10 things about me: a meme

[wiseheart]

altriel tagged me on the 10 weird things meme.

Rules: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names.

I’ll tag, but don’t feel obliged to do it if you don’t want.


1. I have a very weird taste in movies/TV series. Most films/series other people get ecstatics about tend to annoy the living Hell out of me or bore me to death.

2. Due to some failed genetic coding, I'm also completely unable to appreciate the greatest works of serious literature. Tolstoy, Maupassant, Balzac, Thornton Wilder are only a few stray example on my "authors-that-I-hate" list, although I dutifully read huge amounts of their books, hoping that I'd finally "get" what makes them so special. I never did.

3. I have a keen interest for history, but that interest ends after the Middle Ages. Everything else is too close to Real Life (that bitch), and therefore ought to be avoided like the plague.

4. I used to be a nun - although a fair number of people already know that. It was a great experience, but it also added to the reasons why I don't have any connection to the Church as the institution any longer.

5. I generally hate healthy food and prefer things that make me fat. I have a "sweet tooth", but I hate coconut, marzipan and any sort of nuts in my chocolate.

6. I love sci-fi and I love fantasy, but I hate when the two genres are mixed. Which is part of the reason I hate Star Wars so much.

7. To quote Garfield (the cat), "I'm fat and lazy and proud of it". No, really.

8. My pen name was chosen for its meaning - it expresses what I am amazingly.

9. I started writing at the age of 10 or 11.

10.So far, I've lived in four different countries, for at least one year.


Okay, I tag lhun_dweller, mistry, artemis(sorry, I just can't remember all the numbers), jastaelf, ardath3, jen_rock, jilba, disthrainsdotte, crowdaughter and ithilwen.

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I love #7 :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Hehehe! Imagine the picture going with it: Garfield lying in a wicker basket, on silk pillows, with an empty caviar bottle on one side and an empty tin of sardines on the other one... Precioussss!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, sardines... *licks own whiskers*

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

I must say #7 sounds great. :D

[mistry89.livejournal.com]

I have a similar thing to #3, except that mine kicks in around the Regency.
Oh, and no no no no to sardines :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They always bring back childhood memories. Grandma used to open a tin of sardines on Holy Friday (or whatever it is called in English; too tired to look up in a dictionary, sorry). She pureed the fish with a fork and mixed it with butter, and we ate it with toast, after barely having eaten anything on that day. It was a ritual, almost, and I couldn't look at sardines without remembering that.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Regency? I'm not sure I know what you mean.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It does, doesn't it? There's nothing wrong with a bit of decadence.

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

So true, there isn´t.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely memory.

(Good Friday, btw.)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is. We were quite (un)romantically poor in my childhood, but the adults somehow always managed to twist things so that I didn't even realize that fact for quite some time... or that being poor wasn't the norm, not even behind the Iron Curtain, and certainly not for the rest of the family.

Good Friday. I must make a mental note. This is not the first time someone enlightens my darkness, but I keep forgetting, for some reason.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I must admit, I'm all for decadence on certain days...

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

That is very true.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

*g*
We really neet to meet in person one day...

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

It would be great to meet you. :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, Sweden is one of the places Mum and I badly wish to visit. The only hindrance is my hysterical fear of flying, which is getting worse each time. When we took off from London two years ago (after meeting altariel in Cambridge), I was so scared that I actually cried. At my age! Ridiculous.

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

A number of people are scared of flying but I have heard there is a treatment for it. For my part I am not afraid of flying but I dislike turbulence, if I want a rollercoaster ride I go to a rollercoaster.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

May I ask which countries you lived in?

[jilba.livejournal.com]

I agree with No. 5!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

In chronological order: Romania, Hungary, Germany and the Netherlands. The two months in Austria don't really count.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Hehehe! Too bad we live on the opposite sides of this planet. We'd have so much guilty fun together!

[jilba.livejournal.com]

Couldn't we ever! And watch the pounds pile on, unfortunately!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know, after a certain age it doesn't really count. And besides, chubby people are, as a rule, friendlier anyway.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Treatments only work if the whole thing isn't in your mind - where it actually is. But sometimes I have to fly, even if I'd be rather willing to go by train for a day or so.

[disthrainsdotte.livejournal.com]

It is true that it is mostly in the mind. I do think traintravel is nice at times, as it gives a better chance to see what an area looks like.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Sure they count! They count for 1/6th of a year.