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sabrinamari...for the third day in a row. Home and sick---digestive track pain, can't eat, chills and fever. Fit only to play on LJ during my non-sleeping hours, although I did manage to slooooowly hobble through a few chores today. [Actually, now, mid-meme, I feel better!]
I'm starting to get frustrated with my body, although I've been of good cheer up to now.
Going to do this meme from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elphaba_of_oz cause it's fun and almost the only thing I can do without getting tired. maybe after I'm done I'll be able to put on my fresh sheets.
"List 5 reasons you are a dork. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud of how big a dork you are! Then pick the 5 biggest dorks you know and have them do the meme."
1. Big science fiction and fantasy geek - I love to read sci fi and fantasy, tho I rarely have time for it these days. I love sci fi series, movies etc. Especially if they have really strong powerful female characters who kick ass and/or have muscles, or really intelligent and capable male characters. I like Dr. Who, and that alone should earn me my Mr. Spock ears.
2. Gym rat - I am easily amused by any kind of obscure weight training exercise, fitness trick or any kind of fitness toy. Heart rate moniters make me jump for joy. Exercise equipment makes me deeply happy. I remember once getting really excited over a "Muscle and Fitness" article on all the different kinds of squats. Really. I think I still have it...now where is it????
3. I collect resins. There's really nothing to say about that. I dig new kinds of resins and oils extracted from resins and am always looking for new exotic varieties of tree blood to burn. When I was an archaeologist I came home from Belize and Guatemala bearing many, many grams of all the copal I could find, and I I gave some away and hoarded the rest for years, measuring it out to use bit by bit. I still fantasize about a particular kind of pine resin that I bought at Penny's in New York about 12 years ago. Ken, the owner, said it was from his last 25 lb. bag of the stuff which was so hard to get and sell that he would never re-order. I spent a year wondering, "how can I get a 25 lb. bag of this stuff?" I was as poor as a church mouse then...
It was so, so good and burned so sweet and clean---I've hardly run into anything like it. Sigh.
4. I am so amazingly slow to catch on about interest from other people. Two dear friends actually took me aside at FSG and said, "Look, it's clear that there are things you don't understand about flirting, hooking up and interacting with men, So we are going to explain it to you so that you will understand what you are missing." What then followed was a 1 HOUR spontaneous class, given these two of very kind and wise male friends, as they explained to me and to Rose, very carefully, how my/our actions were generally perceived, how to twll when someone is showing interest, how to show interest back in subtle ways, how to make someone go away (nicely) and how to, in general, manage one's interactions with others as a single woman. This class was complete with demonstrations of a 'regular hug' and an 'I'm interested hug', and included role playing by a third female friend, who demonstrated the 'I am not interested' look for us and had us each practice that look for ourselves. At my advanced age, I did not know most of these things, probably because they did not involve text, academia, teaching, establishing ethnographic rapport (this set of skills works against you in these situations, by the way!) or ethnographic methods. I am very grateful for my friends' honest and forthright guidance.
5. I have an extremely foolish sense of humor, and while I appreciate complex, intelligent and witty humor---the kinddr_pretentious specializes in---I love puns, general silliness, and childlike humor dearly. So I tell silly jokes and love silly, unsophisticated humor of all kinds.
And, in general, I like children's humor and silliness---like Dr. Seuss, The Muppets, and stuff like that, too.
So really, I am a dork.
Now, instead of tapping any particular friends to do this meme, I'll just ask that if you want to self-identify as a dork, go right ahead.
Oh, and:
6. I am an academic. that alone would qualify me as barely able to dress myself in the morning in many circles.
I'm starting to get frustrated with my body, although I've been of good cheer up to now.
Going to do this meme from
elphaba_of_oz cause it's fun and almost the only thing I can do without getting tired. maybe after I'm done I'll be able to put on my fresh sheets."List 5 reasons you are a dork. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud of how big a dork you are! Then pick the 5 biggest dorks you know and have them do the meme."
1. Big science fiction and fantasy geek - I love to read sci fi and fantasy, tho I rarely have time for it these days. I love sci fi series, movies etc. Especially if they have really strong powerful female characters who kick ass and/or have muscles, or really intelligent and capable male characters. I like Dr. Who, and that alone should earn me my Mr. Spock ears.
