Three random facts:

[Bugitha]

1. I am hoping to live to at least 85 years old. A few years ago I wrote a letter to myself to open on my 85th birthday.

2. After suffering through the last 5 summers in my top floor apartment with no air conditioning I finally broke down and bought a $200 cooler last week. The memory of 108 degree weather last summer finally convinced me to do something.

3. The Antique Roadshow is coming to my town and my brother and I are discussing what to take down there.

[Willow_starr]

1. My arms hurt like a bitch. It is "lawn furniture" season here, when all the moving university students toss old couches/chairs/other randomness onto their lawns. These objects become free game. In three days I have helped moved three piece of large furniture. None of which was for me.

2. I developed a sudden love for Emily Strange.

3. When I was a toddler I used to swallow coins, dimes were my favorite and I nearly gave my mother several heart attacks.

[Ashley]

"lawn furniture day"? I want that to happen in Eugene.
1) I have a mid term on Friday, that scares me cause I've never had a history class before so I don't know what the tests are like.

2) I'm having an allergy test tomorrow, to see what I'm allergic to. I'm excited cause I'm allergic to a bunch of stuff and will finally figure out what exactly it is.

3 The allergy test only costs me $5 cause it's at my university. Usually it's much more expensive. But since I live in the Willamette Valley (extremely allergic area), my college has specialists for us!

[Bugitha]

1. Foods I have not eaten since I was a child: Spam, sloppy joes, shrimp, pixie sticks, vienna sausages, cabbage soup, duck, red creme soda.

2. A friend of mine told me to super glue the small cut in my hand I got when slicing a bagel in half but for some reason I'm resisting gluing myself together.

3. I like to wear hats but very few of them look good on me.

[suek287]

here goes...

1. I am neurotic about not having a pen handy, so when ever I am heading out of the office for business of some sort, I throw a pen in my purse. Last year, when I got a new purse, I pulled about 20 pens out of the bottom of my old purse

2. I hate shoes- whenever possible, I go around barefoot. Shoes are such a pain !

3. I just "discovered " Buffy series this year...love it, so warped!

Sue K

[littlebird]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Willow_starr @ April 29 2003,8:02)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. My arms hurt like a bitch. It is "lawn furniture" season here, when all the moving university students toss old couches/chairs/other randomness onto their lawns. These objects become free game. In three days I have helped moved three piece of large furniture. None of which was for me.

2. I developed a sudden love for Emily Strange.

3. When I was a toddler I used to swallow coins, dimes were my favorite and I nearly gave my mother several heart attacks.[/b][/quote]
i'm riffing off of yours.
1. last year, we found the couch that lived in our dorm room on the side of a busy street, and a couch is a great thing to have in your dorm room. we paid several boys on the floor with free pizza to go and pick it up for us, which involved dragging it up four flights of stairs. it's amazing what college kids will do for pizza.
2. my name is emily and i have black hair with bangs and wear a lot of black. i recieve a lot of emily strange things as presents, not that i mind.
3. when i was very little, i ate the cover of a time magazine and my mom flipped out and called poison control. after they stopped laughing, they told her i would be ok.

[Pairaka]

1. My mother is tall for a woman.

2. My father is short for a man.

3. They are the same height. (5'7")

4. I'm short.

[solarpluvia]

1 - When I was a toddler, I used to crwal, then walk in circles in order to hypnotize myself to sleep.

2 - A stranger called me intellegent and articulate today.

3 - If my best friend or I ever come in to a bunch of money, we are going to move in together. We are fed up with everyone else! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[littlest-bee]

1. I really really really want a pet (either a kitten or a chihuahua) but I'm allergic to animals. Boo.

2. My dad is tall for a man and my mum is tall for a woman. I'm still short!

3. I don't want to go to work today, I want to stay at home and make ATCs and postcards. I'm now officially late - its 9.03am. But I'm still here, posting in the forums! Oops!

[solarpluvia]

1 - I should have taken my medication a few hours ago, but i forgot because I've been enjoying being able to think.

2 - I'm tired of being muddleheaded

3 - O hell. I need to go to bed. Forgive my useless posting.

[Willow_starr]

1. Two bead stores have opened up here in Peterborough and they are so wonderful I'm about to bust. Before these we only had a Lewiscraft which is a great general craft store but pretty sicky on the bead department. The only downfall is now I will be perpetually broke.

2. I helped some friends move today into a great house. It so pretty, a little crazy and very dusty, but beautiful.

3. I have never gone horseback riding but have always wanted too.

[hammerquill]

1. I just finished reading The Three Musketeers in French, after having stopped in the middle for about three years.
2. I'm currently reading The Mistress of Spices.
3. I'm trying to decide whether to read Proust or Rabelais next.

[mejaka]

1. I loved the language in The Mistress of Spices...so lovely, almost made up for--Oh, no, better not spoil.

2. Today I'm selling raffle tickets for a beautiful playhouse, donated by local builders to a woman whose son has operable (but costly) cancer. I know the woman works at the grocery I shop at but have never been able to figure out who she is.

3. I want to see a hummingbird! Man, they are late this year. My neighbor Beverly has seen some though. *sigh*

[solarpluvia]

1 - I have discovered yahoo messenger. I am having lots of fun chatting with people.

2 - I used to chat all the time on BBSs when I was in high school, but haven't been doing it since then.

3 - I am chatting with my best friend in CA right now.

[Dalmaney]

1. I fly to London tomorrow morning.

2. I am having issues letting my friend's parents take care of my arrangements. I've been living on my own for 4 years and have become rather accustomed to being responsible for myself.

3. I just saw X2! Ever so good... I think I may like it more than the first one. I'm a sucker for comic book movies.

[Bugitha]

1. Now that I work weekends, Fridays have lost all their magic.

2. I have a terrible habit of packing a lunch for work and then leaving it in the fridge or on the counter. Luckily the chinese place across the street from works sells lunch for $1.15 an item.

3. I am very sad that one of my best friends will be moving away this month. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[Seusomon]

1. I'm recovering from a really nasty cold

2. I have a German-made pencil sharpener that is at least 40 years old. It's the only thing that sharpens my prismacolors without breaking them.

3. I bought a Mangetic Poetry set last week.

[sivatonight]

1) My husband and I met two years ago today.

2) I dyed my hair fire engine red last week, and now it's fading to a really neat dark pink colour.

3) The soundtrack to "Chicago" is my current favourite.

[mejaka]

1. I once rode an elephant.

2. I've made lead balls and shot them from an antique black-powder rifle.

3. I know how to make great chewy egg noodles from scratch. I thought nothing of this until a girl from NYC who had never eaten a real home-cooked meal in her entire life watched me make them, and expressed her amazement the entire time. (This was a brilliant funny girl who claimed that until she came to Idaho she thought chickens spontaneously appeared in neat packages in the market...)

[Ashley]

1) I'm really annoyed cause I have to write a paper for my History 303 class, and my neighbors across the way are having sex very loudly. Sorry everyone, but it's very annoying. They've been doing it for like 4 days straight. I feel like yelling "If you can hear me that means I can hear you." Grrr..
2) I just made my 2nd zine, called Women's Issues.
3) I just finished my first deco.
Ashley

[Ashley]

I've got one more!
I just bid on a sticker maker http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif I'm excited

[Willow_starr]

1. I'm going to the bead store today.
2. One of my best friends just moved and I dail her old phone number so automatically calling her has become annoying.
3. I think a Nervousness forums bookclub is starting. Hooray!

[mejaka]

1. I helped paint a mural on the gym wall when I was in junior high. "This is Tiger Territory," and two big tigers.

2. Went paddling this morning, saw baby Canada geese, and fed the ducks a whole loaf of the oil-free whole-wheat bread Brett made the other day.

3. I love the smell of tomato plants!

[littlest-bee]

1. I am obsessed with the inside designs of white office envelopes: next time you get a bill - look at the design inside before binning (or better, recycling!) the envelope. I raided the recycling bin at work and found about 10 different types: they're usually pale blue/green/grey repeating designs and they look fab as backgrounds to things like ATCs.

Like I said, obsessed...!

2. Just discovered Neko Case - oh what a voice! Its the biggest voice I've ever heard (check out "Deep Red Bells" but only if you can handle slightly county-esque music!)

3. I had cheese on toast with beans for tea - yom!

[Bugitha]

1. It is a lucky thing a friend of mine sent me to an honest mechanic he knows. I would have shelled out hundreds of dollars for a problem they fixed for just over $50.

2. The new kitten I brought home over two weeks ago has still not been named. Nothing seems to fit her just right. I should decide on something soon so she doesn't grow up thinking her name is "kitty." Names I am considering:

Birdie ('cause she likes to perch in high places and her little crys sound like a seagull calling).

Katydid ('cause my other cats name is Junebug and I think insecty names are cute)

Pinenut ('cause my brother recommended it and its a very sweet name)

Jennyanydots or Skimbleshanks ('cause I've always wanted to take a pet name out T.S. Elliot's _Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats_)

Annie ('cause before I even brought her home I had a dream about her and that was the name in the dream)

KC (short for Kitty Cat)

3. I once had a boss whose last name was Katz. I once told him it was too bad he didn't have a daughter because he could have named her Kitty Katz. Um. . . he was a very tolerant boss. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[thunderstorm_19]

hmm... cat names...

1) we've had cats with the following names: heidi, moses, minx, clover and gulliver...

