*grin*

Oops. That's because I was a dumbass and typoed it.

I see a new meme going around:

Comments are screened. If you've ever had a smidge of a crush on me, feel free to comment below. I won't mock you, and only you and I will ever know. Then post this in your own LJ and see who might be crushing on you.

Frankly, there are too many people out there who I just don't want to know about to justify possibly satisfying idle curiosity about a few :)

Hmmm....could turn on anonymous commenting instead of screening replies... that would give the ego boost without quite the potential creepy factor.

I doubt I'll respond to anyone else's. Either you're already aware I have/had a crush on you, or there's a reason I haven't told you previously that still applies.

Sleepy sleepy sleepy. Need to remember how to sleep at night, rather than coming up with ideas that seem brilliant in the middle of the night and idiotic once the sun comes up.

As I referred to previously, Leif woke up the other morning suddenly knowing how to use a computer. This isn't all that odd for a kid his age, except that, for all that we're geeks and all, he's never really had a computer of his own. He's watched movies on a computer, and "played games" (meaning he watched and occasionally pointed while one of us manuevered the mouse) for 20 minutes every week or two on the library computers, but he's never really interacted with them himself.

Now he plays the Blue's Clues game all on his own, and just started the Madeleine game, also all on his own, so somehow he's discovered how to double click. I thought he'd done it by accident, but he threw a fit when I tried to start Blue's Clues again instead, and was very insistent that Madeleine was the one he wanted (though it held his interest all of two minutes).

Hmm. Something smells like burning. I hope they aren't trying to burn down the complex again like they did the other day. Well, a storage shed anyways.

Pretty accurate for a two question test...
( Enneagram meme )

Reply to this entry by posting a picture of yourself in the comments, then post this sentence in your own journal (if you want to).

Chances are people you don't even know are being introduced to your journal every day, either randomly or through someone else. In addition to recent entries, people can get to know you better by what you posted in the past. With that in mind, post a link to your entries on this day exactly six months ago, nine months ago, a year ago and 3 years ago. If there was no entry on that day, link the closest date.

6 months ago
http://www.livejournal.com/users/therealocelot/139760.html

9 months ago
http://www.livejournal.com/users/therealocelot/134536.html

one year
http://www.livejournal.com/users/therealocelot/131642.html

3 years
http://www.livejournal.com/users/therealocelot/45608.html

This The DIRTY thoughts of your LJ friends meme going around just doesn't work well when you have relatives, minors, and animals on yours friends list.

From geminigirl:

What 3 (5) LJ friends have you known longest?
I'm going to list 4, since there is some ambiguity in the term "known"
oatmeal is my cousin. I assume we met when we were less than a year old, though I don't actually remember.
I met livyanne in kindergarten, though I don't actually remember this. The first time I remember meeting her was sixth grade.
nuitfaerie and I became friends in first grade, though we may have met before then, as we lived in a small town and went to the same preschool.
tangodiva and I were in several school plays together, though we didn't actually know eachother then. Our meeting on LJ was coincidental.

(Actually, there isn't that much ambiguity, I just think running into tangodiva is amusing and mention-worthy)

Is/are your significant other/s on LJ?
koyote is, as well as at least two ex's.

Do you have LJ friends you've never met in real life?
Many.

Do you have friends you met first on LJ, then in real life?
This is overly complicated.

I was aware of the existence of deyo, hopeforyou, koyote, mactavish, sinboy, and rosefox and had, in some cases, interacted with them on LJ, before meeting them, and before interacting with them anywhere else on the Internet, but they weren't actually on my friends list at the time we met (with the possible exception of rosefox and koyote. I can't remember which came first with them).

I knew darthgeek from elsewhere on the Internet before LJ, but didn't meet him in real life until after "meeting" on LJ.

katster is the only person who I first met on LJ, and then met in real life.

I'm sure I'm leaving at least one person out of this, and I'm not counting animals or babies.

Does it hurt your feelings when someone unfriends you?
A little. It makes me feel boring, but it doesn't ruin my year or anything. If someone I was actually friends with (as opposed to someone I'd just friended because they sounded interesting or because they friended me) unfriended me, I'd be a bit more hurt, especially if no explanation was given.

What would make you unfriend someone?
If they unfriend me (or had not friended me to begin with) and I don't feel like reading what they write anymore, if I had some sort of serious problem with what they posted on a regular basis, or if I decided I did not trust them to read my rare friends-only posts. Only the first of these has ever actually happened.

