so tired

[caramelsilver]

I am so tired right now. I went to Bergen, like I told you I would. Six hours on a bus to get there, and wouldn't you know? Six hours to get back too. I had forgotten how awful long bus journeys are. They kill your body! I'm aching all over the place after sleeping in various awkward positions. We came home at 4 am. Instead of cycling home, as we'd planned, we cheated and took a taxi. So worth it. Still all loopy from the alcohol excitement. The game was awesome. We were fifty supporters against a whole stadium, and I think we made the most noise. The game ended with a tie, though, so that sucked a little. Still, not a loss!

MEME: (I urge you all to do it, plz!)

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. 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 office supplies." 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. In return, ask me anything you'd like to know about me and I'll give you an answer.

Comments

[maureen.livejournal.com]

You probably know how much I love coffee.

What you may not know is I'm changing how I drink it. When I was in high school I drank it black. I started adding cream in college and have had it that way ever since.

This is bad because I will ONLY use real half and half and not every place has it. Also, I drink a ton of coffee and use a ton of cream and that is added fat.

I'm starting a new diet this week that allows coffee but no cream. I've decided to switch myself BACK to being a black coffee drinker. Twenty years later. The transition won't be pretty, but that is where I'm headed.

My current container of half and half is near empty. It should last me until tomorrow at the outside. Then it's black coffee all the way. I'm sure I'll be blogging about it, but you are the first to know.

Also, I still wear your bracelets all the time.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

Wow! I don't drink coffee (ice-coffee doesn't count, I think.) and I absolutely can't drink it black. So I'm going to wish you luck, and hope you can make it.

And that's so great to hear=)

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

I'm a second generation American, retired teacher who goes yearly to visit German relatives in a small town in Niedersachsen in the north. I have no talent for plot construction, but I'm the Fairy Godmother of Verbal Usage -- I can see any and every error in grammar, diction, usage, punctuation, parallel structure, and so on, no matter how small. I also possess a Dempster Dumpster mind: all manner of crap goes in, and no-one ever cleans it out. I forget little, which is both a blessing and a curse. Like Thomas Jefferson, "I can not live without books," which I read constantly -- at least 4 per week. And that's who I am.
signed,
FGoVU

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

Wow! What awesome skills to have. I bet you can spot loads of really irritating mistakes in my posts then?

That's a good quote! I'm adding it to my collection.

[diebirchen.livejournal.com]

There are very few in your postings, but if something's there, I see it. If in need, drop me a note.
FGoVU

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

Good to hear:)

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Um, here we go:

I'm left-handed.

I don't like wine or champagne or most alcoholic beverages (not like I have much experience with them, being under the legal drinking age in America and all, but I've had sips). I don't even like soda that much. I do, however, LOVE fruit juices. Any kind of fruit juice, pretty much, except cranberry juice. I also love fruit teas. :)

I speak Mandarin Chinese semi-fluently, along with English.

I love bread. Like, anything involving bread or dough or just plain carbs I will pretty much devour immediately. This is probably not good for me, but oh well. *shrugs*

I love buying new pens and pencils and notebooks. Heck, I love getting new office supplies in general. They're so clean and new.

I want to be a doctor. But I also want to study history or English. So I'm kind of in a dilemma. :\

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

:D

I'm right-handed! Aren't I special? :P Do you get loads of ink and shit on your hand when you write?

I drink pretty much any alcohol, except beer. Beer tastes like piss. (I'm not keen on hard liquor either, and would rather have my alcohol hidden in some sugary umbrella drink;)Me being over drinking age and all:D

I can speak Norwegian and English fluently! (Not that's really impressive. I'll get back to you when I learn to speak Spanish as well. Can't graduate without knowing a third language.)

I'm pretty ambivalent when it comes to bread. Not all that keen on eating it, but there isn't much else for breakfast food that last until lunch. I've started eating whole grain cereal and it works pretty well.

Me too! New pens and new notebooks are awesome! It's like they're filled with new dreams and potential futures, if you know what I mean?

Ooh! A doctor! That would be awesome. I could never be that, basically cause all the science bore me to tears;)

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

I do, actually. It's pretty horrifying after I've written an essay in class, not only is my hand stained from the ink, but so is the desk from where my hand was resting on it. I try and wipe it off, but it just makes it worse, so now I just kind of feel bad for the janitorial staff.

Hahaha, preferably I will always take my alcohol in a girly drink. Like I've said, I've never had more than a sip, but I'm pretty sure I'd be a lightweight.

Oooh, cereal. I am very ambivalent about cereal. Not much of a fan.

