Of er me, and fics.
Dec. 8th, 2005 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castalieToday is ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_nightelf's birthday so Happy Birthday to you, girl. Hope you'll have a wonderful day filled with SGA goodness *hugs*
I've been reading the Ten Things About Me meme here and there on my flist and I've quite enjoyed it so it's only fair I play too. And when I say it's only fair, what I mean is, I don't mind doing it and I have thirty minutes to kill before I go out so why not try a meme *g* [ETA: okay so I posted the meme after I was back home instead of before leaving the house.]
Ten Things About Me
1- Let's start with the basic stuff. I'm a twenty-six year old French girl. If I were American I would tell you I'm part English, Polish, Italian, French, Irish, Scottish and whatnot. As it is, I'm French with an Italian dad, nothing more :-) I'm a lesbian, though I obviously dig m/m slash a lot. Which btw, at first I thought I was a sort of freak. Not the lesbian part because it never was a problem, but the liking the boy-on-boy sex so much. Cause, like, wasn't I supposed to read femslash only? Well, in a narrow world, maybe lol Yeah anyway, I was quite happy when I realised lots of lesbians loved male slash, so everything was cool.
2- I'm pretty zen in RL. I'm the zen one in the family, and usually the zen one in my group of friends. I stress very rarely, I usually don't get angry, never yell etc... It doesn't mean I'm repressing my anger, just that I let go as soon as it happens. My mom always jokes about how I must be missing the stress gene - I'm stress challenged. Thing is, I relativise a lot. If something was supposed to happen but didn't, no need to stress about it since it wasn't meant to be. If something bad happened, it was meant to happen and we have to look ahead for when things will calm down and so on and so forth. Exams? Well if I know my subject, no need to stress since I'm supposedly ready, if I don't know my subject, no need to stress either since I know it'll go badly. I always say that things have the importance one wants to give them, which in my case means that few things really are worth getting riled up about. Note that it doesn't work all the time, I'm only human - but well, I'm still pretty zen. And obviously, I stress when things are Really Bad and Important, like yes for my grandfather's situation last year when I developped those oh so fucking annoying mini anxiety attacks.
3- The no stress thing can be quite annoying actually. Because thing is, stress is sometimes a nice booster and it makes you do things when you're supposed to because "omg you need to do insertwhatever NOW" but it doesn't work that way for me. Which also explains why I'm a mistress procrastinator. I know, a lot of people say that, well it's true. I'm pretty sure I would do really well in a Procrastination competition. Just a hunch.
4- I have several Best Friends, some FamilyFriends, some friends and I go out a lot of with them, I enjoy seeing them, I do miss them if I haven't seen them in some time, but I also need some Me time, a day when I'll stay home and do things that I love just on my own. I'll surf the net, read fics, cruise LJ, read books, watch the telly, watch my beloved tv series, whatever but it'll just be me, myself and I for a whole day.
5- I'm sorta the talkative type. I talk a lot - with my hands, that's the Italian part of me, I think - and I can't not give the smallest details when I tell a story. Why? Because I always feel as if some important things are missing then, like there're pieces of the puzzle that aren't showing and how you can see the big picture if there's holes in aforementioned picture? If I tell a story, it's obviously because I want to pass a message - slashy and porny one, touristy one, it doesn't matter what it is, but I'm trying to paint a picture so that people see what I'm talking about. In that case, how can I omit bits and pieces of it, right? I can't. It's like a compulsion.
Like, I remember when we were kids and my sister and I would tell a story to our parents. I would start with an introduction of the characters, of the context and stuff - obviously I didn't know about context as such at six, but you know what I mean - and my sister would start with "so they said" and I was always going "Who are They? You need to explain" to which the parental unit always replied "Mouse, let your sister tell her story the way she wants to", which always got me to insist on the fact that she told.it.wrong! Which no, she didn't, but I wanted more lol
6- Having said that, I can spend a whole night without piping a word if I'm not comfortable with the persons around me. No seriously. This is also why I don't like going to parties where I don't know anyone, the chance that I won't feel at ease with them is just too high and I like myself too much to spend a crappy time just because the party was supposed to be a blast. Some people feel comfortable with complete strangers no matter what, I'm not one of them, I'm afraid :-)
7- I used to sleep a lot. A lot. It was no use calling me before noon on weekends because chances were I was still sleeping. In the last years it became the opposite and I don't need so much sleep now. Which is just fine because I love surfing or reading or watching my DVDs at night *g*
8- I don't wear make up. Ever. I don't own a skirt either. The last time I wore one was, what, twenty-three years ago? No wait, I'm lying, it was past July for Sandrine's wedding, because I'd always promised her she would see me in a skirt on her wedding day. Well, she did *g* Which also means that I do own a skirt after all. Funny that. I don't think you need to wear make up or skirts to be feminine... and I don't even think a woman has to be feminine to "feel like a woman" anyway, she just needs to be however she wants to be, period.
