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bravecows I think I'm going to try to do the meme on
Ten things I assume you know about me.
(Although I suspect I'm going to copy a lot of it from my info page. Because, hey, how else do you know things about me than besides reading that?)
1) I'm from Maine and have only lived outside of the state for a few years of my adult life. (And you might kind of know but may have forgotten that I spent a year and a half in Boston, and about the same in East Kingston, NH.) (You possibly don't know and probably don't care that my family have lived in Maine for something like eight generations in almost any direction I've got any data, except for one branch which came down from Canada only three generations ago.)
If I'm going to do the meme like this it's going to take forever.
2) I'm interested in genealogy, but due to my extreme scatterbrainedness have not gotten very far at all in my organizing even of the information that other family members have provided me. It's one of my ongoing projects that I post about occasionally.
3) I'm a dork, and a nerd, and I admire geeks. Nerd because I get way too excited about scientific discoveries and projects. (Genographic project! Dolphins who teach other dolphins tool-using skills!) Dork because I always forget to make memory links, and then when I want to look those things up again I can't. Also a dork because I'm gawpy and uncoordinated, have no memory, am scatterbrained and have very few social skills. I'm not a geek because I don't have the brainpower to remember details on things or the stick-to-itiveness to follow up on them and really learn about them in depth.
4) People are always welcome to add me as an LJ friend, but I might take a long long time to add you back. This is not because I hate you, it's because I'm a dork. Well, to be honest, it's also because I don't really want a friends list that takes forever to read. When things get like that I can't give each person the attention they deserve and I start getting cranky. I feel as though I have a duty to keep up on everyone, and I really can't do it.
5) I often don't answer all comments and replies, but then again I sometimes just keep on with something long after I should let it go. This is because I never know when I'm being rude by not answering or sounding as though I want to have the last word by answering. See above under my definition of 'dork' - no social skills whatsoever.
6) I'm boring. Really, like incredibly boring. And every time I say that to people at work it makes them more interested. I think it's because of the bi-poly thing. I don't post coherent posts with pithy observations about life, nor do I often post WIPs, publicly. It has to have an end before it gets posted, even if it's going to get refined some more, because I'm terribly embarrassed to be poked about not having finished something, with the result that my stories come few and far between.
7) Oh, the bi-poly thing. It's on my info page, and I'm out to everyone at work, pretty much, so this can be assumed to be something you know about me. For a long time I had to correct people who pointed out sleazy girls as being good playmates for me, but now most of the people I work with have got an understanding of the fact that I'm not interested in playmates. I wouldn't at all enjoy playing with someone who I wasn't in love with and trusted and both I and Eor had some kind of relationship with (what exact sort of relationship would depend on the person, I guess, but I think I'd be most comfortable with something committed and exclusive).
8) Hm, looking back I see I've neglected my age. It's on my info page, so you probably know it. I usually don't think about how old I am - or, rather, it just seems completely wrong. People who I know or meet at work seem to treat me about as though I were in my late twenties. I haven't had kids, I don't have a house, I'm not 'settled.' And, they tell me, I look as though I'm in my late twenties. In fact, I'm actually 39. It's endlessly weird to me that some of the people I interact with the most comfortably and have the most in common with are actually much younger than I am, because they don't feel younger.
Ack! I've got to come up with two more!? I'm almost out of time! Ah, well then, number nine is...
9) I'm always running out of time. I try to do all my socializing and living of normal life in the morning before I go to work, because I work the afternoon-evening, and since I'm so disorganized I hardly ever get everything done I wanted to. Also, I'm extremely long winded and try hard to be precise about things I write, which sucks up my time.
10) um, um, um... I drink a lot of tea? Oh, I know - I always forget things I had to say and remember them much later after the time for saying them is all done. So, I'll think of number ten after I get to work. :)
bravecows I think I'm going to try to do the meme on Ten things I assume you know about me.
(Although I suspect I'm going to copy a lot of it from my info page. Because, hey, how else do you know things about me than besides reading that?)
1) I'm from Maine and have only lived outside of the state for a few years of my adult life. (And you might kind of know but may have forgotten that I spent a year and a half in Boston, and about the same in East Kingston, NH.) (You possibly don't know and probably don't care that my family have lived in Maine for something like eight generations in almost any direction I've got any data, except for one branch which came down from Canada only three generations ago.)
If I'm going to do the meme like this it's going to take forever.
2) I'm interested in genealogy, but due to my extreme scatterbrainedness have not gotten very far at all in my organizing even of the information that other family members have provided me. It's one of my ongoing projects that I post about occasionally.
3) I'm a dork, and a nerd, and I admire geeks. Nerd because I get way too excited about scientific discoveries and projects. (Genographic project! Dolphins who teach other dolphins tool-using skills!) Dork because I always forget to make memory links, and then when I want to look those things up again I can't. Also a dork because I'm gawpy and uncoordinated, have no memory, am scatterbrained and have very few social skills. I'm not a geek because I don't have the brainpower to remember details on things or the stick-to-itiveness to follow up on them and really learn about them in depth.
4) People are always welcome to add me as an LJ friend, but I might take a long long time to add you back. This is not because I hate you, it's because I'm a dork. Well, to be honest, it's also because I don't really want a friends list that takes forever to read. When things get like that I can't give each person the attention they deserve and I start getting cranky. I feel as though I have a duty to keep up on everyone, and I really can't do it.
5) I often don't answer all comments and replies, but then again I sometimes just keep on with something long after I should let it go. This is because I never know when I'm being rude by not answering or sounding as though I want to have the last word by answering. See above under my definition of 'dork' - no social skills whatsoever.
6) I'm boring. Really, like incredibly boring. And every time I say that to people at work it makes them more interested. I think it's because of the bi-poly thing. I don't post coherent posts with pithy observations about life, nor do I often post WIPs, publicly. It has to have an end before it gets posted, even if it's going to get refined some more, because I'm terribly embarrassed to be poked about not having finished something, with the result that my stories come few and far between.
7) Oh, the bi-poly thing. It's on my info page, and I'm out to everyone at work, pretty much, so this can be assumed to be something you know about me. For a long time I had to correct people who pointed out sleazy girls as being good playmates for me, but now most of the people I work with have got an understanding of the fact that I'm not interested in playmates. I wouldn't at all enjoy playing with someone who I wasn't in love with and trusted and both I and Eor had some kind of relationship with (what exact sort of relationship would depend on the person, I guess, but I think I'd be most comfortable with something committed and exclusive).
8) Hm, looking back I see I've neglected my age. It's on my info page, so you probably know it. I usually don't think about how old I am - or, rather, it just seems completely wrong. People who I know or meet at work seem to treat me about as though I were in my late twenties. I haven't had kids, I don't have a house, I'm not 'settled.' And, they tell me, I look as though I'm in my late twenties. In fact, I'm actually 39. It's endlessly weird to me that some of the people I interact with the most comfortably and have the most in common with are actually much younger than I am, because they don't feel younger.
Ack! I've got to come up with two more!? I'm almost out of time! Ah, well then, number nine is...
9) I'm always running out of time. I try to do all my socializing and living of normal life in the morning before I go to work, because I work the afternoon-evening, and since I'm so disorganized I hardly ever get everything done I wanted to. Also, I'm extremely long winded and try hard to be precise about things I write, which sucks up my time.
10) um, um, um... I drink a lot of tea? Oh, I know - I always forget things I had to say and remember them much later after the time for saying them is all done. So, I'll think of number ten after I get to work. :)