Oh, I know. Especially getting a new ideas-for-writing notebook. Always fun :)

It depends on what science, really. I love biology, but chemistry is just like *gag*.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

My best friend is left-handed too, and I remember it took me ages to understand why she was dirty on her left hand:P

Umbrella-drinks rule. They taste so good, just be aware that you'd probably get drunk pretty fast cause you forget that there's alcohol in it. /end advice.

I'm not really a fan of cereal either, but this one kind is at least better than bread.

[katakokk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, people always ask me why my hand is stained.

I know! My mom likes fruity drinks too, and she always says she ends up chugging them like juice.

Ooooh, really? *interested*

[makinhistory.livejournal.com]

Well, hello thar. Sounds like you had fun! :)

A little bit about myself...my real name is Rachel, and I share my middle name, last name, and first initial with my paternal grandmother. And I'm a 100% Dutch, third-generation American.

Whenever people ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I always just tell them "a high school history teacher," because my real plans are so complex they can't be explained very quickly. I want to teach high school history for a few years, but get my PhD and teach college history. But I also would like to run for public office here in the states - a small-town mayor or state representative, or something. But I would also like to work for the National Park Service - Ranger Rachel! :D ...And I'd like to get married and have a big family, too, so. We'll see.

I have a book complex - no matter how boring and not what I thought the book in question was going to be, I have to finish reading it. It's a matter of pride.

I like nerdy, fannish things - Narnia, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Merlin, Call of Duty, Lewis and Clark...the list goes on and on.

I'm a northern redneck at heart - though I basically was raised completely in the suburbs of Chicago, my family is from the boondocks of western Michigan. They hunt deer, drive pickup trucks, and shoot off fireworks in their front yard - I belong in that world so much more than in the politically correct and well-groomed avenues of suburban Chicago.

Speaking of political correctness, I'm of the Jacksonian form of conservativeness - "My country's the best, global opinion be damned." :)

Oh, and I'm a sucker for detective shows.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

I did! I'm not much of a drinker, but sometimes the occasion calls for it. I turn twenty soon and then I can buy my own liquor as well. (Don't know if you knew that the legal drinking age is 18 here? Since we are in a sharing mood and all:P)

Your ambitions sounds fun! I have no idea what I want to be when I "grow up". Something to do with books, I think.

I HAVE THE EXACT SAME COMPLEX!! I refuse to stop reading a book. I can count on one hand the books I've stopped reading. (The latest being The Picture of Dorian Gray. That book both bored me to tears and enraged me with its blatant misogyny.)

I'm pretty patriotic as well! No matter how small my country is, it's pretty damn awesome. :P

Detective shows rules! I love watching them and figure out who did it half an hour before everyone else:)

[makinhistory.livejournal.com]

Books are always good. :)

I know, right??? Except, for me, with Dorian Gray, I was so morbidly fascinated that I couldn't put it down. And then I wrote a really awesome paper about it, but that's beside the point. Anyway, half the time I just get so bogged down in the dryness of a book that I put it aside and give it a permanent place in the "Currently Reading" list. :/

What shows do you watch? I really like Law & Order: SVU, but all the CSIs (except Miami) are good, as well as House, M.D. :)

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

I guess it's not completely off my reading list, it just may be a few months until I try reading it again, cause ugh!

I'm a huge fan of House and stuff like that. But my favorites are the British ones; Lewis, Trial and Retribution, Waking the Dead, ect. I like them because the episodes are longer and I don't know, there's more to figure out? I'm also a huge fan of Agatha Christie, but I won't watch a film unless I've read the book..

[makinhistory.livejournal.com]

I feel ya. I only read it because it was required summer reading (along with Wuthering Heights, which I also recommend, and Beowulf). Currently, I'm reading a scholarly book about the Druids - slow going, but I'm putting my head down and plowing through it.

I LOVE Agatha Christie. I'm having surgery on Monday, so I got a DVD set of Poirot dramatizations from the library to enjoy while I'm recuperating. 8)

[han-corrupted.livejournal.com]

I'm more prone to injure the right side of my body rather than my left -- my dislocated knee is my right knee, I've had a hairline fracture in my right pinkie, I sprain my right ankle far more than I do my left.

I dislike coffee, I'd much rather have tea.

My natural English accent is a British one, and it's apparently good enough to make people believe I've either lived in England, or have an English parent.

I love earrings that jingle/make noise.

Literary goals of mine include owning all books by Nora Roberts, owning all books in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, having read the Bible, find, read and own all Jane Austen books in their original English, and publish/print my own novel.

