Seven Ten

[jlh]

I was sulky earlier this week but I have gotten over it thanks to the patience of allysonsedai and calloocallay. So I shall do memes.





1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.
I have to say, those tagging instructions are really bossy. I was tagged by lillijulianne.

1. I cannot stand pineapple. Apparently this is odd because I love fruit and sweets and pineapple is sweet, but it's one of those tastes that even if there's just a hint of it I can taste it and then I don't want it.

2. My first car was a standard (manual transmission) and I'll admit this: If you cannot drive a standard, I will judge you. My mother wanted us to drive one because what if we were kidnapped and we escaped and the only car we could use to leave was a standard?

3. I don't care for pet peeve lists in general but I really don't care for grammar pet peeve lists. Bad grammar usually has more to do with substandard elementary education than anything else and those memes make me very self-conscious about my own difficulties with commas. mistful and I once commiserated that the comma is there to fuck with those of us who write what they hear because we want to put a comma into the sentence every time there is a natural pause in speaking. For example I am not even sure whether there should be a comma before that "because" in that previous sentence. The whole debate about the comma before "and" has me completely freaked out. Also I can never remember what a comma splice is so when people rail against it I wonder if they mean the comma before the "and" or is that an oxford comma or a cambridge comma or something? A Johns Hopkins comma? My dear beta for 8WFS took out almost every comma I used and now I would rather not have them in sentences at all to be honest. I will rearrange a sentence to avoid making a comma decision. Sometimes in chat or in a comment I will rewrite a sentence two or three times because I'm not sure where the comma goes. Hence I have used no commas in this paragraph.

4. Whenever I eat candy that comes in different colors or flavors, like M&Ms or skitttles or gummy bears, I'm compulsive about sorting through it and having a little pile that is perfectly balanced and then eating all the extra FIRST and then eating the rest systematically.

5. I usually cook recipes that feed four and eat off them for four servings and I am also fairly compulsive with that about divvying up the servings as close to perfectly even as I can get.

6. I have seven kinds of vinegar in my pantry right now: red wine, white wine, balsamic, rice wine, cider, white, sherry. I make a lot of salad dressings.

7. I love reading memes like this about other people but find them difficult to do for myself because I have no idea what about me is different or quirky. There was a meme a while back where you named books/cds/dvds that you owned that no one else did and I totally failed at that (except cds by my BFF's band). Yet, people say, "I've never met someone from Maine before" and I always think, "Really? Because I know a lot of people from Maine." When it's you, it never seems that exotic.

I tag ali_wildgoose, allysonsedai, calloocallay, longtimegone, mahoni, slytherincess, and wordplay


- Comment and I'll give you a letter.
- You have to list 10 things you love that begin with that letter.
- Afterwards, post this in your journal.
calloocallay gave me H, a surprisingly difficult letter.

1. History, duh.
   
2. Hericots verts
   
3. How I Met Your Mother, my favorite show on television right now.
   
4. His Girl Friday, the movie I wanted to be in when I was nine.
   
5. Humpty Dumpty Potato Chips, a huge part of my Maine childhood.
   
6. Horace Silver—Songs for my Father is great traveling music.
   
7. "Hanging on the Telephone" for the drums.
   
8. Huckleberry Finn.
   
9. Heist movies like Ocean's 11 or The Italian Job.
   
10. Harold Dieterle's restaurant, Perilla.

Comments

[sixersfan.livejournal.com]

I wasn't like this at first, but I saw an M&Ms commercial about Little League Baseball when I was a kid and, from that point on, I always imagined playing a baseball game as I ate them (brown ones are singles, yellow are doubles, orange are triples, and green are homeruns...when they introduced red, I made them outs).

Can I get a letter?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

F

Okay, greens are homeruns—are you sure that wasn't a metaphor for something else?

But the other half of my brain is like, was this a game with two teams? Were you keeping track of the baserunners in your head? Before there were reds, did innings just never end?

I bet you can keep a box score, can't you?

[sixersfan.livejournal.com]

Okay, greens are homeruns—are you sure that wasn't a metaphor for something else?
??? I don't get it.

But the other half of my brain is like, was this a game with two teams? Were you keeping track of the baserunners in your head? Before there were reds, did innings just never end?
Yes. That's the kinds of guy I am. Before the red ones, I used the tan ones to be outs. Remember the tan ones? A lot of people don't.

I bet you can keep a box score, can't you?
Who can't keep score?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Green M&Ms (http://www.snopes.com/risque/aphrodisiacs/mandms.asp). Home runs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_metaphors_for_sex).

The tan ones were my favorites, actually. I always was annoyed that there weren't tan peanut ones. What do you do with the blue ones, now that we have them?

I can't keep a box score; I mean, I don't know how. No one in my family watches sports so I wasn't taught when I was a kid, and I've always meant to teach myself since then but keep getting distracted learning other things.