Memes and worries
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bending_sickleThe Bernard Pivot Meme--also known as Inside The Actor's Studio Meme
01. What is your favorite word?
English: acquiesce. Spanish: matiz. German: ausgezeichnet. Chinese: baobei. Greek: taramusalata. French: coccinelle. Turkish: teshelkur. Arabic: inshallah.
I’m totally making these up on the fly for the Spanish, French and Arabic.
02. What is your least favorite word?
Cunt.
03. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Rainfall, really overcast days or fireworks.
04. What turns you off?
Industrious gum-chewers. Like they’re chewing on a juicy hunk of steak, or need to air it out a bit every so often.
05. What is your favorite curse word?
Although I don’t often like saying “fuck”, I do often say “holy mother of fuck”. Go figure.
06. What sound or noise do you love?
I’ve got to go with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
earthwhatwere with this one and say rain on a tin roof, followed closely by general thunderstorm sounds.
07. What sound or noise do you hate?
Nail files, for they are eeeevil.
08. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
I have a profession? Writing professionally would be nice, if I could actually, you know, do so and not starve.
09. What profession would you not like to do?
Telemarketer.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Allow me to explain…
Seven-Songs Meme: what are you lisening to of late?
1) “Crazy Bitch” – Black Cherry
2) “The River” – The Clarks (or Bruce Springsteen)
3) “Zebra” – John Butler Trio
4) “Requiem for a Dream” – Clint Mansell (literarylemming’s Big Damn Serenity Remix)
5) “Sugar, We’re Going Down” – Fall Out Boy
6) “Ommadawn” – Mike Oldfield
7) “Iko Iko” – Dixie Cups
Having just realized that both of my, shall we call them “blue periods”, took place in the early months of this and last year, I’m posting what I wrote a very long while back about depression.
Not having talked to my brother about his depression (hell, he’s never talked to me about it – as in, acknowledged its existence), I worry, because I would like to know, well…details, I guess.
This might be a – damn it, what’s the word for people who obsess about being sick? That word. This might be a word-ish situation. Especially having studied depression in psych and genetics and a shitload of other classes. Because I don’t like the idea of possibly being at risk, or more inclined to, or whathaveyou. Because sometimes I really do thing it’s not going well with me and my head. Because I distinctly recall a certain stretch of weeks last year which were seriously worrying*.
I don’t like worrying about things like these.
I mean, yes, I know these past months have been hard, but do I really need to be reduced to a quivering mess so often? Often for no specific reason?
I also don’t like that I’m on the perfectly-fine side of the crazy-line.
Can’t I be made of softer mettle and just go insane now? Would it spare time, like Arthur Dent said?
Because I do think, sometimes, that I honestly could go round a very sharp bend. I definitely have my eccentricities, quirks and obsessions which occasionally cause me concern.
Maybe I won’t crack, or can’t, and I’ll always be somewhat detached from everything muddling my head, just enough to realize how stupid it all is.
Maybe I’ll just have to settle for being very and consistently eccentric (but I hear you need to be rich to be eccentric instead of plain crazy).
There seems to be a lack of cats, then.
...*is going to be just fine*
* On-line versions of depression scales – which are not absolute scum because I’ve studied these – concurred somewhat.
In other news, talked with co-worker Victor about his ideas for a few novels (mostly from the social-change Sci-Fi pov) and about good SF books, like Left Hand of Darkness and The Day of the Triffids and he told me that I am Legend is being made into a movie. !!! With Will Smith. Seriously, people, Legend is an amazing concept: last man on an Earth where everyone else is a vampire.
Except for the 2007 movie they seem to have turned into "nocturnal mutants". Sheessh
Yes, I have a weak point for vamps. So?
01. What is your favorite word?
English: acquiesce. Spanish: matiz. German: ausgezeichnet. Chinese: baobei. Greek: taramusalata. French: coccinelle. Turkish: teshelkur. Arabic: inshallah.
I’m totally making these up on the fly for the Spanish, French and Arabic.
02. What is your least favorite word?
Cunt.
03. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Rainfall, really overcast days or fireworks.
04. What turns you off?
Industrious gum-chewers. Like they’re chewing on a juicy hunk of steak, or need to air it out a bit every so often.
05. What is your favorite curse word?
Although I don’t often like saying “fuck”, I do often say “holy mother of fuck”. Go figure.
06. What sound or noise do you love?
I’ve got to go with
earthwhatwere with this one and say rain on a tin roof, followed closely by general thunderstorm sounds.07. What sound or noise do you hate?
Nail files, for they are eeeevil.
08. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
I have a profession? Writing professionally would be nice, if I could actually, you know, do so and not starve.
09. What profession would you not like to do?
Telemarketer.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Allow me to explain…
Seven-Songs Meme: what are you lisening to of late?
1) “Crazy Bitch” – Black Cherry
2) “The River” – The Clarks (or Bruce Springsteen)
3) “Zebra” – John Butler Trio
4) “Requiem for a Dream” – Clint Mansell (
literarylemming’s Big Damn Serenity Remix)5) “Sugar, We’re Going Down” – Fall Out Boy
6) “Ommadawn” – Mike Oldfield
7) “Iko Iko” – Dixie Cups
Having just realized that both of my, shall we call them “blue periods”, took place in the early months of this and last year, I’m posting what I wrote a very long while back about depression.
Not having talked to my brother about his depression (hell, he’s never talked to me about it – as in, acknowledged its existence), I worry, because I would like to know, well…details, I guess.
This might be a – damn it, what’s the word for people who obsess about being sick? That word. This might be a word-ish situation. Especially having studied depression in psych and genetics and a shitload of other classes. Because I don’t like the idea of possibly being at risk, or more inclined to, or whathaveyou. Because sometimes I really do thing it’s not going well with me and my head. Because I distinctly recall a certain stretch of weeks last year which were seriously worrying*.
I don’t like worrying about things like these.
I mean, yes, I know these past months have been hard, but do I really need to be reduced to a quivering mess so often? Often for no specific reason?
I also don’t like that I’m on the perfectly-fine side of the crazy-line.
Can’t I be made of softer mettle and just go insane now? Would it spare time, like Arthur Dent said?
Because I do think, sometimes, that I honestly could go round a very sharp bend. I definitely have my eccentricities, quirks and obsessions which occasionally cause me concern.
Maybe I won’t crack, or can’t, and I’ll always be somewhat detached from everything muddling my head, just enough to realize how stupid it all is.
Maybe I’ll just have to settle for being very and consistently eccentric (but I hear you need to be rich to be eccentric instead of plain crazy).
There seems to be a lack of cats, then.
...*is going to be just fine*
* On-line versions of depression scales – which are not absolute scum because I’ve studied these – concurred somewhat.
In other news, talked with co-worker Victor about his ideas for a few novels (mostly from the social-change Sci-Fi pov) and about good SF books, like Left Hand of Darkness and The Day of the Triffids and he told me that I am Legend is being made into a movie. !!! With Will Smith. Seriously, people, Legend is an amazing concept: last man on an Earth where everyone else is a vampire.
Except for the 2007 movie they seem to have turned into "nocturnal mutants". Sheessh
Yes, I have a weak point for vamps. So?
