yonmei

09:41 am: G'morning. Photos.
I photographed the mould in the bottom of my manager's coffee mug (he'd left it on his desk for a week) and dewy spiderwebs in my garden. Also ducks sitting on a plank in the river.

It's foggy: the forecast says "Hot and humid", which is my least favourite weather.

Tell me things to photograph and post in my journal.

(Also On this day last year meme
2008: Heinz homophobia;
2007: gold floats on water;
2006: Mango mango mango and Christianity/unbelief;
2005: Extra user-pics competition (all comments and their icons now sadly lost)
2004: A horoscope;
2003: One word, one minute.)



Tags: meme meme meme, meme year meme, memories, nonphotos

10:59 pm: Meme me meme
Infected by melancharisbron:

1. Make a list of things you can see without getting up:

My DELL laptop. My bed, on which I am sitting, and various quilts and sleeping bags. The big dresser with the mirror. The killer unicorn my sister gave me on top of the dresser. Also, my picnic cooler. A cardigan hanging over the back of the door. My lovely warm cotton hoodie thing hanging off the radiator.


2. How do you style your hair?

I comb it out or brush it, and then use a tie to hold it in a small ponytail. I need a haircut.


3. What are you wearing now?

Black jeans and Snoqualamie Falls wolf sweatshirt.


4. Do you have some sort of secret superpower?

Words, words, words.


5. What's the last thing you read/are currently reading?

Love Death and the Changing of the Seasons, by Marilyn Hacker.


6. Do you nap a lot?

No.


7. Who was the last person you hugged?

Ajay. Last Thursday. She swears she's immune to the cold virus that both Bee and I got.


8. What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?

The Keptverse.


9. What was the last thing you cooked/baked?

A small loaf of dwarf bread made with leftover dough from the last baking of dwarf bread rolls.


10. What was the last thing you ate today?

Had it for my tea. Very tasty.


11. What was the last thing you said aloud?

"Oh, Wolf!" as he jumped up on to the garden fence to say hello to me.


12. What websites do you always visit when you go online?

Insanejournal. Gmail. Google news.


13. Last thing you bought:

A small tub of guacamole.


14. What are you listening to right now?

The West Wing, fifth season.


15. What's the last song that got stuck in your head?

Songs do not get stuck in my head. It's sad.


16. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

More words, words, words.



17. What is your favorite weather, and why?

Warm summery breeze.


18. How are you?

Eye infection, sore foot, lingering cough, depressed. Otherwise fine.


19. What's something you'd like someone to say to you right now?

"I'd like to publish your novel." Alternatively; "Please let me vacuum all your carpets." (This is not a euphemism.)


20. Say something to the person who tagged you.

You are one of the loveliest people I know, in all senses of the word.

Tags: ankle hurts me, meme meme meme

10:15 pm: The 2008 meme
( it was 365 days )

Tags: 3 are bastards, bloody job, bob, cats, evil british politics, meme meme meme, working at the forest, worrying about my cats

10:57 pm: The character meme: N
1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters and post their names and your comments on these characters in your IJ.

muninnhuginn gave me N.

( Five fictional people whose names begin with N: Noel Bastable )

( Nancy Blackett )

( Mrs Norris )

( Nikanj )

( Noh Mann )

Tags: arthur ransome, books are what i read, e nesbit, jane austen, meme meme meme, octavia e butler, pat califia

09:26 pm: Give me a date
In comments, any date you like, or set of dates (that is, one to several days), between December 2002 and December 2007. Without looking at the posts made on that date, suggest a word or phrase to use as a tag. Because everyone on my f-list is the soul of honour and the mirror of integrity, I of course trust you not to cheat. Or to propose unreasonably large sets of dates.

I'll respond with links to the posts on that date which I will tag: if I figure out a way to use the tag you proposed on those posts, you get a prize*.

*The prize will be wholly virtual, of course. Sorry. But, on the bright side, delivery will be instantaneous!

Tags: journal housekeeping, meme meme meme

07:56 pm: Fannish Meme: Comment with a fandom
Comment with a fandom and I shall tell you...

