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[angelchicken]

I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. I read your fic, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."

I'd love it if every single person who friended me would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal.

doitDoitDOIT!!!!!!

You know you want to! And you, yeah you, the person who lurks who isn't on my friends list (and why not???) you do it to!

Comments

[sunbrae.livejournal.com]

In 7th grade, this really nerdy kid liked me and I defended him one day when some witch picked on him. He wrote me a love letter in blue crayon. I thought, "What a geek." The next school year, he came back - his glasses exchanged for contacts, braces were gone, he'd gained 50 lbs. and 6 inches. Other words? Hottie (as much as one can be in 8th grade.) And he still liked me. Hee. Always, always defend nerds. ;)

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

Dude, you are so cool. And *of course* the hottie loved you.

[katesti.livejournal.com]

Eeeeee!!!!! Gilbert Blythe!!!! *swoon*

That just totally made my day. You have no idea.

[raebird.livejournal.com]

It has recently occurred to me that all of my schoolgirl crushes bear striking resemblances (in both personality and appearance) to Buffyverse characters. We're talking middle school and high school here, and I didn't start watching Buffy until my senior year in college. I had a Spike, a Wesley, and an Oz. It's kind of disturbing to think about.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

Hee! That is so great! And, of course, odd. Buffy is everywhere, man.

[raebird.livejournal.com]

I tend to see it as less "great" and more "creepy." I'd like to have a crush on Wesley without harkening back to the most disturbing of my high school crushes. I seriously need to separate the two in my mind.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

And of course by "great" I meant creepy. I have times when I, too, have problems separating the Buffy from the real world. It is possible I can take any situation and relate it to Buffy somehow.

That's norman, right?

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

Every time I see it, the Jetsons movie makes me cry.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

I know how that is. I cired at Home Alone, Three men and A Little Lady, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and more.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

I got your christmas card today, and it's really pretty! Does that count? No? How about this, then:

It's, like, impossible for me to sit at the computer without eating, chewing on, or drawing on something. When I lived in the dorms, I used to get tubes of henna from the Quickie Mart across the street, and draw random patterns all over myself with them as I sat around in my room.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm so glad you liked it!

And I am the same way. If I am not eating or drinking or chewing gum I am flipping my remote or something. I am such a twitcher.

[rocknrollgidget.livejournal.com]

I could never play Operation as a kid because the noise upset me so much. To this day that noise seriously makes me want to burst into tears.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

That noise used to freak me out! I hated Operation because of the freaking buzzer!

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

*stands up* My name is Bracken and I ship and will always ship Buffy and Angel. I don't think I'll ever really accept that Buffy is over. I thought I had a moment of acceptance...but no.I like cheese and hockey. I live in Canada and I don't wear dresses. Well, I hardly wear dresses. I enjoy slash. And for some reason the boy in my icon makes me sigh a lot. My favourite foreign movies are Killer Kid, Il Mostro and Life is Beautiful. The last two being Roberto Benigni movies. Uhm...Will that do?

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

Buffy will Never be over. Ever. And cheese and Hockey a of the good (though I really only like hockey when I am at a game) (and only ice hockey)(though I love to *play* intramural floor hockey). And I need to see more foreign films, but I don't know if I could ever watch Life is Beautiful. The premise is just so heart wrenching.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

Buffy will Never be over. Ever.
Hear!Hear!

And cheese and Hockey a of the good
*nods* [Joeys]Put your hands together.[/Joeys] j/k.

though I really only like hockey when I am at a game
I've never been to a game..yet.

and only ice hockey
Heee. That's very american. *g*

but I don't know if I could ever watch Life is Beautiful
Oh, you should. Grab a teddy bear and some chocolate and an empty night and have yourself a good laugh and weep.

[nongenius.livejournal.com]

When I was four or five, I wanted to be Superman. I even had Superman pajamas comlete with a detachable cape. I may even have had two pairs.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

I bet you still have them. C'mon, admit it, you totally pull them out and fly around the lab some days. :)

I wanted to be a mermaid. Or a princess. Or both. Also, Wonder Woman. And I wanted to marry Alex P. Keaton and Theo Huxtable.

Hee! Cute little SuperNG!

[nongenius.livejournal.com]

Nope. Not a clue where they went. Unfortunately. Heh. I was a huge tomboy when I was little.

