Today.

[shadesong]

My self-mission for the day: type up and second-draft Issue #1.

Your mission for today is to answer this question:

What's the most unusual thing about you?

Comments

[danorsong.livejournal.com]

That fact that gragorian chanting with really tight harmonies turn me on... That is a little weird. My need to be singing just about all the time is weird. Oh I used to wake up my roomates by talking in chinese and when I'm not paying attention and talking around chinese people I pick up stuff (I had chinese babysiters from 1-6 and they didn't speak english)
There is alot more weird stuff about me.... I just can't think of it. Why did you need weird anyway?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I *like* weird. :)

There are many unusual things about me... the most obvious oddness is my feet. See the pic. :)

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

And they continue to creep me out.

May I see them?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Come on over. :)

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Maybe next week sometime?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Sure! If Kung Fu Night is a success, we may make it a weekly event.... as you can see on yendi's journal, we have a *lot* of movies. :)

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Surebut, don't forget They Might Be Giants is playing "On the Bricks" next Friday.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! Nevermind, we'll be at TMBG. :)

[danorsong.livejournal.com]

Weird is good.. :)

[gallowglass.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm the only guy I know running a thesis on Alexander the Great like it was a homicide investigation. He's guilty, of course, but the evidence will never stand up in court. ;-)

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Hard question to answer. The most unusual thing. The most unusual thing? How am I supposed to know which thing about me is more unusual than others?

*sigh*

Probably the fact that I'm almost pathologically honest.

I mean, hanging around pagans, being able to see dead people or energies isn't really unusual...hanging around (at least on the net) poly people means wanting a girlfriend doesn't seem the most unusual thing... *shrug*

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

The most unusual thing by *your* standards. :) That's why I chose my feet as my most obvious unusual thing. Seeing energies and dead people and being bi and poly aren't unusual to me, but that's because those things have always been in my life, and I've always been around at least a few people that also regarded them as normal...

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[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Oh! Well, in *my* family, the most unusual thing about me is that I was Reformed Presbyterian for 9 years, and for most of those years I only wore "modest" clothes (full skirts, below the knee, etc.) and a few of those years I even wore headcoverings any time I was in public.

I think they had less trouble with me being vegetarian for a while (and even vegan for a few years) than with the religion thing.

[stronae.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the frame of reference is required to determine what's abnormal, and the scope of abnormality shifts *radically* when I move from one circle of friends to another. Now y'all know why I keep 'em separate. :) Picture it: Pagans? Meet corporate-types. Corporate-types? Meet gamers. I'd be an excellent bridge, if I bothered to be extraverted.

And, if this helps you any, you're not the only one looking for a girlfriend. :) (This is offered for your statistical and amusement benefit only; by no means should it be considered a come-on. All disclaimers apply. See? They're written in small letters on that bouncing blobby thing.)

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

To be a naval officer probably isn't unusual, but folks tend to think my having been a naval officer is an unusual thing about me.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

You were a seaman? *giggle*

[deza.livejournal.com]

Most unusual, hmmmmmm.

Tough one.

For now, I'll say that it's that 34 of my past lovers at some time used the term "addictive" to describe me in bed. Hey, I'm a librarian, I always keep statistics. :)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

You and I are a lot alike. :)

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Aw gee... this is hard. And I'm not even awake.

How about I look vanilla but I'm really not?

[deza.livejournal.com]

You mean you're *whisper* strawberries in disguise?!?!

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

I can twitch my ears and keep about three hundred characters in my head all the time.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Hee! Me too. With the characters.

[darkmattr.livejournal.com]

I know a little bit about everything.

[kajivar]

I'm completely normal, really....

Hmm. My coworkers would probably say it's the way I alternately curse at and sweet talk my computer when I'm trying to compile code.

My parents would probably say it's how I spend weekends dressed up in costumes running through the woods and hitting my friends with plumbing supplies or bean bags of birdseed.

