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Seven things about me
Wellllll ... I generally don't do memes when I'm tagged, unless I just want to. But a few people have tagged me for this, and I may as well be a good sport and play along. I'm not going to tag anyone else, though.
The non-tagging portion of the meme reads thusly:
List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
1. I was born in a log cabin in the woods in Alaska, with just my dad as an attendant. The cabin itself was built by a trapper in the 1940s (or so) and was about 8'x10'. My mom was in labor for three days and I was born with my eyes already open and able to focus on things, or so I am told. Then her milk didn't come in for a day and a half because she was so exhausted, and they were worried I'd dehydrate and almost killed me by giving me creek water, but that's probably a whole other story.
2. If I find a spider inside, I'll always catch it and let it go outdoors. I try to do the same for bees and butterflies. If they are harmless and pretty, or eat other insects that annoy me, I'd rather have them around.
3. I honestly can't figure out where on the spectrum my political beliefs fall. I'm liberal on some issues and pretty libertarian on others, while others are a big fat "undecided". The one thing I am not, have never been and will probably never be is a Republican.
4. My Stargate Atlantis obsession, which has been going on for a year and a half now, is the longest I've ever been actively fannish about something, at least since I was a kid. I normally fall in and out of fandoms quickly, with the intense ficcing/reading part seldom outlasting the actual watching period by very long.
5. I consciously try to scale back my tendency to argue online. I've been down that road, to my own detriment, and I'm attempting to cultivate the ability to read something that annoys, offends or irritates me and just let it go. It takes a lot to make me genuinely angry, but I annoy at the drop of a hat. More than once I've found myself vehemently arguing over something that I don't really care much about, or even arguing the opposite side just because the other person's attitude annoys me. I consider this a flaw and treat it as such.
6. My mother and a number of my friends have seen or otherwise experienced ghosts, but I never have and, rationally, don't believe in them. (Which is not to discount the possibility of someday seeing one.)
7. I have a personal LJ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
glacierdust which was my original one and is associated with my real-life identity, whereas this one was created as a pseudonym-ish fan journal strictly for talking about fannish things -- but I've been migrating more and more of my posting over to this one, because, ironically, I feel more comfortable to be "myself" here than I do there.
The non-tagging portion of the meme reads thusly:
List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
1. I was born in a log cabin in the woods in Alaska, with just my dad as an attendant. The cabin itself was built by a trapper in the 1940s (or so) and was about 8'x10'. My mom was in labor for three days and I was born with my eyes already open and able to focus on things, or so I am told. Then her milk didn't come in for a day and a half because she was so exhausted, and they were worried I'd dehydrate and almost killed me by giving me creek water, but that's probably a whole other story.
2. If I find a spider inside, I'll always catch it and let it go outdoors. I try to do the same for bees and butterflies. If they are harmless and pretty, or eat other insects that annoy me, I'd rather have them around.
3. I honestly can't figure out where on the spectrum my political beliefs fall. I'm liberal on some issues and pretty libertarian on others, while others are a big fat "undecided". The one thing I am not, have never been and will probably never be is a Republican.
4. My Stargate Atlantis obsession, which has been going on for a year and a half now, is the longest I've ever been actively fannish about something, at least since I was a kid. I normally fall in and out of fandoms quickly, with the intense ficcing/reading part seldom outlasting the actual watching period by very long.
5. I consciously try to scale back my tendency to argue online. I've been down that road, to my own detriment, and I'm attempting to cultivate the ability to read something that annoys, offends or irritates me and just let it go. It takes a lot to make me genuinely angry, but I annoy at the drop of a hat. More than once I've found myself vehemently arguing over something that I don't really care much about, or even arguing the opposite side just because the other person's attitude annoys me. I consider this a flaw and treat it as such.
6. My mother and a number of my friends have seen or otherwise experienced ghosts, but I never have and, rationally, don't believe in them. (Which is not to discount the possibility of someday seeing one.)
7. I have a personal LJ
glacierdust which was my original one and is associated with my real-life identity, whereas this one was created as a pseudonym-ish fan journal strictly for talking about fannish things -- but I've been migrating more and more of my posting over to this one, because, ironically, I feel more comfortable to be "myself" here than I do there.
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6) The house I grew up in sortof maybe had a ghost in the basement maybe (it was owned by the mob in the 1920s and one patch of concrete in the basement was a different color and, well...) and when I was about 5 I swore I saw the "ghost" move a peanut jar. I still don't really believe in ghosts, but I also still claim I saw one maybe. *is crazy*
7) I get that. These last six or so months I've been a lot more talkative here than in my personal LJ.
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I'm not entirely sure why I feel more relaxed here, although mostly I think it has to do with everyone on this LJ already knowing about my fannish activities, whereas my friend list on my other journal (which includes a lot of RL friends and relatives) either don't know about it, or don't really understand.
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I've lived in Fairbanks since 1995 (except for 3 years in Illinois while my husband got his PhD). Prior to that, we were in the woods on the far side of the Susitna River, about 300 miles southwest of here. My mom still lives out there.
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