10 Random things meme

[Brad]

10. I have shared apartments with 9 different AMV editors.

Nuh UH. In order of appearance:

1. Jay
2. Ileia
3. Grace
4. Liz
5. Jon
6. Darryl
7. Adam
8. Kit
9. Kiki
10. André

:\ I can does maths.

[trythil]

00. I'm interpreting 10 as binary.
01. I always start lists with something that is true.
10. I am a pathological liar.

[CodeZTM]

* I'll tend to obsess over new songs a lot. Having killed the majority of my library, if I find a new song I like, I'll end up primarily listening to it for a week or two until I kill that too.

I have that same problem. XD

[Devolution]

1) it takes me FOREVER to post anything. and i do mean forever. this took me almost 3 days to convince myself to start writing, and this isn't anything difficult. i'm constantly paranoid that someone is out there mocking me for what i have to say, no matter how irrational that sounds. it also doesn't help that more often than not, when i DO post, the thread dies :S making me even MORE paranoid. this sucks all the more because i'm almost always here, i can just never bring up the courage to actually say anything :(

2) i'm a huge car guy. not just 'i love cars' kind of thing, but a finishing my engine swap, getting ready to custom modify my suspension, i should really seam-weld this thing so i don't need a roll cage while i race kind of thing. this is one of the reasons i don't edit video much anymore. once spring/summer hits, you won't find me NOT working on my car in my spare time.

3) i suffer from severe depression. i was put on medication, but it made it impossible for me to focus on anything for longer than 5 minutes, and my doctor hasn't gotten around to prescribing me a substitute yet.

4) i'm a packrat. i don't hoard junk though, my house may be just loaded with stuff, but most of it has proven useful in some way shape or form within the last year minimum.

5) i was raised Roman Catholic, and was VERY religious for most of my life, until a sudden epiphany late in high school made me realize that it just wasn't for me.

6) i love to cook. whether it's just something simple or some semi-epicmealtime concoction, i love it. though i love it more when i actually get to feed people other than just myself.

7) musically, i listen to a little bit of everything. i go through phases where all i'll listen to is techno/electronica, then nothing but rock, then something else. and i love finding new music, either by myself, or by bothering people until they send me stuff they've found recently

8) i collect vintage audio gear. Specifically Sansui, Aurex, and very old Realistic gear. i have more stereos and speakers from the 60s and 70s than i'll ever know what to do with, and to me, they all sound a hundred times better than anything you can buy new.

9) i regret not editing anymore. it drives me nuts that i haven't finished anything in 6 years.

10) in 9 years i've never met another Canadian AMV editor in person.

11) i'm the worst online conversationalist ever. i used to be pretty social around here, but in the last 8 years any semblance of online social skills have withered and died :(

12) i am entirely addicted to My Little Pony: FiM :| i own 11 figures, and i never leave home without Twilight Sparkle.

13) i have more hobbies than i can shake a pointed stick at, and i go through phases where i'll be all hardcore into one or two of them and then all of a sudden be bored and either find yet another hobby or move back to one of the ones i hadn't been involved in for ages. there are so many, that i actually forget about some of them until i'm cleaning a workbench, find something and realize 'oh shit! i forgot another one!'

14) there's nothing i dislike more than being lied to.

15) i apparently come across as being a bit of an asshole online when you first meet me nowadays :( i'm not. i may be a smartass, but i'm nice as pie otherwise, i swear.

16) i don't normally talk about myself at all, so making this list has, so far, actually been very difficult for me.

17) i went to the same high school as James Doohan(Scotty from Star Trek), and met him when he came to celebrate the 75th anniversary.

18) my family ancestry was traced to Erik the Red on one side, and William the Conqueror on the other.

19) i hate living in cities. i was raised in the country and i'll never get used to the people and the sheer amount of ambient noise produced by even the smallest of urban centres.