2) a friend of mine's cat is called rasputin. her then 3 year old named it. she was going to call it Caligula.

3) there's a cool program about herbs/essential oils and their benefits just starting on discovery channel...

4) it's been TOO long since i last posted to this thread...

[stargal1998]

1. I don't plan on dying, ever... I've had this strange anti-death stance since I was very young.
2. When I was about 3 years old, I told my mom I met John Ritter at the house where she dropped me off (the babysitter was the wife of someone who had won on the gong show). I talked about it for days and then forgot about it. When I was 19 I started talking about it after having a dream/memory of it. Weird, huh?
3. I'm allergic to bananas so I can't drink any tropical punch drinks, have orange/banana juice or anything with a smidgen of banana near it or my throat swells up and I can't breath and I break out into hives.

[littlebird]

ok, i'm going to try doing this today.

1. i think i'm a classic empath. i don't feel physical pain or anything like that for other people, but just reading some of the sad posts that have been on here recently have made me cry. everyone is so sad all the time. i want to fix people, make them happy. just sending a postcard or some little trinket doesn't seem like enough. why do i always feel personally responsible for everyone that is sad?

2. my middle name is claire.

3. i have a folder of beautiful collage pieces that i can't bear to cut up, only copy or trace, on my desk right now.

[Willow_starr]

1. My middle name is Claire too!

2. I'm going for an eye exam today. I've already got my glasses picked out. They are hot.

3. I only got glasses five years ago and have only had one set of frames.

[hammerquill]

1. I've been fighting with the goosequills, trying to cut a better nib cut for a project the last couple of days.

2. I got an unexpected day off today and spent money I don't have on cool books (but one is for my mother for Mother's Day).

3. I think mejaka's </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I once rode an elephant.

2. I've made lead balls and shot them from an antique black-powder rifle.

3. I know how to make great chewy egg noodles from scratch. [/b][/quote] is just way cool, and I am in complete agreement with stargal's </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I don't plan on dying, ever... I've had this strange anti-death stance since I was very young.[/b][/quote]; I can never get used to the idea that some people, when asked hypothetically if they would choose to live forever, say no.

[solarpluvia]

1 - Well, if given the opportunity to live forever, I would probably say no. The reasons are many and philosophical, but boil down to the idea that I just don't think that a normal human could stay sane for so long.

2 - For some reason I am totally devoid of any creative energy right now. I can't seem to get moving.

3 - I'm not a very easy person to be around. I try, but I can never quite seem to say or do the right thing. My friends tell me that I am intense.

[hypatia]

This is hilarious i love it
1. My favorite feeling in the world is clean sheets and shaved legs together.

2.I'm allergic to the coloring in dark pop or sodas, such as pepsi and root beer, but everynow and then i steel a little sip because they taste good. (bad idea)

3.I'm coach high school throwers and sprinters...a weird mix.

[stargal1998]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"I just don't think that a normal human could stay sane for so long." [/b][/quote]

Normal, Sane, these words mean what??? LOL
Hammerquill, we need a "perpetual Nness People" list... (jk)

1. My new favorite (alcoholic) bottled beverage is Absolute Cosmo... Taste just like a regualr cosmopolitan martini in convenient bottle form (only drink if over 21, please).

2. When I was little my father's company took a trip to catalina island off the California coast. A really bad storm (rain and waves and coldness) hit and I started screaming for the care bears to help save us-- my mom had to explain they weren't real.

3. I really don't like the idea of space travel, personally. I am all for other people going up there, just not me...

[Bugitha]

1. I kind of miss the days when you could pick up seashells on the beach or arrowheads in the desert without being conscious about disturbing the natural enviornment or an anthropolgical cultural resource.

2.I volunteered to bake my brother a birthday cake (pinapple upside down cake) in part because I want to eat some cake myself.

3. As a child, my mother never allowed us to wear clothing with writing or slogans on it. She thought it was tacky. ::shrugs::

[hammerquill]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">
I just don't think that a normal human could stay sane for so long.
[/b][/quote]

I agree with that. If I ever meet a normal person I'll expect him or her to be insane by the age of thirty, and join the rest of us. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

1. Almost all the men in my family are in love with airplanes and flight. My grandfather flew bombers in WWII, then worked as a commercial pilot for thirty years. When my grandmother died, he married a woman who was also trained to fly in WWII. Four or five of my great-uncles also flew in WWII. One who didn't designed planes; the last was too young for WWII, but he went on to design airports. My father studied aerospace engineering and learned to fly, too (so now he's an artist, of course: www.DavidMBowmanStudio.com (http://www.DavidMBowmanStudio.com)).

2. Someday I have to learn to fly.

3. My grandfather (the one who was a pilot) still doesn't understand why neither I nor my cousin wanted to become astronauts. Or rather, why we didn't want to badly enough to actually do it. Me? Spaceflight itself would be cool, but since reading Kim Stanley Robinson's books I decided I really want to go to Mars.

[Seusomon]

1. I want to walk through a stone arch in a field overgrown with weeds, hand in hand with someone I love. Haven't found the arch yet.

2. The laundry room at my apartment has raised the price of a wash from 75 cents to 1.25. Not the end of the world, but saving quarters has now become a major priority.

3. I've made 1,297 ATCs.

[Ashley]

1. I just found a book I thought was lost. Now I have to apologize to all I accused of losing/stealing it. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

2. I think my university it cheating me. They're making my first year too easy, so then I let my guard down and will soon flunk. Maybe it's just my classes, there has to be something to explain my 4.0.

3. Can't think of one for this number. Umm... my brain is dead right now, sorry.

[littlest-bee]

1. I'm scared of using the telephone

2. I'm also scared of ordering drinks/buying cinema tickets, asking for help in shops - anything involving a conversation with someone I don't know! (But I am getting better at this)

3. On the other hand, I love email (and snail mail obviously!) and will write exceptionally long, chatty emails to my friends. Its by far my preferred method of communication.

[Katiekat]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. My favorite feeling in the world is clean sheets and shaved legs together.
[/b][/quote]

Me too! A close second is shaving your legs and then immediately putting on your favorite pair of jeans.

1. I am so totally amazed at Seusomon's ATC count. Also, I've been wanting to tell him that he looks like a very warm, nice man. I don't exactly know what it is, but he just strikes me as a good guy. (A little of it may be that "Seusomon" reminds me of Dr. Seuss, and you just can't go wrong with Dr. Seuss.)

2. I'm thinking very hard about starting my very own online store. It would be like a little boutique, with some arty things and handmade purses...I can't think of a cool name, though.

3. I wish that I didn't have to work 40 hours a week. I never feel like I have all the time I want to devote to boyfriend/cleaning/art/personal down time.

4. My dog Jessie is now in Puppy Heaven. I miss her.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">. I wish that I didn't have to work 40 hours a week. I never feel like I have all the time I want to devote to boyfriend/cleaning/art/personal down time.

[/b][/quote]

I'll second that! I feel the same.

1. I keep meaning to defrost my freezer and clean my ancient refrigerator but have been putting it off. Meanwhile I haven't been grocery shopping because I didn't want to bother with a lot of stuff to keep cool while I do this chore which generally takes about 1 1/2 hours. Maybe if I get hungry enough I'll do it. Or maybe I'll just buy some food and worry about defrosting next week.

2. After a solid month of rainy cold weather, spring has finally arrived here. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif At last its time to paint the tonails and strap on the sandles!

3. I wanted to go see the movie It Runs in the Family but it already stopped playing here.

[Seusomon]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ May 13 2003,11:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I am so totally amazed at Seusomon's ATC count. Also, I've been wanting to tell him that he looks like a very warm, nice man. I don't exactly know what it is, but he just strikes me as a good guy.[/b][/quote]
Thanks Kat, what a sweet thing to say! I try to be good, although I've been known to growl on occasion!

1. There are 18 empty Altoid tins in my office.

2. I had spinach enchiladas for lunch, and I'm stuffed.

3. My first pets were a fish named Goldie and a cat named Dog.

[solarpluvia]

1 - My first two fish were named Lunch and Agnew.  Ti would take too long to explain why,

2 - By normal I mean people who generally in most categories of possible categorization do not fall outside two standard deviations from the mean.

3 - Now that I really think about it, if a person were to have unending life they could no longer be classified as entirely human.  It would be a new species.  Our awareness of the fragility of our lives, and how we react to that awareness, is what makes us beautiful.  Because we still go on doing things every day even though we know that our lives will end eventually.

Don't mind me - I'm just trying to unscrew the inscrutable!

[artspaz]

I fully intended doing this, and then forgot about it and then couldn't find the topic.

1. Although I despise the ending, I still think "Tuck Everlasting" is a cool movie, simply for the fact, that you could stay in the perfect shape forever and if you gave the water to a puppy, it would stay a puppy forever.

2. I am the youngest person in my grade (still 15.. sigh), and the tallest girl in my class (5'10").

3. I could swear that my house is a "yellow ward". I'm bipolar and schizotypal (what a mix, eh?), my sister is slightly autistic, my brother is an alcoholic, my grandmother is chronically depressed and my dad has extreme OCD about Jesus.

[mejaka]

NINETY PAGES! :^ )

1. I love Lucky Charms but I pretend I don't because my kids need to eat better breakfasts.

2. Some guys from school once sneaked to my house and dyed my white dog Yogie Bear in multiple colors.

3. In 1992, I badgered all my family members by mail all summer to send me stories, and then presented each of them with a bound book of family history for Christmas.

