Twenty facts meme
Sep. 7th, 2005 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirBlair Hall Apts., on the Feast of Ste. Regina
Tagged by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kenbu and kittu9:
Write down twenty facts about yourself and keep track of how long it takes you to do so. Tag one person for each minute it takes you to complete the meme. If you are tagged, enlighten your f-list with twenty facts about yourself.
1. My parents had all but given up on having a child when unexpectedly my mother discovered she was pregnant with me, the very year that my father decided to get a student visa to the U.S. They had been married ten years at the time. As a result, my name means "one" in Korean because they knew that I would be an only child. Ever since, a long history of really bad puns.
2. As a corollary, my very first doll was named 두나 ("duna") when I was a child, as a sort of rhyming pun because 둘 ("dul") means "two". In fact, it's probably still sitting around in the bottom of a dusty trunk somewhere.
3. In high school I would always pick lockers with numbers that were multiples of three.
4. Four years ago, I spent a summer working in a psychology lab where I sat around and looked at sonograms of zebra finch songs. I came away with the conviction that I wasn't interested in neurobiology after all.
5. I have a strange obsession with leaving for class on multiples of five, e.g. 8:55 or 9:00 but never 8:57. I've actually sat around and waited until my watch hit the next five-minute mark before allowing myself to leave.
6. In sixth grade, I had the misfortune to attend one of the most overcrowded junior high schools in one of the most crowded school districts in Queens. There were and still are schools in worse condition, but nonetheless I remember being stuck in the hallway unable to move because of the human traffic jams that occurred between every period. I hated that school so much that I spent every day of my winter break frantically studying for the Hunter entrance exam so I wouldn't have to attend there another year. I cried (with joy) when I received my results and heard that I'd gotten in.
7. The first time I watched the Fourth of July fireworks, my family went to this outdoor theatre, near the Houston Zoo, along with a family friend and her daughter, who was two years younger than me. There was a giant, grassy hill that sloped down to the orchestra pit of the theatre, and we spent the afternoon rolling down as fast as we could. That night, fireworks exploded above our heads to the music of "Overture of 1812". I was absolutely terrified.
8. When I was eight, my mother and I visited Korea for a month--the first time we'd been back since coming to the U.S. One of the few things I recall about this visit was that my aunt bought identical sets of clothing for my younger cousin and I, to wear to a showing of the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" one evening. Details that have stuck with me: the gold curtains, the curlicue wheels of the prince's carriage, and the flounce of the ruffled skirt against my legs as I chasséd down the aisle on the way out.
9. Whenever I plant Arabidopsis seeds, I use a long glass pipette to drop them in nine equidistant spots, like the pattern of dots on a number nine domino tile.
10. My fingers never could quite span ten keys on the piano, a failing that I found very annoying when attempting to play sonatas with far too many arpeggios. (It goes without saying that I never did like piano very much.)
11. I read The Dark is Rising shortly before my eleventh birthday, and I was convinced that something magical would happen to me on that day, just as it did for Will Stanton. Alas, nothing did occur, and I was awfully disappointed.
12. Both my mother and I were born in the year of the ox, by the Chinese zodiac. My father was born in the year of the sheep, and if you know your zodiac, sheep are notoriously incompatible with oxes. What is odd is that I take after my father more than my mother and get along rather well with him.
13. When I was thirteen, I began drawing this gigantic map of the fantasy world that every young teenager prone to reading Lord of the Rings and the like ends up inventing. In order to make the map as accurate as possible, I borrowed textbooks on geography and geology, and pored over entries on plate tectonics on my copy of Encarta. That map is still sitting in the corner of my room, the shorelines half-inked in. I never did figure out the direction of the ocean currents.
14. My aunt lives on the fourteenth floor of her apartment building. From the balcony, you have a near bird's-eye view of the picturesque (but very artificial) parks and streets of Ilsan, which is an absolute marvel of city planning and so sparkling new that one is almost afraid to tarnish it.
15. Fifteen months ago, I received the worst report card of my life. Also the first report card where I didn't get straight As. I haven't managed a straight A report card since either. I shall always associate freshman spring with that sense of complete and utter demoralization.
16. My father's laptop, which I'm currently using, has 256 MB RAM. Until I got my desktop computer (just before I started college), it was the only computer in the house that could play XviD movies without freezing every twenty seconds, which is why I always hijacked it to watch anime episodes if I could.
17. I used to have an unusual prejudice against the number 17 because its multiples were the hardest to recognize, straight off the bat (at least for me).
18. One time, I ended up taking a new route on my way home from school, and I didn't know where my bus stop was. So I ended up riding all the way to the end of the line at which point the bus driver thankfully put me out of my confusion and told me where I should have gotten off. I rode the bus back to the stop, where my mother was waiting, frantic and hysterical, because it was 6 PM and I was over two hours late.
19. I'm currently using 19% of my Gmail inbox space. (Can you tell that I'm running out of random facts?)
20. In exactly two weeks, I'll be twenty years of age. Isn't that shocking? I'm nowhere near mature enough to be twenty.
I...lost track of time because my mother interrupted me with lunch. In any case, I'm sure I would have ended up tagging way too many people.
The new hard drive is installed! Total space: 200 GB. ^_^ Free space: some nice three-digit number. I've procrastinated on reorganizing my files but I suppose I should force myself to finish it before the end of the day.
Yours &c.