9- I love "communities". My mom - yes her again - is always saying I must have been a hippie living in a commune in another life, but truth is, I love the whole clan thing - people having their own personalities and opinions but sharing a same interest. Which is why I took to fandom and LJ and everything on-line so easily, I guess. I love the idea of sharing something with people from all over the world, I love that we speak the same language, I love the net and fandom lingo, I love all those private jokes fandoms have etc etc...
10- Well dude finding 10 things is more difficult that one would think. So er, I have a scar on my cornea or something - I never remember where it's supposed to be exactly - which no one would see if they weren't an eye doctor, obviously. But I have one on my left eye which explains why I see even less with that one. Thing is, when I was a baby!Mouse I escalated my crib and I fell on my head. I kinda scared my mother to death - which really, I sincerely apologise for that. My little stunt warranted a trip to the ER, too. I obviously survived without any sequel except for this tiny scar on my eye. When I was seven and my eyesight started to decline, we went to the ophthalmologist and in addition to the myopia, she detected something on my left eyes which was the tiny scar.
Yeah, that was pretty lame as meme answer goes but still, you have the image of baby!Mouse escalating her crib - which, you know, proves to you that once upon a time, I was a fearless adventurer who took risks to discover the unknown!
Dude, we love to talk about ourselves, don't we? :-)
Though speaking of which - I've seen the Wishlist meme a lot on my flist and really, people are always asking for noble things as well as personal things and I always have a Moment of Shame because if I did one, it would be all about the extra icons and paid account and books and fics and stuff, in other words it would be all about me and wow, must work on that, really lol
Changing the subject; I'm enjoying![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ts_secretsanta so, so much! A new TS story every day is like heaven :-) rhianne is a genius, isn't she? *hugs ts_secretsanta's mod*
Speaking of fics, if you like unconventional pairings? You might want to check outgardendoor's new story which is Teal'c/Blair. She also wrote the first part of what apparently is their continuing adventures so if you're curious, you might want to check out that one as well. I know some people are strict OTP'ers but some others enjoy a little variation now and then so you can go clickety click ;-) And it's by gardendoor, you know?
_nightelf's birthday so Happy Birthday to you, girl. Hope you'll have a wonderful day filled with SGA goodness *hugs*I've been reading the Ten Things About Me meme here and there on my flist and I've quite enjoyed it so it's only fair I play too. And when I say it's only fair, what I mean is, I don't mind doing it and I have thirty minutes to kill before I go out so why not try a meme *g* [ETA: okay so I posted the meme after I was back home instead of before leaving the house.]
Ten Things About Me
1- Let's start with the basic stuff. I'm a twenty-six year old French girl. If I were American I would tell you I'm part English, Polish, Italian, French, Irish, Scottish and whatnot. As it is, I'm French with an Italian dad, nothing more :-) I'm a lesbian, though I obviously dig m/m slash a lot. Which btw, at first I thought I was a sort of freak. Not the lesbian part because it never was a problem, but the liking the boy-on-boy sex so much. Cause, like, wasn't I supposed to read femslash only? Well, in a narrow world, maybe lol Yeah anyway, I was quite happy when I realised lots of lesbians loved male slash, so everything was cool.
2- I'm pretty zen in RL. I'm the zen one in the family, and usually the zen one in my group of friends. I stress very rarely, I usually don't get angry, never yell etc... It doesn't mean I'm repressing my anger, just that I let go as soon as it happens. My mom always jokes about how I must be missing the stress gene - I'm stress challenged. Thing is, I relativise a lot. If something was supposed to happen but didn't, no need to stress about it since it wasn't meant to be. If something bad happened, it was meant to happen and we have to look ahead for when things will calm down and so on and so forth. Exams? Well if I know my subject, no need to stress since I'm supposedly ready, if I don't know my subject, no need to stress either since I know it'll go badly. I always say that things have the importance one wants to give them, which in my case means that few things really are worth getting riled up about. Note that it doesn't work all the time, I'm only human - but well, I'm still pretty zen. And obviously, I stress when things are Really Bad and Important, like yes for my grandfather's situation last year when I developped those oh so fucking annoying mini anxiety attacks.
3- The no stress thing can be quite annoying actually. Because thing is, stress is sometimes a nice booster and it makes you do things when you're supposed to because "omg you need to do insertwhatever NOW" but it doesn't work that way for me. Which also explains why I'm a mistress procrastinator. I know, a lot of people say that, well it's true. I'm pretty sure I would do really well in a Procrastination competition. Just a hunch.