4. I'm teaching a class in June on ways to demonstrate love to family and friends...should be fun.

[Willow_starr]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I am so totally amazed at Seusomon's ATC count. Also, I've been wanting to tell him that he looks like a very warm, nice man. I don't exactly know what it is, but he just strikes me as a good guy. (A little of it may be that "Seusomon" reminds me of Dr. Seuss, and you just can't go wrong with Dr. Seuss.)[/b][/quote]

I've thought the same thing. For a while I thought his user name was Seuss-man. But then again I have a bad habit of not always reading things thoroughly.

1. My favorite thing about summer vacation is reading fluffy novels that have no or little social significance. During the school year I always too much other stuff to read and a stack of novels always builds up.

2. Right now I'm reading "Riptide" by Licoln Child and Doulas Preston. It's about treasure hunters and is based on the Oak Island treasure.

3. I went for a great walk with some friends. We collected fiddleheads which I think are kinda gross but they really like. It is also very Canadian (who else in the world would eat fern clumps).

Bonus:
4. We switched our browser and e-mail to Mozilla and I really like it.

[hammerquill]

1. I'm lucky enough to have met three of my great-grandparents when I was old enough to remember them.

2. Since I work with my hands, I constantly listen to books on tape (unabridged, I hasten to add). Probably quadruples the number of books I read. I want to start reviewing them carefully to recommend or disrecommend them to public libraries.

3. At work I finished three wallpieces today. One is really nice. I also finished listening to A Distant Mirror again; a great book, with a mediocre reading at best.

[Bugitha]

1. I am reading _Charlottes Web_I which I never before read myself but my mother *did* read it aloud to us when I was four or five. I am amazed that I actually remember parts of the book and how I felt about it at such a young age. I remember thinking Zuckerman was a funny name, being interested in the things pigs ate, and the way the goose talked. Of course, I remember the sad parts too, and my mother crying as she read it to us, which is probably why I haven't picked it up again until now.

2. I love food cooked on a barbeque but I dislike barbeque sauce.

3. I sorta wish I had a beanbag chair.

[xxsherunsawayxx]

1. I have two middle names. The first being Dawn and the second Joey. My great-grandfather (whom I never met) was named Joseph. Hence the Joey. My brother's middle name is Joseph. My fiance's name is... anyone like to take a guess? Joseph. I think that name will run in our family for awhile lol.

2. I've been pretty down lately and have also been in and out of sickness. For the last 4 days I have had an on again off again fever. At the high, it hit 101. At the low it was 99.5. I have also hit a creativity slump and my depression has set in. I can't seem to shake it off though I try.

3. Good news, my 6 kittens are still doing great, including the runt. They are now 2 months old (Friday). There are two that I want to keep. The runt and an adorable tabby that looks like daddy. The tabby is a girl, and the runt (boy we believe) is a calico. On the downside, we took the mother in to be fixed and discovered that she is pregnant AGAIN!!!! Dear god I don't think I can go through it again!!

--Lissi

[sherlonkahkai]

one
I am the fifth of six children, the sixth being my twin sister.

two
I attended school in the same district from kindergarten through 12th grade. About half of my graduating class fit the same category.

three
My favorite color of the moment is lime green; however, my all-time fave is red. I *love* the warmth that hue offers.

[thelizzies]

hey all - this is my first post - i am trying to get involved so i can sign up! i can't wait to start participating in projects. i am glowing with happiness about having found this community. peace, lizzy

* i collect vintage and contemporary plastic/bakelite/lucite/celluloid rings

* i love to drink V8 splash

* my girlfriend is obsessed with the golden girls

[Bugitha]

1. I said good bye to one of my best friends who is moving out of state today. I'm afraid I'm not taking it very well. Crying, actually.

2. I want to go camping soon--maybe at Lake Tahoe.

3. I finally named my new kitten Josie.

[sivatonight]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bugitha @ May 15 2003,00:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. I finally named my new kitten Josie.[/b][/quote]
My new kitten is named "Miette", which means "crumb" in French. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. I'm trying to learn how to drive a standard car ... I'm getting there, slowly ... my problem is I get too upset if I stall.

2. Someone mailed me a purple highlighter yesterday, and I am absolutely thrilled about it.

3. I was a waitress for over a year, but people always seem to be impressed at the amount of dishes I can carry.

[beja]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (sivatonight @ May 15 2003,06:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1.  I'm trying to learn how to drive a standard car ... I'm getting there, slowly ... my problem is I get too upset if I stall.[/b][/quote]
me too!! i just DREAD stop signs. stopping and then trying to coordinate everything again..with cars behind me?..i stall and freak out all the time. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

1. i just ate half a pint of cookie avalanche soy delicious ice cream..for breakfast. bad beka, bad..

2. i had lots of luck thrift shopping yesterday. i got a light pink tank top, a dark pink tank top, and a dark blue pair of pants.

3. every morning, my 2 year old cat, hasan (he's the one in my icon with me) must be held for 5 minutes. the funny thing is how he likes to be held.. he'll spread his hind legs, and rest them above my hip. and then his front paws will go on my shoulder. he's my baby!

[Seusomon]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bugitha @ May 14 2003,11:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I said good bye to one of my best friends who is moving out of state today. I'm afraid I'm not taking it very well. Crying, actually.[/b][/quote]
Bugitha, this is happening to me too. It feels very unsettling, and like I'm being abandoned, even though I'm very happy for her and her family. It's been making me moody.

1. I love sushi - it's about the only exception I make to eating vegetarian.

2. Tonight will be my first full moon ritual during a lunar eclipse.

3. I love cats, but don't have one now.

[Ashley]

1. I've finally decided to be a vegetarian. I guess not a true vegetarian cause I think I'll eat sea-food, but it's a really big step for me. I really love steak and meat in general, but everytime I eat meat now I make myself imagine the animal I'm eating, the meat-packing company I'm contributing to, and the health related problems involved. It makes it taste a lot less good.
2. I think if I find a local butchery, with free ranging cows that are fed grass not hay and newspaper and other cows, then I'll eat red meat again.
3. I just realized I never see pets or children anymore. I live on a college campus and almost all of the houses and apartments nearby won't allow animals. And most college students don't have children. So weird feeling.

[hammerquill]

1. My grandfather's going to be in town next week.
2. I'm long overdue for a haircut. I'm also considering shaving my beard for the first time in - yow! - almost five years.
3. Hmmm. number three... I got a bag of dried nectarines at the store yesterday and as usual they're going fast.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. Hmmm. number three... I got a bag of dried nectarines at the store yesterday and as usual they're going fast.[/b][/quote]

I LOVE dried nectarines! And fresh ones, too. Along with strawberries, they are my favorite fruit.

1. They tore down our tiny art museum over a year ago to build a bigger and better one. It finally opens next week with a 20th century Mexican art show featuring works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Quite unprecedented for this town. I'm really looking forward to it.

2. I have to miss work next week so I can take an exam for a better job. I will get written up for missing work at my current job even though I have never missed a minute before then.(Which explains, in part, why I am looking for another job!)

3. I wonder what I would look like bald.

[beja]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ashley @ May 15 2003,4:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I've finally decided to be a vegetarian.[/b][/quote]
congratulations!! i remember when i first decided to go vegetarian.. mr. pasties and cheese pizza were all i ate..until i went vegan and was forced to learn how to cook. haha.

1. like Bugitha, i also wonder what i would look like bald. i actually thought about maybe cutting all of my hair off this summer. but, i just discovered today that my hair is just long enough for little pigtails..and that is just a little bit too exciting to give up. due to my haircutting habit, i haven't had hair long enough to pull back in years.

2. i just made arepas (corn cakes) for my brother's spanish class. i made a couple cheese-free for myself, and they were really yummy.

3. i have two full days left at home until i leave to go to michigan to work on an organic farm for a month or so. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[littlest-bee]

1. I'm not vegetarian, I just don't like meat so I never eat it. Its a combination of the texture and the fact its so hard to digest - I can imagine the meat sitting heavy in my stomach. Yuk.

2. My friend who's been working in Texas for nearly two years is coming home today! I can't wait to see him!

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I wonder what I would look like bald.[/b][/quote]

3.  I am really tempted to shave my head - I have been thinking about it for a few years but keep chickening out!

[solarpluvia]

1 - I haven't cut my hair in almost three years. And it grows fast so it is down to my middle back. Unfortunately it is thinner than it used to be because I was on Lithium for several months. But I think that the massive fallout has stopped.

2 - Tonight I scrubbed and mopped the kitchen floor. I also moved the catbox to the hall closet - taking the door off the hinges was the easiest thing I did the whole time I was cleaning!

3 - I'm going to a rubberstamp and art show on Saturday, but my favorite company, Vivalasvegastamps, doesn't have a booth. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

[lim1bd]

Here goes:

1. Even though I (honestly) can't tell left from right, I always know where north is.

2. Milky and creamy food/drinks make me physically gag

3. I like to say Rosaries although I'm not a Catholic.

Cheers
Briony

[xxsherunsawayxx]

1. I listened to one song on repeat tonight. I don't know why, but I did. And it didn't bother me. As a matter of fact, it's now becoming a favorite. The song was Flow by Transister (from the Jawbreaker soundtrack, and it's beautiful but sad).

