I'm apparently having a really good language day.

[kiya]

I want to keep this one -- I wound up retelling a fragment of the Contendings of Heru and Set on the Cauldron, in dialogue style, and got, among other comments, a 'That'll teach me to settle for the kiddie version of the myths'. (Contains references to sexual conduct and thus may be questionable for work.)

Meanwhile, on alt.religion.wicca.moderated, one of my standard minor rants has been called 'brilliant' and compared favorably to Douglas Adams's Salmon of Doubt (which I have not read). This is the point at which I mutter, "Um, er" and stare at my feet.

Mild frustrations through the day, dealing with stuff. Did not manage to do anything on tasklist, but did manage to do my dance video work, which means I can get back to establishing that habit. I'm really quite tired, which is my current excuse for not getting anything done; also I did a lot yesterday. Goal for the week: finish with the guest room before suzimoses gets here Friday, or at least get it to the point that its condition doesn't make me neurotic.


(Snagged off luellon.)

Accent: Mid-Atlantic. By which I mean 'probably reasonably approximated by an average of accents between the east coast of the United States and the UK'. I was raised with a blend of Maryland mid-Atlantic accent and New England blue collar, listened to a lot of public radio as a child (I have cracked people up with a tone-perfect, "This is N-P-R, National Public Radio"), and have a certain amount of voice training (which does interesting things to my vowels); I also accent-chameleon. (When I was last in the UK, lizw said something to the effect of, "Yes, I could forget you were American" about my accent.)

Booze: a variety thereof. Mostly I brew mead, of homemade stuff.

Chore I Hate: Washing dishes.

Dogs/Cats: Cats. And snakes.

Essential Electronics: The computer will probably do, though something to generate music when I'm out of the house is also pretty important.

Favorite Perfume/Cologne: The mainstream commerical brand that I use is called Opium. Mostly I've been playing with BPAL scents, though, lately.

Gold/Silver: Silver.

Hometown: Depends on which parsing one goes through. The Boston area suits my sense of where I fit.

Insomnia: Usually. Nasty stuff.

Job Title: Minion.

Kids: Not yet.

Most Admired Trait: In myself, probably loyalty or devotion.

Number of Sexual Partners: Current: two. Lifetime: six.

Overnight Hospital Stays: None that I can recall.

Phobia: Mirrors, especially mirrors in dark rooms that reflect doors. Seeing naked, aroused men, especially of a certain body type. Both of these are more or less under control, but get much, much worse when I'm stressed.

Quote: My default me-quote is "Those of us who are easily amused have more fun."

A few from my quotes file that I think are perhaps directly relevant:

Story is a force of nature. Plot is a literary convention. -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden (of makinglight, though that was either posted to usenet or overheard at a Minicon)

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr


There are few things I enjoy more than being unexpectedly assumed to be a reasonable and open-minded human being. --oneironaut

I don't long for a gender-free society, but I would dearly love one that wasn't gender-*stupid*. --elisem

Apollo, the god of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number--Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don't look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysos, every now and then. --Ursula K. Le Guin

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. --Virginia Woolf

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. --C.S. Lewis

Let a Christian follow the precepts of his own faith, let a Hindu and a Jew follow theirs. If they strive long enough, they will ultimately discover God, who runs like a seam under the crusts of rituals and forms. -- Swami Nikhilananda

Plurality, which is not reduced to unity, is a form of confusion; unity which is not dependent on plurality is tyranny. --Blaise Pascal

I can't explain the world! It just comes out that way! --my father

Chew by thinking, suck by understanding, swallow by loving and rejoicing. Be glad to chew, be thankful to suck, rejoice to swallow. --St. Anselm

... okay, must stop now ...
(And cull the ones I picked out a bit.)

Religion: Oy. Kemetic, Feri, Discordian. Over light, not scrambled.

Siblings: One younger brother. One little brother who is no relation to me (*hug* to donperros if he's reading lately).

Time I Usually Wake Up: Varies a good bit, tends to be between 11AM and noon.

Unusual Talents: I have no earthly idea. I retain strange bits of information and connect them up oddly.

Vegetable I Refuse to Eat: Carrots. Allergic.

Worst Habit: Procrastinating and reinforcing bad patterns thereby.

X-Rays: Barium-moderated stomach/upper intestinal when I was a kid. CAT scan of my head (they didn't find anything). Various wrist scans to see if whatever was wrong with them was diagnosable. I think that's it.

Yummy Foods I Make: wiredferret's wild rice soup, which I should make more of to remind me to eat. The occasional experimental thing. Grandy Jay's fudge cake.

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius. Scorpio rising.

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[keshwyn]

Unusual Talents:

Opener of Ways.