4- I have several Best Friends, some FamilyFriends, some friends and I go out a lot of with them, I enjoy seeing them, I do miss them if I haven't seen them in some time, but I also need some Me time, a day when I'll stay home and do things that I love just on my own. I'll surf the net, read fics, cruise LJ, read books, watch the telly, watch my beloved tv series, whatever but it'll just be me, myself and I for a whole day.
5- I'm sorta the talkative type. I talk a lot - with my hands, that's the Italian part of me, I think - and I can't not give the smallest details when I tell a story. Why? Because I always feel as if some important things are missing then, like there're pieces of the puzzle that aren't showing and how you can see the big picture if there's holes in aforementioned picture? If I tell a story, it's obviously because I want to pass a message - slashy and porny one, touristy one, it doesn't matter what it is, but I'm trying to paint a picture so that people see what I'm talking about. In that case, how can I omit bits and pieces of it, right? I can't. It's like a compulsion.
Like, I remember when we were kids and my sister and I would tell a story to our parents. I would start with an introduction of the characters, of the context and stuff - obviously I didn't know about context as such at six, but you know what I mean - and my sister would start with "so they said" and I was always going "Who are They? You need to explain" to which the parental unit always replied "Mouse, let your sister tell her story the way she wants to", which always got me to insist on the fact that she told.it.wrong! Which no, she didn't, but I wanted more lol
6- Having said that, I can spend a whole night without piping a word if I'm not comfortable with the persons around me. No seriously. This is also why I don't like going to parties where I don't know anyone, the chance that I won't feel at ease with them is just too high and I like myself too much to spend a crappy time just because the party was supposed to be a blast. Some people feel comfortable with complete strangers no matter what, I'm not one of them, I'm afraid :-)
7- I used to sleep a lot. A lot. It was no use calling me before noon on weekends because chances were I was still sleeping. In the last years it became the opposite and I don't need so much sleep now. Which is just fine because I love surfing or reading or watching my DVDs at night *g*
8- I don't wear make up. Ever. I don't own a skirt either. The last time I wore one was, what, twenty-three years ago? No wait, I'm lying, it was past July for Sandrine's wedding, because I'd always promised her she would see me in a skirt on her wedding day. Well, she did *g* Which also means that I do own a skirt after all. Funny that. I don't think you need to wear make up or skirts to be feminine... and I don't even think a woman has to be feminine to "feel like a woman" anyway, she just needs to be however she wants to be, period.
9- I love "communities". My mom - yes her again - is always saying I must have been a hippie living in a commune in another life, but truth is, I love the whole clan thing - people having their own personalities and opinions but sharing a same interest. Which is why I took to fandom and LJ and everything on-line so easily, I guess. I love the idea of sharing something with people from all over the world, I love that we speak the same language, I love the net and fandom lingo, I love all those private jokes fandoms have etc etc...
10- Well dude finding 10 things is more difficult that one would think. So er, I have a scar on my cornea or something - I never remember where it's supposed to be exactly - which no one would see if they weren't an eye doctor, obviously. But I have one on my left eye which explains why I see even less with that one. Thing is, when I was a baby!Mouse I escalated my crib and I fell on my head. I kinda scared my mother to death - which really, I sincerely apologise for that. My little stunt warranted a trip to the ER, too. I obviously survived without any sequel except for this tiny scar on my eye. When I was seven and my eyesight started to decline, we went to the ophthalmologist and in addition to the myopia, she detected something on my left eyes which was the tiny scar.
Yeah, that was pretty lame as meme answer goes but still, you have the image of baby!Mouse escalating her crib - which, you know, proves to you that once upon a time, I was a fearless adventurer who took risks to discover the unknown!
Dude, we love to talk about ourselves, don't we? :-)
Though speaking of which - I've seen the Wishlist meme a lot on my flist and really, people are always asking for noble things as well as personal things and I always have a Moment of Shame because if I did one, it would be all about the extra icons and paid account and books and fics and stuff, in other words it would be all about me and wow, must work on that, really lol
Changing the subject; I'm enjoying
ts_secretsanta so, so much! A new TS story every day is like heaven :-) rhianne is a genius, isn't she? *hugs ts_secretsanta's mod*Speaking of fics, if you like unconventional pairings? You might want to check out
gardendoor's new story which is Teal'c/Blair. She also wrote the first part of what apparently is their continuing adventures so if you're curious, you might want to check out that one as well. I know some people are strict OTP'ers but some others enjoy a little variation now and then so you can go clickety click ;-) And it's by gardendoor, you know?
