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[dlgood]

Was asked to submit answers to Seven Interesting Things About Me Meme. I note that "interesting" is subjective - thus, 7 Things About Me...

1. I've become increasingly fixated on handsfreeness. Somehow, the idea of actually holding the telephone while talking, really annoys me. It's too bad I keep breaking my headsets. Seriously - I got a bunch of those cellphone wire headseats for like $5 each, and I've destroyed almost all of them. Crushed in an armrest. Dropped an earpiece in the gearshift.


2. As above, I am not a delicate individual. As a boy, I was the proverbial bull in a china shop. Most everything I own is damaged in at least some minor way.


3. I love socks. Scratch that. I like socks. (I'm not a Boreanaz-esque sock freak.) I pretty much never go barefoot, except in the shower. I keep pairs of socks that I use solely for sleeping in. These are not special "sleeper socks" or anything. I've just blocked them off.


4. I am strangely slow to adopt new technologies - and yet when I do - behave like a five year old, as if this is something actually new. For example, I just got my CrackBerry - after almost a year of resistance - and am oddly animated by it right now.


5. I am remarkably solicitous of authority figures. This makes for me being a fantastic cog in service sector employment. The Navy Officers generally expect people to do what they say, but my Civilian customers are almost always pleasantly surprised by my attitude when they dump the crap they don't want to have to do onto me. That said, I am not a fun person to have to take assignments from for similar reasons. I often forget that being completely unfazed by scutwork is not a common trait.


6. As with Scutwork above. I spent an hour fiddling with the above icon at the pixel level. For no real reason.


7. For some reason, right now I want to see someone write one of two cracked out "Five Things" crossover series. One in which Buffy Summers goes out on bad date after bad date with a series of "coming of age idiot-man-child" protagonists like JD from Scrubs and Ted of How I met your Mother. The other cracked-out crossover concept involves Faith seducing random people to infiltrate their organizations as part of one secret plot after another - maybe, like, John Casey of Chuck, Barney on HIMYM or the Sheinhardt Wig Corporation. Really, there can't be enough cracked out crossovers on TV. It's probably a good thing I don't have a series of my own. I would destroy TV with camp. And then have Profit orchestrate the demise of everyone Dexter doesn't kill...

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Ha to number 7.

I always have socks on also, but that is because my feet are always frozen. I must have 30 pair of "slipper socks" picked up for a buck a piece.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

#7 - I keep hoping that if I leave it out there, someone is going to take it up...

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

I love crossovers but I don't think I'd be up for #7. Have no clue about all those other shows!

Re your new toy: welcome to the Dark Side. We'll never let you go. Hee!

~ Scroll, a purveyor of said CrackBerry

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Yea. I don't expect you to - I don't see you watching as many of the 1/2 Idiot Manchild Sitcoms...

And yeah. My fear of the tiny buttons appears unfounded - I have the 8830 with the "smartkey" and vaguely accurate voice recognition.

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

I'm with you in #3 solidarity. While I wouldn't classify as a Boreanaz-type sock freak either, I do own perhaps far too many whimsical monkey patterned socks for a 37 year-old.

I haven't though of "Fly High Michelle" in years and yet now I'm singing it like it's all the new thing. "I say another prayer tonight that I'll see you in the light..."

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I don't have particularly whimsical socks. I just wear them a lot.

And hee.... Enuff Znuff. I am sadly incapable of moving past 80s hair metal.

[scwlc.livejournal.com]

You're one of those freaks wandering around that you can't tell whether they're nuts or have a cell phone? I . . . you . . .just . . . words fail me. Really. Now there is no distinction between the mentally ill and the technologically obsessed. I hope you're happy to have joined their ranks.

But hey, if you're having fun that's what's important.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

You're one of those freaks wandering around that you can't tell whether they're nuts or have a cell phone? I . . . you . . .just . . . words fail me.

I've had the cord from phone to ear for a while, but I generally only used that in the car. I got the wireless headset when I got my blackberry, because that thing is kind of too funky shaped to hold up to my head and talk with. Plus it has a million tiny buttons.

[landrews.livejournal.com]

**I would destroy TV with camp. And then have Profit orchestrate the demise of everyone Dexter doesn't kill...**

LOLOL- For whatever reason, this comment made my night :snorfle:

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Thanks. My humor is weird.

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

#7 is awesome. Someone needs to pick that one up.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes they do.

[marenfic.livejournal.com]

I think your crossover fics sound amazing and second your request for someone to write them.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I've got ideas, y'all.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Socks are good. They keep our feet warm and snuggly. I approve of socks. I'm not such a fan of cell phones and the like.
Your crossover fics must be written. Maybe you should do them yourself!!
BTW, are you coming to the Vancouver meet in June?

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

1. Them crossovers should be done. Just not by me.

2. Don't know - right now, I don't have enough airline miles (a lot of the days are blacked out) and the flights to Vancouver from DC are surprisingly expensive. I'm going to check back in a bit.

[chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com]

I love socks. Scratch that. I like socks. (I'm not a Boreanaz-esque sock freak.) I pretty much never go barefoot, except in the shower. I keep pairs of socks that I use solely for sleeping in. These are not special "sleeper socks" or anything. I've just blocked them off.
For some reason this amuses me. Plus- really? You sleep with socks on? Do you have really cold feet?

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

No, I don't have cold feet. One winter, I did, so I wore socks. ANd it just stuck for me.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha to 7! Apparently I have to watch HIMYM again - the first two eps of that show didn't catch me at all. But that Barney character sounds terrific.

oOOooh. Faith on a date with JD. HAHAHAHA! Or better yet, the Todd!!

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Apparently I have to watch HIMYM again - the first two eps of that show didn't catch me at all. But that Barney character sounds terrific.

Barney Stinson is LEGEN... wait for it...DARY. Seriously, you could watch the show for him alone. Though it's quite good all around, IMHO. Perhaps you should start by downloading such episodes as "The SLutty Pumpkin" or "SLap Bet". Those are awesome.