[scaryveinybb.livejournal.com]

Okay, this shows my entire lack of class... I only went out to a real restaurant for the first time this year. I've been to fast food places and those el cheapo sort of buffet places, but never to an actual restaurant with proper waiters and expensive menus. I am so not a fancy person. I feel you can have a perfectly good time with $10 at Fasta Pasta in your regular clothes, with good company, either in the form of a 3D person or a decent book.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

Really? Interesting. Wow. How'd you like it? Was it worth the Hooplah? What kind of food? I'm all a-curious!

[scaryveinybb.livejournal.com]

It was Italian and it was *totally* not worth the Hooplah. The spaghetti bolognaise tasted exactly the same at Fasta Pasta for a quarter of the price. I guess I'm just of the school of thought that greater expense doesn't necessarily mean greater quality. I also couldn't really relax there, the way I can at any other normal place. See? I told you I wasn't fancy. ;)

[dosidella.livejournal.com]

When I was little, I looooved Cyndi Lauper. I used to dress up and sing and say that I was her daughter, Mandi, and I only lived with my family because my mom asked them to watch me while she toured.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

Aww! You are so cute!!! Lil' Mandi Lauper. I used to love the song She-Bop. I sang it all the time without knowing what it was about.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

When I was at the age of 9 and 10, for a whole year our family lived in China. Our parents taught English and French at colleges in Shanghai and my sister and I went to the local chinese elementary school. Most people were nice to us, but one woman threw stones at us for being foreign devils, or rather worse, mixed race foreign devils (our dad is Chinese). Also, we almost never got a chance to eat Chinese food, because the University forced a french-trained cook on us. We had to eat Lemon Meringue Pie for breakfast! We would wake up in the middle of the night with a million mosquito bites from the inevitable hole in the mosquito net letting them in. A cockroach three times the size of an american cockroach crawled up our mom's leg. She didn't freak out, but we did.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

Eeeegggyyyyyaaaaahhhhh!!!! Cockroaches are guuuuunnghhhh. No good there. Your mom is a braver woman than I.

How did you like China? I have a cousin who moved there after he graduated from college and he loves it. But my brother hated it.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

In short, the government is awful, and a lot of other things are awful. But there were nice things, too. Quite a mixed bag. It is much too long a story, but suffice it to say that when I left the U.S. I was nine years old, and when I got back a year later, I felt much more than another year older. I learned a lot about the world, about the problems with the U.S. and the problems with China, and about myself and my family.

[adjrun.livejournal.com]

I once passed out reading a book. Stephen King's Gerald's Game. I found the images so gross and upsetting my vision actually grayed to black, and I woke up with my husband standing over me freaking out. :)

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

Thank you for telling me that. I haven't read Gerald's Game, but I bought it on tape once when I was taking the train from NY to Chicago but I didn't like the voice of whoever read it. I am now pleased that I didn't read it. Because I don't need that kind of graphic gore. Stephen King's books are very love 'em/hate 'em with me. I couldn't finish Dreamcatcher because of the yuck.

[kariyaki.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend and I once went joyriding in a teacher's car. The really weird thing? It was last summer. And I thought I'd outgrown such shenanigans.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

HA! That's faboo.

[spuffylove.livejournal.com]

I once had to write a Canterbury Tale in high School and I got so carried away that it took 27 pages of whatever (iambic pentameter?) rhyming scheme to tell my story. Of course, I waited until the night before to do it, so I spent all night very, very quietly typing away.

Meanwhile everyone else wrote a normal story of about 8 paragraphs.

And I was an idiot, because I let my teacher keep it.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's so ambitious. What did you end up writing about? I could barely read the Canterbury Tales (thank goodness I had a great teacher) let alone write anything about it.

You should look up your teacher and ask for, ne- demand at least a copy! That is so cool.

[dionneshea.livejournal.com]

I have the ability to cry on command but have only once used the power for pure evil: when I was in grade 11 I was failing biology but through the powers of tears and emotional manipulation I managed to get the teacher to bump me to a 72% (a B-).

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

I have so, so much respect for you. So much.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

Dude. I have to figure how to get into the Lord of the Rings books. I'm one of the ones who cry over random little things and big things.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I lived in Great Britain a total of 3 1/2 years but have never been to Wales or Ireland, much the pity.

[angelchicken.livejournal.com]

I've been to Ireland (which was amazing) but my dream is to go to England. I want to go there more than any other place in the country. How old were you when you lived there?

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

My family lived in Scotland when I was 4 to 7 years old, and then I lived in central England for a semester as an exchange student in college. Both wonderful experiences.

I bet Ireland is amazing!