yonmei

05:39 pm: Friday, er Thursday five: what's your culture?
afrai describes this as sort of like IBARW for the indolent. Cool.

( List 5 things which are basic common knowledge in your culture, which people outside are unfamiliar with. This is not about obscurity, but something everyday to you, that others go bzuh? at. )

( What was the last book you read that was written by a person who is a different race than you? Do you seek out books written by people of other races? Why? Why not? )

( What did you eat at dinner last night? Would you call it ethnic food? Why? )

( Has your gender presentation changed over the last 5 years? Has this change/lack of change been a deliberate choice on your part? )

( Do you discuss race and racism in your insanejournal/blog or in person? Why have you made that choice? )

( Bonus question. Were you aware of International Blog Against Racism Week? Did you choose to participate in it? Why or why not? )

Tags: edinburgh, friday five, let's all be outcasts together, meme, scottish politics

04:15 pm: This day in [my] history
(gacked from bethbethbeth)

2007: Well, it rained a lot. Also, aliens attacked my kitchen.

(My god: this was before Wolf. References to Bob are to only one cat.)

2006: I wrote a response to Roy Hattersley's ugly misogyny, and (flocked) about the ceiling falling in at work).

2005: I shared a lovely Tolkien slash quote I'd found (in the TLS, of all places!) and I did a linky post about How to talk to a troll (all the links, of course, go to the SUPplace, because this was back before Brad sold the community down the river and the SUPplace was just livejournal. Of course LJ Abuse still reeked, but they were then just responsible for enforcing their own diktat, not for enforcing company policy.

2004: I posted a personality test result. That's all: in 2004 at the beginning of July, I was in transit: working in Cambridge, but going to London to stay with friends and meet other friends for dinner and go to Pride. So I wasn't journalling much.

2003: I did quite a happy post about having a pirated softcopy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, though I also moaned about being in the office and having to wash mugs.

2002: I didn't have a journal! I didn't get one till December 2002.

Tags: just my life really, meme

07:46 pm: I want to be unique, just like everybody else!
Gacked from blue_rose: Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done. See if anybody else responds with "I've done that." If they have, you need to add another!(2.b., 2.c., etc...) Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.

This would undoubtedly have been more difficult when I had a longer friends-list! So let's make it more specific. First round of "I've done this!" is confined to walking. If you've also done any of these, you get to nominate a topic for the second round....

I have:

1. Walked from Silverknowes to South Queensferry.

2. Walked alone down the South Kaibab trail, along the Tonto Platform, and up Bright Angel Trail.

3. Walked south over the Golden Gate bridge on the Pacific Ocean side... and had a traffic cop stop me and interrogate me before I left the bridge because multiple car drivers thought I was a suicide risk.

Tags: meme

03:32 pm: The 100 books meme
I first did this meme in 2003.

( the Big Read thing )

Tags: big read, books are what i read, meme

07:19 pm: Story exercise
Give me a word and I'll write you flashfic.

Tags: flashfic, meme, writing

03:38 pm: Doctor Who meme (gacked from bluerose)
When you see this post, quote from Doctor Who on your LJ.

"Now drop your weapons or I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby."

(One of my favourite quotes. According to Tom Baker, the original script had the Doctor threatening to kill the Sevateem with a knife: Tom was adamant that there was no way the Doctor would ever do that, and substituted a jelly baby.)

There's a line in a later episode, same Doctor: "I never carry weapons. If people see you mean them no harm, they never hurt you. Nine times out of ten..."

Most of the other best lines are situational or dialogue.

Tags: doctor who, meme

11:06 pm: A Week in the Life of Yonmei, Volume 7 (Sunday)
It's a meme. These are the rules. As it's the last day I decided to make it 11 photos instead of 8. I'm a rebel.

( Free Shop )

( Space Warps )

( Gold Graffiti )

( Buffet King )

( Jordan Valley )

( Long Shadow )

( Rain Road )

( Polski Sklep )

( Road Block )

( Queen Victoria )

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Tags: a week in the life, meme, photos

01:35 pm: A Week in the Life of Yonmei, Volume 6 (Saturday)
It's a meme. These are the rules. But yesterday I cheated and took way more than 8 new photos and could not winnow them down to 8, so, well.

( Torchwood Coffee )

( Honey Sale )

( Grassmarket Cows )

( Blue Box )

( Victoria Street )

( Christmas Shop )

( Demi John )

( Forest Tips )

( Wall Eye )

( Giant Door )

( Hanover Street )

( Good Grief )

( Street Mirror )

( Reflecting Row )

( Victoria Park )

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Tags: a week in the life, meme, photos

09:56 am: A Week in the Life of Yonmei, Volume 5 (Friday)
It's a meme. These are the rules.

The first five photos were taken between ten past eight and twenty to nine, and the last three just after ten-thirty. In the evening, yes. Another day of nasal misery and last-minute photo-taking.

( Evening Thistles )

( Leith Backgreen )

( Reflective Window )

( River Boat )

( Granary Window )

( Night River )

( Leith Tower )

( Leith Desolation )

This meme is actually harder work than it looks when you begin the week...


Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Tags: a week in the life, meme, photos

09:59 pm: A Week in the Life of Yonmei, Volume 4 (Thursday)
Oops. I didn't exactly miss a day. Not really. I realised after a day of nasal misery that I hadn't taken any photos at all, and as it was still daylight, I went out for a short walk and took photos. All of these were taken between five past ten and twenty to eleven Thursday evening. And tomorrow I'll put up my photos for today.

