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Actually, it's more that even though Facebook tries to force the fact that I've written a note at people who've friended me, more people actually read them in LJ before they get RSS'd over to Facebook.
Rules:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you. Tag. Tag, tag, tag. Jesus fuck, do these rules like the word tag.
1. I was a part of the French exchange program my school system did, when I was in fifth grade. My family hosted a kid for three weeks, and then I was hosted by his family for three weeks. The only French I have retained is about 3/4 of the first verse of "Le Marseillaise."
2. If it weren't for the fact that I so very need to live a life of my own, I would be happy to be a butler.
3. While I'm attracted only to guys, I have fallen in love with a girl precisely twice in my life so far. I wasn't aware either time, which is why it took me so long to understand why the natural post-school drift hurt so much more in those two cases.
4. I'm a little bit genderqueer, but since the way I see myself as not fully presenting as masculine depends largely on an individual interpretation of masculinity not shared by most other people, I'm not bothered when I'm read as not presenting as anything but masculine.
5. I have a story I've been waiting to write since the fourth grade. At this point, none of the details are the same, even though it is the exact same story it was back then. My intent is for it to be the last story I ever set to paper, because it's the one I feel requires the most skill in writing.
6. I unintentionally split myself into four characters when writing for my creative writing course two falls ago. Two are gay males, one is a straight male, one is a straight female. This seems about right to me, though it will certainly be wrong eventually.
7. I couldn't live without activism. This is particularly painful right now.
8. I had to teach myself to socialize. I know the invisible scripts better, because I had to learn to see them before I could ever follow them, so I can frequently see how these scripts are and aren't being followed by others. This is why I'm good for advice, and this is why I spiral into overanalysis in my own life.
9. Everything is beautiful. This is my core belief. I love everything and I love everyone, because I would not be who I am, where I am, if everything that ever is and was had not been exactly as it has been. I believe that anyone who acts to remove beauty from the world is of the utmost reprehensibility, but they are just as crucial a part of the tapestry of my life as anyone else, and I love them for that.
10. I am firmly pro-choice, but even more than that, I believe that the argument is long since moot. Abortion is a part of our culture, and it always will be. If we outlaw abortion, then those committed to getting them have to move to back-alley ways of doing it - possibly quite literally. If it's going to happen (and it's going to happen) I'd much prefer it happen in a legally-monitored setting that is required to be as safe as possible for the mother.
11. I do not believe in any god or higher being. I do not believe in an afterlife. I do not believe there is anything justifying our existence on this world other than our existence on this world. Things can be just because and still be beautiful.
12. I will never regret dying too soon. There is much more to do in my life, yes. But there is so much already done.
13. I have been living on the border of an eating disorder for a very long time. I am extremely worried about what moving back with my mother is going to do to this.
14. I have had one real relationship in my life. I wish I had had none.
15. I am neither a cat person nor a dog person. Deal with it.
16. I hate how when people find out I'm ex-Roman Catholic, they always assume it was about the gay.
17. I believe there is something worthwhile in Tarot. Whatever may or may not be influencing the placement of the cards, approached properly, the process allows reflection on one's life in a manner most people usually don't.
18. There is no such thing as the supernatural. If it happens, it is natural.
19. I don't miss as many people from Oxford as I thought I would.
20. I miss exactly as many people from high school as I thought I would.
21. There are a lot of people I graduated high school with who most certainly thought I was still quite lacking social skills by graduation. Most of those people are people who found me annoying, but never had the balls to say anything directly to me. If I just so happened to never pick up on their nonverbal cues, and so spent more time around them then they might have liked, well, I could hardly be blamed for that, now could I? :D
22. I still remember where the Memorial to the One Funny Joke I made during middle school is. (It's only a sewer grate, by the way.)
23. Everything comes back to stories. When you can make stories work, you can understand anything. To live is to make stories. A life than cannot be told is wasted.
24. I mourn the slowly mounting illness of the newspaper. At the same time, I feel that if it continues to be exactly what it is, it deserves its fate.
