Tagged! - a meme

[hsapiens]

*waves* Hello to all my long-time friends and all of the new people I've added in recent friending memes, Misha's Rhino hunt, and through the Supernatural fandom. I was tagged by oddlyfamiliar to do this meme and figured this was as good a time as any to do a meme to introduce myself.

Comments

[hsapiens]

The languages of that area indicate a LOT of change and influx of new, completely unrelated groups. I only took one linguistics course in college so I'm mostly ignorant but iirc Finnish stand alone in the region linguistically? drelmo will undoubtedly know far more about it than I.

I sort of started with South America, when I was trying to make an effort to include a few places so that people would actually read my answers: the Pampas and Machu Piccu. My education featured Africa far more than South America so I just don't know as much about South America. I'm sure I'd find it just as fascinating, given the opportunity.

Iran was covered (for me) by Mesopotamia, Babylon, Ur, and Eridu. I'm sure it holds many other wonders but those are the ones that draw me.

Really, I want to go everywhere. :D

[hsapiens]

HA! I think this was exactly the sort of meme answers for skimming. Or skipping.

Yup. Definitely need a TARDIS for these travels.

[superbadgirl]

LOL @ #12. You really could have just stuck with everywhere. ;)

[hsapiens]

IKR? Everywhere sums it up. I NEED A TARDIS AND A STARGATE.

ETA: And an Impala.

[superbadgirl]

I have longed for a Star Trek transporter for a long while. It would beat the shit out of the forty-five minute, four point five mile commute on a stinky bus.

Also, if I ever had money, I would so buy a classic muscle car.

[hsapiens]

A transporter would be happy, too, but it seemed to malfunction more often than the other two. An evil, mustachio-ed me wandering the planet seems like it might be too weird. But still maybe better than the bus ride. What's a little molecular arrangement between friends, after all?

I'd love to have a converted, hybrid muscle car. I'm pretty sure Dean would hate me but he's fictional so what do I care?

[darkestnight01]

wow... I don't know what to say LOL

Thanks for spilling this all out for us :) Take me with you on your journey to see everything? :D

And I really love reading, but I haven't heard of at least 90% of the books or authors you mentioned XD

[hsapiens]

How about: YOU NEED AN EDITOR!

It sounds like I'm not the only one who wants to see everything. It's good to know I'm not the only one with wanderlust.

Most of my reading tastes are mundane. They're the popular authors who land on best-sellers lists here in the US or are well-known in genre writing. I'm not really a great reader of literature. My tastes aren't those of the well-educated, thoughtful English major.

I love the ancient classics and the modern novel, with not a whole lot in between. I haven't read much from China or India or even Latin America, which at least has the virtue of being next door. I've read nothing from Africa that isn't an ancient Egyptian text Heck, I don't think I've read even a short story written in Australia and we share a language! I've read some ancient Chinese works but nothing from Japan or SE Asia. I've read some Russian literature but it was all so depressing and bleak.

For which we should be grateful because if I were better read that list would be even more unbearably long.

[darkestnight01]

LOL

I really really wanna see everything and I'm especially excited about our journey to Mars and the universe XD

(btw, I still think it's weird to see random german words in english XD)

I'm the same with popular literature, although I don't sort them by regions they come from, but by theme of the novels - like ancient egypt, or native americans when I was a kid. And I'm very bad with names and I never can remember the authors of books XD

damn, I'm tired, so I'm sorry for this weird rambling reply LOL

[pyjamagurl]

I am amazed. I thought I read a lot of books but you have put me to shame for sure! xD

Also I am also a big fan of travelling everywhere! Rome and Greece would be high on my list though (though admittedly anywhere with ancient history and ruins and stuff to explore!)

[hsapiens]

As a kid, I had to earn every hour of television I watched by reading an approved book for hour. I read a lot. :D

I'm with you on ancient history; my tastes also run to prehistory and paleoanthropology as well. The older the better for me!

While I'm here I'm going to cheat and meme here because it beats working.

[superbadgirl]

1) Trees, photos of grandfathers with my parents as toddlers, bottle of Claritin, my jacket, a staple remover, a sparkly stuffed gecko.
2) With a hair dryer, round brush and flat iron.
3) Purple sweater, tan cords, brown shoes.
4) Healthy.
5) Traffic, KEXP, a clock ticking and an air purifier.
6) A friend. Lord help me, it was way back in November. Now I need a hug.
7) A bowl of Cinnamon Life.
8) Got ready for work. Fed cats. Went to work. Am working.
9) Dog, despite being owned by two cats. No dogs allowed. :(
10) Sapphire.
11) Band-Aids with Neosporin.
12) Everywhere it's safe to travel.
13) I hate this question.
14) Of Human Bondage. Catch-22. The Brothers Karamazov. This question is impossible and ridiculous.
15) Errands. I also get to clean the litter box. Jealous, are you?
16) Eh. Not musically apt.
17) All right, I guess. Better off than many despite my penchant for pissing and moaning.
18) Uh. Errands. Litter box.
19) Finding a new blimmin' job.

Re: While I'm here I'm going to cheat and meme here because it beats working.

[hsapiens]

You DO need a hug! That's too long, hon.

Sorry you don't have the dog but the cats look adorable and they purr. And better yet, you don't have to walk them in the rain.

I ignored the "safe to travel" part. I figured if we were ignoring the money part, I could assume I'd have enough to make it safe for me & my party. ;-)

The book question is impossible & ridiculous, agreed. Different books have different reasons for being important. Thus my ignoring the intent of the Q.

*HUGS*

Re: While I'm here I'm going to cheat and meme here because it beats working.

[superbadgirl]

Well, that wasn't counting the hug in late December, when I made my recently widowed coworker sob buckets when I gifted her something for her birthday that was actually her dead husband's favorite thing.