It's a meme. These are the rules.

Photobucket is buggy. That's annoying. I'm using flickr.

( Snicket Walk )

( Victoria Park )

( Sky Light )

( New House )

( Edward VII )

( Evening News )

( ERVII Postbox )

( Evening Sky )

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Tags: a week in the life, meme, photos

11:53 pm: A Week in the Life of Yonmei, Volume 3 (Wednesday)
These are the rules.

( Leith church )

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( trees frame )

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( Growing steps )

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( Stone door )

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( River houses )

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( Cat neighbour )

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( Neighbour cat )

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( Felimazole )

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Tags: a week in the life, cats, meme, photos, worrying about my cats

09:55 pm: A Week in the Life of Yonmei, Volume 2 (Tuesday)
These are the rules.

( Post Office )

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( Blue Fence )

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( Puddle Reflecting )

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( Cat Watching )

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( Street Corner )

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( Bus Window )

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( Gutter Stream )

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( Banana Flats )

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Tags: a week in the life, meme, photos

11:59 pm: A Week in the Life of Yonmei, Volume 1 (Monday)
Now you may say I take lots of photos ANYWAY, and you'd be right. But pah to that!

Gacked from afrai:

Aim of the Game: for one week, you are to post photographs taken during the day.

Rules:
1. You must take between 6 and 8 new photographs per day.
2. Your WITL must be consecutive. No skipping days.
3. You must post your photographs at the end of that day, sometime after the last picture is taken.
4. Each photograph must have the time taken beneath and a title, with no other explanation.

You must post these rules at your first entry, then link back to it for the other six days so that people will know what you're doing.

Your post must say "A Week in the Life of [your name/username], Volume [whatever day you're on]."

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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
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( Summer Garden )

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( Birds Feeding )

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( Bridge Reflecting )

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( Afternoon Coffee )

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( We Know )

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( Caledonian Hotel )

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( Morningside Family )

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( Mouse ball )

Tags: a week in the life, meme, photos

12:34 pm: Free rice, lots of words
I donated 1100 grains of rice and my vocabulary level reached a new high of 51.

free rice

Tags: meme

05:30 pm: The Bad Relationship Meme
Gakked from alixtii.

The meme: Name a fandom and I'll provide five reasons why the character I have a crush on/find attractive in that fandom would be a bad boyfriend or girlfriend in real life.

For the purposes of this meme I'll include "fannish crush", which means boys/men/male-identifying aliens are included. If you name a fandom where I don't fancy anyone by the remotest stretch of the most fannish definition of the word "fancy", you'll have to try again.

Tags: meme

08:09 am: Testimonial meme on telesilla

So let's do that right here on IJ, shall we?

Comment here with your username and then link back in your IJ and ask your friends to come and testify about you. While you're here, find people you know and testify about them! Testimonials are supposed to be affectionate but around my house snark is often love, so I'm going to say you can leave something slightly snarky or a little sarcastic, BUT, only do so where you know it will be appreciated. This is supposed to make you and your friends happy!

As always in my journals, anonymous commenting is on, IP logging is off, so you can testify anonymously if you'd rather or if you don't have an IJ but want in on the fun.

So I did.

Tags: desperate insecurity, meme, tell me do you like me, testimonial

02:40 pm: Film Quotes Meme
Here's how it works: I pick 12 favourite films, list a line from each one: you (No Googling!) identify the film by the quote.

I'm going out to dinner and There Will Be Blood tonight, so responses will await my return. ;-)

1. I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid. (Bishop, Aliens, rainherder)
2. It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical. (Blade Runner, ruthi)
3. Well, this concludes our broadcast day, or week... actually, this concludes all broadcasting of any sort. We'll try to leave you with a suitable tune.
4. In America they'd bring only a penny, and, huh, I guess that's about all they're worth.
5. It's a hobby, really? What are your other hobbies - brain surgery?
6. You are a United States citizen in a foreign country, have you no pride in what the rest of the world thinks about Americans?
7. He's excommunicated you again. (The Lion In Winter, bethbethbeth)
8. Dry your eyes, baby. It's out of character.
9. Well, women in London must have learned not to breathe. (Elizabeth, Pirates of the Carribean, whatho)
10. Even with all this accumulated knowledge, when will these dummies learn to use a door knob? (Lex Luthor, Superman II, valentinemichel)
11. Blocked at every turn. Beautifully synchronized, don't you agree? (Truman, The Truman Show, ruthi)
12. There are certain things that once you have, no man can take away -

Tags: meme

10:28 pm: The Fake Memory Meme
Invent a memory of me and post it in the comments. It can be anything you want, so long as it's something that's never happened. Then, of course, post this to your journal and see what people would like to remember of you, only the universe failed to cooperate in making it happen so they had to make it up instead.

Tags: meme, memory

10:51 pm: A 36-question meme from dragovianknight
dragovianknight asked 36 questions. If you want to see my answers, click the first lj-cut: if you want to answer the questions first, click the second.

( My answers )


Behind the cut, 36 questions. Copy/paste them in a comment and answer them, if you're so inclined.

( The questions )

Tags: meme

03:53 pm: Ooh, new friends!
*waves hi!*

Tea? Or coffee? I will brew up a big cafetiere and a big pot of tea, and there's some decaf tea of various sorts in that cupboard over there. Do you take hot milk with your coffee? Fancy a ginger biscuit? Mmm, me too. Here *offers jar*

( fred the meme )

Tags: fred, journal housekeeping, meme