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stoutfellow) wrote2008-05-03 07:05 pm
stoutfellow) wrote2008-05-03 07:05 pm
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Tagged!
I was tagged by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
windtear.
The rules:
a. Link to the person who tagged you.
b. Post the rules on your blog.
c. Write six random things about yourself.
d. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
e. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment at their blog.
f. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.
Hmm, hmm. It took me a while to come up with six things that were even remotely interesting and that I haven't talked about much on LJ. Here they are:
1. I have never, to my recollection, been motion-sick. Not on the water - ocean liner, sailboat, hovercraft; not in the air - not even over Albuquerque; not on winding mountain roads. (Now, I almost threw up the time my friend Jason got sick on the seat next to me, but it was the smell of the puke that triggered it, not the car's motion.)
2. To me, the archetypal breakfast consists of two fried eggs, sunny side up, two or three slices of bacon, and a couple of slices of well-buttered toast. I don't make it myself - my attempts to make sunny-side-up eggs usually end with ruptured yolks - but if I find myself in a home-style eatery at that time of day, that's what I'll order. (Sometimes I'll go with sausage, but really bacon is the thing.)
3. I love to sing, although I came late to the realization. Unfortunately, my singing voice is - or was; it's been years since I took it out in public - oddly situated. I can cover most of the tenor range, though I squeak on the higher notes, and most of the baritone range, though I growl on the low. As a consequence, there are songs in which I can sing either part, songs in which I can sing one but not the other, and songs ("On Eagles' Wings" is the exemplar) which are simply impossible.
4. It's been a long time since I tried to learn another language, and most of the ones I've studied have slumped into uselessness. (I can still read French and Spanish passably well.) I think, though, that someday I'd like to teach myself Turkish.
5. Heights per se don't bother me. I've stood atop the Empire State Building and high on the Eiffel Tower (the place where they have the window in the floor), and it doesn't affect me at all. But I have to trust whatever I'm standing on. I get very nervous on ladders, for example. There was an occasion when one of my frat brothers, for the sake of a prank, tried to get me to stand on his shoulders to reach an otherwise inaccessible point. I tried, but the moment I started to straighten up I just freaked, and we were lucky not to both hit the ground hard.
6. One of the things I enjoyed most about living in Chicago was the great range of ethnic restaurants. Mexican, French, and Chinese, of course, but also Indian, Greek, German, Portuguese, and Thai. Of them all, I think I liked Thai cookery the most; there was a little Thai restaurant on the north side of Hyde Park that I frequented.
As I've said before, I don't tag, but if anyone cares to follow suit, feel free!
windtear.The rules:
a. Link to the person who tagged you.
b. Post the rules on your blog.
c. Write six random things about yourself.
d. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
e. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment at their blog.
f. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.
Hmm, hmm. It took me a while to come up with six things that were even remotely interesting and that I haven't talked about much on LJ. Here they are:
1. I have never, to my recollection, been motion-sick. Not on the water - ocean liner, sailboat, hovercraft; not in the air - not even over Albuquerque; not on winding mountain roads. (Now, I almost threw up the time my friend Jason got sick on the seat next to me, but it was the smell of the puke that triggered it, not the car's motion.)
2. To me, the archetypal breakfast consists of two fried eggs, sunny side up, two or three slices of bacon, and a couple of slices of well-buttered toast. I don't make it myself - my attempts to make sunny-side-up eggs usually end with ruptured yolks - but if I find myself in a home-style eatery at that time of day, that's what I'll order. (Sometimes I'll go with sausage, but really bacon is the thing.)
3. I love to sing, although I came late to the realization. Unfortunately, my singing voice is - or was; it's been years since I took it out in public - oddly situated. I can cover most of the tenor range, though I squeak on the higher notes, and most of the baritone range, though I growl on the low. As a consequence, there are songs in which I can sing either part, songs in which I can sing one but not the other, and songs ("On Eagles' Wings" is the exemplar) which are simply impossible.
4. It's been a long time since I tried to learn another language, and most of the ones I've studied have slumped into uselessness. (I can still read French and Spanish passably well.) I think, though, that someday I'd like to teach myself Turkish.
5. Heights per se don't bother me. I've stood atop the Empire State Building and high on the Eiffel Tower (the place where they have the window in the floor), and it doesn't affect me at all. But I have to trust whatever I'm standing on. I get very nervous on ladders, for example. There was an occasion when one of my frat brothers, for the sake of a prank, tried to get me to stand on his shoulders to reach an otherwise inaccessible point. I tried, but the moment I started to straighten up I just freaked, and we were lucky not to both hit the ground hard.
6. One of the things I enjoyed most about living in Chicago was the great range of ethnic restaurants. Mexican, French, and Chinese, of course, but also Indian, Greek, German, Portuguese, and Thai. Of them all, I think I liked Thai cookery the most; there was a little Thai restaurant on the north side of Hyde Park that I frequented.
As I've said before, I don't tag, but if anyone cares to follow suit, feel free!