youyou!

[threadwalker]

It's not a meme, it's a you-you.

If you ask I will...

1. Tell you why I friended you.

2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.

3. Tell you something I like about you.

4. Tell you a memory I have of you.

5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.

6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.

7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.

FYI - I am notoriously frank.

Edit: Egads! This is a lot of work and time consuming. I need to get cracking on my day job. Further posts later.. as in "after I'm done earning my keep"

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[xrian.livejournal.com]

Me?

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

1. Getting to know you who you are through others. Getting to know you through you.

2. rose petals

3. Inquisitiveness

4. Right after you got your offer

5. You have to work so hard/long to finish stuff and (wrt knitting) seems to take a lot of rework. Is it because
a) you are never satisfied with your efforts
b) you take short cuts
c) you get distracted in the midst of it
d) all of the above
e) other ...

6. Definitely this one.

3.

[xrian.livejournal.com]

Reworking stuff: depends on what it's for. Usually I do things to please myself, and yes, I *do* have perfectionist tendencies :) When I was an apprentice, T and I had a running joke that she was supposed to teach me to be "fast, sloppy, and selfish." I do think I've improved a LITTLE.

The rest of the time: the productivity hangup I struggle with constantly is a simple one: getting started. I have a strong tendency to buy all the materials, make all the plans, announce my intentions of doing something and then..... it...... just..... sits....... there, in a box or a heap, for weeks and weeks while I try to find time, motivation, physical and mental energy simultaneously.

Writing and computer and drawing stuff are likeliest to get done, because once I get started on them I am oblivious to the rest of the world until something actively distracts me. It's worst with things that require ungluing my eyes from books/magazines/computers and focusing them on my handwork instead. Having company or someone to talk to helps a lot, because it means I start something and keep working away at it for the duration of the visit.

As for the userpic: this is my nomination for Absolute Silliest Detail from a Renaissance Painting. Lorenzo Lotto painted an altarpiece showing several saints, one of them St. Lucy, whose symbol is a pair of eyes (supposedly hers were ripped out, eeeuuuwwww). Various painters have tried various ways of showing them -- on a plate, for instance, or held in her hands. Lotto put them in this little tiny detail way down by the saint's feet resting on a handy bit of cloud. I *think* they are supposed to be in a dish, but due to the perspective (we are below the dish, looking up) he had to paint them kind of hovering in the air instead.

Either that, or he'd seen a space alien. :)