Sixteen Things

Jan. 7th, 2009 10:02 pm
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[livejournal.com profile] isiscaughey tagged me for a meme.

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, write an entry with 16 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 16 people to be tagged.

  1. I hate broccoli.
  2. I have webbed toes. Yes, really.
  3. I went to Catholic school for four years. It was not traumatic. I really liked it there.
  4. If there were money in it, I'd probably just stay in school forever. I enjoy academia.
  5. I am almost always late. I keep trying to fix this, but I mostly fail.
  6. I told my high school guidance counselor I wanted to be a zamboni driver.
  7. I used to watch The Little Mermaid almost every day. (I was five.) For my sixth birthday, I had a The Little Mermaid themed party.
  8. I've only left North America once. I went to London for ten days and thought it was completely awesome.
  9. I can't leave the house in the morning without eating breakfast. Unless, of course, I'm leaving to go out to breakfast.
  10. In high school, I was a page at the public library, and I was very particular about books being in the proper order. I can't be bothered to put my own books in any kind of order. They're arranged by size because they fit best on the shelves that way.
  11. I studied Italian for four years.
  12. I want to live abroad sometime in my life.
  13. I am completely unorganized.
  14. I spend most of my time looking at a computer screen.
  15. I am the last cylon. Okay, not really.
  16. I really want some ice cream right now.

I started the first five items with the letter "i", then I couldn't change it because it would look wrong. Clearly I am insane.

I think half my flist has done this already, so I just tag anyone else who's interested.
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Date: 2009-01-08 07:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com
I always want those extra minutes of sleep, which is a huge point of contention between me and the alarm clock! After several years in college, my roommate and I had this complicated system where my alarm went off first then she got up, started getting ready, and went back to bed, then I got up and took a shower. Then we would both finish getting ready... but we rarely left at the same time for a class at the same time because I am slooow.

Date: 2009-01-08 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stubefied-by-gd.livejournal.com
I used to use my roomie's alarm, too! Except I'd get ready while she was in the shower and be on my way to breakfast by the time she got out. That was the good roomie. Freshman year there was also the bad roomie, who voluntarily signed up for work study at like the crack of dawn, and would occasionally get up even before her alarm, and then leave it to go off the whole time she was in the shower. Grrr.

Date: 2009-01-08 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com
Did you have random university assigned roomies? That's what I did freshman year cause I didn't want to live with my high school friends and end up hating them. I ended up in a quad, but we all got along, and two of stuck together for two years after that.

Leaving alarms going off is obnoxious, especially if it's on the annoying buzzy thing. (I always put mine on the radio so I don't have to wake up to a headache.) There was one time the girl in the room next to us left for the weekend but left her alarm on. It was going off for several hours before the RA finally decided it warranted going in to turn it off.

Date: 2009-01-08 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stubefied-by-gd.livejournal.com
I didn't go to college with my friends, and I'm not sure you could have requested roomies if you'd wanted to. I put down I preferred a single or double and ended up in a triple. Three girls in one room is the worst idea ever, hello. My roomies had cars and I didn't and I was terrified that they had bonded on the walk to get them registered and that I would be the odd man out, until it turned out that one of them was, er, difficult to live with, so I wasn't the bad one. The good one was so stressed by the bad one that she was able to move out part way through second semester, but we joined up again for the next three years.

It was indeed the buzzy alarm, which I can't stand, either. I used it in middle and high school and it took years before I could hear it on TV without wanting to hit something. But I can't wake up to music, either, because I just end up dreaming about it, so I set my alarm to white noise.

Date: 2009-01-09 02:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com
I went to the state university in my city, so it was inevitable I'd have friends that also went there. You went to New York though, right? They always advised freshman against signing up for rooms with people they knew, but some did it anyway. More than two in one room definitely doesn't give you enough space. We had four, and the only reason we weren't always in each others hair was because our room was part of a suite, so there was a separate living room we could go to. That's good that at least one of your roomies was good, otherwise that would have been horrible to deal with all year.

That's cool that your alarm does white noise! I sometimes do incorporate the music on the radio into my dreams, so that's a persistent danger. If I'm really worried I won't wake up I set the alarm on my cell phone too.

Date: 2009-01-09 04:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stubefied-by-gd.livejournal.com
Yes, I went to New York. There were some high school classmates there, but no one I knew well.

But my alarm doesn't "do" white noise, really. I just set it to a radio station that doesn't come in. :)

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