2. Gym rat - I am easily amused by any kind of obscure weight training exercise, fitness trick or any kind of fitness toy. Heart rate moniters make me jump for joy. Exercise equipment makes me deeply happy. I remember once getting really excited over a "Muscle and Fitness" article on all the different kinds of squats. Really. I think I still have it...now where is it????
3. I collect resins. There's really nothing to say about that. I dig new kinds of resins and oils extracted from resins and am always looking for new exotic varieties of tree blood to burn. When I was an archaeologist I came home from Belize and Guatemala bearing many, many grams of all the copal I could find, and I I gave some away and hoarded the rest for years, measuring it out to use bit by bit. I still fantasize about a particular kind of pine resin that I bought at Penny's in New York about 12 years ago. Ken, the owner, said it was from his last 25 lb. bag of the stuff which was so hard to get and sell that he would never re-order. I spent a year wondering, "how can I get a 25 lb. bag of this stuff?" I was as poor as a church mouse then...
It was so, so good and burned so sweet and clean---I've hardly run into anything like it. Sigh.
4. I am so amazingly slow to catch on about interest from other people. Two dear friends actually took me aside at FSG and said, "Look, it's clear that there are things you don't understand about flirting, hooking up and interacting with men, So we are going to explain it to you so that you will understand what you are missing." What then followed was a 1 HOUR spontaneous class, given these two of very kind and wise male friends, as they explained to me and to Rose, very carefully, how my/our actions were generally perceived, how to twll when someone is showing interest, how to show interest back in subtle ways, how to make someone go away (nicely) and how to, in general, manage one's interactions with others as a single woman. This class was complete with demonstrations of a 'regular hug' and an 'I'm interested hug', and included role playing by a third female friend, who demonstrated the 'I am not interested' look for us and had us each practice that look for ourselves. At my advanced age, I did not know most of these things, probably because they did not involve text, academia, teaching, establishing ethnographic rapport (this set of skills works against you in these situations, by the way!) or ethnographic methods. I am very grateful for my friends' honest and forthright guidance.
5. I have an extremely foolish sense of humor, and while I appreciate complex, intelligent and witty humor---the kind
dr_pretentious specializes in---I love puns, general silliness, and childlike humor dearly. So I tell silly jokes and love silly, unsophisticated humor of all kinds.And, in general, I like children's humor and silliness---like Dr. Seuss, The Muppets, and stuff like that, too.
So really, I am a dork.
Now, instead of tapping any particular friends to do this meme, I'll just ask that if you want to self-identify as a dork, go right ahead.
Oh, and:
6. I am an academic. that alone would qualify me as barely able to dress myself in the morning in many circles.
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Date: 2005-06-30 01:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-30 01:26 am (UTC)Pat has something similar to what you describe, so I may have given it to both of you. So sorry.
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Date: 2005-06-30 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-30 02:04 am (UTC)I'm a dork, too. Revel in our dorkiness!
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Date: 2005-06-30 02:16 am (UTC)It's so nice to know that there are so many awesome, cool, attractive dorks out there.
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Date: 2005-06-30 02:41 am (UTC)1. I know Captain Kirk's middle name is Tiberius.
2. I wrote computer games in BASIC back in High School and used the BBS (pre-cursor to the Internet)to chat with other dork (or is that geek or is there a difference?) friends.
3. I drive a stick-shift, and it is not a sports car!
4. I open doors for guys.
5. I sing old commerical tunes with my co-workers when we're getting giddy in the office (you know, my baloney has a first-name . . .)
Hope that put a smile on your face, babe!
Love ya, feel better right quick!
Stephanie
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Date: 2005-06-30 05:44 am (UTC)1) I own and can use a sliderule.
2) I do not buy computers. I get parts and build them.
3) I proudly run the largest collection of Pagan humor on the web (www.turoks.net).
4) I co-chair 3 industry committees in my professional specialty and serve on 2 others.
5) My idea of a good evening out with friends is to go to a sushi restaurant with a bunch of computer geeks and talk shop while consuming lots of raw fish.
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Date: 2005-06-30 10:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-30 01:21 pm (UTC)Some gentle Reiki may help the yukky symptoms. Email me to work if you'd like some sent and I can do some after work this evening. Would be my pleasure!
Now about all the dorky stuff....you are the coolest dork I know :-))
I absolutely LOVE #4! How about passing on some of that info? I haven't got a clue myself - ask B.
{{{Sabri}}}