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sistermagpie ([personal profile] sistermagpie) wrote2010-01-23 06:12 pm
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I have been tagged!

By [livejournal.com profile] 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.
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[identity profile] sistermagpie.livejournal.com 2010-01-27 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
In its own way, how I came to do it is also a weird story. I wrote the only fan letter I've ever written to a guy who was in 2 of my favorite movies when he was a kid (both horror movies). I never knew what happened to him because he didn't act as an adult. But I read about him in a horror magazine and thought...I'm going to write this guy a letter! I'd never done that. It had mentioned in the article that he did this kind of meditation and I mentioned that I did some meditating too. He sent me a nice letter back and gave me the information about the place--they have places all over the world.

So that's how I came to try it out! I would totally go back to but it just took a while to plan and get there and all that.

[identity profile] ava-jamison.livejournal.com 2010-01-27 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
That's an awesome story!
(Also? Someday I would like to know your favorite horror movies.)