Surveys And Memes To Fill The Boredom

( Short Survey I Got Very Verbose On )

I also received "S" for the Alphabet Meme from sectums3mpra: List 10 things that you like that begin with the letter "S."

1) Soup. Soup is a very thing, particularly for me right now. I like in general, though, too; since it's not very filling, you can eat a lot of it,

2) Salt. I often prefer salt to sweet things, at times; I'll take a bag of Doritoes over pie any day. Plus, salt is good for your body (everyone who's ever taking some class in Psychology or probably Anatomy has probably heard of The Boy Who Craved Salt), and necessary in even sweet cooking. It's also good for your skin in small doses.

3) Singing. I love to sing. I have a vast repertoire of songs I know all the words to, and I seem to be getting better acclimated to my voice; I actually get compliments on my singing voice, now, every once and a while.

4) Storms. I really like storms. I'm afraid of them, at times (tornadoes), but what frightens me, fascinates me. It's better now that I'm in a dorm; they keep me up awake less (that used to frustrate me living at home), and so now all they are is just fun to watch-- trace on the Weather Channel, watch out the window: the lightshows and the deathly rumbles, the streaming rain, from the silent adrenaline before to the sweet smell afterward.

5) Snow. I'm still a kid at heart. I love snow for the holidays, in particular (This year so disappointed! Now we just get cold mush, and too late!). It's so pretty, blanketed over everything. I'd rather have snow than just be cold and dry.

6) Sushi! Being the Japanophile that I am, of course I like sushi :-P I've experimented with some of my weirdest foods while eating it (sea urchin? *shudders* lol . . . actually, that's really the only food I encountered in Japan, besides intenstines, that I did not like . . . ). I have fond memories of making sushi rolls-- sometimes with hot dogs :-P-- from about 7th grade onward ^_^ and I tend to introduce it to people, and then they love it. (Sorry, Lisa, Keith, Patricia, and Henry-- you didn't get to try my "safe" kind first before going to Seki's /-:).

7) Soporific, the word. I learned it from The Flopsey Bunnies by Beatrix Potter as a very little girl, and it was the biggest word I knew (and that nobody else knew O.o) for years. I was very proud ^_^

8) Shakespeare. In keeping with one of my meme-supplier's points for J, "Juliet and her Romeo," why not give the big man all that he's due? I know there's a lot of controversy about whether he was actually the one who wrote the plays, but the fact that the plays exist is enough for me. They're universal (not "cliche," thank you very much-- who set the standard, after all?), and the characters are delightful, hilarious, and so realistic in many ways-- even if the situations aren't always :-P Plus there's no need to even mention the power of the words which exist as the most famous quotes practically ever in our language.

9) Sleep. I'm a college student; of course I like sleep!

10) Situation-bias-- as opposed to peron-bias. Only in Japan are people predominantly willing to chalk it up to situations instead of people when something goes wrong (oh, I am meant to live there!). This has been the source of my fascination with "misunderstood" villains, for years; call them "weak," but I love the antagonists that are the products of their environments and not just some arbitrary ill-will. Plus people are such hypocrites-- they'll blame the situation when it's otherwise they're fault, but not the other way around ("the sun was in my eyes!" when it's you, but "you weren't paying attention!" when it was your teammate . . . ).

If anyone would like to have a letter, leave a comment and I shall give thee one ^_^

Surveys And Memes To Fill The Boredom

( Short Survey I Got Very Verbose On )

I also received "S" for the Alphabet Meme from sectums3mpra: List 10 things that you like that begin with the letter "S."

1) Soup. Soup is a very thing, particularly for me right now. I like in general, though, too; since it's not very filling, you can eat a lot of it,

2) Salt. I often prefer salt to sweet things, at times; I'll take a bag of Doritoes over pie any day. Plus, salt is good for your body (everyone who's ever taking some class in Psychology or probably Anatomy has probably heard of The Boy Who Craved Salt), and necessary in even sweet cooking. It's also good for your skin in small doses.

3) Singing. I love to sing. I have a vast repertoire of songs I know all the words to, and I seem to be getting better acclimated to my voice; I actually get compliments on my singing voice, now, every once and a while.

4) Storms. I really like storms. I'm afraid of them, at times (tornadoes), but what frightens me, fascinates me. It's better now that I'm in a dorm; they keep me up awake less (that used to frustrate me living at home), and so now all they are is just fun to watch-- trace on the Weather Channel, watch out the window: the lightshows and the deathly rumbles, the streaming rain, from the silent adrenaline before to the sweet smell afterward.

5) Snow. I'm still a kid at heart. I love snow for the holidays, in particular (This year so disappointed! Now we just get cold mush, and too late!). It's so pretty, blanketed over everything. I'd rather have snow than just be cold and dry.

6) Sushi! Being the Japanophile that I am, of course I like sushi :-P I've experimented with some of my weirdest foods while eating it (sea urchin? *shudders* lol . . . actually, that's really the only food I encountered in Japan, besides intenstines, that I did not like . . . ). I have fond memories of making sushi rolls-- sometimes with hot dogs :-P-- from about 7th grade onward ^_^ and I tend to introduce it to people, and then they love it. (Sorry, Lisa, Keith, Patricia, and Henry-- you didn't get to try my "safe" kind first before going to Seki's /-:).

7) Soporific, the word. I learned it from The Flopsey Bunnies by Beatrix Potter as a very little girl, and it was the biggest word I knew (and that nobody else knew O.o) for years. I was very proud ^_^

8) Shakespeare. In keeping with one of my meme-supplier's points for J, "Juliet and her Romeo," why not give the big man all that he's due? I know there's a lot of controversy about whether he was actually the one who wrote the plays, but the fact that the plays exist is enough for me. They're universal (not "cliche," thank you very much-- who set the standard, after all?), and the characters are delightful, hilarious, and so realistic in many ways-- even if the situations aren't always :-P Plus there's no need to even mention the power of the words which exist as the most famous quotes practically ever in our language.

9) Sleep. I'm a college student; of course I like sleep!

10) Situation-bias-- as opposed to peron-bias. Only in Japan are people predominantly willing to chalk it up to situations instead of people when something goes wrong (oh, I am meant to live there!). This has been the source of my fascination with "misunderstood" villains, for years; call them "weak," but I love the antagonists that are the products of their environments and not just some arbitrary ill-will. Plus people are such hypocrites-- they'll blame the situation when it's otherwise they're fault, but not the other way around ("the sun was in my eyes!" when it's you, but "you weren't paying attention!" when it was your teammate . . . ).

If anyone would like to have a letter, leave a comment and I shall give thee one ^_^