OK, here's that "you ask, I answer" thing

[was_tansu_now_badhedgehog]

I got two slightly different versions of this meme coming at me from two different directions yesterday.(attackships and ursulevil)
I have smooshed some of the different versions of the questions together.

1) Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you.
2) I'll tell you what song/movie/book/fictional character reminds me of you.
3) I'll pick a flavor/color of jello to wrestle with you in. (OR... another substance entirely...)
4) I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5) I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6) I'll tell you what animal you remind me of. (OR... what plant, if you are more botanical than zoological)
7) I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8) AND THEN YOU HAVE TO PUT THIS MEME IN YOUR LJ AS WELL OR THERE WILL BE BAD LUCK FOR TWELVETY-HUNDRED YEARS (OR... if you don't wanna, you don't hafta)

Of course, the better I know you, the more sense the answers are going to make.

Comments

[tyopsqueene.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to do this meme because I'm too angry with the world (read: Useless N) right now. But I could do with cheering up :P Yay, jelly wrestling (it *is* vegetarian jelly, right?)

[tansu.livejournal.com]

So, what, you don't want me to do answers, or you do want me to do answers but won't be putting the meme in your juuuurnal?

[tyopsqueene.livejournal.com]

I do, but I'm probably not going to get round to doing it myself.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

1) The big platform shoe thing.
2) *thinks* Cross ladies in books and films, cross ladies in books and films... Teh Queene, Alice in Wonderland.
3) Another substance entirely, tahini.
4) Er, can't think of anything.
5) When you forgot your password. There are probably earlier memories, but there'll always be That Time When You Forgot Your Password.
6) A petunia. A purple one.
7) Why history of medicine? Was there a history of medicine course as part of your undergrad degree?

[tyopsqueene.livejournal.com]

7) Yes. Our UG course was actually pretty flexible for a science degree, and had a bunch of modules outside the biological that you could take (in theory, you could take any module from any course anywhere in the uni, but the timetabling made most of it impossible). I wanted something not-lab-based, couldn't face languaged, decided the economics and law and geography options would make me go mad with boredom, and took a hist med course instead. Which I adored, so I did as many as I could fit into my timetable. By the time the degree was ending, I knew absolutely that I didn't want to spend my life in labs, and desperately sought alternatives. I considered law and medicine conversions, but didn't really feel that they were things you could/should do without a real career-minded drive (also, the expense), I looked at masters in Genetic Counselling and Bioethics, but was put off by the total absense of funding, and for the former, the lack of any academic career structure beyond MSc (i.e. you become a genetic counsellor, and then you are one for the rest of your life the end). I didn't actually realise the MSc in history was an option until a girl I shared a house with decided to do it (and promptly dropped out because it was too 'Artsy'). I initially applied to do a PhD, but they interviewed me and said I really ought to do the MSc as a conversion course, and that they'd pretty much guarantee me a grant because I was ace. I got the grant, I loved the course, I did a PhD and want to do this forever, the end.

So Now You Know.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Ah, go on then.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

1) Cheese.
2) French Disko.
3) Lime.
4) Chutney Mufflers!
5) On yer skateboard!
6) A furry scurrying thing.
7) What do you do in your job?

What I do in my job

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Write software for smartphones, ie things that look like a phone but are closer to PDAs in functionality. What the software does has varied over the 3.5 years I've been here. I started off doing connectivity stuff (backing up, syncing, file transfer etc) between PCs and phones, took a detour off into MacOS horrors and then returned to the phone side to write a device independent application framework layer for third parties to use. I'm still spending most of my time on the lattermost, though it's gradually turning into a remote connectivity product.

What this actually involves on a day-to-day basis is some coding, a lot of swearing at phones, endless meetings and far too much burrowing through badly written, inaccurate documentation.

[kalidrom.livejournal.com]

Give me a go.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

1) You're a clever bloke, I think. Is that random?
2) Shit, I dunno. All and any big cross bald men with axes.
3) Brown sauce. Or "shit, I dunno". Though I guess with two little 'uns you wrestle with enough shit as it is.
4) "Fuck shit and wipe yer dick."
5) Explaining something to some dimbulb on the SDMB, probably.
6) Wolverine, duh.
7) How did you meet Washte?

[kalidrom.livejournal.com]

1) Thicker than pigshit and twice as stinky, me.

7) Washte came over on holiday in the Summer of '99, around the time of the eclipse. While here she popped up to Nottingham and visited the castle.

At that time there was an excavation taking place in the castle grounds. Amongst all the holes was a certain handsome young chap who was busy working away with his trowel, shouting at students and doing other things that diggers are wont to do. This fella got talking to an American tourist who was asking him lots of questions about the dig and they ended up going for a wee drink or seven.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

So that's why you have to take your shovel if you want to go to work.

[attackships.livejournal.com]

I'M IN! For return favour etc

[tansu.livejournal.com]

1) You have an orange shirt. (this may not be true).
2) My Little Pony
3) Light glue, nothing too sticky
4) Fuck, I dunno. Don't have that kind of bonding. Unlike glue.
5) er, Chandos.
6) Cartoon tyrannosauruses.
7) How come you work in north London and beer it in Soho?

