The Plot Bunny Farm

Okay, I usually copy the wording for these memes from someone else's blog, but I've seen so many variations on numbers of events, births, and deaths, that I'm just doing it from memory here. Go to Wikipedia, put the month and day of your birth (not the year) into the search box, and then list events, births, and deaths that share that date with you.

December 1:

Events:
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales.
1919 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
1952 - The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
1990 - Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed.
2001 - Trans World Airlines flies its last flight, after being bought by American Airlines.

Births:
1690 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)
1792 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856) (which name I know because of Tom Lehrer)
1886 - Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
1913 - Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1940 - Richard Pryor, American actor, comedian (d. 2005)

Deaths:
1135 - Henry I of England
1521 - Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
1825 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
1830 - Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
1985 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)

Tagged by cammykitty

Okay, after having protested that I'm not weird, it's the rest of the world, I'm doing this.

Ground Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yours" and people who get tagged need to write a LJ entry about their 5 quirky habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.

1. I use mouthwash and brush my hair at the same time; I count strokes of the hair brush to keep track of how long I've had the Listerine in my mouth.
2. I garden by the principle that there is no such thing as too many daffodils.
3. I almost always say yes to more paying work, even when I know that it will leave me triple-booked and low on sleep. (And I always say I won't do it again.)
4. When visiting other people, I pick up books they've left lying around and start reading, often preferring the book to conversation.
5. At any given time, I have a book I am in the progress of reading in at least 5 rooms of the house.

Right, so now I'm supposed to tag people. Okay, no idea at the moment who's already done this meme, although I know it's been around a while. So if you've already done it, feel free to ignore me. Tag, you're it, bonniers, adais, chanphenglew, touch_of_ink, and hookedoncoffee.

I don't remember whose blog I saw this one on. (Sorry.)


Jera - HARVEST
Fertile Season One Year
The first green shots sprout form
turned earth.
Patience, patience my beloved.
In your season you will know
the harvest of the Self
Normal: Beneficial outcomes apply to what ever endeavor you have undertaken. It may take time for no quick results can be expected. A span of time is always involved. Not even the farmer can speed the harvest by tugging on the young shoots. At the end of the season, rejoice in abundance. This Rune has no inverted position.

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FAERIE

You are a faerie. Faeries are
miniature, winged versions of humans or elves.
They are usually very merry and cheerful. They
are masters at healing and magic. They
symbolize peace, happiness, faith, and purity.
They are usually very beautiful. And not to be
confused with the pixie they are not
mischievous or ill-tempered.

Which mythical creature resides in your soul?
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Okay, got that everyone? I'm NOT mischievous. It says so right there. (And if you get this result too, yes, I did correct the spelling when I pasted.)

From elizabethboyce

You scored as Carrot Ironfounderson. You are Captain Carrot Ironfounderson of the City Watch in the greatest city on the Disc -- Ankh-Morprok! A truly good natured, honest guy, who knows everyone, and is liked by all. Technically a dwarf, but only by adoption. You'd rather not be reminded that you are the true heir to the throne, but that does explain why people naturally follow your orders-- </td> Carrot Ironfounderson 81% Lord Havelock Vetinari 75% The Librarian 69% Death 63% Commander Samuel Vimes 56% Esmerelda (Granny) Weatherwax 50% Greebo 44% Gytha (Nanny) Ogg 44% Cohen The Barbarian 31% Rincewind 25% Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics) created with QuizFarm.com

Cool, though I wouldn't have minded Vetinari.

Via matociquala:

Mo... Molybdenum You scored 35 Mass, 36 Electronegativity, 59 Metal, and 0 Radioactivity!

I like to think of you as the miracle worker in The Princess Bride... you can do anything and you do it for the betterment of society. Just because you can raise the dead and make flying wagons and stuff doesn't mean that you show off about it though. You are capable of forming bizarre webs of relationships in which individuals are accomplices, lovers, coworkers, and so on all at once. I once saw you hanging out at the center of a cycloheptatriene... it was completely freakish and bizarre, and I'm not sure I've known what to think of you since. But hey, to each their own. Oh, and stay away from the carbon monoxide... you suck that stuff up.

Link: The Which Chemical Element Am I Test written by effataigus on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Tagged by Mar. (No, I'm not afraid of wolverines. Just of getting work done.)

Here's the meme.

1. Delve into your blog archive.

2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).

3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).

4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. Ponder it for meaning, subtext or hidden agendas...

5. Tag five people to do the same.

Now, I've clearly written fewer than 23 posts. And if we ignore the quiz and meme posts, the most recent past has two sentences, maybe three, if you count "SF/Fantasy" as being a sentence. (Yeah, right.) So I'll go back to my post of September 29.

Fifth sentence: "You don't even know who you're calling?"

The essence of rudeness, I think. It's bad enough when telemarketers call and ask for me by name, but say "Mr." But to not even know or care who you're calling to talk to?

The other person always matters. Not in that fake way that cashiers affect, where they look at your check or credit card and call you by your first name as though you're the best of chums. Rather, as an individual, maybe a cashier asking a customer how one eats a particular kind of vegetable, or asking if it's started to rain yet -- something that says "I see you."

I realize there may be times when I call somewhere and don't know who I'm going to talk to -- I need to know what hours a store is open, or whether my special order has come in, or perhaps I'm doing research and need to talk to somebody in public relations. I suppose it's hypocritical of me to have a double-standard between public and private life, but there it is. If you're a business or public entity, people call you for what you can do for them. If you are a private individual, you should be called for who you are.

And that's why I don't like telemarketers, whether or not they know who I am. They're calling because they want me to do something for them. They don't care who I am. This guy was simply more blatant about it than most.

Now I'm supposed to tag 5 people. Ha! Not that many people even know about my blog, let alone read it. But I'll try.

1. kellan_the_tabby
2. wolviekins
3. changpenglew
4. sleigh
5. touch_of_ink

.:Venus:.

"You thrive on balance in all aspects of your
life. You have a great deal of passion and when
it comes to love, you like to play games. You
have a tendency to search for something better,
a search which always seems to come up short.
You have difficulty finding satisfaction in
life, but you have a great ability to get along
with almost anyone."


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Well, I've never played games with love. Had some bad dates in college because I didn't want to hurt guys' feelings by telling them no. "When I Fall in Love" from Sleepless in Seattle about sums it up for me. Guess all the quizzes can't be right.

Shamelessly ganked from from bonniers, even though I know no one reads me. (Of course it's my own fault. No one knows I write this!)

It seems like a good day to spread the love, since a lot of us are feeling down or having tough times or all that stuff...

1. Leave a comment

2. I will tell you something I like, love, or respect about you.

3. Spread the love in your own journal. Do it. DO IT NOW!!!

from bonniers, sgreer, from sihaya, from karisu_sama:


I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am the adolescent boy who committed suicide because my priest told me I would be better off dead than a sinner.

I am another adolescent boy who was molested for years by a priest who said God hates homosexuals, but I never told anyone because the priest convinced me it was my fault.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.


Repost this if you believe homophobia is wrong.

And maybe I'm not, but Jesus said "Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me."