brighid

Lone Ranger,

You sound like one of the most fascinating people I have come across in a long time! Wish I knew a woman who could truly appreciate a man like you ... alas most of the girls I know simply are incapable of appreciating your very fine qualities ... bummer!

Brighid

Evolved

1.I can't seem to take the brilliant thoughts from my head and place them onto paper, as soon as I pick up a pen or start typing on a keyboard those wonderful thoughts just disappear.

2.I love reading Sci Fi Fantasy books.

3.I'm extremely boring.

4.90# overweight and checking with a Dr. to see if I qualify for stomach reduction surgery.

5.Overly sensitive about myself and my feelings get hurt very easily.

6.I put on a tough act so that people can't see my hurt feelings.

7.Tend to be on the lazy side and am sleepy all the time.

8.I'm 35 and still think of myself as a kid. Probably act like one too.

9.Was married at 19 to a psychotic shithead for 5 years, divorced him and married a genuine sweety and we have a wonderful 4 year old daughter-our 9 year Anniversary is in December!


10.I'm still extremly boring.

Perchance

Yes, I am. I thought about adding it to the list, but it didn't seem as interesting .

Neither have I, not even in my own family. My mother and sister are both very sociable, start wearing long sleeves if the temperature drops below 80 degrees Farenheit, and have the vague idea that fantasy is "something about dragons and stuff." (My mother reads suspense novels, my sister reads things like Chicken Soup for the Soul, and I remain grateful that my father brought home Tolkien when I was eleven; who knows what I would have wound up reading otherwise? )

Those are among the ones that stand out, I think- especially the solitude. There's one other grad student who seems to have made it her pet project to see that I "get out more," and seems puzzled that I don't think drinking and going to clubs is just the most fascinating thing on earth .

-Perchance.

Perchance

Agreed! People want to know what I'm writing, and get uncomfortable when I tell them it's poetry or fiction- as if I should be scribbling a treatise on how to save the world. Meanwhile, I don't understand how they can't write. Don't they feel the day is wasted?

I had two people tell me in the last week that I sounded like I was quoting a book, and another one tell me that I was "overly formal." They apparently thought of these as insults .

No, no. Any temperature above 60 degrees- in fact, any temperature down to 50 degrees- is shorts and short-sleeve weather, and below that I continue wearing short-sleeves as long as I can. I think I've worn a jacket about three times in the past year.

-Perchance.

brighid

Oh I feel your pain. I have been told that more then once ... as if intelligent conversation is an insult ... just to the people who use stupidity as a shield! My own sister told me my intelligent and "eloquent" conversations were ABUSIVE! Why is most of the world just so damned crazy??

Brighid

Perchance

What worries me is that the people who told me this are intelligent themselves, and perfectly capable of WRITING eloquent, formal sentences. I suppose they feel that the classroom is a place for incomplete sentences, incomplete ideas, and lots of "uh's." One of them in particular stops every few words to say "you know." It drives me crazy.

I don't really understand why intelligent conversation is threatening, though.

-Perchance.

brighid

It is threatening because it temporarily makes these people inferior, even if they are intelligent. I consider myself to have �average� intelligence because I know so many people who are wickedly intelligent that I feel I pale by comparison, but I love being in their presence because I learn so damned much � even if occasionally I have to go home and whip out my dictionary to look up a word or two. It�s all insecurity as far as my experience goes � unfortunate, but certain people would just rather keep you down or bring you down to their level so they can avoid feeling �small� instead of using such instances as an opportunity for self-improvement.

Brighid

HelenM

This has taken me a while to do and I'm still not sure about the results...

1. I love old things � old books, ancient ruins, old villages. I think I must have been crazy to move from England to the US. When I was a teenager I wanted to be an archaeologist.

2. Maybe I wasn�t totally crazy to move, though, since I was following my fianc� (my husband now, for 15 years) who was coming here to attend graduate school.

3. On the other hand I�ve been in the psych unit, wondering if I were God, once and I'm diagnosed Bipolar, so, being crazy is not something I've never experienced and might not be something I'll never experience again...

4. I haven't worn make-up for years (I never wore it daily).

5. I have the highest post count here although Kally sometimes has taken the lead from me and maybe one day she�ll take the lead permanently. Which would be fine with me!

6. I think I was part of the impetus for the first version of the Rants Raves and Preaching forum, since as soon as it opened, a lot of my posts moved there

7. I used to regularly get that �too many smilies� error message but I�ve cut down since then (a little!)

8. I love most kinds of music. Especially classical - but I was listening to Bat Out of Hell in my car not so long ago . I play two instruments and I enjoy playing music more than listening to it.

9. I talk a lot but not as much as when I was manic.

10. I like people but I think some people are scared of me because of my illness.

Helen

Catseye

1) I look very young for my age. (Yes, I know it's going to be a good thing in the future, but when you're 22 and still get asked if you want a child's portion... it can grate a little.)

2) I've fallen off a horse 24 times (not the same horse.)

3) I have a very rare eye condition which involves, among other things, being able to see out of only one eye at a time. I can 'switch eyes' at will, though.

4) My face recognition skills are terrible, verging on non-existent. I once didn't recognise my fiance because he was wearing a hat.

5) I've only been in one relationship - it's lasted four years so far, and we're still together.

6) I hate pop music.

7) I don't cry.

8) I'm very antisocial. Public speaking doesn't bother me, but talking to someone in a one-on-one conversation unless I know them very well is something I'll go to great lengths to avoid.

9 a) People have thought I'm weird for most of my life.

9 b) I hated school. Hated, hated, hated it.

10) I just walked past a poster in a corridor, put up by my university's Christian Union in their latest evangelical poster frenzy, that said "We need to talk - God," and added "So why the posters, God? Just e-mail me like everyone else does" to it

Talulah

1.) As I write this, there are JW's knocking on my door. I refuse to answer.

2.) My mother thought she had been in a motorcycle wreck when she woke up from giving birth to me.

3.) Raw meat makes me very, very nervous.

4.) I have deviant sexual fantasies.

5.) I am double jointed in almost every joint.

6.) My girlfriend wonders why I have so many more clothes than her.

7.) I have three pairs of tennis shoes. With me.

8.) I have to pee very often.

9.) I can network two computers together but can't seem to make the network printer work.

10.) I love to write.