I own a library card, but I seldom use it because I have a weird need to own every book I like.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's quite weird=) I've never broken anything, but I've had so many concussions, I can barely remember how many. (Eight, I think.)

I dislike coffee, and I dislike tea.

That's awesome. I speak British as well, but I sometimes I mix in some American. I don't mean too, and it annoys me.

I own a library card too, it's so old that it's laminated and has a seahorse sticker on it!, but I very rarely use it, cause I NEED TO OWN THE BOOKS I READ! My dad needs to build me a new bookcase soon.

[han-corrupted.livejournal.com]

I've never broken anything either (yet). I've fractured both my pinkie and my ribs (yeah, ouch), but nothing broken yet. :P I've only ever had a concussion once, though. My (many) injuries are mostly minor. :P

How can you dislike tea?! LOL I understand the dislike of coffee, because yuck, but tea? Tea's lovely.

Yeah, if I mix British/American it's mixing the words. I generally never break my accent, though. I have a pretty good Scottish/Irish one too. It's not "clean" Scottish or Irish, it's a mix of Scottish, Irish and British. :P If I'm around/listen to Australian accents I'll pick that up too, but mostly it's my British that comes through. Although my American is getting more and more pronounced. I love doing Southern accents - like Alamaba/Texas/New Orleans accents. Gorgeous.

lol Yeah, no, my library card's really old too. I'll probably have to renew it now that I'm going to start university. I have a feeling libraries will be amazing come fall. LOL Thankfully, though, I don't need Dad to build/buy a new bookcase for me just yet. Since my sister moved out, I now have two room and two bookcases. Pleeenty of space. It's wonderful. It's gonna be rough when I move out, though.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

In theory tea is delicious, it smells great and sometimes it's really good. But most of the times I just end up with not drinking the cup I made. So not a big fan.


Ooh! Two bookcases!

[ayascythe.livejournal.com]

Hai. I go by the nickname Tess, am half-German, half-Philippine. Although I'm proud of my Asian heritage, I guess I'm as German as you can get - and that's fine with me.

I'm incredibly sensitive about and fixated on scents. Bad smell is unbearable to me (and with bad, I mean anything that's too strong or obscure, even and especially perfume), good scents makes me happy. The smell of freshly baked bread wafting out of a bakery is heaven for me and easily the best smell I can think of.

I'm a bit crazy about books. I believe in the power of words, of language, of fantasy. The thought of words strung together, creation and destruction, characters, histories, entire universes and worlds - everything stuck between two boards and on a few pages of paper ... it fills me with an awe that is almost religious (and also a little bonkers).

And yeah, I actually do love office supplies. There's something promising about pens, an empty notebook and loads of paper that I find exciting.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

My nickname is Carro, and I'm solidly Norwegian, perhaps with some Scandinavian blood here and there, what do I know.

Wow. I'm so glad I don't have a sensitive nose, I think it would drive me bonkers.

I'm so with you on the power of books. I love them so much. Not only reading them, but owning them, putting them on my bookshelf, looking at the spines all gathered together. It fills me with joy. Nothing makes me more happy than reading a new book I've just bought. I do not mind using all my money on books, it's so worth it.

New pens and notebooks are awesome. It fills me with this hope for the future, if you know what I mean?

[ayascythe.livejournal.com]

Not only reading them, but owning them, putting them on my bookshelf, looking at the spines all gathered together. It fills me with joy.
This, a thousand times. You put it better into words than I could. :)

And I think I know what you mean with what you said about notebooks and pens. There is so much stuff that could be written with/in them that you don't know about yet.

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

I looove tea. My favorite kinds are Twinings Lady Grey and Peach Black. With a little milk and probably more sugar than is absolutely necessary.

Also, I <3 the library and the library <3s me right back because I always wind up paying them tremendous amounts of money. My ability to return books on time = nonexistent apparently.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

I'm really not a fan of tea. I like the smell, but not drinking it.

=) In theory I absolutely love the library, but I have this need to own the books I read. So finishing a book and knowing I can't put it back on my shelf makes me a sad panda. So I spend the very few money I have on books.

[seticat.livejournal.com]

Okay, here goes...

I'm late 50-some retired/disabled US Army female veteran who spent her military career [21+ years] and most of her civilian career as a health care provider of some sort. I know the years don't seem to match, but for a large part of my time in the Army, I was a Reservist so think of it as having two jobs at the same time. I was a medic, a nurse, a respiratory therapist, an OR tech - pretty much anything to do in medicine - both in a hospital, out in the field and in home care.

