greetings fellow earthlings!

[kaigou]

Oi. My flist has exploded in the past week. *shifty look at flist* Seems I've got two choices: either say hello and suggest everyone introduce themselves, or give long thought to cutting back on the attention-getting snark. Here goes. *long thought* Okay! That was hard! Enough of that.

Step right up, don't be shy, tell everyone a little about yourself, your likes, dislikes, whether you were the one who set off the fire alarm in sixth grade and just what was up with your obsession with collecting all the pine tree car freshners, anyway? We've been dying to find out. Fear not, if you confess, I will not mock! Mostly. No more than I do to myself on a regular basis, but since I'm the only one around consistently, I make for a great wealth of material. I haven't been able to pull over an embarrassing moment on myself yet. I'm still trying.

If it's easier, address Bob instead. That's my new icon, since I'm not cool enough to have any sockpuppets (I almost wrote cockpuppets but I'm not in a rockband so we'll disregard), but I'm hoping that at least having a sockpuppet icon will let me fake it for a little while. I used to have minions, but they went on strike. Wouldn't paint my house anyway, and what good are minions if there's no house-painting involved?

But you are not required to be minions! Bob does not expect this of you! Bob may bite your kneecaps, though. He has that sort of look to him. Consider yourself duly warned.

I don't bite kneecaps, or anywhere else; not my genre. The -s- in my username is for Sol, which is what most folks around here (the former minions, at least) call me, when they're not picketing. I do randomly analyze things at length, because I believe it is possible, given time, effort, and ingenuity, to find new ways to thrash just about any topic into a state of such utter submission that it might, someday, be willing to paint my house.

Or do my laundry. I'd be much happier with the laundry-doing, come to think of it. I'm rather dangerous doing it myself; after all, this is the way poor Bob ended up a widower. Poor, sad, sockpuppet-icon.

And now, it's your turn! Quick, before I am forced to have more long thoughts and produce yet another post like this one!

Comments

[miyabiarashi.livejournal.com]

Um, well, I've been around for a while, but I'm Miyabi. Heh. I'm currently in Hikone, Japan, on the JET Program. What we do is we're sent to public schools to help teach kids English, so I teach at two schools per week.

My LJ basically consists of talking about life in Japan, traveling (whenever the opportunity arises), and the occasional bit of fanfiction. Oh, and wigging out about when those law school decisions are going to come out, right now. Heh.

I'm Chinese American, born in Detroit, raised in Ann Arbor, MI, about 5'2-5'3, and I like to cook, knit, write, and play video games when I'm not hooked to the computer. I've also been practicing kendo for a little more than a year now.

Er...that's about it down here.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Gracious, how many people now do I know in the JET program? I think you're either the fourth or the fifth. Odd, that. On the plus side, when it snows, you probably think that warrants putting on maybe a light sweatshirt, at most... Think of all the money you save because you're impervious!

[miyabiarashi.livejournal.com]

O RLY? Had no clue about that. Any others on the flist? I'm a first-year though, and assuming the law school thing plays out favorably, probably that'll be the only year I have.

I hate snow. Can't stand it at all. Uck. I'd be in agreement with the light sweatshirt, 'cept I have terrible circulation. No central heating here either, which means OMG DHED OF COLD if I don't use my space heater.

Is that Black Adder, by the way?

[petenshi.livejournal.com]

*raises hand* I'm a JET. Up north in Iwate.

[miyabiarashi.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey! I'm out west in Shiga, apparently so small not very many Japanese know where it is. ^^;

[doriana186.livejournal.com]

Hello! *waves shyly*

I friended you quite some time ago, but I never really introduced myself properly. So, here's something about me. My name is Doriana (except not really), I turn 20 in a few weeks and I live in Finland. I think I stumbled upon your journal via Askerian's flist, and I stayed because of your books reviews and political essays/rants/opinions.

