My Blue Castle

Sohanuueshe starts a “five random things about yourself” meme? Can I find five reasonably interesting things about myself?

1.     Despite being 42 I don’t really think of myself as a grown-up. I lived at home until I was 30, when I moved into an apartment just a couple of blocks from the house where I grew up. A couple years after that my parents helped me buy a house. This was more their idea than mine. Yardwork and junk is not my idea of a fun way to spend an afternoon. But I think they felt I would be more settled, or secure or some nonsense if I had my own house. The house was brown when we bought it … and I called it the Little Brown House right out of those “Five Little Peppers…” children’s books. Then we painted it grey, and now it’s just called the Little House. Which is from another series of children’s books from the 20’s called “Maida’s Little {fill in the blank place: Shop, House, School, Theater, Zoo…}."

2.    I like working for a Library, but I hate my job. Cataloging documentaries used to be fun. Now it’s just a pain in the ass. I’ve just been doing it too long. Unfortunately for me, and thanks to the job market, I think I will be at this crappy job for a while yet.

3.    Being a cat owner is a total shock to me. We always had dogs. But be careful of saying randomly, “If I ever got a cat, I’d get an orange tabby and name it Daniel Striped Tiger.” Co-workers show up with stray orange tabby kittens the day after you say that and you feel compelled to take him home and love the lazy sod to bits.

4.    I am an only child and have always preferred imaginary worlds to this one. Also, the bulk of my reading was books set before WWI, so I am not always sure how to meet people without the benefit of a formal introduction…

5.    I could live on pancakes!

Huzzah. I have been tagged for the first time! Thankscurriejean! and since I can’t obsessively check twitter every five seconds…

Who sleeps next to you at night?

my cat … Daniel Striped Tiger … and occasionally a stuffed sheep (depending upon levels of Torchwood induced traumas).
 
What kind of books do you read?

it’s really more about the kind of books I DON’T read, given the size of the pile of ‘to be read’ books on my coffee table. There are a lot of books in that pile about angsty detectives, actually. I can usually get through anything with a good solid narrative. Have a fondness for satirical essays, books about moving someplace new, am completely smitten by the Wimsey-verse, and children’s books written before 1940.
 
What’s your Occupation?

I help maintain a film collection for a large University library. also, I seem to be getting paid to do theater more and more lately, so that’s exciting.
 
What's really creepy?

vague swishing noises in the dark, centipedes, and my mother’s unhealthy obsession with pinecones.
 
What's your current fandom,obsession,addiction?

Torchwood. [Oh Torchwood series 3 – you are the hate that tastes like raspberries.]
 
What websites do you visit when you go on line?

livejournal, flickr, hulu, IMDb, wikipedia, etsy, and elebenty-hundred crafty blogs.
 
Do you get cravings? if so what?

donuts. I think of them as legal crack.
 
What do you do to change your mood?

ABBA can be particularly useful for this. also ice cream.
 
What's your Zodiac sign?

I am a goat.

Do you want to learn another language?

certainly. must first obtain more agile brain box.
 
5 things you cant live without?

theater. cheese. black patent-leather mary jane shoes. things to stick other things together with. friends.
 
Something you would like to say to somebody?

I wish you (you know who you are) could care for me more.

Looking forward to?

my upcoming vacation. T-minus 24 days and counting…

Say something to the person who tagged you.

*hugs* this was fun!