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ursulaFive things you may not know about various things. The definition of five varies, as does the definition of you.
Five Things You May Not Know about My Time in School:
1. I quit chorus in fourth grade because the spring musical was abysmally stupid. But my best friend got the solo, so I still know most of the lyrics anyway: "Sometimes you need a ride/ But there's a voice inside/ Put on those old walking shoes . . ." etc.
2. In middle school and high school I had a thriving correspondence (via physical letter), mostly supported by the number of letters I wrote during class. (At least one of you must know this, since several of those letters went to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
frog_lady.)
3. In high school I took an art history course at Reed. The professor told me that my writing was lyrical to the point of impenetrability. I suspect this is still true.
4. I got a scholarship to CTY, but it was only $500 (since I split it with another seventh-grader who tied my SAT score) which wasn't nearly enough for my parents to afford to send me, and I didn't understand why anyone would do more school during her summer vacation anyway, so I took the writing tutorial instead.
5. I took an Oregon Literature class with Hank (now married toaelfgyfu) and we ended up in a group which was supposed to be doing a skit based on daytime television talk-shows, but I was desperately confused because I had never seen one. The skit involved Hank with balloons in his shirt, but I have forgotten all other details, including the token relationship to Oregon literature.
Five Things You May Not Know about the Job(s) I Have (or Had):
1. I have a lingering fondness for particular trucking companies because it's easy to find the tracking numbers on scanned copies of their freight bills.
2. I've forgotten a huge amount of information about lung surfactants.
3. I was Westaff Temp of the Month at the local office one month (for the freight bills job). I got a giant blue T-shirt, which I sometimes wear to sleep in, especially at things like math conferences, where the math T-shirts seem like too much of a good thing.
4. I almost never work in my office.
5. I once billed an hour for the time it took me to determine that none of the educational games on the American Girls website have significant mathematical content.
Five Things You May Not Know about My Online Life:
1. Most of it consists of fiddling with onomastics.
2. My first exposure to the Internet was my grandmother's AOL account. I used the screen name Bookbear, a fact which I generally try to conceal.
3. The photo on my professional webpage is from my freshman year of college. There's not much else on the page, but if you know my last name it won't be hard to find the photo.
4. Since you're reading my journal, you probably know the rest anyway.
Five Things You May Not Know about Where I Live, Or Possibly My Home Life, Since It Is Too Much Work To Distinguish Them:
1. The sororities at the top of the street were chanting as I left the house today.
2. My apartment shakes when particularly large trucks go down the hill nearby.
3. I've just about given up on private phone conversations.
4. There really are two cats, but you have to wait for the second one to come out from under the futon.
5. There are more books someplace you're not looking.
Five Things You May Not Know about My Character, Or Possibly My Core Personality, Since It Is Too Much Work To Distinguish Them:
1. If my life were a novel, I wouldn't be the main character. I don't think this is a problem.
2. The fiendish grin bears no relation to my mood.
3. I'm not thinking about anything deep.
Five Things You May Not Know That I Desperately Want:
1. I just want prelims to be over, and you can't have failed to notice that.
2. Besides, I go out of my way not to be desperate about things.
Five Embarrassing Fannish Admissions I Have That You May Not Know:
1. I have another journal for this sort of thing.
Five Things You May Not Know about What I Do in a Typical Day:
1. I have this terrible habit of dropping chalkboard erasers.
2. I spend far too much time cooking.
3. I can do math through music, but computer-game gunfire is hard to ignore, and voices are almost impossible.
4. I get at least eight hours of sleep.
Five Things You May Not Know about My Time in School:
1. I quit chorus in fourth grade because the spring musical was abysmally stupid. But my best friend got the solo, so I still know most of the lyrics anyway: "Sometimes you need a ride/ But there's a voice inside/ Put on those old walking shoes . . ." etc.
2. In middle school and high school I had a thriving correspondence (via physical letter), mostly supported by the number of letters I wrote during class. (At least one of you must know this, since several of those letters went to
frog_lady.)3. In high school I took an art history course at Reed. The professor told me that my writing was lyrical to the point of impenetrability. I suspect this is still true.
4. I got a scholarship to CTY, but it was only $500 (since I split it with another seventh-grader who tied my SAT score) which wasn't nearly enough for my parents to afford to send me, and I didn't understand why anyone would do more school during her summer vacation anyway, so I took the writing tutorial instead.
5. I took an Oregon Literature class with Hank (now married to
aelfgyfu) and we ended up in a group which was supposed to be doing a skit based on daytime television talk-shows, but I was desperately confused because I had never seen one. The skit involved Hank with balloons in his shirt, but I have forgotten all other details, including the token relationship to Oregon literature.Five Things You May Not Know about the Job(s) I Have (or Had):
1. I have a lingering fondness for particular trucking companies because it's easy to find the tracking numbers on scanned copies of their freight bills.
2. I've forgotten a huge amount of information about lung surfactants.
3. I was Westaff Temp of the Month at the local office one month (for the freight bills job). I got a giant blue T-shirt, which I sometimes wear to sleep in, especially at things like math conferences, where the math T-shirts seem like too much of a good thing.
4. I almost never work in my office.
5. I once billed an hour for the time it took me to determine that none of the educational games on the American Girls website have significant mathematical content.
Five Things You May Not Know about My Online Life:
1. Most of it consists of fiddling with onomastics.
2. My first exposure to the Internet was my grandmother's AOL account. I used the screen name Bookbear, a fact which I generally try to conceal.
3. The photo on my professional webpage is from my freshman year of college. There's not much else on the page, but if you know my last name it won't be hard to find the photo.
4. Since you're reading my journal, you probably know the rest anyway.
Five Things You May Not Know about Where I Live, Or Possibly My Home Life, Since It Is Too Much Work To Distinguish Them:
1. The sororities at the top of the street were chanting as I left the house today.
2. My apartment shakes when particularly large trucks go down the hill nearby.
3. I've just about given up on private phone conversations.
4. There really are two cats, but you have to wait for the second one to come out from under the futon.
5. There are more books someplace you're not looking.
Five Things You May Not Know about My Character, Or Possibly My Core Personality, Since It Is Too Much Work To Distinguish Them:
1. If my life were a novel, I wouldn't be the main character. I don't think this is a problem.
2. The fiendish grin bears no relation to my mood.
3. I'm not thinking about anything deep.
Five Things You May Not Know That I Desperately Want:
1. I just want prelims to be over, and you can't have failed to notice that.
2. Besides, I go out of my way not to be desperate about things.
Five Embarrassing Fannish Admissions I Have That You May Not Know:
1. I have another journal for this sort of thing.
Five Things You May Not Know about What I Do in a Typical Day:
1. I have this terrible habit of dropping chalkboard erasers.
2. I spend far too much time cooking.
3. I can do math through music, but computer-game gunfire is hard to ignore, and voices are almost impossible.
4. I get at least eight hours of sleep.