Getting to Know You...

[intertext]

gakked from majrgenrl8.

The effortless meme (on my part, at least):

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list.

Some of you I know relatively well. Some I know very well; one or two of you I even know in RL.

Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you for your interest in my words.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself? It can be any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...they listen in rapture to the love-music of she-turnips." I might feel compelled to mock your musical taste, but I'll certainly remember you.

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 and see what gems of knowledge appear.

Comments

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Oh, my goodness, what else are dogs if not family?? I know others do not share that opinion, but to me it's natural.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I don't think I knew that about you (the Scottishness). Interesting :)

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Oh, my goodness! Do you look alike?

[intertext.livejournal.com]

hahaha. Now, if you were an exhibitionist, you could do those things on YouTube and become famous! (but if you were the kind of person to do that, you probably wouldn't be on my flist..)

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I thought I was pushing it when I flew back and forth from China one summer.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Aha. Are you one of the cat-not-under-any-circumstances dogs people (like my friend Chickenfeet2003 below), or do you tolerate dogs? As you must be able to tell I am hugely a dog person, but do love cats too, and have a much esteemed one in my household.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I still have my old Olympus OM1 film camera, though I have to confess I never use it. Digital photography has changed my life.

[owlfish]

I once appeared in the pages of Better Homes and Gardens as a fairy, helping to illustrate a tapestry pattern for an article. (I was perhaps 7 at the time.)

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not that keen on ladders, either. Or any heights much, but I also like hill walking.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I love to make bread, and used to do it often, but unless I'm entertaining it seems like too much, because I don't actually eat all that much bread. I like to cook, too.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I do that, too, or just have conversations with myself and some "other" :) I don't think I realized you had a dog!

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Oh, how delightful! I can picture you as a child dressed as a fairy :) Do you still have the clipping?

[owlfish]

My parents do, yes.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Apparently we do!

[superfoo.livejournal.com]

OH! I totally want to see that too! I saw the preview a couple of months ago and thought it looked really good.

our dog

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Here she is, courtesy of a friend's photo:

[lidocafe.livejournal.com]

It's literary and has a hot sex scene. What's the catch?

Re: our dog

[lidocafe.livejournal.com]

Aw.

Re: our dog

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

lidocafe, I remember: you are a special friend of intertext in real life--you and she do things together :-)

Hi!

Re: our dog

[lidocafe.livejournal.com]

Hi. Yes, her office is almost directly above mine, and we're both film fiends. That's another great icon (cat person here)!

Re: our dog

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Ooh--and I very much like your chat noir! I would love to have a cat, but our dog won't permit it, neurotic thing that she is...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Too funny!

I just Googled images of her (and there are more of her available out there than of you btw!), and I *guess* I can see it...

It's funny that people who know her well enough to be saying "Hi Pat" would make the mistake though!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Well I'm much plainer and have stringier hands and wrists, but otherwise, yeah, those Swedish peasant genes.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Huh. The image of you that's stuck in my head is from that wedding photo, where you look like Galadriel.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I was 29 in 1980!