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policepenguin.
Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with six random facts about yourself. In the end you need to choose six people to be tagged and list their names.
H'kay. Let's see…
1. I had LASIK when I was twenty-five years old. At the time, I had 20/400, with -3 and -3.5 as the prescription strength on my right and left eyes, respectively. They offered me Valium for the procedure and I refused. It was meant as a tranquilizer, not as an anesthetic or a knockout drug; you have to be awake during LASIK, because you have to keep your eye focused on a single spot while the laser works. I was afraid I'd have a random eye movement or a desire to Look Somewhere Else under the influence, so I opted not to use it. Single most terrifying thing I have ever done on purpose, let me tell you.
2. My accent and speech mannerisms are highly unreliable. Despite being born in New York and living in that area most of my life, I tend to sound Southern when tired or talking to someone of the Southern persuasion themselves. It's sort of Texas-sounding as nearly as I can tell. I don't know why. I only spent three weeks there.
3. I don't wear makeup. If I absolutely have to for some social event, maybe, but even then it's more to cover up acne signs (I still break out about once a month despite having left adolescence behind long ago).
4. I know chicken is better for me than beef, but I hate ordering chicken sandwiches or any other form of cold chicken. The texture of the meat occasionally makes me think it's raw in the middle even when it's not, and texture puts me off more than taste or smell.
5. I get on very well with animals. This is not to say that I can talk to them and have them understand, or that all animals like me, or anything. It's more a matter of being able to gain an animal's trust more quickly than other people, including (sometimes, to a very small degree) wild animals. I can read a little bit of canid and ungulate body language, and to a lesser degree some feline and avian; I attribute the trust thing to the fact that I generally can tell when I ought to back off, and when I ought to just hold still.
6. I hate having toenails. I cut mine as short as I can. Something about having toenails that extend beyond the nailbed more than the minimum necessary irritates me.
As regards the six others, I do not like to place obligations upon people. However, if they are so inclined,daniidebrabant, innerbrat, bodldops, batyatoon, ladymondegreen, and derien should do quite nicely.
policepenguin. Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with six random facts about yourself. In the end you need to choose six people to be tagged and list their names.
H'kay. Let's see…
1. I had LASIK when I was twenty-five years old. At the time, I had 20/400, with -3 and -3.5 as the prescription strength on my right and left eyes, respectively. They offered me Valium for the procedure and I refused. It was meant as a tranquilizer, not as an anesthetic or a knockout drug; you have to be awake during LASIK, because you have to keep your eye focused on a single spot while the laser works. I was afraid I'd have a random eye movement or a desire to Look Somewhere Else under the influence, so I opted not to use it. Single most terrifying thing I have ever done on purpose, let me tell you.
2. My accent and speech mannerisms are highly unreliable. Despite being born in New York and living in that area most of my life, I tend to sound Southern when tired or talking to someone of the Southern persuasion themselves. It's sort of Texas-sounding as nearly as I can tell. I don't know why. I only spent three weeks there.
3. I don't wear makeup. If I absolutely have to for some social event, maybe, but even then it's more to cover up acne signs (I still break out about once a month despite having left adolescence behind long ago).
4. I know chicken is better for me than beef, but I hate ordering chicken sandwiches or any other form of cold chicken. The texture of the meat occasionally makes me think it's raw in the middle even when it's not, and texture puts me off more than taste or smell.
5. I get on very well with animals. This is not to say that I can talk to them and have them understand, or that all animals like me, or anything. It's more a matter of being able to gain an animal's trust more quickly than other people, including (sometimes, to a very small degree) wild animals. I can read a little bit of canid and ungulate body language, and to a lesser degree some feline and avian; I attribute the trust thing to the fact that I generally can tell when I ought to back off, and when I ought to just hold still.
6. I hate having toenails. I cut mine as short as I can. Something about having toenails that extend beyond the nailbed more than the minimum necessary irritates me.
As regards the six others, I do not like to place obligations upon people. However, if they are so inclined,
daniidebrabant, innerbrat, bodldops, batyatoon, ladymondegreen, and derien should do quite nicely.
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Date: 2006-07-21 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-21 05:23 pm (UTC)There wasn't enough topical anaesthetic in the left eye. I felt the knife when they started the cutting part. DIdn't say anything, though. It's not the sort of procedure you can interrupt.
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Date: 2006-07-21 05:43 pm (UTC)And it was amazing. They moved the machine away and I could see the holes in the accoustic tiles in the ceiling.
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Date: 2006-07-22 01:21 am (UTC)Hm. Six random facts about myself. This is not easy.