1. The first character I fell in love with:
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't:
4. The character I love that everyone else hates:
5. The character I would shag anytime:
6. The character I'd want to be like:
7. The character I'd slap:
8. A pairing that I love:
9. A pairing that I despise:
10. Favorite character:
11. Slash story I never expect anyone to write for me but I'd love them if they did:
12. Song for fanvid that no one will ever make:
13. Who are your five favorite characters?
14. Who are your five least favorite characters?
15. What are your five favorite pairings?

Tags: fannishness, meme meme meme

05:34 pm: Antiview
Ask me questions.

One question per caller, please, unless I hand you a cookie (good for one more question). I'll endeavour to answer as many questions as I can, although I reserve the right to pick and choose. And, more importantly, every answer will be a lie. How close to the truth the lie falls is, again, a matter for my whim; I might offer you something that's almost true, if I feel like it. But otherwise? Lies, all lies! Let the lies begin!

(meme stolen from Charlie Stross)

Tags: everybody lies, meme meme meme

11:48 pm: Character Meme
I am in a small village in the middle of Scotland the Desolate. The landscape is beautiful, which means it would be very difficult to be a lesbian here. I am surrounded by hordes of the people I work with all the time. Well, not right now, I have sneaked off and found an Internet connection, while they are all getting drunk downstairs.

I am also drunk, but you can't tell because I am editing all my typos. Thetre arwe a lots of typoes.

So. Meme! Under the lj-cut there are 100 pointless questions. Your meme, should you choose to select it, is to pick a series - TV, film, or book - with which you know I am familiar, and name a character from that series. I will respond to some or all of the questions below the LJ-cut with actual quotes from what the character you picked actually says in canon. But (cackles fiendishly) I will do this if and only if in your own journal, you pick another character from the same series and have your chosen character respond to some or all of the questions below the cut.

Isn't it great!? Or, possibly, am I just so drunk it sounds great? Mmm, wine. G'night.

( 100 pointless questions )

Tags: bloody work, fannishness, meme meme meme

08:17 pm: TV meme: too many places to count
Where did this list originally come from?

( Lots and lots and lots of TV )

Tags: i am sheepish, i watch tv, meme meme meme

08:31 pm: friendship meme
Tell me about your most wonderful, strange, oddest, sanest friends.

( the wombat )

( the unafraid )

( the glitter )

( the wordsmith )

Four's enough for a meme - I could go on. There are more of you who are most wonderful and strange and odd and sane.

Tags: friendship, meme meme meme

01:08 pm: Meme: Five Characters
Five Characters I Want To Punch in the Face. Or rather bitch-slap, since it seems more appropriate somehow. (nicked from snowgrouse)

The one thing all five of these characters have in common is a smug self-satisfaction - a certainty that they're in the right and they are the centre of the universe. *eyes the line-up* Some of them, of course, with more justification than others. And any pain they might cause is nothing because they didn't feel it themselves.

None of them are outright villains. I tend to find outright villains either not interesting enough to slap around, or so painfully interesting I want to vivisect them slowly and in public, not just bitch-slap.

( my five )

Tags: blake's 7, buffy, house md, i watch tv obsessively, lists, m*a*s*h, meme meme meme, star trek

05:00 pm: Lemminglike
( Where I've been in the UK. Hmmm... Never have seen much of Wales. May have missed out various English counties, but if so, only the ones I've been to for job interviews. Probably. Where is Milton Keynes? )

Tags: meme meme meme, quizzical, travel

02:16 pm: Started out good...
Woke up early. Hung up washing early. Still managed to miss jogging (am very tentatively and carefully going back to it). Went swimming instead. Had coffee. Should be going down to Ajay's old flat to measure a room and collect some post.

That meme that's been going round, Ask me anything? This poll reverses it.

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Tags: just my life really, meme meme meme

05:22 pm: Gacked from supergee
1. How did you first find my journal?
2. Why did you originally decide to friend me?
3. What's your favourite part of my journal?
4. What's your least favourite part of my journal?
5. Ask me a question. Be as random as you want.
6. Have you ever met me in person?

Tags: meme meme meme, self-obsession