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[stonebender]

From kightp and serenejournal:

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 single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal, if you feel like it.

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

The book that turned me on to sf was Fredric Brown's Martains, Go Home.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

How cool, I *loved* that book. Brown's a fave of mine.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I am Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

I mean, who wants to hear a chorus of "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach." everywhere they go anyway?!?!?!?

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

So, could you do something to (I mean about, about) Govenor Arnold?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Trying to think of something you don't already know about me.

Until a couple of years ago, I thought I was responsible for the breakup between my dad and his first fiancee after my mom.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Get details later?

[snippy]

But I do like spinach, sauteed with butter and garlic and dressed with rice wine vinegar.

On a more personal note...I attended 15 schools in the 12 years of primary school, and one year I went to 4 different schools. (I'm still surprised I learned anything.)

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Wow!

[lcohen]

the book that got me back into reading sf after about a five year hiatus was marion zimmer bradley's the shattered chain. it opened my eyes because it looked at women's roles in society with what seemed like a fresh view for that time (the very early 80s).

only at the end of it i was incredibly frustrated because the two characters who should have wound up in a relationship didn't wind up together and one of them wound up in a relationship that was a Bad Idea. to bradley's credit, she recognized that and wrote that book in thendara house.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Have read all the Darkover stuff, then? I've read most of them.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I used the word "phthalates" in a job interview this week.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

*thud*

[lysana.livejournal.com]

I start studying for my A+ certification next week thanks to it being a requirement for me to keep my job.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

My ex-boss S wrote A+ study books for New Riders.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Over the past few years, I've led several people to believe I don't care about them by being too lazy about staying in touch. Now, I'm afraid of their response if I try to get back in touch.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Boy, that is very familiar. You want help with that?

[misanthropoid.livejournal.com]

Although my grandfather has been dead for fifteen years I keep his eyeglasses on a shelf above my workbench.

My hair, long evidencing odd strands of white has apparently decided this year to turn completely.

The analyst presenting us with results of a personality test handed me mine before I gave my name.

I had no intention of attending college nor did I take any steps to prepare for it during high school.

I do not like cake.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

The analyst presenting us with results of a personality test handed me mine before I gave my name.

The test or the results?

[firecat]

If there is a container of sugar packets at a restaurant table, I will usually compulsively organize it.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

*grin* That does seem like a Stef-thing. Thanks for sharing.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I like spinach :)

I went to a public residential magnet HS for 2 years.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

I like spinach :)

Me too!

I went to a public residential magnet HS for 2 years.

What kind, science or art or ?

spinach!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i don't have any particular feelings about spinach -- it's nice in a salad when it's really young and fresh, but most people, including restaurant, don't serve it that way, so i tend to pass.

but as regards another much maligned vegetable, brussels sprouts -- love 'em! i could have them every day and not get tired of them.

Re: spinach!

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

I like most of my vegetables raw better than cooked. I'm with you on brussel sprouts.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I'm growing my hair back out. Destination - waistline!

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

Wow!!

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

I'm related by marriage to Jane Wiedlin, a member of the Go Go's.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Reeeeeeeeeeaallllllllllllllly?!!!!

[lissa-dora.livejournal.com]

I, too, love spinach, especially when I need iron, steamed with red or cider vinegar.

I'm condiering cutting my hair short into a near-bob.

I was weaned on Heinlein, and I'm afraid that reading To Sail Beyond the Sunset when it first came out - I was about 11 - and Time Enough for Love soon afterwards (yes, backwards) seriously skewed my ideas of how life and love should be... and I have been forever after looking for my Lazarus, my Briney.

Despite this, I am happily married to aman who is "wired" monagamous....


...and, when tired, I talk easily about myself.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

I was weaned on Heinlein.

*nod* Same here, I was young and defenseless. Started with Rocketship Galileo (one of his worst novels IMHO) for crying out loud! I see all his faults and it doesn't matter to me. Still love reading him. I'm hopelessly twisted.

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

I worked for a dot com for nearly three years, during which time nearly every major hardware and/or software manufacturer and technical publication house was a client of mine. I learned a lot, not the least of which is how soul-less and heartless some people are.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

That's sad.

[intenselaura.livejournal.com]

I am sentimental packrat. When I need to do a cleanup that involves sorting through old things, it takes me ages because I get caught up in memories and try to figure out how to keep as many of these mementos as possible, no matter how much space they're taking up.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

That's awfully sweet.

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

I've never had nude pictures taken of myself.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

You should try it. I recommend it, RJ. :-)

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I love to throw parties, though I invariably spend much of them doing clean-as-you-go so I won't have to deal with the mess of glasses, beer bottles and grimy dishes the next morning.

Somehow this doesn't bother me at all; I still manage to have a very good time at my own parties.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

serenejournal is similar. I must say I don't get it, but I'm glad you folk exist.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

It's hard to think of something you don't know about me ...

I was good in math in high school and got tracked into the group that would study calculus as seniors, and then refused to take the calculus course because I wasn't very interested. This confused them greatly, and I regret it now.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Did you ever take calculus.

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

I shave my legs and armpits, but I'm very lazy about it. That's probably OK if it means going weeks between, but I'm also tempted to just use a razor and not bother with shaving cream, which is--believe me on this--a Bad Idea.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Ummmmmmm probably so.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

I used to own Jane Wiedlin's solo album, but I sold it the last time I culled my vinyl.

[19-crows.livejournal.com]

Hello, Guy. I know you from wild_iris and the apa. I only like creamed spinach. I love rock candy, the crystalized sugar stuff, and have almost finished a five pound box of it that I got on November 20th.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Hey Elizabeth! :-)

I can't remember the last time I ate rock candy, 30 years ago maybe? I do remember liking it.