25. I sleep naked whenever possible.
Rules:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you. Tag. Tag, tag, tag. Jesus fuck, do these rules like the word tag.
1. I was a part of the French exchange program my school system did, when I was in fifth grade. My family hosted a kid for three weeks, and then I was hosted by his family for three weeks. The only French I have retained is about 3/4 of the first verse of "Le Marseillaise."
2. If it weren't for the fact that I so very need to live a life of my own, I would be happy to be a butler.
3. While I'm attracted only to guys, I have fallen in love with a girl precisely twice in my life so far. I wasn't aware either time, which is why it took me so long to understand why the natural post-school drift hurt so much more in those two cases.
4. I'm a little bit genderqueer, but since the way I see myself as not fully presenting as masculine depends largely on an individual interpretation of masculinity not shared by most other people, I'm not bothered when I'm read as not presenting as anything but masculine.
5. I have a story I've been waiting to write since the fourth grade. At this point, none of the details are the same, even though it is the exact same story it was back then. My intent is for it to be the last story I ever set to paper, because it's the one I feel requires the most skill in writing.
6. I unintentionally split myself into four characters when writing for my creative writing course two falls ago. Two are gay males, one is a straight male, one is a straight female. This seems about right to me, though it will certainly be wrong eventually.
7. I couldn't live without activism. This is particularly painful right now.
8. I had to teach myself to socialize. I know the invisible scripts better, because I had to learn to see them before I could ever follow them, so I can frequently see how these scripts are and aren't being followed by others. This is why I'm good for advice, and this is why I spiral into overanalysis in my own life.
9. Everything is beautiful. This is my core belief. I love everything and I love everyone, because I would not be who I am, where I am, if everything that ever is and was had not been exactly as it has been. I believe that anyone who acts to remove beauty from the world is of the utmost reprehensibility, but they are just as crucial a part of the tapestry of my life as anyone else, and I love them for that.
10. I am firmly pro-choice, but even more than that, I believe that the argument is long since moot. Abortion is a part of our culture, and it always will be. If we outlaw abortion, then those committed to getting them have to move to back-alley ways of doing it - possibly quite literally. If it's going to happen (and it's going to happen) I'd much prefer it happen in a legally-monitored setting that is required to be as safe as possible for the mother.
11. I do not believe in any god or higher being. I do not believe in an afterlife. I do not believe there is anything justifying our existence on this world other than our existence on this world. Things can be just because and still be beautiful.
12. I will never regret dying too soon. There is much more to do in my life, yes. But there is so much already done.
13. I have been living on the border of an eating disorder for a very long time. I am extremely worried about what moving back with my mother is going to do to this.
14. I have had one real relationship in my life. I wish I had had none.
15. I am neither a cat person nor a dog person. Deal with it.
16. I hate how when people find out I'm ex-Roman Catholic, they always assume it was about the gay.
17. I believe there is something worthwhile in Tarot. Whatever may or may not be influencing the placement of the cards, approached properly, the process allows reflection on one's life in a manner most people usually don't.
18. There is no such thing as the supernatural. If it happens, it is natural.
19. I don't miss as many people from Oxford as I thought I would.
20. I miss exactly as many people from high school as I thought I would.
21. There are a lot of people I graduated high school with who most certainly thought I was still quite lacking social skills by graduation. Most of those people are people who found me annoying, but never had the balls to say anything directly to me. If I just so happened to never pick up on their nonverbal cues, and so spent more time around them then they might have liked, well, I could hardly be blamed for that, now could I? :D
22. I still remember where the Memorial to the One Funny Joke I made during middle school is. (It's only a sewer grate, by the way.)
23. Everything comes back to stories. When you can make stories work, you can understand anything. To live is to make stories. A life than cannot be told is wasted.
24. I mourn the slowly mounting illness of the newspaper. At the same time, I feel that if it continues to be exactly what it is, it deserves its fate.
25. I sleep naked whenever possible.