20) i miss being a part of this community and regret not keeping in touch with the people i used to talk to :(

[ngsilver]

1. I was diagnosed with dyslexia in elementary school. I to this day still joke about it but it is something that really bothers me and I suffer through it every day. Originally I was only supposed to be dis-graphic (in-ability to write) but I seem to have developed more of the reading side of dyslexia as the years have gone on. I experience great pain when handwriting to the point I can barely write a 3~5 sentience paragraph without having to put my pen/pencil down. Typing helps, since most of my problems just come up as typos, but they still bother me. This is partly the reason I haven't really gotten very far in my college career, as I've been plagued by doing calculus problems entirely correctly except for 1 lysdexic error that I can't see which ends up costing me the problem. I know I should seek out help, and I know it's out there, but I just don't seek it out.

2. I have an odd sense of pride. Ever since I was young I've made it a point to do things on my own without help from others. It really bothers me when I have to seek help, because to me that's a failure on my part. This has gotten me in trouble financially and in my academic carrier (see above) as I just don't feel like I should bother others with my problems.

3. I have a tenancy to bitch about things. Usually when something bothers me I bitch about it. I'll bitch to whoever wants to hear or anyone in hearing/typing distance. It doesn't matter if the other person cares, remembers the conversation, or even responds, I just need to get it off my chest. It's just how I deal with things I guess and a defense mechanism I think I've developed as a way to curb my anger problems as a child. I've had problems in the past, and I'm sure I'll have more problems in the future, with bitching about the wrong thing to the wrong person. Heck, half the time I don't really mean what I say, I just say it and move on. After I'm done bitching I usually forget about what it is I was bitching about and move on with my day. I've both been told I'm an ass because of this, but also that I'm the most happy-go-lucky person other have meet also due to this.

4. Kind of an addendum to above, I have an odd habbit of holding imaginary conversations with people when I'm bitching. Ruu-chan's had to put up with this a lot since she'll start talking to me about something and I wont even realize until she mentions it that I just spent the last 30 mins holding a conversation with someone who wasn't there.

5. Nothing really truly bothers me. Well... obviously some things bother me enough that I have to bitch about them I guess... but after that's done I'm not bothered by it anymore.

6. Through my childhood I had to develop a strong self esteem in order to overcome being the outcast. I've been told that I have an crushing ego and lack the ability to take compliments. Really, it's all just in jest. I don't even really believe the words that come from my mouth (or that I type) most of the time. I just have to tell myself and others how great I am in order to stave off the other voices in my head....

7. I have a tenancy to tell people I've hardly known way too much about me. It's my overly trusting nature. I could only have met you shortly and spoken to you for a bit and would probably consider you a friend. Once that happens who knows what I might tell you. I just don't really know what to say and what to keep inside.

8. Due to (above) I'm usually considered the quiet one. I try not to say much because I never know when I'll say something stupid, which often happens.

9. I really like to be the life of the party and the center of attention. Though due to (above) it can be hard sometimes. I do tend to open up the more I get used to being around and the more I get to know others. I'm a silly and loud drunk, which helps often with being the life of the party. Though in the process I've hurt myself a few times doing things I wouldn't normally due. I have a tenancy to forget I'm not as nimble as I was as a child when I'm drunk.

10. Perhaps my next 10 will be on a more happy note.

[Castor Troy]

2. I have an odd sense of pride. Ever since I was young I've made it a point to do things on my own without help from others. It really bothers me when I have to seek help, because to me that's a failure on my part. This has gotten me in trouble financially and in my academic carrier (see above) as I just don't feel like I should bother others with my problems.

I know this all too well. Sometimes pride can be our downfall.

[dj_ultima_the_great]

Suppose I should finally get around to this. I'm not a very interesting person, and so I've had to think to figure out ten vaguely interesting facts about me.

1. I have a speech impediment, that being stuttering. It's the worst when I'm nervous, excited, happy, or angry, and as a result, I have trained myself to keep calm, level, and deadpan as much as possible. I have also developed a love of writing, even if it's just to talk about mundane things, because it lets me speak without a voice.

2. Oddly, I decided to be a translator. I actually would have preferred linguistics in terms of researching the origins, movement, and development of languages, but there's really no money in that career, and so I went for something marketable. My major is Spanish, my minor is French, and I took Japanese for a year (and would continue had I more time). On a good day, you might actually catch me speaking one of them.

