or friends, but calling strangers is something I feel really, really uncomfortable about, even when they called me first or asked to be called. *shudders*
- I'm chaotic. I usually find my stuff in the worst chaos, so tidying up seems like such a waste of time...
- I'm stubborn. Or "determined", if you want to see it as something positive. This used to go so far that I would completely ignore, say, my body's warning signals in sports class and such; if others managed to run the 1000 meters at that speed, I damn well could too. (And yes, I actually could). This has lessened a bit, but sometimes it resurfaces. The results can range from the catastrophic to the amazing.
- I'm... not exactly lazy, but I do find it hard to do things I lack enthusiasm for. If I'm enthusiastic about something, I'll see it to the end, no problem; but if I'm not, the activation threshold is so high I'll probably run around it as long as I can. That's what certain people call a problem with priorities. Priorities have nothing to do with it. But you try and feel enthusiastic about preparing a presentation on text type evolution measured by the development in present participle constructions. Yeah, I don't think so either.
- I have been inventing sort of "music videos" in my head for... a very long time. That means, when I hear a song I like, I usually weave it into the background music for some story. The stories have varied over the years, but it's usually one big story at a time. Occasional movie trailers for books I like can always come in between, of course. If possible, I like to move while doing it; dancing is ok, running around is better. The music should be as loud as possible.
- Ambitious would be the wrong word, because ambitious people usually are willing to work hard for their goals. I'm not. I want to achieve my goals without hard work. Which is not a good thing.
I'm too lazy to tag people; if you feel like doing this, go right ahead...
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#2 - The Interview Meme. Questions fromjuno_magic.
1. Post here, asking to be interviewed.
2. I will ask you five questions. (I fail at making up questions, though. You have been warned.)
3. Post the answers to your questions in your own journal, together with a call for questions of your own.
4. Leave a link here, to direct me to your answers.
1) What's your favourite whisky?
What a question! As though I would drink whisky! Seriously! How dare you insinuate such a thing!
12 year old Macallan, please.
2) If you could be a cat for a day, what would you do and why?
I think I'd mainly be running around, jumping and climbing things. For the pure joy of being able to move oh so elegantly.
3) You can implement a reform of our universities. Money doesn't matter. What would be the three most important elements of your reform?
That? Is a really, really hard question. To my great shame I must admit that I don't quite now. Considering that it has to include all universities, and all their faculties... I really have no idea. 'fraid I'm too stuck up in the philosophical department (where we could generally use some more professors with interesting topics, but that's too subjective a field). But if the money doesn't matter, no generalized tuition fees would probably be a first step.
4) Chaucer or Shakespeare - why?
I adore them both, really, and wouldn't want to decide between them. I love Chaucer for his sharp tongue (or, well, quill) and eye and for the sheer exuberance of hilariousness - is that even a word? - of the Canterbury tales, and I love Shakespeare for his use of the language and for what he made of his stories (or sources), and for the acting. I wouldn't want to do without either.
5) If you could meet one of the great painters of long ago, who would it be and what would you ask him to show you?
Either Leonardo da Vinci, although I really wouldn't know what to ask him first because I'd be too busy fangirling madly. Not so, I lie. I'd ask how to do a) technical detail, and b) individual faces and facial expressions.
Or Claude Monet. I just love impressionism, and I'd really, really like to know just how he managed to convey so much of a mood in his painting and still make them look real and - firm, somehow. True. I don't know how to explain it, but I'd love to be able to do that.
The way back from Cologne took ages. First the train was half an hour too late, and then some stupid crane vehicle had fallen over between Deutz and Mülheim. Unfortunately, it had torn some of the power supply lines down in falling, so there was only one track left for use. Now imagine seven or eight trains having to pass through there at once. Exactly. The damn air conditioning of my train didn't work, and the windows were of the unopenable sort. Sauna on wheels, that.
nefantoielRules: When you're tagged, you
- I hate using the phone. It's ok to call (close) family or friends, but calling strangers is something I feel really, really uncomfortable about, even when they called me first or asked to be called. *shudders*
- I'm chaotic. I usually find my stuff in the worst chaos, so tidying up seems like such a waste of time...
- I'm stubborn. Or "determined", if you want to see it as something positive. This used to go so far that I would completely ignore, say, my body's warning signals in sports class and such; if others managed to run the 1000 meters at that speed, I damn well could too. (And yes, I actually could). This has lessened a bit, but sometimes it resurfaces. The results can range from the catastrophic to the amazing.
