Three things
Dec. 14th, 2004 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radegundNot that anyone actually commanded me to do this, *pouts*, but I like it, so here we go:
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Radzer
2. Ming
3. Dolly Hollywood
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. radegund
2. ...er...
3. ...that's it
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I write well
2. I am not at all squeamish
3. I am honest
THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I have a tendency to lose my temper when people make mistakes (in fact, I have a freakish and unhelpful attitude towards mistakes in general - mine and other people's)
2. I am very bad at keeping in touch with my friends
3. I am far too concerned with what people think of me
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Academia (both parents, aunt, uncle, four out of five [step-]grandparents, a selection of great-grandparents, and many other outlying relatives)
2. Intellectual, idealist, upper-middle-class revolutionaries
3. Writing
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. The fact that George Wankface Bush is President of the US
2. Global warming (and in this connection, see 1)
3. The disapproval of people I care about
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Solitude
2. Water
3.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
niallm
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Long silver stretchy velvet tube skirt, with just one small baby-spew stain
2. Black wool polo-neck jumper
3. Diamond and sapphire ring, which I've worn almost every day since I was 18
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS (or artists) AT THE MOMENT:
1. Billy Bragg
2. Leonard Cohen
3. Pink Floyd
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. Dozens by Billy Bragg, but let's go for "Walk Away Renee"
2. Pretty much anything by Leonard Cohen, so say "One of us cannot be wrong"
3. Tori Amos, "Little Earthquakes"
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. Finishing and selling a novel
2. Redesigning our garden so that a child can play in it
3. Travelling with a baby
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given):
1. Tolerance of the shittier aspects of my personality
2. Great sex
3. A shared creative life
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE
1. I am back to my pre-pregnancy weight
2. I am getting my legs waxed this Saturday
3. I am getting married next year
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Eyes
2. The curve at the base of the neck
3. Legs
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. Eat grapefruit without shuddering in violent disgust
2. Go on wearing shoes that hurt
3. Tell a lie to a friend
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE PASSTIMES:
1. Reading
2. Singing
3. Needlework
THREE THINGS YOU REALLY BADLY WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW:
1. Sleep for at least 12 hours
2. Have an hour-long massage
3. Eat (oh, wait, I can take care of that one ... OK, done!)
THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. Writing
2. Writing and continuing to work as an editor
3. Writing and running an artists' retreat in a restored Georgian house in the Irish countryside, with several acres of deciduous woodland and a large, beautiful, chemical-free garden, including a kitchen-garden that (need I even mention?) supplies much of the food for the delicious vegetarian meals served to guests, but not living there myself all the time, instead earning so much money from my critically admired literary fiction that I can also afford a house in Dublin and several holidays a year, plus the staff needed to run the retreat, and make regular donations to worthy causes, eventually (through my writing and good works) being fundamentally responsible for a new flowering of social conscience and creative endeavour worldwide, which results in the peaceful and democratic toppling of oppressive and unethical administrations everywhere, the elimination of hunger and exploitation, the reversal of global warming and the steering of humanity towards the next stage in its evolution...
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. New Zealand
2. Sicily
3. Canada
THREE CHILDREN'S NAMES:
[I do not see the point of this one. I've taken it as nonsense names for children.]
1. Barbar the Mottikins (me, "barbar" being short for "barbarian")
2. Mr Boo (my son, short for "Mr Spadoodleboo"...um...)
3. The Moodlemott (my sister)
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Live away from Ireland for at least a year
2. Publish a novel that is loved by at least one person who doesn't know me
3. See my son grow up to be happy and to make other people happy (I think someone else said this - it stuck in my mind)
THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW OR DIE PAINFULLY
1. Anyone
2. who
3. wants
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Radzer
2. Ming
3. Dolly Hollywood
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. radegund
2. ...er...