I'm studying English at the moment, but I'll do something else next year. Not yet sure what, but something that doesn't involve writing long academic essays.

I like languages, traveling, reading (fics, mostly :P) and white chocolate. I don't like spiders in my room, cleaning, writing long academic essays and this freaky weather we're having in here.

Yeah. That's about it I think. :)

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

You can have the white chocolate; I'm all about the dark, myself. Hey, I've seen Finland. Never been there, but I did visit a port in Sweden where you can see Finland on a clear day, and since it was clear, ta-dah, I've seen Finland. Err.

Yes! We shall blame Askerian if ever there's a falling out. *nods firmly* ;-)

[miladyinsanity.livejournal.com]

I found you when Paperback Writer linked to your post a few days ago.

I'm an unpubbed writer in Singapore, who's hoping to go to uni in the UK in September.

I didn't comment, but as someone who decided to go the no-meds route for depression a few years ago and now wishes she had done otherwise, your post on meds really spoke to me.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Wha-hunh? PBW did, too? I know Tobias Buckell did, but I wasn't aware anyone else had. *goes digging through PBW and doesn't find* Humm. Eh, well.

Yah, I've done the non-meds myself for long enough; it's possible with coping mechanisms and behaviorial modification, but sometimes your brain just can't do it all by itself. That's where I think some constructive visualization on medication as a good thing, even if long-term (and okay if long-term) is important.

[miladyinsanity.livejournal.com]

Oh oops. It wasn't Paperback Writer, but I can't remember who it was now. It will come to me, probably right after I shut down the laptop, LOL.

[sil-leg.livejournal.com]

Hi, I've been around since you were trolling the gw fandom! Ok, maybe not trolling.:p My name's been getting shorter and shorter, hopefully inversely related to my "wiseness". So now I'm just sil. What do you think sil_leg stood for? I'm in my final year of university in Singapore, bioscience - a name to cover the fact that they teach us everything remotely related to biology in hopes that something might come up useful, or at least they planned to.

I'm currently doing my final year project, which is also my first attachment, so my blog would more often than not complain at length about that. I also complain about my health, my work, the weather, people, food(hey, it's a national passion), anything that I can think of for that day. Once in a while I might have something thoughtful to say. *crosses fingers*

I like to read, and mostly re-read the books I love. In fact, I don't buy books until I've read them, a point my parents never quite understood. I also have some version of obsessive compulsiveness about the naming of songs and fanfics in my computer, which can happily take a joyful afternoon rather than doing something intelligent like my latest academically-phased crap of a paper, but hey, all those successful scientists write like that. If my professors would make us read theirs, it is only fair exchange, no?

And I like to think I'm fey! :D

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Bob trolls not!

Ehehe. I adore this icon, for some peculiar reason.

Hrm, I though Sil was a mispelled version of Sylvester, and then when you went to Sil-leg, I couldn't help it, I think "silver-legged" everytime I see it.

Bioscience, eh. So, tell me, why does it hurt when I move my arm like this? *twists into pretzel* Hunh? Hunh?

You go name songs and stories, I'll be over here deleting files. That's my idea of a happily wasted day: finding stuff to delete. I'll let email pile up just so I can delete a whole bunch at once (like 400 spam at a time) just to watch it all go away.

*coughs* Anyway, err, get back to studying!

[sil-leg.livejournal.com]

sil_leg used to stand for silvester legolowien, when I was in some lord of the rings induced d&d computer game craze. Then I went to "what does the name mean" databases and decided that silvester eleftherios would be cooler since sil is "forest" in roman and elef is "free" in greek. That went down as silvaelef because typing something that long all the time gets to be a name. Which finally becomes sil which is pretty cool anyway because it also sounds like 修(chinese for cultivation, study and in certain context those hopeful to be wise people sitting under waterfalls trying to attain enlightenment).

heh

But now that you say it, silver legged sounds pretty cool too. Almost...tribal, or wolfish.

