Welcome to Procrastination Station (which is one stop down from Conjunction Junction on the tracks to academic hell). I'll be your host tonight. Recently I was tagged with a meme by bluescissors76. I have to proffer seven facts, and then tag seven of my friends and threaten them with all kinds of chain-letter doom if they don't propagate the meme. Easy enough.

1. One of the deep sorrows of my life is the fact that a number of deeply resonant and beautiful things have been described ad nauseum. For instance: springtime, falling cherry blossoms, fluffy clouds, sunsets, birds exploding into flight, etc. These are sights that move me. Can I describe them in a story? No. Why? Because it's 2007 and we ran out of new descriptions for sunsets in 1843, that's why.

2. I usually write about homely or strange-looking people (or at least not terribly attractive people, anyway). That said, I keep trying to figure out how I could write a guy who looks like Nathan Fillion into my novel. That way if by some fluke it gets completed, published, and optioned for a movie, I could be all like: "You know who I was visualizing for this character when I wrote it? Nathan Fillion. Oh, really? You have his number? Maybe we should call and find out what he's doing." And then he'll be in the movie and we'll hang out for drinks and I'll be all like "Oh Nate...can I call you Nate?...do you still have the brown jacket? You know...the browncoat?" And he'll be all like "I brought it just for you." AND THEN I WILL WEAR IT. I WILL WEAR MAL'S COAT. The end.

3. I have had possibly too much coffee today in the form of about five cups. Welcome back to university life, zenithblue.

4. Currently I've enacted a rule that says I'm not allowed to leave this chair until I write one page of the story I'm working on. This has worked sometimes to get me laboriously through a really dreadful draft. What this means for you the reader is that I might post on livejournal six more times tonight. I also might wet myself, but that won't really affect you.

5. One of the grosser things my body can do has to do with my super flexible shoulders. If I have someone to help I can push my shoulders all the way back until my arms are crossing and almost lying flat against my back. This is what comes of spending your formative years swimming butterfly.

6. When no one is home I do the tiny bit of ballet I know how to do all through the house. This includes plies and arabesques and occasionally if I'm feeling ambitious, a pirouette. Also I do this in my skivvies most the time. Remember Risky Business? Yeah.

7. The worst song I ever sang at karaoke was "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads. Somewhere between the fourth and fifth rum shot I managed to forget that I don't really speak French. The best song I ever did was the Foo Fighters' "All My Life." Apparently, Dave Groll and I have the exact same vocal range (such as it is). Who knew?

Okay. Also sprach zenithblue.

Now for the tags: you are it, drawgirl, spacecowboytom, alecaustin, te_amo_azul, shandralyn, johnnybrainwash, and Mr. Birthday Boy helpimarock. If you don't complete the meme you'll be hit by a bus full of underfed grizzly bears. Or something.

Meme ganked from bluescissors76 (AKA Bert).

This feels oddly right, even though it makes me sound more well-balanced than is a reasonable assessment.

Link: The Your SESAME STREET Persona Test written by greencowsgomoo on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

A morning meme, lifted from Ms. sliding_doors. What I love best is the name of this quiz, really.

I feel sort of wishy washy regarding these results. And also a little, uh, dorky, for scoring so high on the "otherkin" scale. *gulp*

Honest, I don't believe I'm a changeling.

You scored as True Alternative. You are a True Alternative! Labels do not suit you well, particularly as you tend to strike your own path and to grow purely via experience. No armchair quarterbacking for you! Originality and creation are your specialities, and sometimes you can even articulate what the hell just happened. Someday you may find yourself drawing the maps for other people... lots of other people. True Alternative 75% Mystic 70% Otherkin 65% White Lighter 60% Discordian 60% Magician 55% Aimless Eclectic 55% Spiritualist 40% What Subversive Alternative Paradigm Are You? created with QuizFarm.com

Via a quiz I lifted fromprodigal  ...results minorly predictable but oh so pleasing nonetheless.

I guess I asked questions of everyone else, so it's only fair of me to fulfill the other part of the contract.

Anyone who cares to can ask me 3 questions. Ask me anything you want. ANYTHING! Doesn't mean I'll answer them in the way you expect.

Then go to your journal, copy and paste this, allowing your friends (including me) to ask you anything. 

And for Christ's sake, at least one person ask something so it's not totally obvious that I'm a loser. : )