Peer pressure

[dr_whom]

Yes, I finally succumbed. Don't be disappointed if I never write anything interesting here, though; it's just for the friends list.

However, as a reward for anyone who notices that this is here, I'll try to do that meme where you comment and I reply by telling you (1) whatever randomly comes to mind about you, (4) something which doesn't make sense to many people other than you and me, (5) my first clear memory of you, and (7) something I wonder about you, as well as what (2) song, (3) flavor, and (6) vowel I associate with you. Well, I'll try, anyhow.

Yeah.

—AJD, finally back in Philadelphia

(Update: I suppose I've stopped doing this by now.)

Comments

[khyros.livejournal.com]

I'm on it! Good to see you, man.

[dr_whom]

1. Whoa. You found this, like, a minute and a half after I created it. How did you do that?
2. "The Internet is for Porn". Like, obviously.
3. Sarsaparilla, I suddenly have the impulse to say. I don't know why, but—there it is.
4. Somebody once said something about a dance....
5. Hmm. That time you followed me and lowellboyslash back to Quincy after a Milk & Cookies. It must have been, like, October. I wasn't sure who you were and didn't have a clue what to do about it.
6. [æ:]. As in cat, but longer. You can throw in some creaky voice on that if you want to, too.
7. How would you compare your relationship to HRSFA and your relationship to the Noteables?

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

yay!

[dumble.livejournal.com]

Shiny journal!

[dr_whom]

1. Ooh, a challenge.
2. "Three-Bedroom House". I told you this already.
3. Right now what comes to mind is soy sauce.
4. Okay, so I'm cheating on this one. I'm going to quote you, and I'm implicitly using a slightly different interpretation of "doesn't make sense [to other people]": "I really dislike snow, for obvious reasons." Makes sense to me.
5. Noteables winter concert. You were taking tickets.
6. I wish web browsers were better at phonetic symbols. This one looks like an upside-down e with a fishhook on the right side, and it's the vowel in the American pronunciation of ''bird''. Guarded, but unconventional.
7. How do you have time for fencing and everything else? I quit fencing November of freshman year because I just couldn't handle it on top of Noteables and work.

[dr_whom]

1. For some reason, I don't think your photo there really looks like you. I can't put my finger on why.
2. At the moment, "My Time of Day", from Guys and Dolls.
3. Lemonade!
4. Have you installed the new whiteboard in your lab yet?
5. My answer to this for you is the same as yours for me: at the Kong, when I was visiting Harvard in March '04, and we both didn't have Masq costumes yet. And that led, of course, to a long walk around Cambridge. Well, kind of long.
6. [i]. As in "meep!"
7. Have you decided whether you're okay with being a math major yet?

[lord-codfish.livejournal.com]

Go ahead.

[wolfheart17.livejournal.com]

I'm game

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

7. Honestly, I don't know. Although the fact that I micromanage the fuck out of everything probably helps :P. I'm also not afraid to take a break if I need it; the coach is very forgiving in this manner. I'm kind of scared of what's going to happen this year, since I have sooo much classtime.

[dr_whom]

1. Yay marathon singalongs!
2. "Please Hello", I rather think.
3. Coffee milkshake.
4. "Not, perhaps, a lot better. But better, anyhow."
5. So, I don't have any clear memories of you before when I was visiting Harvard in March, and hanging out with you and a bunch of people in the CLR, pretending to work. But I obviously knew you then—at the very least, I had met you by the Noteables concert the previous semester. But all that's coming to mind is the CLR.
6. You get a diphthong, I think. One halfway between [ow] and [@w], where @ represents schwa.
7. Do you perceive a connection among your various interests?—do international relations, SF, G&S, and so on form a natural class? Or are they all distinct things that you happen to be interested in independently and, so to speak, coincidentally?

[khyros.livejournal.com]

1. I am simply that good. Or it's possible that I am always online and check my LJ and email before I even get out of bed.
5. Oh I remember that too... she and I had unfinished business. Still do. Some things don't change.
6. How'd you pick this? From the ash in old english? It's a good fit.
7. This, as well as Wolfheart17's 7 for me will be getting their own entry in my LJ soon.

[khyros.livejournal.com]

4. This reminds me of our discussion of "Walking on Broken Glass" from the Die Hard Musical.

[http://users.livejournal.com/little_e_/]

yo!

