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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.

[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?!?!?!?

[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]

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

[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]

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

[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]

Get details later?

[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.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I read all the Darkover books through Two to Conquer and liked most of them.

[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.

[firecat]

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

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I like spinach :)

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

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.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

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

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

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

[lcohen]

i have read all of them including the short story collections, the ones that were ghost written and the ones that they actually told you were ghost written.

the writing is uneven--when it is on, it is darned good telling of tales, when it is off, it repeats and hammers away. still, it is a fascinating world that she built--and i return to it again and again. she really nailed that "outsider who finds home in unexpected place" story--she told it again and again, but i still enjoyed it.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately my office seems to be mainly ceremonial in nature.

But ... spinach! I'm cooking some spicy spinach and beans (of the pinto and red varieties as opposed to green beans which I can't stand) right now!

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

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

[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.