In Which Carmen Memes

[xaara]

I love how "meme" is a noun and a verb unique to the blogging community. I meme. You meme. He/she/it memes. We have our own language.

All your base are belong to us.

MUAHAHAHAHA

No, I'm not actually high. I'm just on that natural high that comes from finishing my speech, my space race project, my photo essay, and my zine page. So without further ado:

Gakked (there we go again! another unique word!) from dancinggoldfish:

01. reply with your name and I will write something I like about you.
02. I will then tell what song/movie/icon reminds me of you.
03. if I were to apply an o'clock to you, I'll tell you what it would be.
04. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
05. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
08. put this in your journal.

Comments

[dancinggoldfish.livejournal.com]

Anya (before I write another two pages on a ridiculous book called A Prayer for Owen Meany ;p)

[xaara.livejournal.com]

Forever delayed, since I always forget about replying to comments for about a hundred years and then do a lot at once...

1. I like how you seem to have a pretty consistent mood state--you're not all over the map like a lot of the people I know. You're sort of...er...chipper? Something that means chipper but doesn't sound so British.
2. For some reason, I've always associated "Octopus' Garden" with you. Don't ask me why.
3. Nine o'clock am. Early enough to be morning, but no so early that it interferes with staying up until two or three the night before.
4. Unaffected. As in honest, genuine, straightforward.
5. I remember one of my early HM chats, when I was still just a little bit intimidated, and you came into the chat and introduced yourself as the baby HM. So I was no longer the youngest and it was a great feeling...until we figured out that you were indeed a more experienced HM than I.
6. Dare I say goldfish? ;) Seriously, though, probably a young cat--not a kitten--but a young, sometimes-playful, sometimes-serious cat. Yeah, I don't know either.
7. What was your first experience in making an online friend? I mean, forming a relationship that you honestly consider a real friendship with someone over the Internet. (Because I've been asking a lot of people this question lately, and they have some interesting stories.)

[dancinggoldfish.livejournal.com]

1) Nothing wrong with sounding British ;p
2) Never heard of it ;D
3) Nine o'clock? Hmm...rather early in the morning for me ;p
4) *blush*
5) Oh, yes, those long ago HM chats! We need to have some more of those soon
6) Goldfish would work ;p But I like the whole cat description
7) My first experience? Probably when I first joined the boards, and I was busy running around posting my own little crappy J/J stories and posting on other people's. At one point or another, three of us got together and started calling each other the Ritz Crackers (RC). We were fairly annoying, and finally we were told to stop spamming (or at least one of us was, and we all stopped), and we chatted online and were all happy and such. Sadly, I think I only really talk to one of them now (the others I never see anymore). How about you?

[shadowserenity.livejournal.com]

Rebecca.

Go for it ;).

[xaara.livejournal.com]

1. I like your assertiveness and ability to make decisions. If there's a problem, you just deal with it. You have no idea how happy that makes me.
2. "Unwell" by Matchbox 20. What? [face_innocent]
3. 2 o'clock am. Because that's when I'm often talking to you, and because that's when the whole world seems surreal but strangely sharp around the edges.
4. Energetic. No one's ever going to forget the Great Pink Mod.
5. Most memorable...probably any one of our "Preternatural" brainstorming sessions because they all degenerated into craziness and mutant zebras.
6. You remind me most of a dolphin, I think--you're intelligent and usually social but can lash out at a potential danger.
7. I'd love to hear the answer to the 7 I asked Anya, but as for you...the good ol' cliché "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Because despite the many many conversations I've had with you, I don't think you've ever told me that.
8. put this in your journal.

[shadowserenity.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Carm :).

I think the thing with decisions is that you’re going to regret 90% of them whether you act now or later. Waiting unsettles people. You try to look before you leap, but the situation put blinkers on you! :p

I love “Unwell” by Matchbox Twenty. I have it on CD and constantly sing along. I relate to it *so* well.

I really enjoyed the “Preternatural” brain storming, too. Our knowledge of B-plots is frightening.

Ooh, a dolphin. Beautiful creatures.

My first online friend I met through fanfiction.net. I discovered her SW fan fiction and send her an email and we got talking. We eventually migrated to MSN and talked daily. I received a handful of packages from her, too. While she was definitely the more intelligent one, she was also a hothead. We eventually went our separate ways after arguing over politics. She was for everything I was against and, needless to say, I didn’t have any diplomatic skill. I’d type whatever came to mind. We were incompatible. However, for years, I kept the email (written in bold red) she sent me on the day of the 9/11 disaster. I think I’ve deleted it now, but I kept that email for a good three years.

I used to want to be a lawyer, then a psychologist, but now I don’t know. I have no long-term career goals. I think I shed those goals last year. You become too much of an idealist and it’ll work against you if you have depression. The only true goals I have is to look after my family, have friends, have a relatively happy existence and write a novel.