3. ...that's it
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I write well
2. I am not at all squeamish
3. I am honest
THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. I have a tendency to lose my temper when people make mistakes (in fact, I have a freakish and unhelpful attitude towards mistakes in general - mine and other people's)
2. I am very bad at keeping in touch with my friends
3. I am far too concerned with what people think of me
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Academia (both parents, aunt, uncle, four out of five [step-]grandparents, a selection of great-grandparents, and many other outlying relatives)
2. Intellectual, idealist, upper-middle-class revolutionaries
3. Writing
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1. The fact that George Wankface Bush is President of the US
2. Global warming (and in this connection, see 1)
3. The disapproval of people I care about
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. Solitude
2. Water
3.
niallmTHREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Long silver stretchy velvet tube skirt, with just one small baby-spew stain
2. Black wool polo-neck jumper
3. Diamond and sapphire ring, which I've worn almost every day since I was 18
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS (or artists) AT THE MOMENT:
1. Billy Bragg
2. Leonard Cohen
3. Pink Floyd
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
1. Dozens by Billy Bragg, but let's go for "Walk Away Renee"
2. Pretty much anything by Leonard Cohen, so say "One of us cannot be wrong"
3. Tori Amos, "Little Earthquakes"
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. Finishing and selling a novel
2. Redesigning our garden so that a child can play in it
3. Travelling with a baby
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given):
1. Tolerance of the shittier aspects of my personality
2. Great sex
3. A shared creative life
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE
1. I am back to my pre-pregnancy weight
2. I am getting my legs waxed this Saturday
3. I am getting married next year
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Eyes
2. The curve at the base of the neck
3. Legs
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. Eat grapefruit without shuddering in violent disgust
2. Go on wearing shoes that hurt
3. Tell a lie to a friend
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE PASSTIMES:
1. Reading
2. Singing
3. Needlework
THREE THINGS YOU REALLY BADLY WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW:
1. Sleep for at least 12 hours
2. Have an hour-long massage
3. Eat (oh, wait, I can take care of that one ... OK, done!)
THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. Writing
2. Writing and continuing to work as an editor
3. Writing and running an artists' retreat in a restored Georgian house in the Irish countryside, with several acres of deciduous woodland and a large, beautiful, chemical-free garden, including a kitchen-garden that (need I even mention?) supplies much of the food for the delicious vegetarian meals served to guests, but not living there myself all the time, instead earning so much money from my critically admired literary fiction that I can also afford a house in Dublin and several holidays a year, plus the staff needed to run the retreat, and make regular donations to worthy causes, eventually (through my writing and good works) being fundamentally responsible for a new flowering of social conscience and creative endeavour worldwide, which results in the peaceful and democratic toppling of oppressive and unethical administrations everywhere, the elimination of hunger and exploitation, the reversal of global warming and the steering of humanity towards the next stage in its evolution...
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. New Zealand
2. Sicily
3. Canada
THREE CHILDREN'S NAMES:
[I do not see the point of this one. I've taken it as nonsense names for children.]
1. Barbar the Mottikins (me, "barbar" being short for "barbarian")
2. Mr Boo (my son, short for "Mr Spadoodleboo"...um...)
3. The Moodlemott (my sister)
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Live away from Ireland for at least a year
2. Publish a novel that is loved by at least one person who doesn't know me
3. See my son grow up to be happy and to make other people happy (I think someone else said this - it stuck in my mind)
THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW OR DIE PAINFULLY
1. Anyone
2. who
3. wants
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(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-14 10:29 am (UTC)Oh, and WHY IS YOUR SANTA HAT ICON NOT IN MY SANTA HAT POST?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-14 11:24 am (UTC)Oh, because SKIP EQUALS ONE HUNDRED, so I just read that post.
It's there now.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-14 04:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-14 10:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-14 11:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-14 11:35 am (UTC)(Thanks for the card, BTW - arrived the other day.)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-14 01:32 pm (UTC)Oh ok. You can have it too.
It's one of my fondest bits. I don't think I've heard any one else mention it before.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-14 06:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-15 04:14 am (UTC)You, on the other hand, are possibly the world's fastest correspondent, and certainly the fastest I know. You put me to shame!
(Reply in the works...)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-15 12:44 pm (UTC)i want to buy your book. and really, you'd like to open a retreat house?? sign me up for that as well.