Tagged by
kenbu and kittu9:Write down twenty facts about yourself and keep track of how long it takes you to do so. Tag one person for each minute it takes you to complete the meme. If you are tagged, enlighten your f-list with twenty facts about yourself.
1. My parents had all but given up on having a child when unexpectedly my mother discovered she was pregnant with me, the very year that my father decided to get a student visa to the U.S. They had been married ten years at the time. As a result, my name means "one" in Korean because they knew that I would be an only child. Ever since, a long history of really bad puns.
2. As a corollary, my very first doll was named 두나 ("duna") when I was a child, as a sort of rhyming pun because 둘 ("dul") means "two". In fact, it's probably still sitting around in the bottom of a dusty trunk somewhere.
3. In high school I would always pick lockers with numbers that were multiples of three.
4. Four years ago, I spent a summer working in a psychology lab where I sat around and looked at sonograms of zebra finch songs. I came away with the conviction that I wasn't interested in neurobiology after all.
5. I have a strange obsession with leaving for class on multiples of five, e.g. 8:55 or 9:00 but never 8:57. I've actually sat around and waited until my watch hit the next five-minute mark before allowing myself to leave.
6. In sixth grade, I had the misfortune to attend one of the most overcrowded junior high schools in one of the most crowded school districts in Queens. There were and still are schools in worse condition, but nonetheless I remember being stuck in the hallway unable to move because of the human traffic jams that occurred between every period. I hated that school so much that I spent every day of my winter break frantically studying for the Hunter entrance exam so I wouldn't have to attend there another year. I cried (with joy) when I received my results and heard that I'd gotten in.
7. The first time I watched the Fourth of July fireworks, my family went to this outdoor theatre, near the Houston Zoo, along with a family friend and her daughter, who was two years younger than me. There was a giant, grassy hill that sloped down to the orchestra pit of the theatre, and we spent the afternoon rolling down as fast as we could. That night, fireworks exploded above our heads to the music of "Overture of 1812". I was absolutely terrified.
8. When I was eight, my mother and I visited Korea for a month--the first time we'd been back since coming to the U.S. One of the few things I recall about this visit was that my aunt bought identical sets of clothing for my younger cousin and I, to wear to a showing of the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" one evening. Details that have stuck with me: the gold curtains, the curlicue wheels of the prince's carriage, and the flounce of the ruffled skirt against my legs as I chasséd down the aisle on the way out.
9. Whenever I plant Arabidopsis seeds, I use a long glass pipette to drop them in nine equidistant spots, like the pattern of dots on a number nine domino tile.
10. My fingers never could quite span ten keys on the piano, a failing that I found very annoying when attempting to play sonatas with far too many arpeggios. (It goes without saying that I never did like piano very much.)
11. I read The Dark is Rising shortly before my eleventh birthday, and I was convinced that something magical would happen to me on that day, just as it did for Will Stanton. Alas, nothing did occur, and I was awfully disappointed.
12. Both my mother and I were born in the year of the ox, by the Chinese zodiac. My father was born in the year of the sheep, and if you know your zodiac, sheep are notoriously incompatible with oxes. What is odd is that I take after my father more than my mother and get along rather well with him.
13. When I was thirteen, I began drawing this gigantic map of the fantasy world that every young teenager prone to reading Lord of the Rings and the like ends up inventing. In order to make the map as accurate as possible, I borrowed textbooks on geography and geology, and pored over entries on plate tectonics on my copy of Encarta. That map is still sitting in the corner of my room, the shorelines half-inked in. I never did figure out the direction of the ocean currents.
14. My aunt lives on the fourteenth floor of her apartment building. From the balcony, you have a near bird's-eye view of the picturesque (but very artificial) parks and streets of Ilsan, which is an absolute marvel of city planning and so sparkling new that one is almost afraid to tarnish it.
15. Fifteen months ago, I received the worst report card of my life. Also the first report card where I didn't get straight As. I haven't managed a straight A report card since either. I shall always associate freshman spring with that sense of complete and utter demoralization.
16. My father's laptop, which I'm currently using, has 256 MB RAM. Until I got my desktop computer (just before I started college), it was the only computer in the house that could play XviD movies without freezing every twenty seconds, which is why I always hijacked it to watch anime episodes if I could.
17. I used to have an unusual prejudice against the number 17 because its multiples were the hardest to recognize, straight off the bat (at least for me).
18. One time, I ended up taking a new route on my way home from school, and I didn't know where my bus stop was. So I ended up riding all the way to the end of the line at which point the bus driver thankfully put me out of my confusion and told me where I should have gotten off. I rode the bus back to the stop, where my mother was waiting, frantic and hysterical, because it was 6 PM and I was over two hours late.
19. I'm currently using 19% of my Gmail inbox space. (Can you tell that I'm running out of random facts?)
20. In exactly two weeks, I'll be twenty years of age. Isn't that shocking? I'm nowhere near mature enough to be twenty.
I...lost track of time because my mother interrupted me with lunch. In any case, I'm sure I would have ended up tagging way too many people.
The new hard drive is installed! Total space: 200 GB. ^_^ Free space: some nice three-digit number. I've procrastinated on reorganizing my files but I suppose I should force myself to finish it before the end of the day.
Yours &c.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-07 10:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-08 02:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-09 12:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-09 02:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-08 12:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-08 02:33 pm (UTC)