5 Things... gacked from just about everyone!

[primsong]

Sorry, it's a bit long... someone tell me how to do that 'cut' thingy, eh?

5 Things You May Not Know About My Time in School:
1. Like boriel, I moved a lot - 14 different schools so I was perpetually the 'new kid.' This made me disappear into my books all the more.
2. I was a 'drama bug' and lived all four years of high school on the stage, though I never did land a leading role (my drama coach wanted leads to be thinner).
3. I competed in forensics clear through college, specializing in Poetry interpretation, and once dreamed of being a Speech coach but was intimidated by Debate.
4. As a singer, I was in choirs, regular and jazz clear into college also - good heavens - now I wonder how I ever had time to study too!
5. I have a degree in Psych and speech communication - but I've never earned a dime with it.

5 Things You May Not Know About The Jobs I Have Had:
1. I slogged through summers in doing cannery work with berries. I couldn't eat a raspberry for years afterwards. Yuck!
2. I worked at three candy stores, and loved it because everyone is in a good mood when they are coming in for a treat. I highly recommend candy stores, good fun. Also means I'm very picky about my chocolate.
3. I did temp work at Apple computer in it's early days, back when every Friday was a beer party. My hubby helped develop Hypercard, and we did once nabbed a Mac from a dumpster there.
4. When I was little I wanted to either be a librarian or tame wild horses. Now I'm a librarian, but I haven't a horse in sight. Oh well...
5. I am planning to sell books online and dream now of having a little bookstore for classical and children's books someday.

5 Things you May Not Know About My Online Life:
1. I eat my breakfast while checking my email and archiving in the early morning.
2. I had never even sent an email before I began searching for info on LOTR online and ended up at the Fanclub.
3. I am very limited in what I can do, learning HTML from scratch, but people assume my running a website makes me an expert and keep asking me questions anyway.
4. I spend so many hours keeping up with administrative things like the archives and moderating that I don't have much time to respond or write - but it's my own fault, so I can't complain to anyone about it.
5. I had a second persona at the old boards, and sometimes used that as well as my daughter's accounts (she had two) to play around more than folk knew.

5 Things you May Not Know About Where I Live:
1. It really doesn't rain all the time - just....most of the time.
2. It is green, vibrantly, lushly green. All year. Squishy and green.
3. We have lots of fun Indian names that out-of-state folk can't pronounce right. (Like "Oregon" - I mean, c'mon, get it right!)
4. Blackberry bushes will take over *anything* and turn it into a bramble-mound if you let them.
5. Yes, there really are coffee stands everywhere - and I mean, everywhere.

5 Things You May Not Know About My Personality:
1. I tend to help run things, but perpetually feel left out of the socializing.
2. I would rather have a good book of poetry than just about any active activity.
3. I get along with almost anyone from almost any walk of life, though I have a hard time dealing with harsh or crude language in large doses.
4. I am a morning person and my favorite time of day is in the quiet beauty of sunrise.
5. I can sometimes talk too much and don't seem to realize when I should just shut up and leave someone alone, or leave their house and go home.

5 Things You May Not Know I Would Really Like to Have Are:
1. A walk-in closet so I don't have to hang my dresses in my kid's closet.
2. A bookstore with a tea shop on the side.
3. A real, lighted cabinet for all my LOTR stuff - and more stuff to fill it with!
4. Original works of art - not prints, not copies - originals!
5. An art studio of my very own.... sigh...

5 Embarrassing Fannish Admissions:
1. I swooned over my shovel after Sean Astin used it to dig in the garden in Beaverton. Even though he broke my hammer too. Hubby, rolling eyes: "Ooooh! He used *my* shovel!"
2. Being caught gazing at Those Eyes online, and having my daughter join me in it.
3. Most geeky possession ever: I have a single mane-hair of Shadowfax that Des brought me from NZ - and I keep it in a special container all by itself, labeled.
4. I've begged store clerks shamelessly for odd things, like an empty Decipher-card box because it had Aragorn on it, and a Blockbuster gift card, given to me with no charge on it because I couldn't pass up Frodo and Sam that way.
5. I've shrieked "EEEeeeee!" at the sight of LOTR actors very briefly on television.

Comments

[solodancer.livejournal.com]

I'll have to read all your goodies later in the night when I have a "proper" break, but LJ cut is easy.

Just use the < and > in place of the [ ] in my example.

[lj-cut] insert the stuff you want behind the cut here and then [/lj-cut]

if you want your cut to say something other than just "read more" you can do that to this way:

[lj-cut text="something more to say"] Don't forget the quotes, you need those.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Much obliged! Thank you - I am still such a LJ newbie *blush*

[solodancer.livejournal.com]

5. I have a degree in Psych and speech communication - but I've never earned a dime with it.

No wonder you're so good as a mod.

3. I did temp work at Apple computer in it's early days, back when every Friday was a beer party. My hubby helped develop Hypercard, and we did once nabbed a Mac from a dumpster there.

Oooohhh...Mark will be so jealous when he see's this!!

5. I am planning to sell books online and dream now of having a little bookstore for classical and children's books someday.

This is soooo you!