[bonniers.livejournal.com]

Paint? You think minions *paint*?

Oh, come now. When's the last time you saw an evil overlord with a well-painted castle? Minions are far too busy letting the good guys slip through the guard lines to have time for silly things like paint.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Well, they should be good for something other than getting fooled into releasing the captives. Again.

[muffiewrites.livejournal.com]

Hi! My name is not Muffie, but I call myself that anyway. As a scheming fangirl, I've been considering a move to something more pithy than the mundane and less than descriptive Muffie, such as ~*~DeathsPrincessShinigami~*~, but I fear that as an alto, I don't have the vocal range to pull it off. That, and I can neither write in text message-ese nor plagiarise. It's a failing, but we all have our burdens.

I write fanfic and generally delete it when I'm finished. Other than one or two percent of whatever I've got on the 'Net, I never edit fanfic. I write original works and generally wonder if I'll ever finish them. I'm like Batman, a colij stoodint by day and what I euphamestically refer to as the "editor bitch", which is like yuke bitch which no one will get unless they've been out in the field in a GP small with a yukon stove as the low man on the totem pole, by night.

I occasionally fangirl your writing, but most of the time I wonder at the sad state of literacy (also known as shrieking and stomping around). I'd like to note, for the record, that if I had a djinn to grant my wishes, I'd have the power to reach through the monitor and bitch slap anyone who decided that because it's fiction, they can skip out on research and make it up if they want to.

I also have brown hair, but that's neither here nor there.

[muffiewrites.livejournal.com]

Uh. I meant the "sad state of literacy in the morons who don't think spell check applies to them," not in you.

I wish I could go drink caffiene now.

[clowe.livejournal.com]

Hi, my name is Cameron, and I'm a politician in a small county in Montana. I'm a former student of Di Francis, and through her LJ, I've seen you post a number of intelligent and often funny remarks. I'm currently slowly writing my first novel. Or should I say that I'm currently bludgeoning it to death?

[hrabana.livejournal.com]

Hi, my lj-name is hrabana and I'm from Germany. I have been reading your gw-stories and your other journal for a while. I even thought I friended you when you shut down the other journal but since I can't find you on my flist or me on yours this must be something I wanted to do but never came around to. The last few months have been very very busy and I didn't have any lj-activity for at least six months. Now I try to catch up with the entries I missed in this long time. Therefore I post a comment here 3 month after your entry.
I don't comment very often due to my regular lack of time but I will try to comment more often. And I would like to friend you if you don't mind.

I'm an engineer but work as a landscape gardener now. I like cooking, baking, gardening, reading, knitting, anime, manga... And I have totally fallen in love with the VW 181 Kuebelwagen which is called The Thing in the USA. I owned a 1972 German Army model for 11 years and drive a 1977 civil model now.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I was just sorting through older emails in my folders and saw this again -- hmmm, landscape gardener, eh?

*shifty eyes*

Heh. Don't mind me. I'm all about the hardscaping. I figure I stick to native plants and if they don't make it, they at least had a better shot in the rough 'n tumble riparian Texan environment than if I'd tried to grow some Chinese import or something.

A thing! OMG! I wanted one of those so badly when I was in HS, but I ended up with a 914 instead. Pretty close to the same engine, IIRC: 914s used VW-Bus 4 engines. Didn't the Thing use a slightly different class of bus engine? Hrmm.

[amytiger.livejournal.com]

Hello there! My name is Amy, and I'm a 24-year-old Apprentice Electrician living in the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland.

I came across your journal while looking up information on Mononoke, and I'm very glad you did. Your posts on it were very interesting :)

Nice to make your acquaintance!

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

(Sorry for the belated reply)

Wow, you really worked your way backwards, didn't you? I've been meaning to do the next set of Mononoke meanderings, but got caught up in holiday crap despite my best attempts to avoid it. Should have more up in a week or two, or so. Glad to meet you!