2. I'm seriously thinking of changing my hairstyle. I have waist length thick and full brown/red hair. Everyone says it's beautiful as it is. But I'm thinking of dying it black and maybe cutting it. We'll see.

3. I need a job so I'm thinking of applying to Kinko's. Not the best job in the world, but it's gotta be better than Quizno's!

--Lissi

[Seusomon]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ashley @ May 15 2003,5:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. I've finally decided to be a vegetarian. I guess not a true vegetarian cause I think I'll eat sea-food, but it's a really big step for me.[/b][/quote]
Ashley, if you'd like some tips, email me at seusomon@telp.com - I've worked out some ways of maintaining a healthy vegetarian diet over the long haul that might be helpful.

1. There were a few drops of rain here last night, and the winds have finally stopped.

2. I put a few drops of clary sage oil on my neck and chest each morning.

3. The light in my living room lamp is burnt out - maybe by typing that fact into this thread, I'll remember to buy a new bulb today.

[stargal1998]

1. I think it is extortion to charge $500 for a new windshield for a ten year old piece of crap saturn wagon.. (sorry, no more venting)
2. I once got second degree burns from being out in the sun for a little under an hour--with sunscreen.
3. I can't stand the way peanut butter feels in my mouth.

[Katiekat]

Seusomon -- I absolutely love sushi, too. It's my favorite food! *mmm, me want spicy tuna rolls* And before I forget...What's the clary sage for? Just the smell, or does it have health benefits too?

1. There are 3 bottles of different, half-empty drinks on my desk. *tsk* That's a bad habit of mine (starting drinks and not finishing them), but I can't help it -- I'm just a very slow drinker.

2. So far today, I've had half a cup of coffee and 2 windmill cookies. Now I'm hungry for lunch.

3. My voice is tired -- a coworker and I just gave a presentation 3 times, and I had to project my voice the whole time.

[kasey]

Yeah sushi is the Best. I love the spicy tuna rolls, but eel is my favorite.

1. I didn't sleep last night cause my band played a gig out of town and now I am here useless at my good ol' 8 to 5 job.

2. I sing at the top of my lungs while driving and make up the worst songs ever created

3. I also have a bunch of drinks sitting on my desk only half empty. . . I guess we have that in common katiekat

[Ashley]

1. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ashley, if you'd like some tips, email me at seusomon@telp.com - I've worked out some ways of maintaining a healthy vegetarian diet over the long haul that might be helpful.[/b][/quote]
Thanks, I would love some tips, I hadn't thought about it yet, but I really should.
2. I have to go work out at the University gym. I wouldn't have started unless my friend asked me to. I knew that was the only way I would consistently go, you know, having someone rely on you. Also, the gym is free since I'm a student, and only 5 minutes away. So it's kind of hard to come up with reason's other than my laziness to not go.
3. I think I am fully addicted to Nervousness now. I swear I'm always on the forums and the member pages. I can't trust myself with the computer anymore, cause I always end up checking in. Should I get help? http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[xxsherunsawayxx]

Wow three posts in a 24 hour period lol.

1. I just got back from seeing The Matrix: Reloaded. The movie rocks! It's one of the best damn action flicks I've seen in a long time. I think I actually like it more than I like the first. There's much more fighting, and there's this one scene that is just... well erotic is the only way I can word it.

2. I want it to be November for two reasons. #1 it wouldn't be so damn hot here. #2 The Matrix: Revolutions comes out!

3. I bought a bunch of supplies for wine charms and marble magnets today. So wish me luck =)

--Lissi

BTW I agree with the fact that sushi rocks!

[Willow_starr]

1. I've been vegan for three and half years and while I cheat sometimes (baked goods and chocolate) I'd never go back.

2. My hair is half way down my back, the longest it has ever been and I love it every once in a while I get the urge to chop it off.

3. I hit the jackpot down. My boss (I work at a costume store) purged her fabric box and I got tons of great fabric. The funny thing is is that I can tell what costumes she made a lot of them into. My faves are the fake bunny fur and red velvet from our santa suits.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. I think I am fully addicted to Nervousness now. I swear I'm always on the forums and the member pages. I can't trust myself with the computer anymore, cause I always end up checking in. Should I get help? [/b][/quote]

Yup. That's addiction all right. I've been a member since last July and I can count on one hand the number of days since then I didn't check in at least once. But don't worry, Nervousness is a happy habit! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. I haven't balanced my checkbook in months and now I'm dreading the chore. I really would like to know exactly how many pennies I have to my name, though.

2. It's so pleasant and nice today, it hasn't gotten to hot yet. I hate anything above 75 degrees. I positively melt in the heat.

3.When I was a kid, I once cut off all of my cat's whiskers.

[Pulu]

1. i want to move to portland, oregon and grow carrots in my backyard.

2. i am tragically flawed

3. i am a yogurt fiend

[Ashley]

1. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1. i want to move to portland, oregon and grow carrots in my backyard.[/b][/quote]
How come you want to move to Portland? Not that it's a bad decision, I live an hour and half from Portland. I love Portland, but I also love Eugene, where I live. It's a beautiful, extremely liberal, politically active town.
2. I had too much to drink tonight at my friends house.
3. My hand acts as my personal planner. My friends have begun to make fun of me. All the things I have to remember in the next day or two are written down in pen on my left hand. Washing my hands and not erasing these messsages has become an interesting ritual.

[artspaz]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. My hand acts as my personal planner.[/b][/quote]
I always end up writing whatever binders I have to take home on my hand because my memory sucks.

1. Up until I was 10, we had lots of Highland cattle. I used to love standing on the edge of the fence and rubbing the spot between the bull's horns.
2. Every time I make noodles/pasta/etc, they always end up overcooked. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
3. My cousin and I are both celebrating our champagne birthdays this summer. [her-19 on july 19; me-16 on sept 16]

[Seusomon]

Littlest_bee, not eating meat makes you a vegetarian, regardless of your reasons, which don't have to be spiritual/ethical/principles, etc.

Katiekat, the sage oil is mostly for fragrance, but also for magical purposes - I associate with wisdom, groundedness, clear thinking - which I like to take with me through the day, as best I can.

1. Did a lot of random art this weekend. Feels nice, but I wish I had another day at it!

2. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

3. My next ATC will be number 1313. A very witchy number!

[Seusomon]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (artspaz @ May 17 2003,08:00)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. Every time I make noodles/pasta/etc, they always end up overcooked. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif[/b][/quote]
Nothing beats frequent testing with pasta. Keep pulling it out of the water and eating it. My rule--the sauces, toppings, etc., have more latitude than the pasta. Know your loyalties. As soon as the pasta is ready, it's dinner time!

(I've sacrificed garlic bread for the sake of pasta - life is cruel.)

1. I slept weird this weekend - a long nap Saturday morning, little sleep Saturday night, don't know what will happen tonight.

2. Summertime at last - windows open at night.

3. My contribution to the World Tree ATC LMAO has made we way happy.

Love, Tom

[solarpluvia]

1 - I can't tell my right from left, I have no directional sense except when I am on a beach http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif , but when I am in a mall I can find anything and never lose my way.

2 - Ten days until new medication! Maybe this time it will work....

3 - I'm not hungry today and it is frustrating.

[ashleyshea]

1. I'm overstressed at work and it's encroching on my REAL life and I'm not happy about it one bit.

2. I will be turning 40 in June and I don't feel like I should be that old. But, I guess I don't know what 40 "should" feel like. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

3. I tried to highlight my hair, and it turned red, so I had to turn to a professional to fix it! http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

Shari

[stargal1998]

1. My parents brought a final load of boxes from their house to mine this weekend. One includes a sewing machine I got about 15 years ago that I used for about 10 minutes (I hate to sew with a passion), but I may start to take it up just to see what I can do.

2. I just started watching CSI 2 weeks ago on Thursday nights and I am now addicted to it. We don't have cable, so I'm trying to see where I can find info about it, etc. on the web.

3. I go to the local library between 3 and 4 times a week...

[Katiekat]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I just started watching CSI 2 weeks ago on Thursday nights and I am now addicted to it. We don't have cable, so I'm trying to see where I can find info about it, etc. on the web.
[/b][/quote]

Stargal, if the one you're watching is the original (not CSI Miami), I know the first season is out on DVD. I've rented it through Netflix, but Blockbuster or another video store might have it. Just a thought. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

1. I was sick all weekend, which really ruined my plans. I had all sorts of things to do, and I did nothing but lay on my couch and moan. I still feel like my head is underwater, but I did manage to come to work today.

2. I am seriously craving some Thai food. I almost went and got some yesterday, but then I figured it would just be wasted on my not-working tastebuds (stupid cold). MUST EAT PAD THAI! Soon.

3. Tomorrow is me and my boyfriend's anniversary -- 3 years! It's the longest relationship for both of us. xoxo!

[Bugitha]

1. The generic post-it notes I bought Do--Not--Stick. Which is frustrating because, sticking is the point after all.

2. In the summer I often paint my toenails, but rarely bother with my fingernails.

3. I need a haircut.

[Katiekat]

1.  I absolutely cannot stand the dark lipliner, light-colored lipstick look that some women still wear.  Blech!

2.  A peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a ziplock bag is like instant memory flashback to elementary school and summer camp programs.  

3. Badger Healing Balm really, really works!

[kasey]

1. I always double check if Locked my door to my apartment. I must have some sort of ocd cause half the time i have to turn around and drive back home just to make sure.

