7 weird things

[flexagon]

apfelsingail tagged me with a classic "tell us 7 weird things" meme, probably because I said I had missed blogging during my week-long silence. Okay.

• I am not very possessive of "my" space. I love to sit in public spaces doing my thing and watching people wandering through, and in a lot of ways I also miss having roommates wandering through my living room. I miss the common areas of dorms and college living groups. I don't understand the desire to own land. I tend to forget that other people are into it... the whole space thing, I mean. Which is a mistake, because most people are, and that's what's normal.



• Friday night at dinner I said "Fuck you, sock toe!". heisenbug said "I bet that sentence has never been spoken before" and I said "I can almost guarantee you it has." The people who have said this are probably knitters of my own generation, working on their first sock, like I was.



• I don't like studying religion or history. Especially history, because at least some of the religious myths are amusing (it's turtles all the way down)! With apologies to the many, many history buffs out there, stuff that doesn't exist anymore is just not of much interest to me. YOU study it, if you disagree.



• I passed someone wearing a Jack Florey t-shirt the other day and I realized the logo on it was meant to look like the Jack Daniels logo. Really. I just realized this, after seeing these things around for lo these last 13 years. The MIT folks on my list know how silly this is. :)



• Twice in my life, I've had spans of around a week where I haven't felt like reading. The first time, a drug was involved. The second time was last week. Both times scared me, and I was delighted when I could pick up a book and enjoy it again.



• My mother says she knew I would be a city girl even when I was very young, and I believe her. Whatever it is, it's deeply emotionally ingrained. (As a side note, my dad used to despise city people, and I'm sure in his less tolerant moments he still does. He also likes owning land. I can forgive him this, because I know people with very different emotional responses to things can be freaky.)



• My spiderweb phobia has decreased a lot in the last year. Yesterday I was helping taegubcrusade move, and I brushed against a cobweb with my elbow. I shifted away without jumping, gasping or even being scared. It was soft. That was a first for me. (Later in the move, it was gone; I suspect it did not survive the Tempurpedic mattress coming through.) I wonder what it would be like to not be afraid of cobwebs at all, and if I'll experience that in my lifetime. I didn' t ask for, or anticipate, this lessening of fear.

Comments

[dilletante.livejournal.com]

i fall somewhere in the middle on space. i love being able to sit in one place and have a social life come to me, which was what i liked about dorms. :) on the other hand i often need a place to retreat to.

as for history, i don't care so much about the past as such; but i keep finding i need to learn about it to understand the present, how things got to where they are...

[flexagon]

People say things like that about history... but I still find that conceptually so much less important than how to take things forward.

My ideal world has little "retreat cubbies" all over it. :)

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

Especially history, because at least some of the religious myths are amusing (it's turtles all the way down)!

I like the aboriginal Australian creation myths that involve dreams. That sounds so wonderful to me. I'm also inordinately amused by the trickster gods, especially the Native American Coyote.

I'm right there with you with the spiderwebs. My main problem with them is that the indicate the near presence of spiders, and as wonderful as the spiders sound in mythology and in Charlotte's Web, they give me the creeps.

[flexagon]

See, my main problem with spiders is that they could begin to spin webs at any moment. I have never been able to adequately explain my problem with webs -- a lot of it is that when they are transparent enough you see things hanging in the air where they shouldn't be. I hate seeing a spider crawling through its web and not being able to see where the limits of that motion are. GEH.

[perfectbound.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA! you are totally right about "fuck you, sock toe." rolls off the tongue nicely, too.

[flexagon]

Best of all, as I realized much later, it spells FYST!

The sock toe is going much better this time, after the cursing and frogging...

[perfectbound.livejournal.com]

...which really, really should be a pornographic myst parody.

[flexagon]

Annnnnnd, perfectbound for the win. :D

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

I go back and forth on the whole space thing; I sometimes miss just having a roommate or two around, but I absolutely love having My. Place. Where I can leave the dishes to sit until later or leave the bathroom door open or have people over whenever I want.

[flexagon]

I like having My Place, but it's freedom from landlords I'm thinking about, more than freedom from roommates. :) I do enjoy leaving a mess in the kitchen... but a little too much, if you know what I mean.

Something that gave us a private suite, but had some areas in common with other people, would be ideal, I think.

[taegubcrusade.livejournal.com]

Wow; too many thing here for a succinct response, but I have to go to work, so you get short, if not succinct. First, you should totally, totally check out cohousing, if I haven't told you about it already ( http://www.cohousing.org/ ). There are at least 3 urban cohousing developments in the metro area. Second, at least one web survived the move, because Sarah found a "pet spider" yesterday. Third, I've already given up on you an history; even more than I've given up on you and religion. Fourth, thanks again for the help moving.

[taegubcrusade.livejournal.com]

Fifth, I should totally have proofread that post. Sixth, I thought of another cohousing community, so there are at least 4 urban ones nearby.

[flexagon]

We've talked about cohousing, and I love the idea (except for that whole "diversity" thing most of the cohousing developments want... hmmph, what's wrong with all-childfree, all-yuppie?). I couldn't bring the word to mind when writing this post -- otherwise I would have mentioned it!

Maybe next time around, although I don't want to move any time soon.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of communal space too. I need my own personal space to retreat to, and I like large communal areas. Generally speaking I like having the option to be with someone or not. Obviously at the moment I'm erring on not.