- I'm... not exactly lazy, but I do find it hard to do things I lack enthusiasm for. If I'm enthusiastic about something, I'll see it to the end, no problem; but if I'm not, the activation threshold is so high I'll probably run around it as long as I can. That's what certain people call a problem with priorities. Priorities have nothing to do with it. But you try and feel enthusiastic about preparing a presentation on text type evolution measured by the development in present participle constructions. Yeah, I don't think so either.
- I have been inventing sort of "music videos" in my head for... a very long time. That means, when I hear a song I like, I usually weave it into the background music for some story. The stories have varied over the years, but it's usually one big story at a time. Occasional movie trailers for books I like can always come in between, of course. If possible, I like to move while doing it; dancing is ok, running around is better. The music should be as loud as possible.
- Ambitious would be the wrong word, because ambitious people usually are willing to work hard for their goals. I'm not. I want to achieve my goals without hard work. Which is not a good thing.
I'm too lazy to tag people; if you feel like doing this, go right ahead...
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#2 - The Interview Meme. Questions from
juno_magic.1. Post here, asking to be interviewed.
2. I will ask you five questions. (I fail at making up questions, though. You have been warned.)
3. Post the answers to your questions in your own journal, together with a call for questions of your own.
4. Leave a link here, to direct me to your answers.
1) What's your favourite whisky?
What a question! As though I would drink whisky! Seriously! How dare you insinuate such a thing!
2) If you could be a cat for a day, what would you do and why?
I think I'd mainly be running around, jumping and climbing things. For the pure joy of being able to move oh so elegantly.
3) You can implement a reform of our universities. Money doesn't matter. What would be the three most important elements of your reform?
That? Is a really, really hard question. To my great shame I must admit that I don't quite now. Considering that it has to include all universities, and all their faculties... I really have no idea. 'fraid I'm too stuck up in the philosophical department (where we could generally use some more professors with interesting topics, but that's too subjective a field). But if the money doesn't matter, no generalized tuition fees would probably be a first step.
4) Chaucer or Shakespeare - why?
I adore them both, really, and wouldn't want to decide between them. I love Chaucer for his sharp tongue (or, well, quill) and eye and for the sheer exuberance of hilariousness - is that even a word? - of the Canterbury tales, and I love Shakespeare for his use of the language and for what he made of his stories (or sources), and for the acting. I wouldn't want to do without either.
5) If you could meet one of the great painters of long ago, who would it be and what would you ask him to show you?
Either Leonardo da Vinci, although I really wouldn't know what to ask him first because I'd be too busy fangirling madly. Not so, I lie. I'd ask how to do a) technical detail, and b) individual faces and facial expressions.
Or Claude Monet. I just love impressionism, and I'd really, really like to know just how he managed to convey so much of a mood in his painting and still make them look real and - firm, somehow. True. I don't know how to explain it, but I'd love to be able to do that.
The way back from Cologne took ages. First the train was half an hour too late, and then some stupid crane vehicle had fallen over between Deutz and Mülheim. Unfortunately, it had torn some of the power supply lines down in falling, so there was only one track left for use. Now imagine seven or eight trains having to pass through there at once. Exactly. The damn air conditioning of my train didn't work, and the windows were of the unopenable sort. Sauna on wheels, that.
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Date: 2006-05-16 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-17 08:57 am (UTC)1) You and Hermione meet up for a day. What does your program look like? (Spending all day in a library doesn't count. ;))
2) What one book would you say everybody has to have read?
3) If you could make a two-week trip to any time and place in the history of the world, what would it be?
4) If you were a witch - the HP sort - what do you think would be your Patronus?
5) What would you say were the "best days of your life", so far?
... I told you I failed at making up questions. ;)
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Date: 2006-05-19 04:30 pm (UTC)2. That depends on the objective. For a proper understanding of Western culture, I'd say "read the Bible", as so much of it is built on that foundation. If we are not restricting ourselves to something like this, then I would be hard-pressed to pick just one. *thinks hard* ... The Lord of the Rings, then.
3. *whine* Your questions all make me pick! I don't -want- to pick! I'd like to visit the US in the 1840s, I'd like to visit ancient Rome and "Israel" at the time of Jesus Christ. I'd like to see Japan in the 16th century. Russia during the time of Peter the Great. Latin America during the time of the Incas.
4. Seems that they have to be land-based creatures, don't they? Otherwise, I'd say a dolphin. But if not that, then a feline of some kind.
5. I suppose those would be the days I would focus on when casting the Patronus, wouldn't they? The truth is... I don't know. Every memory I can think of that would do has since been tainted. I'll... have to get back to you on that?