Do you discuss personal information in your LJ?
What's personal? I rarely discuss things people would consider TMI (well, in my opinion anyways), but I do talk about my life, not just post quizzes or news articles.

From livyanne:

(Note: I said I was bad at picking favorites... don't ask me about favorites (or otherwise require me to make a binary choice) unless you're willing to settle for a list and/or excessively long explanations :)

1. If you could change one moment in your life, which would it be and how would you change it?
I can think of several moments that I'd equally like to change (stopping at the red light or otherwise avoiding the car accident being probably the biggest, and the one I feel most comfortable sharing in a public forum). But those big, life changing things have led me to where I am today - had I avoided the car accident, it's entirely possible that koyote and I wouldn't have met, or at least that our relationship wouldn't have developed as it did. Or I could have ended up in a worse, more life-destroying accident. So I'm inclined to not second-guess fate.

If I had to choose one thing - I'd respond to my mom when she looked in on me to see if I was awake one night in fifth grade. Our cat had been hit by a car. I pretended to be asleep, and she decided just to let me sleep, and told my brother and I the next day after school. I had problems with lack of closure for a while, since I never got a chance to see her again, and, well, I would have liked the chance. However, it's small enough that it probably wouldn't change the entire course of my life, though you never know for sure.

But even then, perhaps going through will end up determining how I respond to a similar situation as a parent.

Interestingly, this is different from my usual answer in the "What would I do if I could go back in time and change on thing" game (which I used to play a lot), which is to take better control of my education in high school. Go into Oxford earlier (I really regret not getting into it in 9th grade, for reasons both social and academic), take community college classes, find some form of alternative schooling, whatever. I just wish I'd figured out before my Junior year that what I wanted to do was my choice, not the guidance counselor's.

I don't know why this isn't still my answer. I guess because, as much as there are parts of my life I'm not happy with, I wouldn't want to give up the good parts for an unknown, different life, and any change worth making would most likely change where I currently am so dramatically that my life would be completely different. Better to work on changing the things I'm unhappy with in the present (which I do need to work harder on).

2. What is your biggest fear about the arrival of lemurbaby?
One biggest fear? :)

That I won't develop the mommy-feeling that I'm supposed to get, or otherwise have some sort of serious personal failing as a parent, and that we'll consequently all end up miserable for the rest of our lives.

The other big things I fear seem to be divided into two categories - acts of God (like baby dying) which, while terrible, aren't really a personal failing on my part, and things like having a really disappointing birth, which just aren't all that important in the long run when I think about them more.

This leads to the question of why I consider personal failing to be the worst thing in the world, above dead babies by Act of God. I don't know. I'll have to think about that.

3. Have you guys picked a name yet?
Not really. We have some ideas about girls names that we agree on, and can't really agree on a boy's name. We're planning to wait until after s/he is born and see if that helps at all, unless we come up with something perfect before then.

Do not fear, the baby will have a name some reasonable length of time after birth. If s/he ends up being a boy, and I can't come up with anything I like better, I'll go with what koyote decides.

4. If you could wish one quality for lemurbaby what would it be?

That's a hard one. Any quality I can think of seems like a two-edged sword when not combined with other qualities. So I'll say satisfaction with his/her life/self, as long as s/he has a reasonable conscience.

5. If you had to give up one sense for the rest of your life, which would it be, and why?
Sight. It is, to a large extent, the most useful sense, and therefore the hardest to adjust to if it went away. But I get much more pleasure out of my other senses. There are alternatives for reading, computer usage, etc. which provide the same (or similar) mental experience. There aren't other ways to taste yummy things, be touched, or hear good music. I would miss seeing neat things, but I don't think I'm generally very visually oriented, so it would be the lesser loss.

I'd choose smell, if losing it didn't diminish my sense of taste. Good smells are generally the least intense pleasant sensation for me, while bad smells can be one of the most unbearable.

Anyone else? I don't promise to respond in any sort of timely manner, but I will respond in one way or another eventually.

I just took this quiz, which is supposedly based on Illinois State Board's test for 8th graders.

I was in honors math in grade school and early high school. We didn't cover most of this material until Geometry in 9th grade.

Either California is way behind the curve, Illinois teaches geometry before algebra (which isn't really likely, as the test includes basic algebra), or they expect entirely too much of their 8th graders.

Or MSN is misrepresenting, which is always a possibility.

I typically dislike quizzes, but this is about the funniest thing I've ever seen...

Not that any of you will understand except livyanne
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