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.