We Are Poor Little Memes Who Have Lost Our Sheep, Baa, Baa, Baa

[akirlu]

Abscounced (with edits of my own) from replyhazy -

I know very little about some of the people on my friends' list. Some people I know relatively well. I read your journal, or we have something else in common and we chat occasionally. Some of you I hardly know at all. Perhaps you lurk, for whatever reason. But you friended me and I thank you.

But here's a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: "Ah, there's so and so...she likes spinach."

I'd love it if anybody who felt like it would do this. Yes, even you people who I know really well. Then post this in your own journal...or don't, we're not very authoritarian in these parts.

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

My career took a sudden bend in April, 1987. Subsequent actions turned it into a career in theatre administration/accounting. I'm gay. Theatre. Go figure!

Another bend in the road took me into an avocation as a square dance caller, merely by me agreeing to teach a class in September 1984.

Will that work?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I do. I do like spinach.

It's like she knew.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I do also. Like spinach. And broccoli. As long as they're cooked, and the longer they're cooked the more I like them. But I only eat carrots raw. Go figure.

[drpaisley.livejournal.com]

Paisley is more than a word; it is a lifestyle. We met in the staff lounge at Reno, where i introduced myself as your pretend Internet friend. Hope to have ribbons with that at Chicon.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

If I were a secret master of the universe, I would pass a Law of Thermodynamics that every time any politician uttered the phrase "family values" they would be constrained to rip off their clothes and dance the funky chicken.

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

You know so much already from my relentless posting habit...

...in my youth I wrote fan fic based on the books of Edward Eager. Not that I knew what fan fic was at the time.

Also, I like spinach best inside ravioli.

[carbonel]

I grew up knowing that spinach was a disgusting vegetable that not even my mother made me eat. Then I had a cold spinach Japanese salad, and it was delicious. Now I like spinach...sometimes. Especially if garlic or soy sauce is involved.

I also like cats, but not to eat.

I pretty much always have some sort of craft hobby. For years and years it was cross-stitch; then I started having vision problems. Then it was knitting, which dovetailed nicely with the current obsession, spinning. I have four spinning wheels (though I do plan to stop there) and don't have enough time to do all the projects I want.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I have, in my life, lived in both Costa Mesa, CA and Seattle, WA (and many other places, as well). Admittedly, that was long enough ago that I don't remember much about it.

I find it mildly odd that, regardless of how long I live in Minnesota, it's clear that the natives will never regard me as Minnesotan.

I, too, am fond of spinach. And broccoli, and collard greens. And Brussels Sprouts when prepared a la lsanderson.

[lydy.livejournal.com]

Spinach for the win. Especially with just a bit of apple cider vinegar. These days, I'm a sleep tech, which is an odd job which it turns out I like. After so many years of hating my job, it still feels quite...weird.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Cheese and spinach sauce on baked potatoes! Yum. Shame I haven't been able to eat cheese since the age of 12 without getting a migraine, and since my 30s have been shockingly lactose intolerant.

I am a person who thinks 5-8am is the perfect writing time, and bed happens at 9:30pm and thus needs to have friends in other time zones.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I always liked spinach. What's not to like?

It's lima beans that I don't like. My mother never remembered that I didn't like lima beans, and we'd continually (though not continuously) have it as a veggie. Finally, in my High School yearbook under "Dislikes" I put "lima beans" and she got the message. Of course, I was I off to college a few months later so the question was largely moot.

Then I encountered dishes where lima beans worked well. I admitted such to mom, but the meme stuck.

[coth.livejournal.com]

I love brussels sprouts. DIdn't meet spinach until late in life, and then as a salad leaf - I can take or leave.

My previous career abandoned me four years ago. After much family turmoil and currently wondering what someone like me does next. I expect I'll find out sometime, maybe soon-ish.

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

Several of your commenters will already know this, but I don't think you do: I love singing harmonies, and for a few years was in a semi-professional band. Semi-professional, as in, I don't think we ever got paid, just sang for tips, and not very often at that. But singing harmonies was the thrill of it for me, not performing, so I could be just as happy with rehearsals as performances. I've never hooked up with anyone here to sing with regularly and miss it sometimes.

Spinach from the garden or from the freezer is good. Spinach from a can, not so much. Popeye was a shill.

[alexfandra.livejournal.com]

I hate spinach.

I've written stuff, I draw and paint stuff, I re-read Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons" series of chidren's books every year, and I watch birds. A lot.

Also, go Twins! Go Red Sox! Go Phillies! Go Giants! The Mariners...well...as usual, they suck like a mighty great sucking thing. Sigh.

[auntysocial.livejournal.com]

What is it about Lima beans? I always thought of them as completely bland, nothing to love or hate, but I've met a few people who just hate them. The neighborhood where I grew up was a major Lima bean growing area before the houses were built.

[auntysocial.livejournal.com]

When we played Monopoly on the front porch, all my money blew away. I was left holding properties and wondering about the names of the streets. I have never been to Atlantic City.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

Also, go Twins!

...and take the Vikings, Timberwolves, and Wild with you...

(Me? Bitter about subsidizing billionaire owners of major league sports franchises? Whatever gave you that idea).

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me they were just the wrong texture for the blandness. (I initially had the same reaction to edamame, though they have a good, if subtle, flavor.) When I found that I was eating lima beans in various soups and recipes, they were always cooked better (and in better surroundings) than in school cafeterias or from cans. That's not unusual for virtually any ingredient, but lima beans are easier to do poorly then others, I guess.

[19-crows.livejournal.com]

I never had spinach or broccoli until into my 30s, at least. My mom just never served them - I'm guessing my dad didn't like them. I like them now, if they're cooked. I always liked lima beans, especially the baby ones.

[farmgirl1146.livejournal.com]

I'm farming. I should be writing. I love your retro refrigerator.

[seattle-janice.livejournal.com]

My mother used to boil canned spinach. I thought it was a kind of seaweed.

I'm a native Seattleite, I used to play pool a lot, I very much dislike cooking and sewing, I love my new little apartment in Greenwood, I watch TV way too much and I imagine I'll always have cats. I can't imagine living in a one-species household.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

My friend irontree insists that lima beans are quite tasty when cooked and spiced properly. However, IT is far more of a cook than I am -- and I haven't asked for that secret combination.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Me too!

(I know, right? Wow.)

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

When I was nine or ten, I was into magic, as many boys do.
One week I discovered a book on the bookmobile called "Paper Magic", so I checked it out. It turned out to be an origami book by an eccentric British entertainer. That's how I stumbled into origami.
It turned out to be importantly useful in later [than that] life. When I was in boot camp in the Navy, I was a champion clothes folder, which displaced some other duties.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

oh, goma-ae! I love it, which may be partly due to my usually encountering it with sesame.
Though otherwise I'm not much interested in spinach.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I love almost all vegetables. I never had tasted beets until I was nearly thirty. They were delicious! When I told my mom this, she said, "Oh, I hated beets. My father always said that if I ate them, I would get hair on my chest."

No wonder she hated them

Now lima beans are another story. My mother kept trying to feed them to me. Like another mother mentioned in this blog, she never remembered that I was not a fan. To me they are pasty and then bland on top of that. And kind of icky. One evening my mother and her father cooked lima beans for us. "Us" is me and my three brothers all in the age-range around 4-6. Well, they burned the limas. Burned as in charred and black. So, they handed out toothpicks and called them beans a la cremate. We all gobbled them up.

And they say that marketing doesn't work!

[greyorm.livejournal.com]

I like to watch bad movies and read classic SF and fantasy.