interests meme thingy

[emmacrew]

(from toad_hall)
Alexander Zemlinsky: Austrian composer around the turn of the century (19th-20th, that is). Slightly older than Mahler. If I'd stayed in musicology, I probably would have done my dissertation on him and then gone on to be the U.S. expert on Zemlinsky (as far as I know, there still isn't one). Wrote some nice lieder, some sweeping orchestral

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[saint_buddha]

Keith and I have the complete set of Carcassonne including the sooper sekrit German magazine pieces. We should get together and play.

[emmacrew]

Ooh, fun! We have a lot of the expansions, I forget if we got some of the sooper sekrit ones from FunAgain or not.

Since you commented, I'm gonna tag you with some unless you don't want to do it:

1984, eschwa, euphoniums, the dichotomy of "i hate mtu" and "mtu," and shiny things.

[nonniemous]

I love Settlers of Cataan (we play on the computer a lot). And colored pencils. And graph paper. In fact, I use graph paper all the time in school, for my notebooks and everything else I have to do. I'm an adult now; I shouldn't have to use that silly lined stuff any more. And what is "Seyes" rule?

[emmacrew]

It's got heavy horizontal lines about 1 cm apart, light vertical lines at the same spacing... and then between the horizontal lines of the grid are 3 more horizontal lines, somewhat lighter. An example of how it's officially meant to be used is here, it's also useful to fill in as a tiny staff when taking notes in music classes. :-)

[aswego]

Oh, thank you. It's always great to encounter more school office fun supplies. (Fun meme, too!)

[emmacrew]

I first bought some in Paris 20-odd years ago and have only seen it in the U.S. 2-3 times since, so a mailorder source made me a happy camper.

If you want to be tagged, I choose basketry, drafting, exploring, rivers, and tba :-)

[emmacrew]

I'm thinking setting up "game night of people with small children" could be a good plan; most of the people we used to game with had no kids or their kids were much older.

If you want to play along on the interest tag game, I'll choose:
allogrooming, doilies, ethnopediatrics, hugelkultur, and the golden horde.

Re: Me me me!

[emmacrew]

I think I understand a lot of yours, but hmm.

Tell me more about: bad tv, dear theo, medical textbooks, sasha and yiddish.

[bopeepsheep]

http://games.asobrain.com/ - 'Explorers' (Settlers) and 'Toulouse' (Carcassonne) online, against bots or real people. It's stealing all my knitting time lately. :D

I adore graph paper, and doodle intarsia and fair isle patterns while bored at work, since we have a zillion pads of it that we use as scrap.

[emmacrew]

I used to spend masses of time at brettspielwelt.de. Masses and masses. I do enjoy handling the actual pieces, though.

For you: accents, black books, flumps, party rings, sunshine