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End of the Year Meme. Write the first sentence, from the first post, of every month. As seen at fionagh's and ruruoni_ben's. I used public entries only, not locked ones. Where the first sentence was a Friday Five question, I included the sentence after it. Where there were no sentences (where the entry was just an image) I skipped to the first entry that had text. Because I detest the Rich Text Editor, linkage fell off when I copied-and-pasted; no great loss.

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Well. That was phenomenally boring. Sorry, guys.

I saw the link to Measuring the Speed of a Meme in vampry's journal on December 1st and am posting to participate only now--in fact, after leaving this entry half finished in the composition window for nearly an hour, although I gather that Livejournal may recently have changed the interface so that entries are timestamped when they post instead of when the post-to-journal window was generated. Even if I'm doing this right and even if it's not already too late, I suspect I'm adding only to the datapoints representing the unspeedy, and yes, this post is as much about the posting of itself as about helping someone as an experiment try to track the propagation of a metameme across the blogosphere. Here's that link again: http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2006/11/measuring_the_s.html.

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Originally gakked from akaspeedo.

Gakked from cardigirl:



Meanwhile, New York turns up as No. 2 on the Sierra Club's list of Top Five Green Cities. Huh!

My Japanese name is Saruwatari (monkey on a crossing bridge) Miharu (beautiful clear sky).

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Gakked from tharain.

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts some events that catch your eye, two births, one death, and some interesting festivals in your journal. (<---Edited.)

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Births:

1562 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (d. 1611)
1978 - Louise Brown, first test tube baby

Deaths:

1834 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet (b. 1772)

Festivals:

Roman festivals - Furinalia (in honour of Furina, the goddess of robbers)
Virgin Islands - Hurricane Supplication Day
Inca - festival in honor of Ilyap'a*
Ebernoe Horn Fair, Sussex, England

*Illapa ("thunder and lightning"; aka Apu Illapu, Ilyap'a, Katoylla) was a very popular weather god. His holiday was on July 25. He was said to keep the Milky Way in a jug and use it to create rain.

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1. When is the last time you were broke?

Dead broke, with nowhere to stay and no one to call, walking past houses with a warm yellow glow in their windows, out of the populated area until there were fields on all sides and I could pick my way between cow patties to find a spot by a hedge to curl up in my rain poncho and sleep for a while...about twenty years ago in another country.

2. What makes you lose focus?

Schmutz on my glasses.

What causes lapses in my attention? Fatigue. Excitement or worry about other things. Interruptions. Ideas I have to write down before I forget them. Cats.

What distracts me from what I'm doing? Interesting music coming from somewhere. Late at night, the distinctive rhythmic vibration of a tug or cargo ship passing by in the channel, because I have to turn the lights out and run to the window and watch it pass. During the day, anything that sounds like angry yelling or a kid or an animal in trouble. So, hmm...sounds, I guess. I don't listen to music much anymore while I write, or while I copyedit either. That's probably why. Adrian Legg and Leo Kottke are okay, though.

3. How tall are you?

5'4". An inch taller than Buffy. Hah.

4. Are you brave or cowardly?

Both. It's not bravery if you're not scared to begin with. But sometimes I err way to the wrong side of caution.

5. What's in your pocket?

Wallet, phone, keys, a crumpled-up shopping list I haven't gone to fill yet, a 128meg memory stick I just got and think is nifty cool, and a pair of nail clippers. The office cat's claws need clipping, and I never remember to bring the clippers down with me when I go. This way I'll have them when I go to give him his supper. I could just buy another pair, I suppose, but I'd probably forget to bring that down too.

From fridayfiver.

You are the seventh Doctor! You are warm and friendly to
those around you, but your manner can take a dark
turn at times. Those who cross your path have
significant reason to fear, as your morality is
a bit more liquid than might make some
comfortable. However, you are not human, and
behind those clever eyes a new scheme is
brewing. The responsibility of protecting the
universe lies on your shoulders. How can you
help it if no one understands?


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