I love pretty much any craft. Right now I'm on a crocheting binge, but also sew, play with beading, etc. I love to read science fiction and fantasy and enjoy those types of movies, tv shows, etc. I've been part of the SCA [Society for Creative Anachronism - http://www.sca.org ] for over 30 years and and wandered my way back into STARFLEET International.

I share the house with 3 cats who are ruled by the 18 year old Balinease. And I absolutely suck at growing things.

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

Wow, what an interesting life you've had. I'm thinking of maybe doing a year in the military when I finish my obligatory thirteen years of school, but I don't know yet.

Oh, I wish I could crochet, I try form time to time, but it ends up all jumbled and ugly.

Growing things, as in plants? Cause plants, in my opinion, is the stupidest thing to use money on. I tell my mum all the time, "You buy it, you take care of it! Don't expect any help from me."

[seticat.livejournal.com]

Yep, life has been varied, that's for sure. Somethings I've done because they were things that needed doing and some I did because I always wanted to [spent a month in Israel on an excavation, went to Advanced Space Camp in Alabama and played 'astronaut', etc].

And some things... well ... not so good. But I guess they try to balance out.

As for plants, dI've been trying to do a garden this year. The house I'm in has a big, ready made garden space. So plant gifts from friends, seeds, etc went in and, so far, some squash, a few beans, a lot of lettuce and the promise of more tomatoes than I can imagine have come out.

Other than that, my idea of plants/flowers are 'toss them in the ground and see what happens'.

[asphyxiational.livejournal.com]

I work in a solicitor's office at the minute, in the accounts department and... I really suck at my job! Thankfully, I am leaving soon to continue my education. I will go from being in a full time job back to job hunting, so I'm really worried about my finances. I'm also a bit sad about leaving as I will miss my coworkers a lot.

When I was a little younger, I used to wish I had a time machine that I could use to travel back to the 80s. I still do sometimes. All my favourite movies were made in the 80s and it seems like everything was so simple back then. Then I remember there was no such thing as the internet. :B

I live in the North of England and I can't decide if I love it or hate it.

In a couple of weeks I'm going to meet someone I've only known online (and even stay at their house overnight). It will be my first time doing that and I'm very nervous!

I'm kind of ridiculously skinny and I can't seem to do anything about it. I was called anorexic when I was in school despite the fact I eat like a pig.

Now tell me something about you o/

[caramelsilver.livejournal.com]

What are you studying?

And life without the internet would be a sad one indeed!

That sounds awesome, I'm sure you and your friend will have an great time with nothing awkward happening. *nods*

Okay... about me:

I'm nineteen, I should be finished with school, but I'm not because I was sick for four years. (14-18) So I'm starting my thirteenth year of school this fall. I want to study English when I finally get that far, but I might do a year in the military before that.

I have a younger brother and my parents are still together. I'm a spoiled brat who gets pretty much anything I want. I don't work yet, can't because I need to focus on school.

I love books. I love owning them. I spend all my moneys on books.

[asphyxiational.livejournal.com]

When I start, in September, I will study Human Biology, English Language and Quantative Methods. :)

Hooooly shite. Four years? What were you ill with, if you don't mind me asking?

I don't really get everything I want, but I am still pretty spoiled. It comes naturally, being an only child and all. :D

[lizzie-marie-23.livejournal.com]

My name is Elizabeth, but I've also gone by Eliza-the-Beth, Eliza Rose, Liz, Lizzie Marie, Lizard Breath, ERNest, Elzbietka and Wild Thing.

In my youth I have wanted to be: an artist, a writer, an actress, an architect, a scientist, a politician, an urban planner, a historian, an ecologist, a linguist, an archeologist and about a billion other things. I still don't know how to combine all of my loves into a career, but that's what college is for.

I have a ton of fandoms and drift in and out of them. These days my top are Shakespeare, Star Trek, Narnia, Supernatural, and inexplicably Twilight.

I love pie and pi.

I love books. I read at least one a week, usually several at once. I will never go Kindle because there's something really human about holding a book and turning the pages and breathing in the dust. Sometimes when I run my finger along the spines on a bookshelf they sing to me. I could lose myself in words and not care if I never found my way back home.

I have no sense of smell. It comes from growing up in Chicago and having a mother who grew up in New Jersey. That's why the pollution in Mexico City had barely any effect on me. The altitude was hard on my lungs though, and I had trouble with stairs during that week.

I'd rather have a sentimental fool than a hopeless romantic.

You had me at "I may throw up on you".