Seven quirks meme
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List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
1. I'm deadly afraid of any blinking lights in my room at night. Particularly red or orange ones. Once I had a digital alarm with red numbers, and I had to turn it to face away from the bed each evening.
2. I don't wear make-up, earrings, rings, or boots with heels, and you'll see me in a dress or a skirt or wearing a necklace about once or twice a year.
3. I've managed to go through most of puberty without ever fanning on any musician or band. Then, with seventeen or eighteen, I went through a Nirvana phase, where I actually bought a CD and a Cobain poster (and a guitar. I still can't play a single... thingy. What you call those things you play on guitars. Accords?) Similarly, I have zero interest in celebrities. The music I listen to is what I gather together at random from people on my flist who're kind enough to upload samples of their favourite music.
4. Although I care badly for them, and few survive it for longer than a year, I need at least one plant in my room at all time. Otherwise it feels naked. My father religiously cultivates his plants. He also goes to the greenhouses at the botanical garden, to, um, "liberate" layers and seedlings. And he grows hemp plants from birdfood, although thankfully only a few.
5. I sing, badly, but not in the shower. Most often, I sing when I'm walking the dog in places where we're unlikely to meet someone (the forest for example) or when I'm cycling home at night. Often it's just nonsense, because the only lyrics I can currently remember well are a few lines from Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress". Still, I think that poem would make a most splendid rock song. "And while your willing soul transpires, at every pore with instant fires -" can't you just hear the electric guitars? No?
6. Thrown into new social groups of people my age, I usually keep to myself or approach people who seem similarly socially impaired, or geeky or quiet. I hate the flocking mentality of many first and second semester university students (aged about 19, here), who, torn out of their highschool contexts, cling to the first best people they find. But then, I've always been a loner. I think it even translates into my LJ behaviour.
7. I have a bad case of arachnophobia (amongst a bunch of other phobias: heights, deep water, objects in the sea/in lakes - I hate swimming in general, most kinds of insects...), complete with screaming and trembling and running away in panic, but all summer long this spider has been living on the outside of my windowpane. It's quite big, has a nest and a web and I've watched it crawling around and catching flies every evening. I think it might have eggs or little spiders soon. (It's definitely a girl spider. I have decided so.) Today my Mom cleaned the window (yep, it hasn't been cleaned all summer long, shrink away in horror at our housekeeping skills) and I asked her not to kill the spider. Even though the spider will probably not survive winter.
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List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
1. I'm deadly afraid of any blinking lights in my room at night. Particularly red or orange ones. Once I had a digital alarm with red numbers, and I had to turn it to face away from the bed each evening.
2. I don't wear make-up, earrings, rings, or boots with heels, and you'll see me in a dress or a skirt or wearing a necklace about once or twice a year.
3. I've managed to go through most of puberty without ever fanning on any musician or band. Then, with seventeen or eighteen, I went through a Nirvana phase, where I actually bought a CD and a Cobain poster (and a guitar. I still can't play a single... thingy. What you call those things you play on guitars. Accords?) Similarly, I have zero interest in celebrities. The music I listen to is what I gather together at random from people on my flist who're kind enough to upload samples of their favourite music.
4. Although I care badly for them, and few survive it for longer than a year, I need at least one plant in my room at all time. Otherwise it feels naked. My father religiously cultivates his plants. He also goes to the greenhouses at the botanical garden, to, um, "liberate" layers and seedlings. And he grows hemp plants from birdfood, although thankfully only a few.
5. I sing, badly, but not in the shower. Most often, I sing when I'm walking the dog in places where we're unlikely to meet someone (the forest for example) or when I'm cycling home at night. Often it's just nonsense, because the only lyrics I can currently remember well are a few lines from Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress". Still, I think that poem would make a most splendid rock song. "And while your willing soul transpires, at every pore with instant fires -" can't you just hear the electric guitars? No?
6. Thrown into new social groups of people my age, I usually keep to myself or approach people who seem similarly socially impaired, or geeky or quiet. I hate the flocking mentality of many first and second semester university students (aged about 19, here), who, torn out of their highschool contexts, cling to the first best people they find. But then, I've always been a loner. I think it even translates into my LJ behaviour.
7. I have a bad case of arachnophobia (amongst a bunch of other phobias: heights, deep water, objects in the sea/in lakes - I hate swimming in general, most kinds of insects...), complete with screaming and trembling and running away in panic, but all summer long this spider has been living on the outside of my windowpane. It's quite big, has a nest and a web and I've watched it crawling around and catching flies every evening. I think it might have eggs or little spiders soon. (It's definitely a girl spider. I have decided so.) Today my Mom cleaned the window (yep, it hasn't been cleaned all summer long, shrink away in horror at our housekeeping skills) and I asked her not to kill the spider. Even though the spider will probably not survive winter.
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