reenka

Rules: Write a journal entry for this meme with six random facts about yourself. Then pick six of your friends list and tag them – no tag-backs! These rules should be included in your entry.

1. When I was like, 5 to about 8 years old, I was completely without shame or any real sense of embarrassment, which only kicked in around 10-12 or so, when I started caring if people teased me. So it's a bit weird to remember that I actually used to love to dance in front of my grandma's friends (I took choreography since age 4-8), that I used to chat up policemen who found me running away from kindergarten (about age 5-- I was sort of pissed 'cause my mom was late), that I did have some fear about performing a dance 'officially', but really I was a show-off-- I was so happy to have my first paintings exhibited. And then I uh... changed.

2. I loved my bike when I learned to ride about 8 or so, though I was pretty much horrible at it to start with. I fell all the time, and it was rare that I didn't have scabbed knees and elbows that year, but I was so proud of it. I felt cool, man. Fifteen years later, I got a huge scar around my knee just from a loose spring in a bed, and it was so humiliating-- just the idea of a scar that wasn't 'in the course of battle', so to speak.

3. When I was in elementary, I was obsessed with princesses and white dresses and weddings and happy endings & fairy-tales. I was a fairy-tale freak in every way (still am). Anyway, it was a source of deep scarring & discontent that my mom couldn't afford The Perfect Doll, which didn't even exist where we were; the ones in my head were like those $3,000 'fashion sculpture' ones. But my point is, I drew princesses 95% of the time (when I wasn't drawing bunnies & kittens, etc), and I used to ask everyone who could draw to 'draw me a princess', which is how I could gauge their talent :D

4. I used to really love watching TV all the time-- it was part of my mad rush to absorb culture, to understand the ever-expanding world when I was a teenager. Before, I'd just watch movies my mom took me to & children's programming-- but after age 12, I exploded; I watched nearly everything-- old 70's & 80's sitcom and cop-show reruns, sci-fi, 50's movies, documentaries-- TVland was my oyster. I tend to forget that now, 'cause after I went to college-- even though I immediately ran out and got a $250 TV (I think it was?), I barely watched anything but Buffy. And now, though I really like Sentinel fics, actually watching a sci-fi show I would've gobbled up 10 years ago seems like a chore; I do still watch a bit of anime (and see movies at the theater, of course), would've watched more if I had broadband sooner. The thing is, I've switched my medium-- after I got online freshman year in college, I never went back to TV.

5. I used to think of my dad as a mythical figure. Well, he wasn't around much (stayed in his room a lot) and then he died, so it's no wonder, but when I was 12 I decided he was the King of Unicorns; this is really part of a long history of me not-quite-believing my own fairy-tales. I used to tell people things like I found a leaf I'd never seen before (a magical leaf) on my windowsill, 'cause I was halfway seriously waiting for Peter Pan to come. Anyway, that was just one of a long series of outlandish/silly lies...

6. I'm obsessed with windows. Anyone who knows me really well probably knows this, but well-- not many people really know me that well. Anyway, the only thing I really care about in terms of a living space is that it have huge, humongous windows with tons of natural light-- a loft is ideal, but not even necessary. Naturally, I'm now living in a basement where the light is dim even at noon. But yeah, the window thing is part of an ongoing elaborate fantasy of my 'perfect home'-- I sort of perfect it as the years go by-- change the layout, the location (England! no, Maine! no, Hawaii! no, just an attic somehere! no, a loft!), the climate, that sort of thing. The windows remain pretty constant, though.

...*tags*

loftily

sistermagpie

calculette

pheasantplucker

trolleys

plumforgot :P