Meme: 7 Things About Me

[curuchamion]

How it's supposed to work:
A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

Now, I don't think I have seven people on my flist that I know well enough to say "hey, you randomly have to do this meme because lothithil tagged me." So... yeah. I like hearing random things about people, though... hint hint? ;-)

#1: I collect paper dolls. Ethnic and historical-themed, mostly - I have over 100 now, ranging from reproductions of antique paper dolls, to "American Family of the Pilgrim Era", to the entire cast of "The Mikado" complete with background sets. (I, er, may have turned a large cardboard box into a puppet theater apropos of that last one... never quite got everything to work, though.)

#2: I love to come up with cracky fan theories about quantum mechanics, cryptozoology, and other weird things like that. Electromagnetic vortex theory as relating to crop circles and the Bermuda Triangle (sometimes involving hyperspace bypasses, Puck, and/or the great unconscious); the Marie Celeste (world's most famous disaster of shoddy workmanship); the disasters referenced in the Mayan calendar; and a possible correlation between the original locations of the seven Palantiri and the days of the week in the Elvish calendar. (I'm not kidding.)

#3: I have been known to wear a ruffled shirt, a leather jacket, a Doctor Who Scarf and Chucks all at the same time. As I also have a fairly authentic Season-2-MacGyver mullet, and usually wear a black cowboy hat, the overall effect is... interesting.

#4: I still have portions of my first story, which I started (but never finished) at the age of five. It is mainly notable for focusing entirely on character interaction with an utter lack of plot. Sound familiar? ;-)

#5: I suspect the Bermuda Triangle of being a gateway to the Straight Road (how ships get from the Grey Havens to Valinor).

#6: There is a skull named GK after GK Chesterton, wearing wraparound shades and a blue bandanna, on my bookshelf, and a three-foot-tall skeleton named Indiana Bones, wearing the aviator goggles off my sister's Snoopy plushie, hanging on my wall. (Other features of my room include a stuffed sheep named Lamby which I sleep with, a pink baby blanket with my initials on it, and an excess of spelling-bee trophies being used as bookends.)

#7: I have a sister who hates chocolate. She's not allergic - she just doesn't like it.

Comments

[primsong.livejournal.com]

What a jolly fun mishmash - I especially <3 your GK Chesterton skull, lol... and the paper doll collection sounds like a great idea, very smart choosing something that is so easy to store.

So, when are you going to finish up that fascinating story from when you were five? ;-D

[happydalek.livejournal.com]

My undergrad archaeology lab has a life-size human skeleton that is also dubbed Indiana Bones. He holds a spear and wears a fedora (along with Mardi Gras beads and a Superman cape, lately). In fact, he has a facebook page.

I guess I'm just saying that it's a small world, full of pun-ishly named skeletons.