Any time I go away I wind up having a hard time getting back into posting. But this is long even for me! I blame LJ's troubles too, though. I think I was going to post a couple of things and wound up getting frustrated.

Anyway! To keep from looking too much like an abandoned lj, I figured a meme would be helpful! I gakked this from ava_jamison:

Name me a character! I will tell you:

* How I FEEEEEL about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I don't know if I have opinions like this for all characters, but I could give it a shot!

Wow there are scary things happening all over the world all at once right now. And I'm removed enough from all of them that I can focus on a meme that jlh tagged me with:

What's the first song you truly remember loving? (Don't worry if it's a little embarrassing; you were just a kid!) Then tag as many friends as you like to do the meme as well!

Hard to remember, but ones I recall in no particular order... ( This got complicated so yes, I managed to make even this simple meme tl;dr. )

Oops, I forgot to tag anybody. I know it's a cop-out but I hope anybody who finds this idea fun does it!

This is just somehow hilarious to me:

By schmevil!

List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
Tag seven people to do the same.
Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it." (I love the way memes always come with that rule now, because it always sounds like something Hermione Granger would add--do it right!)

Tagging: Jlh, ali_wildgoose, ava_jamison, samaranth, dorrie6, horridporrid, ptyx. Do iiiiiiiiit.

1. I regularly do a list of "100 tolerations" that somebody told me about once. You list 100 things you're tolerating, from big (too-small salary, for instance) to small (lost my favorite pen). Then you try to cross off as many as possible. Yesterday I got rid of the one extra key on my keychain that fit nothing. Yeah!!!

2. At daycamp when I was in first grade they gave out awards to everyone like "best athlete" or "best swimmer" or "funniest laugh." I was really quiet back then and even I couldn't imagine what they'd come up with for me (pickiest eater?). I got...most cooperative camper. To this day I consider it the lamest award ever. It's the "sometimes we forget she exists" award.

3. My senior year in high school, however, I was voted class clown in the yearbook.

4. I share a cousin with Robert Downey Jr.

5. I went to an intense meditation retreat where I spent 10 days not speaking, reading or writing, with minimal food. It was kind of awesome.

6. Based on a random lie from a co-worker, a woman at work spent over a year believing I was a nun from reeeeally progressive convent.

7. I have never tasted coffee.

jlh has designated this "Let's Reclaim Some Shit Day."

Iow: What are the things that people frequently rant about that you actually rather like? ,

She started with first person narration (which is something I tend to think I don't like before I remember that plenty of books and stories I love are written in it), established relationship stories (I HATE the attitude on TV now, especially, where as soon as a couple is together people start thinking they need to break up or else it's not interesting--wtf?) and sitcoms (my version of comfort food! Yay!).

The idea is to just say the things you like, when you've heard people argue that they suck or have just dismissed them, hopefully not as an inspiration for snarking about why you shouldn't like it.

( So I tried to think of some... )

OMG, another movie meme! I have seen practically everything in the Academy Awards Best Picture list at this point, except for 3 or 4. I have a feeling I'll do terribly on this one, which are the top-grossing movies of all time. Gakked from jlh.

( Top grossing movies )

Oh my god, this meme ate my entire weekend almost! It's hard! Which I should have known. But I think I finally finished. I'm going to post it before I change my mind on everything.

(  Top Five Favorite (Not Fanfic) Authors )

( Top Five Self-Indulgent-But-Undeniably-Appealing Fanfic Tropes )

( Top Five Characters You Ended Up Loving More Than You Thought You Would At First )

( Top 5 websites )

( Top 5 books )

( Top 5 Moments of Glee )

( Top 5 Fanfics, The Ones You Read Again And Again )

( Top 5 Actors )

( Top 5 Songs You Associate With Anything Fannish )

( Top 5 Cities You’ve Ever Visited )

( Top Five Missing Moments/Scenes/Episodes )

( Top Five Horror Stories, Can Be Movies, Books, Etc. )

( Top Five Favorite Endings To Books )

( Top 5 Villain Archetypes )

( Top Five Ideas Or Themes You Find Yourself Concerned With When Interacting With Fannish Works )

( Top 5 favorite fictional characters, answer in picture form (either pictures of them, or pictures of something that represents what you like about them; whatever. Pictures!). )

( Five best episode endings )

( Top 5 Batman stories, Top 5 Robin stories? )

( Top five successful adaptations of books to films. )

( Top 5 fictional worlds )

( Top 5 Fictional Friendships )

( Five Top Fannish Meta Pet Peeves )

( Topo five things about Dick Grayson/Robin )

From jlh though apparently it's making the rounds:

Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Some people have come up with some creative ones. And I will answer them all in a new post.

Because I am sure you are all dying to know! Or more like I am dying to know because I have no clue what you will ask. I can't promise I won't dither about them all endlessly, though.

( Had to do this quiz. )

I think I lost a week somewhere lj-wise. Don't know how that happened. I have had a week of new experiences, which is always good. I went to a Juilliard concert, which I didn't know they had. Then tried a new tea at Alice's Teacup--Monk's blend. Nice and strong.

Finally, last night I went to "My Name is a Blackbird," a one-woman improvised dance piece, which was awesome. Then went out with the one woman of the piece and others, which was cool. There was good bar food. Good by my standards, that is, which I always appreciate. I’m not sure if anybody got a chance to taste the tater tots I was shoveling them in so fast.

I've been eyeing Dreamwidth with interest and hoping to remember to friend people who are there if I ever get over there. But it has got me thinking about a lot of things I've been reading about all these new social sites. We had this meeting at work about Twitter where it was explained to us that Twitter is all about finding people with social credit, proved by their many followers etc. The whole thing completely confuses me, this whole subset of internet users that use Facebook status and Twitter as incredibly important chances to fail or succeed at being witty and cool.

It makes me feel like the internet has for so long been associated with geeks and the socially inept (whether that's true or not, that's the stereotype) and now we're seeing the results of years of desperate brainstorming to find a way to make it a place where "popular people" can reign supreme again. ( Cutting because it looks like I might have more to say about this after all. )

I have an actual thing to say that I may post later, but I got tagged for the handwriting meme by etrangere so I will put that off and put up two memes. Yes, I've now gotten to the point where I'm putting off things I do to procrastinate.

( My handwriting and perception personality image, let me show them to you. )