10 things about Amethyst
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amethyst73Having been tagged by nezumiko and having seen this spread around my f-list like wildfire today, I'll give it a shot. I'll see what I can do about finding 10 things that most folks don't know about me.
nezumiko and having seen this spread around my f-list like wildfire today, I'll give it a shot. I'll see what I can do about finding 10 things that most folks don't know about me.1. I dislike my nose. Most everyone on my father's side has these long, straight noses. Mine, like that of one of my (paternal) aunts, has this weird bump in the middle. If I were to redesign my body for looks, that would be.. hmm, pretty much the only thing I'd change.
2. For quite a while (basically till the LOTR trilogy came out), if you asked me what my favorite movie was, I'd say The Prince of Egypt. It was a beautiful and deeply powerful film for me when it came out, and it was good enough that I was quite happy to see it twice inside of a week. That opinion changed once (when LOTR happened), and then again, when I saw it under poor circumstances a couple of years after 9/11. It's still a beautiful, moving film... but ya know? God's essentially a terrorist in his methods! Very disturbing, that.
3. Likemeepodeekin, I'm told I have a couple of famous ancestors: Paul Revere is supposed to be a sixth-great uncle on my father's side, and we can trace a direct line back to Roger Bygod, one of the signers of the Magna Carta, through my mother's side. Also like her, I've got a first cousin intermarriage that produced my paternal grandmother.
4. When I was in high school, I wrote poetry, mostly in free verse. There's precious little of it that I'm proud of now! But I did get several poems published in what was then called The Twenty-First Century, a Boston-area newspaper that published stuff written by middle and high schoolers.
5. I used to look down on my younger brother playing video games on our Atari computer back when we were little, mostly because I felt that he didn't need even *more* distractions from his schoolwork. Fifteen years later, the huz and I discovered SNES emulators for the Mac... and I instantly devoted far too much of my spare time to Final Fantasy III/VI. Pot, meet kettle!
6. Junior and senior years of college, I had a part-time job as the sacristan of the Episcopal Church at Yale. I helped set up for Sunday service, plus three or four weekday Evening Prayer services. I found the near-daily church time to be a quiet, peaceful place to be, and part of me wishes I had the time/place/inspiration to do that again.
7. I had a recurring nightmare when I was growing up. It consisted more or less of going through a haunted house, and inevitably discovering a vampire who was actually my father just before waking up. In light of what I now know about his battle with depression/bipolar illness, this makes complete sense now.
8. I wrote my first song when I was in second grade or so. It went like this (sorry it's a little hard to reproduce the tune!):
Hi Marigold, hi Marigold,
Are you rich?
Hi Marigold, hi Marigold,
Are you rich?
If you are, show me your gold
If you aren't, who told me so?
If you aren't, go to the palace
And I'm sure you'll find some there.
There were several more verses, where 'gold' got replaced with 'diamonds,' 'emeralds,' etc. Hey, I was in second grade.
I set (or planned to set) several marvelous poems of a good friend of mine to music when I was in high school, the bases of which are still (I think) pretty good. I took music composition class my freshman year in college to learn about what I'd been doing all that time, and I've been grateful for what I learned ever since.
9. Someday I'd like to take more art classes. I really liked the drawing seminar I took once. I do okay with line, and passably with light and shadow, but I have very little clue about how to work with color effectively. There are a couple of budding artists in my lab, and I find myself envious of their talent.
10. One of my favorite foods growing up was Yorkshire pudding. Mom would make roast beef one night and save the drippings. Then she'd heat them in a quite hot oven the next night, then pour an egg-flour-milk mixture over them and bake. The sides came up kind of like a giant popover. Then you spooned gravy over your slice... mmmm. Total comfort food.
2. For quite a while (basically till the LOTR trilogy came out), if you asked me what my favorite movie was, I'd say The Prince of Egypt. It was a beautiful and deeply powerful film for me when it came out, and it was good enough that I was quite happy to see it twice inside of a week. That opinion changed once (when LOTR happened), and then again, when I saw it under poor circumstances a couple of years after 9/11. It's still a beautiful, moving film... but ya know? God's essentially a terrorist in his methods! Very disturbing, that.
3. Like
meepodeekin, I'm told I have a couple of famous ancestors: Paul Revere is supposed to be a sixth-great uncle on my father's side, and we can trace a direct line back to Roger Bygod, one of the signers of the Magna Carta, through my mother's side. Also like her, I've got a first cousin intermarriage that produced my paternal grandmother.4. When I was in high school, I wrote poetry, mostly in free verse. There's precious little of it that I'm proud of now! But I did get several poems published in what was then called The Twenty-First Century, a Boston-area newspaper that published stuff written by middle and high schoolers.
5. I used to look down on my younger brother playing video games on our Atari computer back when we were little, mostly because I felt that he didn't need even *more* distractions from his schoolwork. Fifteen years later, the huz and I discovered SNES emulators for the Mac... and I instantly devoted far too much of my spare time to Final Fantasy III/VI. Pot, meet kettle!
6. Junior and senior years of college, I had a part-time job as the sacristan of the Episcopal Church at Yale. I helped set up for Sunday service, plus three or four weekday Evening Prayer services. I found the near-daily church time to be a quiet, peaceful place to be, and part of me wishes I had the time/place/inspiration to do that again.
7. I had a recurring nightmare when I was growing up. It consisted more or less of going through a haunted house, and inevitably discovering a vampire who was actually my father just before waking up. In light of what I now know about his battle with depression/bipolar illness, this makes complete sense now.
8. I wrote my first song when I was in second grade or so. It went like this (sorry it's a little hard to reproduce the tune!):
Hi Marigold, hi Marigold,
Are you rich?
Hi Marigold, hi Marigold,
Are you rich?
If you are, show me your gold
If you aren't, who told me so?
If you aren't, go to the palace
And I'm sure you'll find some there.
There were several more verses, where 'gold' got replaced with 'diamonds,' 'emeralds,' etc. Hey, I was in second grade.
I set (or planned to set) several marvelous poems of a good friend of mine to music when I was in high school, the bases of which are still (I think) pretty good. I took music composition class my freshman year in college to learn about what I'd been doing all that time, and I've been grateful for what I learned ever since.
9. Someday I'd like to take more art classes. I really liked the drawing seminar I took once. I do okay with line, and passably with light and shadow, but I have very little clue about how to work with color effectively. There are a couple of budding artists in my lab, and I find myself envious of their talent.
10. One of my favorite foods growing up was Yorkshire pudding. Mom would make roast beef one night and save the drippings. Then she'd heat them in a quite hot oven the next night, then pour an egg-flour-milk mixture over them and bake. The sides came up kind of like a giant popover. Then you spooned gravy over your slice... mmmm. Total comfort food.
