From Covenhouse_cat, this is a poke "where someone comments, and the person whose journal it is lists seven of the commenter's interests, and the commenter has to explain them."

I gave a poke, so Coven replied:
"Okay!
What is it about:
dar williams, x, gaeilge, george winston, fluid sexuality, dreadlocks, and magnetic fields that interests you?"

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I used to be a little freaked out by birds, by the flap-flap-flap of wings as they whoosh by your head, by the stick legs upended in a cage after the poor captured thing dies, by their divebombing your head to get hair for their nests ....

Yes, that happened to me once.  I was working for a canvassing job -- either for a Rape Crisis Center or ( Read more... )

 ...so yon brain isn't fully awake.

George Eliot  wrote, "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

The way I conduct my life much of the time, I believe I fear that roar, so I tapdance ( Read more... )

I'll give this a shot -- though my memory is such that I can't easily differentiate between ones I might have read for school "in the day," then reread as an adult at least once from the ones which I only read once, but have on a bookshelf at home for future rereads.  *Ah, the mind is a terrible thing......*  Madame Librarian's instructions are as ( Read more... )

 This also from compostwoman.  Letter "t" for me:

Instructions: Comment and I'll give you a letter. You have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter. After, post this in your journal, and give out some letters of your own.

tv (might as well be confessional right away)
trees
travel
Tambrey (my "twin")
tea
trysts
thesaurus
Thai food
talk radio ( ( Read more... )

 ...i did this "quiz" someone posted.

WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU? created with QuizFarm.com

My results:
You scored as a French/Spanish/OtherLanguage
You should strongly consider majoring (or minoring) in a foreign language, especially French or Spanish as they have a greater use in today's world. But other languages could be useful to you as well, ( Read more... )

 So, Musical Letter Meme
Comment on this post, and I'll give you a letter from which you are to devise your own list of ten favorite songs whose titles start with said letter. My lettter was assigned to me by compostwoman.  I have "G."

"Good Advices"--REM
"Ghost Dance" --Robbie Robertson
"Golden Slumbers" --Beatles
"Going Mobile" -- The Who
"Gimme ( Read more... )

So, as a basic introvert who likes to spend much alone time in that scary place which is my head, I often get a glimpse of what I might be missing by shutting people out with my earphones and my books and my I-want-to-be-left-alone cone of silence. Meeting and getting to know vl is one example. Though I often use the commute to and from work as “ ( Read more... )

 This was the challenge from Mystic:

A Writing Assignment for Labor Day Weekend

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

Write one paragraph in your LJ on two different days this weekend.

The first paragraph should describe something happening in the present:  it doesn't have to be a big thing.  If you sweep your porch on Saturday morning, ( Read more... )

So, my first post.  My virgin post.  Numero Uno El Postarino.  Yep.  What a moment ( Read more... )