2. I talk to myself all the time

3. My twin sister just outed me to my entire family after a few drinks at thanksgiving last year and I am still cleaning up the mess.

[onceupon]

1.) I didn't get into Columbia.

2.) It's depressing but not the end of the world.

3.) I'm still an artist.

[littlest-bee]

1. I'm meeting a Nervous person in real life one day this week! I'm curious and excited and a tiny bit nervous too.

2. If I were to have a fantasy dinner party with anyone I wanted present my guests would have to include: Dorothy Parker, Andy Warhol, Douglas Coupland and Judy Garland.

3. I nearly got knocked over whilst out running this afternoon - I was almost squished between two cars because I slipped on the kerb whilst crossing the road like an idiot! I'm normally so sensible too...!

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">If I were to have a fantasy dinner party with anyone I wanted present my guests would have to include: Dorothy Parker, Andy Warhol, Douglas Coupland and Judy Garland.

[/b][/quote]
Ooo, can I come, too?

1. I'm wondering if it is possible to be allergic to one cat and not the other. Every time my new kitten cuddles up under my chin, my neck gets all red and itchy.

2. I'm making scones tomorrow morning.

3. The house I live in is about 70 years old.

[Elise]

This is so wonderful! I'm so inspired, I think I'm going to make a LMAO similar to this. Will, of course, give credit where it is due. Though sometimes, at Nervousness, it feels like I'm crediting the source of a source of a source, you know? Does that make any sense at all, or am I just suffering for lack of paper writing?

1) Strangely enough, I consider the show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to be a major influence in my life. Now, it is ending. Yeah, I have only one more episode to go, and saying goodbye is hard.

2) I'm reclaiming the color pink. I used to have a huge rant on an old webpage about it.

3) I think I'm going to spend the summer entertaining myself by being torturous and melodramatic over old "loves", making ATCs, drumming in the parks and learning to play my guitar.

[littlebird]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. My twin sister just outed me to my entire family after a few drinks at thanksgiving last year and I am still cleaning up the mess.[/b][/quote]
Jeez, don't you just love family? yea, me either.

1. i just got a very funky new pair of glasses this week. I'm pretty stoked. (and a geek)

2. i had to go to a high school graduation last night. i actually had a pretty good time in high school, but going back there gives me the willies. It's amazing how some people are still so damn attached to it.

3. i don't really understand the goddess thing. i just know that some people are nuts about it. the only person that i ever knew that was really into it was also very bipolar and not really a reliable person to explain things.

[kasey]

yeah, family and alchohol just don't mix I guess.

1. I just ate three donuts on the week I claimed I would try to lose weight. Great start huh?

2. My sister seems to date only gay boys. . .

3. I just got a hanmade mountain dulcimer. It is so much fun! Goodbye social life!

[Willow_starr]

1. I had a LMAO arrive in my mailbox that was deleted long ago. I'm hoping the owner will restart it.

2. I got new glasses last week, my second pair ever, and I think I'm finally used to them.

3. I'm job hunting right now. Job hunting is the big suck.

[Bugitha]

1. One of the things I like about having long hair is the way it feels falling over my bare shoulders and back.

2. Although the laundrymat I go to would probably not be considered safe, the diversity of people who frequent it (the homeless, drug addicts, college kids, casino workers, etc.) make it a fascinating place at times.

3. A coworker once made fun of me because I "still" go to the library as if libraries were only for children. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

[reddirtrose]

1 I'm irrigating today and tomorrow

2 I planted a LOT of chile

3 I am going to get my first out of state for real order done on time

[kasey]

1. I never match my socks

2. I make up unlikely stories in my head about paople I meet or just plain strangers.

3. I have a secret admirer that goes to all my bands shows and has left me cool poems and art, but I can not for the life of me figure out who it is. . . maybe someday he/she will leave a clue or something.

[Katiekat]

1. I am absolutely sick of my messy room. I can barely walk through it without stepping on something, and it's driving me crazy. I have designated my day off, Friday, as my "Ultimate Cleaning Day." I'm not letting myself out of the room until it's clean.

2. I got a beautiful ring from my man last night! It was our 3 year anniversary, and he gave me a gorgeous pear-shaped diamond "promise" ring -- it's sort of a pre-engagement ring. I love it!

3. We went to lunch today -- sushi train! I dropped some sauce on my pants and stayed there longer than I was supposed to, so I had to speed to work. I was only 5 minutes late!

[Elise]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">yeah, family and alchohol just don't mix I guess.[/b][/quote]
1) This reminded me of my family, 'cept it's backwards. My family doesn't mix without alcohol.

2) I just took two pictures. One turned out fairly well, and one is the most bizarre picture of myself that I have ever seen. Still, it's neat.

3) I love carrot and ginger soup! I'm a new vegetarian, and I'm just discovering so many yummy things to eat, things that I didn't consider before!

*SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT* I also just posted here (http://nervousness.org/forum-cgi/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=17;t=3255) about my brand new, this-very-thread-inspired travelling book. It's called 13 things, and I'm really excited about it. If you wanna state 13 things about yourself in a really neat book, check it out http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[kasey]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">This reminded me of my family, 'cept it's backwards. My family doesn't mix without alcohol.[/b][/quote]
Hehe. . . Yeah usually the alcohol helps, but then again my sister is always too honest after she has been drinking. I call her to meet at the bar if I know there is something she isn't telling me.

1. I am obsessed with playing old video games. Atari never goes out of style.

2. I saw the new kids on the block in concert

3. My whole apartment is a disaster area but by god my cds are always put up in alphabetical order.

[satyavati.dd]

Well i might as well....

1. i have six tattoos. Five of them are roses and one is a Sanskrit 'OM'.

2. i knocked my two front teeth out when i was two years old and the new teeth didn't grow in til i was nine, so i went seven years with no front teeth.

3. i've been a member of the Socialist party since 1987.

luv
satyavati devi dasi

[mejaka]

Observations:
1 I want to see Hammerquill's calligraphy but I'm so out of practice since we moved and I haven't had anyplace to work that I'd be hesitant to show him mine.
2 I have a mountain dulcimer. During college I was in _The Diviners_, and the end scene called for dulcimer music. I'd never heard anything like it, despite a strong musical background, so I went searching for the musician during dress rehearsal. Found him--Ernest Moss--90 years old--on the stage balcony. HE taught me to play "Amazing Grace" then and there, and I'd been playing for 10 minutes before I realized his dulcimer was made of cardboard. (He built it himself from stuff he found around his garage).
3. Bugitha, the house I grew up in (my folks just sold it last month) was built in 1914.
4. When I was a teen and had two sisters to fight over one bathroom with, we used to wonder what life would be like if baldness was in for women. I always said I'd be the envy of everyone because I'd paint beautiful pictures (like pysanky) on my head.
5. I grow carrots in my backyard. And peas (sprouting today) and corn and potatoes and tomatoes and beans and chives and squash and cukes and melons.
6. I'm now up to 1.5 mile runs every other day.

I'm also tickled that this thread is not only approaching 100 pages, but also has spun off an LMAO.

[Katiekat]

1. I am at work, and would so much rather be at home, taking a nap. This month is the "quiet before the storm" -- summer is our busy time. So now I have nothing to do. It's boring.

2. I can't sleep with a long-sleeved shirt on.

3. I woke my boyfriend up yesterday morning to tell him I was leaving for work, and he looked at me and said "I don't know where your apple tart is." Before I could question what the hell he was talking about, he said "...or maybe I dreamed that. Have a good day."

[littlest-bee]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm now up to 1.5 mile runs every other day.[/b][/quote]

- you go Janna! That's brilliant!

1. I bought a pink top today, it's pretty.

2. Yesterday someone asked me to help out on a school trip next year to JAPAN! Cool, non?! Not sure if it will happen yet but I'm excited at the thought and also rather flattered to be asked at all.

3. I had an argument today with someone and I was so wound up by him it took me almost an hour to calm down. This person just doesn't know when to stop and unfortunately, I can't seem to ignore him and rise above it.

[mejaka]

1. I will be having a lovely, Memorial Day, inadvertently symbolic on two levels. I'm hosting two young men for dinner. One of them is from a small village in Japan, and for us to be sitting down together on Memorial Day is just...cool. The other symbolism is less universal, but his reason for being in the States has to do with something that could only have happened here, that reached to Japan and changed his life, and brought him here for a short time to offer the same opportunity to others.

2. I love s'mores. I made one today just because I could.

3. We are having a dish for dinner known as "funeral potatoes." Delicious, very rich, we only make it for gatherings (such as funerals or, like today, potlucks at work...) I should go run another 1.5 miles before I eat it!!!

[solarpluvia]

1 - I got my hair cut yesterday and I'm so happy with it! My friend went with me for moral support as she had recommended the stylist. I had about 4-5 inches off. She may very well be The Best Stylist In Town. My mom is going in tomorrow.

2 - Last night I needed to watch The Matrix (or I wouldn't have been able to sleep). So I drove around to several stores before I finally found a copy to buy. None of the rental places I have acounts at had it in. Damn it. I didn't want to buy it.

3 - I am finally getting up the nerve to put nail/screw/pin holes in the walls of our house. It has been almost a year and although I painted my room in the most odd ways, I still haven't punctured the wall. It was easier when we lived in rentals and other people were ultimately responsible for it.