[attackships.livejournal.com]

7: Because the people I work with are either stiffs and/or driving, The part of N London where I work sucks for a decent night out, and all me favourite pubs are in Soho/West end. Plus, place I worked before, I go out drinking with all me old workmates from around there.

Why settle for shit when you can have caviar in other words? Soho fucking rocks.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Since you are the only person on my list to say I don't have to reciprocate, I'll bite.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

1) You have got lots of colours of toenail polish, and this is a good thing.
2) Something Russian with tea drinking in it. Goddammit, this question is hard. All the films and books I've ever seen or read vanish from my mind as soon as I think about it. It's like walking into a bookstore and instantly forgetting what you went in for, what books you like, how to read, etc.
3) Black cherry.
4) Er, there probably isn't anything. Let's just say that owls and penguins have feet.
5) Bursting onto the old Brunching board like a pointy-elbowed supernova.
6) An OWL. And some delphiniums.
7) How did you get to be so level?

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

(2) 80% of all books/movies fall into that category for me too.
(3) A flavor I might actually eat!
(5) Supernova??!? *blush*
(7) Am I level? I don't feel level. I feel as if I fling myself madly about hither and yon. Although it is true that I try to maintain the outward semblance of zenlike calm. I got this way through (a) hard work, (b) occasional bouts of therapy, and (c) a bout of anti-crazy pills. The two single most important things for levelness inside Owlets, though are the inner vision of a birch tree and a willingness to laugh at myself. A LOT. To engage in self-mockery and to always keep an eye out in case I'm being silly, which I frequently am.

Can I also implicate tea in this? Let's implicate tea.

*heart Hallams*

(Stupid lack of transporter. Feel the need to give you squishing hugs now.)

[tansu.livejournal.com]

1) You are very tall.
2) AAARGH cannot do this question. Bagpuss! R2D2! DCI Burnside from The Bill! Golden Brown by the Stranglers! Tybalt! The Big Lebowski! I am just shouting random things!
3) Strawberry jam.
4) There probably isn't anything, which is kind of sad.
5) You were making rude jokes and being cute and funny at the Chicago Gerald.
6) Well, BEARS, and maybe carrots somehow.
7) What's your advice on buying a sewing machine?

[befana.livejournal.com]

Me! I finally did you :)

[tansu.livejournal.com]

1) You'd make a good personal shopper. But you know that anyway.
2) Contre le sexisme, by Sonic Youth.
3) Apple.
4) Aw, yet again I don't think there is anything. Olive oil for the soul!
5) I remember you came across as a fun person and a proud mom.
6) A daffodil. Or a polar bear.
7) How you put up with that shit without snapping?.

[befana.livejournal.com]

7) Snapping as in anger or snapping as in here is your pretty white coat and new padded bedroom?

Anger-
I do sometimes. I yell a lot while I am posting my rants and occasionally I actually yell at the person I am pissed at. I recently broke my over 6 months with no arguing truce with the asshat.

Padded room-
I dunno. Sometimes I really want to just lay down in a corner and give in but it's not in my nature to do so. At this point, a lot of it just seems ridiculous and I have to laugh about it. It's expected disbelief if that makes any sense.

[janric.livejournal.com]

I just copied and pasted the meme, but I like your version of #8 better.

Anyway, you know my name. Look up my number.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

1) Sandals.
2) RHPS
3) Not jello, but charoset, even though this is sure to trigger your latent SuperHebe powers and make my defeat inevitable.
4) grr, shite, can't think of anything. How about some dried mango to make up for it?
5) At the Chicago Gerald.
6) PINE MARTEN!
7) When did you get into RHPS?

[janric.livejournal.com]

I started going on a pretty regular basis when I was 17, and happened to bump into the stage manager one day at a diner. I asked him if they needed any help with stage work and the rest is history.

[politzania.livejournal.com]

Give it a whirl....

[tansu.livejournal.com]

1) On that LJ match thingy, we were essentially the same person.
2) Anything by Duran Duran.
3) Grape
4) Yet again, there probably isn't anything.
5) A book review you posted, I think, although I wouldn't remember the book.
6) One of those bird of paradise flowers with the pointy sticky-out petals.
7) Where would be the ideal place to live, for you? (not so much a specific thing I've always wondered about you in particular, but it's a question I like to ask people sometimes, because it's an interesting topic to talk about)

[politzania.livejournal.com]

Ideal place to live - somewhere with 4 seasons, but a bit more temperate than where I am now (Midwest US - hot & humid summers & bonechilling winters).

Maybe the US Northwest or New Zealand.

[dimloep-suum.livejournal.com]

Mew?

[tansu.livejournal.com]

1) Eyeliner.
2) Er, can't think of one
3) Melon.
4) I don't think there is anything.
5) I remember you and Vergeot as the two cute high school girls. Which doesn't make me feel particularly old, as it happens.
6) Wallaby.
7) You a small town person or a big town person?

[dimloep-suum.livejournal.com]

I'm a little bit country, little bit rock n' roll of both. Akron has been described as the state's (or country's; don't remember) smallest large city or the largest small city. As much as I love it, I need a change of scenery. I'd like to live in a larger city, preferably one with decent public transportation system *skakes fist at Akron RTA*

[doctor-sentence.livejournal.com]

How long is it since I last caught up on friends' LJ postings?
Intrigued, with mild trepidation.