I’ve been tagged with this meme by both Bren Ryder and Catalina, so I’m giving in to the peer pressure. The meme requests bloggers to share seven facts (some random or weird) and then pass it on to seven more bloggers. I’m not going to pass it on but I do love reading this kind of thing – feel free to post random facts in the comments.
Here we go:
1. I have never been on a rollercoaster and I find amusement parks really depressing.
2. When I come back from Berlin, I’ll be starting my dream job. I know that’s a tease, but I’ll have a full post up about it on October 27.
3. I am a graduate HA rated Pony Clubber. I miss horseback riding a lot, and in the spring I plan to start up again. It’ll be 4 years in March since I’ve been on a horse’s back.
4. The last two months of my life have been the scariest, most frustrating, and saddest ones I’ve experienced in a very long time. I’m trying to feel hopeful (#2 is a great reason to be excited about life) but sometimes I’m so sad I can’t breathe.
5. I really loathe condiments. Mayo, mustard, ketchup, etc. All yuck.
6. I’m an atheist (and was raised by atheists so it isn’t even rebellion against stuffy upbringing) but the most interesting and smart person I’ve befriended this year is a preacher.
7. I really really like eating in bed, and I use my set of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls as trays.
3:22 am
This sounds too, too much like my life right now (you know why), and I’m sorry to hear anyone else going through it. I’m cheered to hear about your dream job, and hope it gets better for you, and for all of us.
Definitely a feature, not a bug.
This sounds interesting, and I hope we get to hear more about it. I’m afraid that I’ve become more bitter than I should be about believers, due to all the shit that’s been done in the name of belief in the last ten years.
You’re a braver person than I. I can barely get up the courage to masturbate within ten feet of mine, despite the fact that they’re some of the hottest porn I own.
3:44 am
You said:
I’m an atheist (and was raised by atheists so it isn’t even rebellion against stuffy upbringing) but the most interesting and smart person I’ve befriended this year is a preacher.
*grins* I’m an agnostic raised by an atheist and agnostic, and one of my best friends since I was 14 was a religious studies major.
It’s not the beliefs that get in the way. It’s the attitudes.
Good onya.
10:14 am
I’d be curious to hear if there is any particular reason why you find amusement parks depressing.
12:09 pm
“I find amusement parks really depressing”
Me too! I don’t know why exactly but it seems like forced fun. Everyone is trying so hard to have a good time. It’s not a natural environment. I feel the same way about fairs. Maybe fairs had their day but now…ugh!
“The last two months of my life have been the scariest, most frustrating, and saddest ones I’ve experienced in a very long time. I’m trying to feel hopeful (#2 is a great reason to be excited about life) but sometimes I’m so sad I can’t breathe.”
Sounds like you are landing on your feet already. You are intelligent, mature, compassionate, and sensible yet willing to take risks. Those qualities will stand you in good stead. You may sometimes feel old now but 28 will someday seem very youthful and far away. You have so much going for you! It makes me sad to read that you are this sad. Cyberhug? Or too mushy?
4:00 pm
@Rusty – I find amusement parks depressing for the same reasons as Anon Now. Actually, I probably find amusement parks depressing for kind of the same reasons that some people find places of commercial sex depressing. I always have to bring it back to that, don’t I?
12:35 pm
I just wanted to link to my favorite people and didn’t technically “pass it on”, but I’m glad you put this up.
You said: “4. The last two months of my life have been the scariest, most frustrating, and saddest ones I’ve experienced in a very long time. I’m trying to feel hopeful (#2 is a great reason to be excited about life) but sometimes I’m so sad I can’t breathe.”
I’m suddenly incredibly attracted to you. Oh wait, perhaps that should by my fact #8 – pattern of being incredibly attracted to beautiful and sad women.
Have fun in Berlin.
8:47 am
Why do you use “Lost Girls” as food trays? Just because they’re the right size and shape? Or because you wouldn’t mind spilling on them?