Meme: 8 Things

[stinglikeabee]

Thanks to simple miscommunication, I did some freelance work for which I won't be paid. *facepalm* Why won't the weekend come sooner! Argh argh, and in lieu of catching up with the flist have some meme.

Tagged by roguecatwoman:

1. Post these rules.
2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their selves on their journal.
3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons on the same journal.
4. No tag-backs.



1. I am extremely uneasy with insects. You don't know how emotionally scaring it is to be chased by a flying cockroach at sunset as a child. At the sight of spiders/icky crawlies I will just about jump out of my skin and screech nonstop. Funnily enough, I can't bear to see them killed so I will most likely grab someone to capture them in a nonviolent way and release them out in the wild (outside the building). History has shown boyfriends/friends/bosses usually ignore my pleas and squish them with no mercy.

2. I have a scar on my left thigh from when I stepped on a cracked pavement step and very nearly into the gutter, were it not for me throwing out my elbows before I slipped through the hole. At least two people stopped their cars in traffic, and rushed out to help pull me out. Another was about to call the ambulance, convinced my arms were broken because of how I landed but I managed to fend him off, extremely embarrassed.

3. When I was on my LJ-break, I found myself on /co/ more frequently. Now that I CAN'T unsee it, I sorta want more Kyle/Stan. Y'know, South Park. Yeah, I don't even know.

4. As a grownup, I'm constantly amazed at how fragile the giants of my youth actually are. For instance, I couldn't believe how small and aged Scott Bakula seemed in Chuck. Was he always that short? Well, no. It just happens Adam Baldwin and Zachary Levi are so tall (6'4-ish, I think).

5. Ketchup freaks me out. Packets of ketchup cannot be anywhere near me. I can't even look at a bottle of ketchup without feeling ill. *shudders*

6. Before the neighbour's dog died of old age, I liked to tease it by making meow sounds at night as my room is very close to its kennel. I miss the poor old thing.

7. I blame Ballykissangel for my thing for hot men dressed up as Catholic priests. Along the same lines, I adore Stephen Tompkinson to no end and will gladly watch anything with him in it. See: Lucky Jim, Bob the Builder.

8. I still snigger at names like Wiener and Wang.



Tagging: pervyficgirl, fictionalknight, 22by7, triestine, cold_nostalgia, kijikun, parlance, and milleniumrex.

Comments

[22by7.livejournal.com]

I have unfortunate fixation on Sri Lankan Buddhist monks. It's fetishisation and wrong and I've tried to unpack it from every angle, including culture/race fetishism, but there it is.

My house is ruled by red ants and large black ants during the summer. I live in a state between fear and resignation.

[triestine.livejournal.com]

Will do! :)

[fictionalknight.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I love how you turned this into eight funny little snippets -- mostly geeky ones, too. I'll post my answers a little later today. :D

[roguecatwoman.livejournal.com]

1)Insects! Eep! I have the same thing. They're all... ew!

5)Really? I've never heard that. See, you do learn something new everyday! ;)

[cold-nostalgia.livejournal.com]

I understand the insect thing completely.

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

1) Totally with you there! Even the non-killing policy, but people in my house tend to be freaky and actually like bugs, so I'm okay there. But ... I had a nghtmare when I was a kid that an army of bugs was crawling all over my pillow and into my mouth, and I don't think I ever really got over it -_-;

5) Never heard that one. Interesting. I have a vaguely similar thing with eggs, though.

[stinglikeabee.livejournal.com]

Sri Lankan monks? I once lived in Thailand, and our apartment was beside a Buddhist temple. I saw monks all the time, geezers mostly except for the summer when the kids would be lay monks for a few months. Don't quite see it, but don't think it's any different from my own priest fetish.

Ants. The memory of those hellish buggers makes my blood pressure rise.

[stinglikeabee.livejournal.com]

Ho ho ho. You say geeky, I say 'exposes-how-big-a-freak-I-am' :D

[stinglikeabee.livejournal.com]

1) What about ladybugs? Everything else makes me think of B-movie aliens.

[stinglikeabee.livejournal.com]

Remember the joke about accidentally swallowing a fly? That actually happened to me :/

Yeah, ketchup. I went through a period of being extremely germphobic and I fixated on ketchup as the unholy bearer of biohazard-level germs. Eggs, hmm. The way the translucent white wobbles? Or is the smell?

[pervyficgirl.livejournal.com]

LADYBUGS ARE TERRIBLE.

Meep. They freak me out worse than every other thing combined.

[roguecatwoman.livejournal.com]

My mom says I used to like lady bugs and let them walk on my hands!! O_O I chose not to believe her.