Maybe it's wearing my five years of celibacy as a badge of honor? Or how I sing to my cats, changing the lyrics of songs to make them more kitty-like?

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

hee!! my friend/xBF Lizard's wife is a recovering Baptist -- she sings little "I Love My Lizard" songs to him to the tune of all the bible songs she's learned over the years... =)

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

my fingers [and prolly my toes too] are very double-jointed -- i can do this thing with my hands that looks like a snake dancing. =)

Funnies

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

I have a very strange sense of humor. It isn't like anyone elses, and sometimes I say things that people look at me weird for but to me are just hilarious. It's dark and dry and odd in a somewhat Monty Pythonish way. It's also rather ladylike for a sense of humor.

Often I'm told I have no sense of humor, but that's just not true. I simply have a sense of humor that is out of the ordinary to an extreme degree.

[tikimama.livejournal.com]

Uh, since we're doing physical stuff:

my arms are freakishly long.

Otherwise, I have no idea. The fact that I'm an atheist? The fact that I point out cute boys to my husband? That I'm completely cynical, and yet really sappy and positive?

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

heeheehee

I did that to Chris, only with girls. We were at Concrete Blonde and I pointed out some pretty goth girls and he said "It's like going to a concert with a man!"

E-V-I-L

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

hmm . . . . well, I am capable of being a totally different person -- upbeat, outgoing, sometimes downright perky -- in a work situation but can't manage it (nor would want to) in any other situation . . . I can flare my nostrils, recite all 50 states in alphabetical order, oh, and I have the entire text of Banjo Patterson's "The Man From Snowy River" poem memorised . . all 104 lines of it.

[stronae.livejournal.com]

The states...

Let me guess: that's because you, too, learned that cheesy yet addictive song in elementary school. :) Alabama: Alaska; Arizona, Arkansas....

So, wait, you're a (not-necessarily-sexual) metamorph?

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[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

yup yup. it was the cheesy song, I admit it. We all had to hold cardboard cut-outs of the states and hold them high when we got to our state in the song. I was Missouri :)

Yeah, I guess I'm a personality metamorph. My mother read my latest evaluation at work . . .

"Responsible, team player, good leader, cheerful, serves as a role model to others -- I think they got your records confused with someone else, sweetie -- are you *sure* this is the right form?"

Although I will admit trying to maintain that front is very difficult at times -- naturally I'm a sullen, depressed, head in the clouds loner.

[stronae.livejournal.com]

Snicker... oh my, it *is* bad if the parentage has no faith. Wow. Given your comments so far, I wouldn't peg you as sullen nor depressed, but head-in-the-clouds loner isn't off the mark. :)

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[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

well, I guess I'm not always sullen and depressed. I'm usually very quiet and introverted. And yes, head-in-the-clouds loner fits pretty well :) I don't know where this friendly, outgoing, and practical person who works at my desk comes from. Necessity I guess.

Besides, I always show my best side through email and the such.

[stronae.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well you're certainly a lot better than some online people I *used* to know... "Life sucks, I wanna die, wah!" was their mantra, and after hearing over and over (and over and over again), I gave up and moved on.

So, how's that for a yardstick? :)

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[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

nah, never buy into the I wanna die bit. I like life too much. Besides, I'm basically an optimist; no matter how bad it gets or how depressed I feel, as long as I'm alive there's always the potential for it to get *better*. And I don't plan on missing any of it :)

[edie22.livejournal.com]

Well, let's see. My family considers my entire life unusual. The husband considers my addiction to Smallville unusual, I don't actually consider much about myself unusual. My theory is that the rest of the people are the weird ones. I'm normal.

[rubrchick]

Have I told you about how I like to watch the laundry go around in the washing machine? Well, I do. The only other person I know who likes to do this is my mother.

[aurora-lamour.livejournal.com]

That I am empathic and can feel the emotions of others around me. I can even feel emotional "stamps" on places as well. That and the fact that I cannot not care (yes I know the double negative) what others think of me, even to my own detriment.