photo meme

Yoinked from mjmknitting:

If you want to play too, here's how:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your Flickr name.

meme: randomness times 7

I got tagged by MJM to type 7 random things:

1 - I'm almost never happy with the endings of books or movies.

2 - Speaking of endings, I appreciate that some radio stations play the entire song, without overlapping the opening or ending with talk or another song.

3 -I just got Do You Trust Your Friends? yesterday. It's a Stars tribute CD, a bunch of musicians who are friends with Stars 'renovated' the songs from Set Yourself On Fire. Every track is re-done, and placed in order on the CD. The cover looks a lot like the original. Sweet liner notes. I was slightly shocked by the familiarity meeting the changes, in almost every song, but then I was all smiles after a few bars. Go get it!!

4 - My Mom grew up on a farm and my Dad grew up in a fishing area, but somehow I ended up vegan.

5 - My unread email is in the 4 digits. Too much information is not informative, so I'm starting to unsubscribe from lists and alerts.

6 - I love steamed cauliflower with a bit of Earth Balance melted into it.

7 - My friend Benny is a Liverpool FC fan. Two years ago they played an important game against Milan, and they won, after Benny and I had lunch at the Korean Grill House. So he insisted we do it again today before the Liverpool-Milan game, for good luck. But unfortunately Liverpool lost this time.

Going with the theme of 7, I'm supposed to tag 7 of you, I started out doing that but then I wimped out because some of y'all are so busy! So grab it if you like, I'd love to read your list!

meme: It's very clear

(I didn't get tagged, I just lifted this because I haven't posted in awhile)

Eight Songs I Am Diggin' On Right Now:

1. Hang On To Yourself (David Bowie)

2. Train in Vain (The Clash)

3. These Fangs (Say Hi To Your Mom)

4. I Like You Crazy (Mates of State)

5. Town Called Malice (The Jam)

6. Suffer for Fashion (Of Montreal)

7. Brothers (Tiga)

8. Debbie Loves Joey (Helen Love)

If money were no object, what would you be doing with your life?
I'd fund spare time and abundant beauty. I'd keep my job but work part-time, use the city as a playground the rest of the time. Every other night would be craft night.

Money is just that - an object, so why aren't you doing it?
I'm doing small but consistent amounts of the good stuff.

What's better: horses or cows?
Better at what?

What do you think the secret to happiness is?
Good support network of the right companions, enough money and whole foods.

When was the last time you had a dream that you either remember well or did not want to awake from? Can you share a bit?
I was dating someone in 30 Seconds to Mars. Not Jared Leto. I don't really even like that band, but the dream was super-sweet and rated G.

When you were a little kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Fashion designer, artist, lawyer.

Complete this statement: Love is…
A noun and verb that is both under-used and over-used.

Can you tell a good story?
*I* like my stories, but the hilarious parts usually get lost in my re-telling. I still laugh though.

Can you remember your last daydream? What was it about?
It was a few hours ago and was about doing another masters degree in something with more critical thinking and radical mind-expansion than library school.

If you were to thank someone today, who would you thank?
My parents.

tagged: six weird things about myself

Sienna tagged me ages ago, and I had trouble thinking up 6 odd things about myself. But here goes:

1. I will not read library books in bed. Book germs!

2. I truly believe that chocolate soy milk cures headaches and bad days. Works for me!


3. I have a mechanical heart valve and it ticks out loud. You can actually hear it if you're sitting beside me when there isn't too much sound in the room!

4. I've never watched Buffy, but someone just loaned me the first 2 seasons on DVD so I can finally find out what all the fuss is about.

5. I named my computer Nora, after Nora Young, back when she was host of DNTO, because she's so smart.

6. I kinda like Frank and Gordon, even though they're corporate, and I don't like animals being used on film sets. (but they're animated, not real beavers)