3. I have never had a party or celebration for anything in my life, nor have I ever been on a vacation.

4. Some people would disagree with the last statement, because they would say that doing a semester abroad in Spain was a vacation. Fact: it wasn't. It was schooling that I had to do well on for my major. Amazing fun and culturally enriching? Absolutely. A vacation? Not even close.

5. The last time I drank was in August, and the next time I will drink will be this month (no, not for my birthday or ACen; something else). Intervals of this length are pretty normal for me. I'm not social at all and have little interest in alcohol otherwise.

6. Despite having my driver's license since the usual 15.5/16-year-old range (that's "usual" for Americans, I mean), I have only driven, at most, two dozen times. (I will be twenty four years old this month.)

7. Bakadeshi was my idol back in the day. I told him once that I would only ask for his opinion on my work when I felt as if I had edited something that was worth it. I still have not collected on this.

8. I am a complete geek with videogames. If there is a special boss to be beaten, I will beat it. If there's a glitch to be abused, I will abuse it. If there's a super secret ultra hyper rare item drop to be obtained, I will obtain it. I often say that if schoolwork could be put into the form of a videogame, I would have graduated valedictorian.

9. I decided my major for college in the most logical way I could think to do it. I made two lists: one of things I liked, and one of things for which I had talent. I eliminated all of my items for which I had skill, but no interest (who wants to spend the rest of their life doing something they hate?). I got rid of many of the items which I liked, but wasn't particularly skilled. This left me mostly with things I enjoyed and had talent to do. Biology, psychology, art, music, English, creative writing, and Spanish were the final choices. Bio was gone because of needing too much math. Psych would have become too frustrating with its many gray areas. Art and music were crossed off because I'm not talented enough to make a living and I didn't want to be a teacher. Creative writing was eliminated because it's too difficult to make a living if you are not massively talented or you don't produce what's in vogue. This left English and Spanish. I have spoken English all my life, and therefore decided it was too boring to be my major - hence, Spanish.

10. This will be somewhat controversial, I'm sure, but I am not against suicide - at least for reasons NOT having to do with depression. I believe that since I was not given a choice whether or not I wanted to be born into this world (a selfish act on my parents' part, technically) that it should be my choice whether or not I want to leave it (also selfish, but a fair response). However, this decision can only be made through logic, not blind emotions. To this end, I have a list of questions that I periodically ask myself. (It's a long list, so I'll omit them here.) If ever the answer to all of them is "no, and it isn't a possibility," then that would be the day when I would decide whether or not to continue living. When I say this to people, the first response I get is, "so what about so-and-so? Would you tell them to commit suicide?" My answer is that my criteria for making this decision is going to be different from everyone else's criteria. I would never be so arrogant as to say that I can decide who gets to live and die, because everyone's reason for doing so differs.

Not the most cheery note to end on, but it was interesting at least.


- Jen

[Warlike Swans]

1. I've enjoyed reading this thread.

2. I neither approve of the 2 party system of government dominating the US, nor the 2 gender construct dominating most languages/culture. Not sure which is more outdated and stupid, but I'd say the former is more obviously so.

3. I read. A lot. It can be a bad habit. When I had a tooth infection I read 9 books in 5 days, and my eyes were insanely sore, but I still couldn't stop for long.

4. I'm not feeling overly brave about confessing anything overly deviant...

5. I wrote my senior thesis on self-mutilation. The super-abridged version: Cutting is a coping mechanism, and not inherently "sick."

6. Earlier today I decided Summer Wars is like Anna Karenina, but I doubt anyone wants to hear me expound on that.

7. I have/had a partially paralyzed vocal chord. For the worst of it I sounded like 2 electronic frogs just slightly out of sync. I wish I had recorded it.

8. "Warlike Swans" comes from the movie Stiff Upper Lips in which there is a conversation in Latin that gets mangled by an idiot.

9. The first movie to scare me as a kid was entitled "Football Funnies." I could sit through horror films and just get frustrated at idiot characters, but seeing balloons at a football stadium turn normal football fans into the gross, body painted, rabid variety of fan gave me nightmares.