[Willow_starr]

1. I am way too tired.

2. I talk in my sleep and ridiculous things when I'm not quite awake. It confuses my partner to no end.

3. I once made a PB sandwich at midnight, in my sleep, and left it finished on the counter. I was very confused the next morning...

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I once made a PB sandwich at midnight, in my sleep, and left it finished on the counter. I was very confused the next morning...[/b][/quote]

When my father worked as a mover, he sometimes moved furniture in his sleep. Once we found the coffee table in the kitchen and the dining room chairs in the living room.

1. Even though its hot hot hot outside, I think I'll make some cocoa.

2. I'm working all weekend--until I find another job, no three day weekends for me. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

3. My new cat gave my big kittie earmites and its a struggle each day to treat them.

[hammerquill]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I want to see Hammerquill's calligraphy but I'm so out of practice since we moved and I haven't had anyplace to work that I'd be hesitant to show him mine.[/b][/quote]

1. I'm rather out of practice myself, as I found out after promising some calligraphy on an exchange, and struggling over it for quite a while, and wasting vellum (luckily this was for ATCs, so it's pieces of a size I'd normally think of as scraps of vellum).

2. I lived on a silver school bus for about a year and a half when I was little (this is in the mid-1970s). Recently I've seen a convoy of buses being lived in, shuttling about to three or four places in my town, and it has me thinking back.

3. My parents raised their house (http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dmbstudio/renovation/) last year. It'll be another year yet (at least) before we're finished with the new downstairs. If you've never seen a house this has been done to, let me assure you it's common in our area, and in fact is a very sensible way of expanding, though it sure makes it difficult. We keep saying to ourselves someday we have to build a house from the ground up; it'll be much easier.

{4. I'm beginning to suspect mejaka started this thread because she's in possession of such an astonishing and diverse array of very random, very cool facts to tell us all about herself. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif I'm in awe. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif }

[mejaka]

LOL, hammerquill! Maybe I'm just incredibly self-absorbed...heh.

Oh, no, three more facts! Hm, Memorial Day weekend, the official start of camping season...

1. Once when we were camping, my sister told me that if you shot a skunk it would release all its scent and stink up the whole campground. For some reason that scared me so bad I couldn't sleep all night.

2. Once my family left for a camping trip on Friday the 13th. During that camping trip: We realized that since Jenny Lake was out of state, our fishing licenses were useless; we were bumped from beautiful but overcrowded Jenny Lake by a forestry official (no more campground space) and re-routed to another lake, called Slide Lake, which had been burned out on its entire south end and the campground hadn't a single tree; it started pouring as soon as we got there, so we retired to the van for meatloaf sandwiches and then Mom realized the meatloaf was still on the counter in our kitchen at home; we had to put up the tent in the rain and got to bed at 6 pom that first night; the van or something near it was struck by lightning while I was holding onto a door handle (it hurt like heck but I was okay); the day we decided to take advantage of the daily SE winds by hiking to the NW corner of the lake and then using garbage bags as sails and floating back to camp on our inner tubes, the wind quit early and left us in the middle of the lake with two hours of paddling and two hours of sun exposure ahead of us (I burn easily).

3. My grandfather, who camped with us once, chased a skunk out of camp yelling, "Get out of here you damn polecat!!" Scared us all...but the thing ran too fast to spray.

[stargal1998]

1. When I was little we used to go camping on the colorado river (we did it in a motor home, though, so I don't really think it is the same thing) with family friends. The water was dark and brown, but it was still a nice place. I went swimming one day and almost drowned, I remember seeing swirling brown water all around me and I also remember the sound, or rather lack of sound. I remembered, somehow to ride the current even though I couldn't get up out of the water, and my father (in a totally unselfish, uncharacteristic gesture) pulled me out of the water.

2. My step dad and my mom once camped out in the backyard of his house. I got a little pup-tent, blue smurf marshmallows and a sci fi novel with a scary cat man riding a horse on the cover he had. They shared a bigger tent closer to the house and I didn't sleep all night because I was afraid the cat man from the book would get me. I had to get up around 3 am and let them out of their tent because my mom had to go to the bathroom and their tent wouldn't open from the inside. When she went back into the tent, she broke the zipper and then I had to tape them inside the tent for the remainder of the night.

3. I've always had really romantic ideas about camping, that I would go out and become like a girl scout out there. I would catch all the fish, build an amazing fire and astound everyone with the ability to look natural and beautiful at the same time. However, I now admit to myself that my idea of camping is a roadside motel with no room service. I want to like doing rustic stuff, I just hate the idea of
a. no bathroom
b. no tp
c. sharing my bathroom with 'creatures'
d. letting my imagination get the best of me in the middle of the night while I search for a place to go to the potty
e. all of the above
On a happier note, I would jump to the idea of traveling again or going scuba diving with sharks...

[solarpluvia]

1 - Although I've spent entire summers RVing with both sets of grandparents, I've never actually been full-on camping.

2 - My younger cat managed to push his way through one of the window screens in the middle of the night. It was the bedroom next to mine, on the second floor above the garage. I looked out at the dawn around 4.30 and saw him standing on the peak of the garage roof, about 6 feet away. Oh man but is he going to be trouble this summer!

3 - I can't help but keep running my hands through my hair because it feels so good - all healthy and short! (I know that the syntax was off on that statement, but I am too tired to correct it.)

[stargal1998]

Forgive me for posting twice in one day...
1. I just got a new avatar thanks to VelvetHellvis, it is based on "The Lady of Shallot," one of my favorite pieces.
2. My favorite poem of all time is "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe. Many would argue Marlowe is not the best poet, but I love his imagery. And the fact that my 9th grade history teacher used to recite it to me because I was the class nerd.
3. My second favorite poem of all time is "Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes. Part of the Harlem renaissance, Hughes has a beat all to his own that I adore.

[Ashley]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">My favorite poem of all time is "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe. Many would argue Marlowe is not the best poet, but I love his imagery. And the fact that my 9th grade history teacher used to recite it to me because I was the class nerd.
[/b][/quote]
My favorite teacher named his first son Marlowe because he loves him so much http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
1) Finals week is coming, I can feel it and it's very scary.
2) I'm moving back to my mom's house for the summer, I wonder how that will be.
3) Ooh, on the camping theme. My family never went camping, my dad hated it. We always stayed in condo's near nature. But since I've been dating my boyfriend, I've actually started camping. It took a while to get used to no bathroom, since I'd never had that experience before. But, if you're camping and drink too much, I can tell you you'll have no problem there being no bathroom. That's kind of the way I got over it.

[Bugitha]

1. On camping--my father believed in roughing it--not even a tent for us--nothing like sleeping under the stars, he'd say. That is until it rained and we all had to pile into the car and sleep sitting up. As an adult, I've never been camping without a tent.

2. On poems--my current favorites are "She had Some Horses" by Joy Harjo and "A Kumquat for John Keats" by Tony Harrison. After being obsessed with the Harrison poem for some time, I finally had the opportunity to try a kumquat (they're kind of scarce around here). Sadly, I found that I hate kumquats! And I wanted so much to like them because of the darn poem (What a geek!).

3. While washing dishes, there's nothing I like better than belting out a few showtunes, much to the dismay of my neighbor, I'm sure.

[Samurai Jane]

1. I am madly in love with my history teacher, and I have a shrine in my room dedicated to him.( I know this is unhealthy, but alas, I am in love.)

2. I have six wisdom teeth. My orthodontist told me not to marry another of his patients who has abnormally large wisdom teeth, or our children would have lots of dental problems.

3. Yesterday, I almost died.

[Samurai Jane]

Oh, this is just irresistible, I keep thinking of more!

1. When I was four, I ate dead rolly-pollies from the windowsill. (I don't remeber; my mom told me.)

2. When I was five or six, I developed the theory that people who don't eat brussels sprouts never die. I told my mom that she only wanted me to eat them because she hated me, and I think that she was just so shocked that I said this so matter-of-factly that she didn't make me eat the brussels sprouts. I still hold this theory, and hope that no one is surprised that I never die.

3. I failed all my classes my freshman year of high school, and made within the top ten percent of the nation on the ACT.

I told you I wasn't stupid, MOM!

[Katiekat]

1. I think The Royal Tenebaums is a brilliantly funny movie.

2. I've never really been into poetry, but I have a couple of favorite poems: The Destruction of Sennacherib, and She Walks in Beauty -- both by Lord Byron.

3. Three things I wish I could do:
~ Skateboard
~ Speak fluent Spanish
~ Keep my room clean

[solarpluvia]

1 - my favorite poems, so far and right now, are: "The Enemy" by Charles Baudelaire, and "If" by Rudyard Kipling. But in general my favorite poet is Rumi.

2 - I've had a good day. And that is remarkable. Only 4 days until medication!

3 - I've copied 23:39:06 (nearly 24 hours) of music onto the hard drive of my computer. I'm so glad I got the big giant HD. Still, I do feel funny having bought what amounts to a $2000 jukebox/dvdplayer/web browsing station. Sigh. I know... you have to pay if you get it the way you exactly want it. I'm so happy. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[TrinityHackMatrix]

1. I went to my cousin's pool party today, i hadn't seen my family in a long time. I think they missed me http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

2. I can't believe i'm listening to some country musik on this mix radio station.

3. I am going to send out lots of mail on Monday and Tues. I'm scared of the total of $$ for the postage.

oh great???, now it's some 90s song from gloria estefan...

