seven things meme from Antennapedia

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever to do it.
Anyone who feels like doing this, do it. :)


1. I didn't get my driver's license until I was nineteen, and I've never owned a car. I kind of hope not to ever have to own a car, primarily (I must confess) for lazy reasons: I don't want the hassle of upkeep and insurance. And I like living in a city, where I can walk or take public transport most places I need to go. That said... I'm SO glad that I know how to drive. It makes logistics so much easier.

2. Any environmental gold stars I might earn for not driving are probably cancelled out by how much I fly. I realized, when en route to Michigan with breadandroses for Pony & G's wedding, that I fly a LOT for someone who doesn't travel for work. The last time I went a year without getting on a plane was 1994. I went to undergrad and graduate school several states away from my parents, but still went back there for most breaks. For going up and down the northeast corridor, flying or taking the train often costs about the same, and flying is SO much faster (even with security regs the way they are.)

3. I'm most comfortable falling asleep on my side, though I usually wake up lying on my back. I find it really difficult to sleep without something over me - at least a sheet and ideally a blanket or coverlet too. The weight is reassuring.

4. I like stitchy handcrafts; I used to do counted cross-stitch and now I like knitting, though in neither case have I ever taken on large projects. Of late I've developed rather a line in making tea cozies as gifts (five, so far, and I'm halfway through number six.)

5. After experiment and repeated attempts, I have concluded that I can't write with music on. Rather, I can but it's a waste of electricity because I don't listen to it in any meaningful way. I'll come to alertness to realize that the piece whose mood I thought would support whatever I was doing passed by three tracks back.

6. I am a recovering sucker-for-the-claims-on-the-back-of-shampoo-bottles, as the graveyard of hair products in my closet demonstrates.

7. I have a sneaking ambition to sing karaoke. This ambition may not survive actually entering a karaoke bar, but it exists. Clearly the bit of me that once upon a time wanted to be Mary Martin has not entirely gone away.

invisible ficathon meme from Antenna

Yes, I have unwritten prompts stretching back *mumble.* This one doesn't require completion, though, so perversely I might actually manage to write some of them.

I ask you, you reading this, if you could make a request in a ficathon that you knew I would be assigned, what would it be? I probably won't write any of these, so don't think of it as a prompt, and feel free to be wacky. (Or feel free to be reasonable and hope you give me a bunny.) So if you're game, provide fandom, pairing (or gen) and prompt (by which I mean, slice of a song, bit of poetry, three things you want and two things you don't -- no specific plot points). This will probably be more fun if you request in a fandom that I currently write in or have repeatedly mentioned liking, but whatever. Go crazy. Go.