10. I never watch network TV of my own accord, I mooch off other people's ability to remember schedules or do something else.

11. I wanted my list to go past 10.

12. I too like My Little Ponies... I had the bed-tent as a child. Good times.

[*] Sometimes, I apologize mentally to any telepaths nearby that are being subjected to my thoughts. No one's ever answered, so they all must have been scared off by my insanity]

I balance snide thoughts with compliments in case of telepaths. I have no idea how that habit started... mis-perceiving a telepathic apology mayhap?

[8bit_samurai]

More facts, since everybody's doing it

Back in third grade, during show and tell, I once punched a kid in the nuts for giving me bunny ears, then continued talking about what I had to show. The teacher wasn't in the room at the time, and I don't remember if I ever got in trouble for it or not (but I did warn him I'd do it if he did it again).

My golden birthday was on a Friday (Friday the 13th, to be exact) and I ran into a bike rack in a dark parking lot while out egging houses.

Once Mario Party came out, my friends and I played it for at least eight hours straight, and I have a scar on my thumb to prove it.

Unless I'm really focused on something else, I try not to step on cracks on sidewalks and floors, unless the tiles are too small to avoid stepping on the cracks.

I'm actually a really good cook and baker, but I don't like cooking and baking since I don't really like cleaning up afterwards.

I still haven't beaten Silent Hill Origins or Resident Evil 2 (or even played them for more than an hour) since I got them.

I've lived in both small towns and large cities (small town as in a population of about 350 and the largest city in AK, which has a population of about 28,000) and I prefer to live in the bigger cities.

I went hunting and fishing growing up, which is actually something I enjoy, despite my preferences for living in the big city (which you can still do, but it's not as easy as in the smaller towns).

Unless it's recommended from a friend/family member, or if it's a sequel for something I enjoyed in the past, I tend to watch movies/shows/animu etc. and play games with no expectations from the start. Also, unless it's something I really look forward to, I tend to be late in the game for new movies/games/music etc.

I tend to be really good at games that involves skills and chance until currency is involved, which then I become pretty terrible at them.

[JaddziaDax]

11. I'm here instead of "taking a bath" or "going to bed" like I said I was gonna do. Don't tell my husband O: (I just got caught XD)

12. I can't stand to have my hair in my face, which is why I always put it up in a pony tail or something. I'm considering cutting it all off (pixy style?) just to see how it would look. It's currently an A-line.

13. I have a horrible addiction to Pokemon Cards. I think it's a bad habit and possibly a waste of money as I don't play the game, nor have any desire to learn how to. I just want to "collect them all." @_@ I'm also on some kind of Pokemon egg site which might just be as big of a waste of time, but it gives me something to do.

14. In high school I got an award for Pottery even though I contributed to the Drama program more. I was rather disappointed and pissed off.

15. I still have a can of Bumblebee tuna that my mother in law gave me for Christmas several years ago. It's on my desk.

16. I don't like giving my nieces and nephews presents because they destroy everything they get their hands on, but I feel obligated when their birthdays come up.

17. I am easily spook-able. It's easy to sneak up behind me and "psst" or something and it will scare me. This is due to the fact that I easily can get caught up in my own head/imagination. A co-worker at my first job nick named me "Psst" because he would do that to me all the time. I would often tell him that it's not an accomplishment because I'm easily spook-able.

18. Scary movies don't scare me. I'm too busy watching how the makeup/effects are done, to be scared. Either that or I'm riff-tracking in my head (sometimes out loud). I think slasher flicks are boring and lame, however some sci-fi/horror can be neat.

19. If you get me started I can go on a super long rant about the Twilight series... and I probably won't shut up for over an hour. I still haven't read the final book, but I really want to, because I want to read this train wreck for myself.O: I just don't want to pay the hardcover price for it, so I'm waiting for the (little) paperback to come out... guess it will when the last movie comes out. I have not watched any but the first movie (also horrible, but dead on to the book in my opinion). I originally forced myself to read them just to see how bad they really were with my own eyes, and a RL friend told me "the book is so much better than the movie" and nagged at me about it.

20. My house is pretty much made of plastic, and I'm not sure if I'm used to the static yet.