[littlebird]

1. I memorized one of my favorite poems years ago: "We know God made the trees and the birds and the bees and the sea for the fishes to swim in. We are also aware that he has quite a flair for creating exceptional women; when Eve said to Adam 'stop calling me madam!' the world became far more exciting. Which turns to confusion the modern delusion that sex is a question of lighting!" It's a poem Noel Coward wrote to open Marlene Dietrich's one woman Paris review.

2. Today is not such a good day. I'm really badly sunburnt. I was crying earlier because it hurts so bad. And i'm working eight hours instead of picnic-ing like everyone else. and then my mom called me to tell me that my grandfather has been hospitalized with an infection that nearly killed him. I just want to go to sleep. My music is about the only thing getting me through the day. And the thought of deviled eggs.

3. A few times this year I woke up (sleepwalking? I think?) at 3 am and started to get ready for school. My roommate had to come into the bathroom and turn off the shower to get me to snap out of it. Weird.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. Today is not such a good day. I'm really badly sunburnt. I was crying earlier because it hurts so bad. And i'm working eight hours instead of picnic-ing like everyone else. and then my mom called me to tell me that my grandfather has been hospitalized with an infection that nearly killed him. I just want to go to sleep. My music is about the only thing getting me through the day. And the thought of deviled eggs.

[/b][/quote]

Oh littlebird! I'm sorry you're having such a terrible day. Here's hoping that tomorrow will be better.

1. I had to work today, too. All weekend in fact and the customers were just vile today. Second worse work day I've had at this job--Easter Sunday being the first. What is it about holidays that turn people into stark raving lunatics?

2. I hate the lighting in my bedroom-the reading lamp is too bright, the lamps on my crafts table, too dim. No overhead lighting at all. Anyone know of a good type of lamp to do very detailed work by--like beading?

3. I accidentally sprayed windshield glass cleaner on the shirt I was ironing--the can is just too similar to the spray starch.

[hammerquill]

1. Good light is so important. I start with a halogen torchiere (300W) to light the room, then light whatever I'm doing with a hundred-watt desk lamp (or with small halogen desk lamps if that's what I have around). Having at least two lights on also kills some of the shadows. Heat becomes a problem at this point, though. I keep my walls and ceiling mostly bare and white (except where there are bookshelves) for better light.

2. Someday I want an artist's studio with three transparent walls and a transparent ceiling to work by sunlight, which is much, much brighter. You know those intricate illuminations on medieval manuscripts - especially the 'Celtic' (actually Celtic-inspired Northumbrian) ones? They did that work outside, not by candlelight. Their eyes wouldn't have lasted a year doing that stuff by candlelight. Of course some monks went blind writing long hours by candlelight in the northern European winters, but the real artists knew to take the time, wait for the weather, and do it right.

3. My grandmother keeps her house distressingly clean, beautiful and spare, but she can't stand overhead light for some reason, and actually dislikes having enough lights in a room. Her house is dim by choice. My parents share my tastes in bright lighting, but their house is mostly dim by default, and because the old wiring is horrible. Now they're working on redoing it (well, sometime) they're going to have a properly lit house, even if the fire codes won't let them put in all the windows they'd like.

[Ashley]

1. I'm in a very bored mood. I have so much to do, but I just don't feel like it. I hate these moods, I really should be doing something more productive than being on nervousness but I'm not. And it's going to kick me in the ass later.
2. I have to find a job. I hate job searching. I'm extremely shy and hate to feel pushy. Which means asking for an application is a bit hard for me let alone calling to ask how the job is going. I wish I was more assertive and less shy.
3. I have to do 30 drawings in the next week. I'm so scared it's not going to get done. See, I have a drawing class and for it we had to buy a book to be our drawing book for the term. You have to draw in it everyday, and one drawing is both sides of the open book. Doesn't sound too hard does it? Except it's not a plain book, and every drawing has to incorporate something on the page. So, every drawing means you're going to have to jesso over a bunch of words and pics, which alone take at least 10 minutes all in all. And I kind of stopped drawing at some point so I'm very, very behind. And, the book I chose is a 1950's Disney cartoon book, with various stories in it, I'm getting pretty tired of having cartoons to work with. Ok, that's my rant.
4. A new neighbor just moved in, I'm not sure how I feel. I really dislike loud rap music with extremely loud bass, and that's what I've been hearing/ feeling for the last few days. He lives below us, so you get to feel the bass on your feet when you walk. Also, this means less hot water for me compared to an empty apartment cause we all get water from a central boiler and more people using hot water, the less there is to go around. Wow, do I already sound like an old, bitter woman. Sorry, I think it's the boredom.

[Bugitha]

Hammerquill, thanks for your thoughts on lighting. I love the light halogen torchieres give but I used to work in a hardware store and heard too many stories from customers who had fires with them. My sister had a fire when her lamp, which wasn't even turned on at the time, caught fire in the middle of the night and burned down a 4-unit condo building--it was probably the wiring and not the lamp itself--but still I'm scared! What I really want is the type of task lamp we used when I worked in a factory removing tiny plastic burrs from valves with an exacto knife. You could see the tiniest thing--it was almost as good as sunlight. It was mounted on an adjustable arm and it had a magnifiying glass in the middle --it was a round lamp with a cicular florecent bulb. I wonder where I could get one of those. Hmmm . . .

1. I love trying on clothes that I would never in a million years actually buy.

2. I'm afraid I'm going to have to do some voluntary overtime at work because I am seriously broke.

3. In the age of email it is getting harder and harder to find a place around here that offers a really good selection of old fashioned stationary.

2.

[stargal1998]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. In the age of email it is getting harder and harder to find a place around here that offers a really good selection of old fashioned stationary.[/b][/quote]
I totally agree. I found some stationary that my mom bought in the late seventies and never used. It was much higher quality and way cooler than a lot of stuff out now...
(way cooler? What is wrong with me today?)
1. I took a benedryl in order to be able to function without sneezing or my eyes watering at work today and I feel totally out of it...Good thing I'm not responsible for people's lives, right?

2. I had my boyfriend go out sunday and buy some of those lifesaver fusion candies for me. The strawberry-kiwi is awesome, but I hate the taste of watermelon-cherry (I'm not a big fan of either fruit, but I really HATE watermelon). The strawberry kiwi candies are so good, though infused with sugar (which I don't normally get a lot of).

3. I just found "Upstairs, Downstairs" on DVD at the library and I have been watching it like mad. For those who do not know, this show is an old british soap opera which took place in the 1912-? era. It is too darn cool, (of course nothing can compare to 'are you being served' in my mind).

[Katiekat]

1. My list of "Books I Want to Read" currently has 226 titles on it. This list is just juvenile and young adult books.

2. I'm wearing an old shirt of my mom's today. It's a longish olive green tunic with really neat embroidery around the neckline and bottom hem. It's a totally 70's hippie shirt, and i've gotton more compliments on it than I've ever gotten about any of my own clothes. People keep asking me where I bought it, and I laugh when I tell them the shirt is older than I am.

3. I want some Starburst right now, but it costs 60 cents in the vending machine, and somehow I feel like that's too much.

[kasey]

1. Seems like i got a case of complete insomnia this week.

2. Just came back from visiting my parents and they sent me home with a whole suitcase full of food. I should visit more often cause i am a real lousy cook.

3. Just bought another book anout frida kahlo. This will be the fourth one i havr read. Gettinf to be a little obsessive

[littlebird]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Katiekat @ May 27 2003,11:57)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">1.  My list of "Books I Want to Read" currently has 226 titles on it.  This list is just juvenile and young adult books.[/b][/quote]
I know your pain. Mine is 176 right now. I've actually already read five in two weeks though, so maybe i really will read them all this summer.

Bugitha- I much much prefer to make my own. If you are interested, pm me and i'll send you some.

1. Currently, I'm *attempting* to read C.G. Jung's "Man and His Symbols". An art teacher recommended it to me and it is good, i'm just so used to reading fiction in the summer...

2. Although I generally don't believe in this sort of thing, For my birthday two years ago, a few friends took me to a psychic. She told me several things that were right on the mark and a few specific things that seemed totally wrong. As I'm coming to my next birthday, I thought back on it and realized that she was right on in all of it. Hmmm.

3. I am very very ready to take a vacation.

[solarpluvia]

1 - I am chatting on IM with jenngbob right now

2 - I love to buy things, but i am putting off going shopping today because I feel bad about not having some LmAOs ready to mail out.

3 - I'm never happy with the light in my room, but I keep trying new combinations and wattages in order to get it right.

[Seusomon]

1. My favorite poem is probably "Peonies" by Mary Oliver, but there are several others I love as well.

2. Tomorrow morning I'm flying to Oregon to visit my best friend!

3. I'll be moving in about three weeks - to a beautiful oh-so-cozy adobe house with brick and tile floors and skylights.

[Bugitha]

1. My "to read" only has 148 titles on it.

2. Somehow I've managed to get partially into 4 different books--I normally don't like to read more than 2 at once. The 4 books: 1.)_Pride and Predudice_ by Jane Austen, 2.)_Down to a Soundless Sea_ by Thomas Steinbeck, 3.)_On Mexican Time_ by someone I can't remember right now and 4.)_Lies My Teacher Told Me_ by someone else I can't remember right now.