2. I had never even sent an email before I began searching for info on LOTR online and ended up at the Fanclub.

Ha ha!! Well, I can't say that I'd never sent an e-mail, but I'll mostly ditto this. I've learned soooo much about the internet in the last three years.

4. I spend so many hours keeping up with administrative things like the archives and moderating that I don't have much time to respond or write - but it's my own fault, so I can't complain to anyone about it.

I think I did know this about you (or suspected it of you at least) tsk tsk....ya gotta have time for yourself too!

5. I had a second persona at the old boards, and sometimes used that as well as my daughter's accounts (she had two) to play around more than folk knew.

YOU'RE THE BLOB!! I KNEW IT!! C'mon, admit it!! ::drives bamboo under your nails till you tell:: ;-)

3. We have lots of fun Indian names that out-of-state folk can't pronounce right. (Like "Oregon" - I mean, c'mon, get it right!)

I love how we have french names like Des Plains, but no one pronounces them like they're french. Oh and I love people who pronounce the "s" in Illinois. So, how do you pronounce Oregon?

4. I am a morning person and my favorite time of day is in the quiet beauty of sunrise.

I hate that about you, y'know? I'm an orc in the morning.


2. A bookstore with a tea shop on the side.

Again, this is sooo you! I really hope this dream comes true for you. I can just picture it. I'll want to attend the Grand opening of course!

5 Embarrassing Fannish Admissions:
1. I swooned over my shovel after Sean Astin used it to dig in the garden in Beaverton. Even though he broke my hammer too. Hubby, rolling eyes: "Ooooh! He used *my* shovel!"

::giggle:: I'll never wash this shovel again. LOL!!
2. Being caught gazing at Those Eyes online, and having my daughter join me in it.

have you seen the previews for "Princess Diaries 2"? There's a scene where a bunch of young girls are looking at pics of prospective hubby's for her and they cut to a pic of Prince William and they all swoon and the one girl says, "he's not available" to which the other girl says "I just like to look at him" and then Julie Andrews, who plays the Grandma says "Mee tooo" In a very swoony way. It's great!

4. I've begged store clerks shamelessly for odd things, like an empty Decipher-card box because it had Aragorn on it, and a Blockbuster gift card, given to me with no charge on it because I couldn't pass up Frodo and Sam that way.

ooh...forgot about this one when I was doin' mine. I've begged cardboard stand ups from our local grocery story. ::blush:: guilty.

What a fun list. Thanks for sharing.

[rosiegardener.livejournal.com]

5. I had a second persona at the old boards, and sometimes used that as well as my daughter's accounts (she had two) to play around more than folk knew - * is shocked* !!! ;-)
Oh, and can I share the dream of the bookstore with a tea shop on the side ?

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Most certainly - lots of room in this dream for others. I even have Onone and Gimli's Sister (who dream of catering and having a tea shop together) dreaming for the 'tea' side of things - all three of us keep waiting to see which one of us will be the one to 'really' take business classes first. :-D

[primsong.livejournal.com]

You know, I expect there were several folks with more than one handle - I can think of a couple others just off the top of my head that had 'naughty' and 'nice' ones, or 'radical' and 'conservative' or 'teen' and 'grown-up' ones. Pick your schizophrenia!

I did it because there were lots of times I wanted to just join in the fun without showing up in green. :-)


3. We have lots of fun Indian names that out-of-state folk can't pronounce right. (Like "Oregon" - I mean, c'mon, get it right!)

... So, how do you pronounce Oregon?

"Ohrehgun" Mild stress on the O without it being drawn out, accent on the 'gun' - NOT "OH-ray-gone" *wince* Out-of-state folks might as well brand "I'm Not From Here" on their foreheads when they say "I sure like here in OH-ray-gone."

[pippinswolf.livejournal.com]

Did you know that the "Missouri Compromise" was the agreement that half the state would say "Missour-EE" and the other half would say, "Missou-Uh?"
Your home state isn't pronounced "Organ"? Oh the humanity! ;-)

[pippinswolf.livejournal.com]

:-) I always suspected you had a second identity on the boards. I also totally believe you enjoy drama, else you would never have become a fanclub moderator.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I've never even thought of it having a connection to drama that way. :-) Actually, I was sort of dragged kicking and complaining into modship - it took a while to talk me into it, I was rather spooked by the responsibility.

[pippinswolf.livejournal.com]

I hear that...I'm a secret moderator on a fan fiction board elsewhere, and it's a pain to have to tell people, "Um, this is a family friendly board, and you can't post that..."
I had new respect for you all after that.
I emailed you about Bucklebury...I can pick up Merry again if Dr. G is willing to give him up, but if he'd like to keep him, I could do something else, be an orc or something. I do a great orc.

[madamenorthstar.livejournal.com]

You know, Prim, I really admire the way you juggle all these responsibilities and do all of them so well. The boards alone, and all the varied personalities and persnicketi-ness (?) are enough to being all of your pysch training to the forefront. I would have liked being a mod at one time, but am too much of a drama queen ( who, me?) I, personally am so glad that you are who you are and am very lucky to call you friend. And I so wish you could come over to my house and hang out forever - I'd never send you home!