[dr_whom]

1. You know I think I thought you were a junior when you were a sophomore?
2. "If I Were King of the Forest"!
3. At the moment, I'm leaning toward butterscotch.
4. There are worse ways to leave one's keys backstage, anyhow.
5. Same problem as for lord_codfish above. My earliest memory of you seems to involve walking from Sever towards the River after a HRSFA meeting, but I'm pretty certain I already knew you then.
6. [ɔ]. Let's see if that comes out right; it's supposed to look like an upside-down "c". Back mid-low: the Ashkenazic qamatz.
7. Hm. Same question as you asked me for this one, about your religious attitude. (I haven't forgotten! I will answer yours more fully!)

[dumble.livejournal.com]

1. Perhaps because I'm not wearing glasses?
4. Oh yeah, it looks great!
6. Whee!
7. Um... Not quite. I think I'm okay with having to fulfill the requirements for a math major. But as for what I actually want to do with my life... Well, Ed described my interests as a connected but oddly shaped oblong figure spaning multiple disciplines, probably with math on one side and psychology on the other. So it remains to be seen where precisely in that spectrum I best fit.

[dr_whom]

4. Hee hee!
6. How'd I pick it? I'm not sure. It has a kind of Trekkie-Monster sound to it; that's part of it.

[dr_whom]

1. I can understand how the first time I said "Heather and Jeff are getting married" you could have thought I was talking about you, before I explained that I was talking about someone else named Heather. It's the second time that puzzled me.
2. After some deliberation, I'm going to say "Class".
3. D'you remember "OK Soda"?
4. I am kind of drawing a blank here.... I would like to know if you lived in that room with all the fairies around the door, though; and though there are plenty of people who would know what I'm talking about, most of them probably won't see this comment.
5. See above as for lord_codfish and wolfheart17. I was in, like, the Lowell JCR, at the beginning of my senior year, and I was like, "Who's that?" and someone said "That's Heather," and I was like, okay.
6. [ɞ]. Let's see if that comes out; it should look a little like a heart on its side. The vowel itself is like a schwa, but a bit lower and rounder; or like the vowel I gave wolfheart17 but fronter.
7. The, like, paragraph or so of commentary under each installment of "The Naked Elf"—do you regard those as being an essential part of the comic, or essentially an embellishment?

[lord-codfish.livejournal.com]

4. Indeed it does. And it has. Again, not by a lot, but by enough for now.

7. To an extent. I'm pretty sure G&S is utterly random - that just comes from being around people (primarily my mother and Elisabeth) who like G&S, and going, ooh, that's funny! As for sci-fi and IR, those are probably connected on a basic level. As I may have mentioned, I've *always* been obsessed with geography; more strangely, that applies both to real and to imaginary geography. My two favorite things when I was five were poring over atlases and the Los Angeles Thomas Guide and drawing maps (both on a national and city scale) of imaginary places. The IR interest comes out of the interest in the real world; at least some of the sci-fi/fantasy interest comes out the interest in imaginary worlds. However, the first seems clearer to me than the second: while world-building is certainly one of the most important aspects to me in sf/f stories, I also just appreciate a good plot. So, the answer to your question is yes, but rather vaguely.

[dr_whom]

1. Could that be it? I dunno... maybe.
4. And has anybody else noticed that it's there?
7. So, I don't think that's exactly what I meant. Last time this came up, one of your worries was feeling frustrated and uncomfortable as a member of the math department because you weren't as devoted to math as everybody else. I didn't expect you to have suddenly become devoted to the math concentration in the last six months. But I guess what I was asking was, are you more okay with the idea of being someone who majors in math because you rather like it, even though everyone else (except me) seems to major in math because they're crazy about it?

Glad to have you around

[ephermata.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to seeing you show up on comment pages of all our
mutual friends. :)

Re: Glad to have you around

[dr_whom]

So, does this count as a request for memage, or does it not count because it's a reply to a comment instead of to the original post?

Re: Glad to have you around

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, it counts. I'm trying to check LJ from a text-based browser
and hit the wrong link.

[dumble.livejournal.com]

4. No, they're remarkable unobservant... =)
7. Right now, yes. When school starts and I have to take classes and deal with other math majors again... we'll see.

[dr_whom]

1. For some reason I'm always surprised when I'm reminded that you're from Las Vegas. I guess I don't think of it as someplace real people live. Like Salem.
2. I think "More I Cannot Wish You" from Guys and Dolls seems to fit.
3. Lime seltzer.
4. You know, I haven't heard from Shy in ages.
5. I think I had heard of you long before I met you. So I'm really not sure if I had met you or not before the Masq junior year. (You were at the Masq junior year, right?)
6. [ɛ]. An unassuming vowel, but friendly.
7. This may seem like a frivolous question, but: how on earth were you able to sleep on that tiny little couch?

[preraphaelite.livejournal.com]

Meme me, baby, one more time...