3. I'm experimenting making my own hot artichoke and spinach dip sorta like my favorite thing at Olive Garden. Mmmm. Dip and toasted bread for dinner! With iced tea to drink.

[Ashley]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. Tomorrow morning I'm flying to Oregon to visit my best friend![/b][/quote]
Where are you going in Oregon? I live in Eugene, the most liberal city in Oregon http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
1) I had a crappy day today, I have too much to do in too little time. And the post office man was mean to me again, he's always asking me what's in my packages and making me fill out customs forms. I was under the impression that if you are sending something 16 oz or less and without any retail value you do not need to fill out one of these forms. But, no I had to go to the end of the line and wait through again to get told I needed another form. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

2) I made the best batch of hummus yesterday! So yummy.
3) It's been very pleasant lately, I like it very much.

[hammerquill]

1. Ashley - you reminded me. My previous apartment was way too small, kind of depressing in several ways, but in a cool old building, with nice old trim and mouldings all over, and incredibly located in downtown Oakland (California) - ten feet from the front door to the subway stop, which meant San Francisco was at my doorstep as it never had been before. Then I found I had the neighbor from hell. Or at least heck. His social skills had been learned in prison, let's put it that way. I got out of there as soon as I could, to a bigger apartment I can't really afford.

ooh, let's go for a smooth segue here http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

2. When I moved into my current apartment (a little over two years ago) I realized one wall of the bedroom - the one communicating with next door - was an ideal place to build bookshelves. Lots of bookshelves. I covered the wall, floor to ceiling, and thus provided a little extra soundproofing, too.

2.5. With all this shelf space (actually enough, for once in my life, though it won't be for long) I reorganized my fiction books: in the bookcase on the left, books I've read. In the one on the right, those I haven't. This was intended to give me a visual "books I want to read" list, and to remind me I had a ton of books I hadn't read, and that I should read some of them rather than going out to spend more money on books, since, after all, I needed it for rent.

2.75. Eventually I realized I needed to reserve one shelf for books I've started but not finished. I'm always in the middle of several, not even counting the ones I'll have to start over on after leaving them aside so long. I never did have a one-track mind.

3. I find I have a certain set of books that I can't stop rereading. They are not the best-written books, though those I reread with pleasure, and some of them I reread religiously every few years. They are ones that - I don't know - give me a certain jolt I need from time to time. I just need my hit of Day of the Triffids, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, or Varley's Millennium every once in a while, and usually when I give in and start reading it, I keep on till I'm finished - sometimes at four a.m. on a weeknight. I've been fighting off a triffid attack for a few weeks now, but I might succumb.

[mejaka]

Oooh, bugitha, I would love to have your experimatnal recipes for that dip...I love that stuff!

1. When I was a teenager my family got on this kick where nearly every weekend we'd go to a cement-lined canal near Shoshone, ID and swim. Only what it really was was this: You got in at an upstream point where the canal was just chuting into the cemented portion. You rode through the chute, and then you could stand barefoot on the moss-slicked bottom and just...GLIDE...pushed by the current...for about five miles. People would also tie boards to the occasional bridges, stand on the boards, and "waterski."

2. My Grandpa Oren was (at different times) a working cowboy, a powder monkey, and the owner of a whiskey still. He smoked roll-your-owns, and I was fascinated watching him make them when I was a kid. He lived much longer than he'd a right to considering the life he lived and the danger he put himself into...He survived everything but the smoking.

3. I love pretty boxes. Wooden ones (rustic or refined)...paper ones. I am sometimes tempted to buy products because of the decorative boxes they come in. I also save shoeboxes though I can't say why.

[kasey]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> I have a mountain dulcimer.  During college I was in _The Diviners_, and the end scene called for dulcimer music.  I'd never heard anything like it, despite a strong musical background, so I went searching for the musician during dress rehearsal.  Found him--Ernest Moss--90 years old--on the stage balcony.  HE taught me to play "Amazing Grace" then and there, and I'd been playing for 10 minutes before I realized his dulcimer was made of cardboard.  (He built it himself from stuff he found around his garage).[/b][/quote]
Thats so cool. A dulcimer made of cardboard. I would love to see that. I played mine for about three hours last night. Such a beautiful sound!

1.Someone very important to me is moving too many miles away on Friday. I am trying to keep busy and ignore the fact i won't even get to see her before she goes. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

2. the other day i actually broke my little toe tripping out of the shower. . . .brilliant huh?

3.When i was little I really did believe i could fly. I would inform all of my babysitters of that fact, but refuse a demonstration cause i only flew to rescue people like superman did.

[Bugitha]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Oooh, bugitha, I would love to have your experimatnal recipes for that dip...I love that stuff!

[/b][/quote]

LOL. Mejaka, my recipe needs some serious fine tuning--it was edible, but not quite right. I may make another attempt next week.

1. I haven't flown a kite in years. I should do that soon.

2. This http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif is my favorite of the smilies.

3. I can't help but wonder what my parents would think of me if they were still alive.

[littlest-bee]

1. This is my third attempt today to write these random facts - I keep getting called away (why am I surprised?! I am supposed to be working afterall!).

2. I'm wearing a skirt today at work for the first time ever and people are looking at me strangely - yes, I do have legs!

3. To continue the "work" theme: I am having some packaging cases made especially for the equipment I send out. I can't tell you how much that pleases me, especially because the man asked what colour I would like! (I chose red, pow!)

[stargal1998]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (littlest-bee @ May 29 2003,10:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">2. I'm wearing a skirt today at work for the first time ever and people are looking at me strangely - yes, I do have legs![/b][/quote]
I've got the whole skirt vibe down too. I am wearing my little elastic waist leopard print skirt and honestly, no one has laughed behind my back at the startling white reflectors that are my legs.

1. I broke out into hives yesterday at work for no reason (or no such reason I could fathom).
2. I ate chipotle for dinner last night (my favorite fast food place of all time) and my boyfriend paid. Haha!
3. It's payday--yay! But I'm paying bills and mailing stuff out this payday... :-( Guess I can't buy anything fun. But in 2 weeks, we're having my garage sale and I hope to make a lot of money!! woo HOO!

[solarpluvia]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">3. I find I have a certain set of books that I can't stop rereading. They are not the best-written books, though those I reread with pleasure, and some of them I reread religiously every few years. They are ones that - I don't know - give me a certain jolt I need from time to time. I just need my hit of Day of the Triffids, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, or Varley's Millennium every once in a while, and usually when I give in and start reading it, I keep on till I'm finished - sometimes at four a.m. on a weeknight. I've been fighting off a triffid attack for a few weeks now, but I might succumb.[/b][/quote]
Hammerquill - I am totally the same way!  SOme books I read over and over, and when I start one I can't stop until I'm finished. John Varley's Steel Beach is one of those books for me. And though I still have day of the triffids, I can't stand to read it again!  Books rarely scare me, but that one did.   

In that vein:

1 - Every time I move I have to pare down my book collection and I get rid of the same books every time!  I'll get rid of them, but have incredible urges to read them again.  Fortunately they are all mass market paperbacks.

2 - I'm right in the middle of John Varley's new book, Red Thunder right now.  Have been for a week.  I usually read books very quickly, but since he doesn't put out very many books I'm trying to make the pleasure of this one last as long as possible.  It is good, but I rather like his previous two better.

3 - I start new medication tonight!  Wish me luck!

[Ashley]

1. I think I'm on Nervousness too much nowadays... I have 25 drawings to do, a still-life for my final project due, a 5 page history paper and a zine, all due on monday or tuesday. Instead I come here, and procrastinate. So, if any of you get my new zine, you'll know why it might suck.
2. I'm having mass breathing problems these days. I just got diagnosed with asthma, and Adam (my boyfriend) was sawing wood in our apartment (genius) and now there's wood particles all in my apartment making me not be able to breath. I can feel a great finals week coming. http://nervousness.org/forum/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif
3. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I usually read books very quickly, but since he doesn't put out very many books I'm trying to make the pleasure of this one last as long as possible.[/b][/quote]
I'm the same way. I'm coming to the end of a very long series and I can't stand that I'm almost done. Is that weird? Anyway, I'm on the second to last book, and I'm taking at least twice as long to read it because I want to make it last. To slow myself down I try to make a mental image of everything that I read. It's actually quite enjoyable. I just usually don't have the patience.

[satyavati.dd]

i absolutely love this thread.. reading all these little things about people that you'd never, ever know otherwise. It's an endless process, so I thought I'd play again.

1. I have extremely poor short term memory. I think this is partially or wholly because of my ADHD, but I have a tremendous ability to remember phone numbers. One day at work, my boss had called her OB to ask a question, and instead, got a message saying that the doctor wasn't in, and if it was an emergency, to call a certain pager number. Well, she hung up, and then a few minutes later she decided to go ahead and call the pager. She said, oh hell, I have to call back, because I don't remember the number. She had put the call on speakerphone, so I had heard it, and I said, oh, no, you don't, here's the number: and I gave it to her. She didn't believe me at first, but then she called it, and since that day, they sometimes call me Rain Man.

2. (smooth segue) I often wish we still had cool phone numbers that had words in them, like when I was a kid. My first phone number ever when I was little was Lorraine 7-6631. Why don't phone numbers have words in them anymore?

3. Catholicism has lasted just about one full generation in my family. My maternal grandmother converted from Greek Orthodox to run away and marry my Catholic grandfather, and my paternal grandfather never converted from Anglican when he married my