I've been tagged by
aoife_hime...
8 random facts about me:
I have a (small) collection of really, really dreadful films, courtesy of various TV/movie crushes - the absolute worst of which is Susan's Plan (feat. Michael Biehn). Fortunately for me, most of Richard Dean Anderson's oeuvre is unavailable to buy in the UK.
I had green tea flavour ice cream last weekend, and it was lovely.
My oldest and most loved toy is a stuffed dog called Sammy, who came free with tokens from Andrex. He looks unbelievably depressed, despite his extensive wardrobe.
I should soon have broadband at home, woohoo!
I grew up - for my first ten years, anyhow - in a hundred-year-old house in the middle of a wood. This sounds more romantic if I phrase it that way than it was in actuality. (But it was a little romantic!)
We had a housemate at college who used to 'borrow' our stuff, repeatedly and without asking. In retaliation, we topped up my ketchup with an entire bottle of tabasco sauce, made some bath foam out of washing-up liquid, water, and PVA glue, and filled an empty shower gel container with Squeezy Cheese. None of these belonged to him, and he never asked if he could use them, so any resulting discomfort was entirely his own lookout.
I adore a quiz show called 'Eggheads'. It's set at about the level I can yell at the TV, "But that's so easy! How can you possibly not know that?!?", thus making me feel brainy.
My favourite perfume is Be Delicious, by Donna Karen. I was attracted initially by the bottle, which is shaped like an apple. It's pretty much the first perfume I've ever consistently worn.
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Also, I will not now be moving to Oxford in June. Chiz chiz, it's the sensible choice, so we have to sign up for another 12 months at the place we're currently renting (with no break clause) - but next year... Yes. More time to plan, find work there, sort various and sundry other things out... all that practical stuff. Ah well. (Means I can go sign up for the
sjficathon now, though!)
edit: Thought I wish I hadn't just had (when mentally working out how I might describe MacGyver): if Jack and Sam had a son, he might well have grown up to be Mac (if you ignore the whole timeline thing). Science, and fishing, and hockey, and bad jokes, and inability to leave a problem alone, and love of being outdoors...
Urgh. Badfic ideas, attacking my brain.
Also, I will not now be moving to Oxford in June. Chiz chiz, it's the sensible choice, so we have to sign up for another 12 months at the place we're currently renting (with no break clause) - but next year... Yes. More time to plan, find work there, sort various and sundry other things out... all that practical stuff. Ah well. (Means I can go sign up for the
edit: Thought I wish I hadn't just had (when mentally working out how I might describe MacGyver): if Jack and Sam had a son, he might well have grown up to be Mac (if you ignore the whole timeline thing). Science, and fishing, and hockey, and bad jokes, and inability to leave a problem alone, and love of being outdoors...
Urgh. Badfic ideas, attacking my brain.

Comments
Have you learned nothing?!?!?! :)
Also, I've been completely ignoring my Stargate remix story, and that's going to bite me in the ass very shortly, I suspect.
Sad, in'it?
*sigh*
I need to stop avoiding and sit down and WRITE. I'm just stuck and my brain insists on writing chronologically.
Remix doesn't scare me - I got bitted by an idea the second I looked at my person's stories and I think I'll actually be okay there. Of course, those are probably going to be famous last words.
I need to stop replying to lj posts and write. *g* Also, I have a whole load of stuff with Jack in, and it's not essential, and I'm thinking of cutting it out, but then I'll be left with... not very much.
*headdesk*
me too. me too.
*stares at story*
*runs away screaming*
(only, not so much about Jack)
Yum.
Mmm, green tea ice cream :-) It's one of my favourites.
And I bought green cheese (with pesto in) from the Covered Market. I love shopping in Oxford.
And, mmm, covered market cheese. From the cheese stall or from Palm's Deli? (Both glorious, in their different ways.)
Oh, I want to move to Oxford nooooooooooooooow! Ice cream shops open until midnight?!? *wails* I did see something about a flavour petition, but couldn't work out what it was. Brain wasn't fully functional after a) waffle breakfast, b) vast Ploughman's lunch, c) viewing flat, d) much shopping and walking with dad and boyfriend talking in either ear. :)
Green tea ice cream is tasty especially fried. I recently had green tea cheesecake. It was strange. It wasn't bad but it wasn't terribly good either.
BTW, you seem very evil in a good way. I shall bear some of your tricks in mind with my cousin (who is my roommate). I have to hide my laundrey detergent in the recesses of my closet so she doesn't use it all. And if I have any tasty treats like cookies or cukecakes I also have to hide them away in my room somewhere.
Oy, yes. Prompts are a struggle to think up on demand. I forgot about that aspect... hmm... *thinks*
Fried green tea ice cream? ...There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in my philosophy, or words to that effect. Wow. *g*
And, evil, yes. *g* But he richly deserved it. His crimes were many, and I've listed just one (I can't bring myself to talk about his unspeakable washing-up habits, or the Toilet Roll Issue). He, of course, took a different view of the matter. Living with people who 'borrow' your stuff is hugely annoying, partly because you feel so petty bringing it up. This was the most satisfying way of dealing with it.
He used up all the glue-scented bath foam, hahahahaha.
Ah, a wiki explaining fried ice cream:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_ice_cream
I've always been intrigued by the Mars Bar idea, but it sounds lethal. "How can we make a Mars Bar even less healthy?" "Oh, come on, that's not possible." "No, no, I'm sure it could be done..."
As for the Mac being Sam/Jack's son bad!fic bunnies... is it bad that my first thought was... well they DID travel in time... and Mac WAS raised mostly by his 'grandfather'.
*headdesk*
I got your email btw, and will be making edits/changes later today. TY!
And, argh, I was trying to ignore the whole 1969 thing. Trying, I tell ya. I'm not going to write it! I'm NOT!!!!! (But that doesn't fit in with Mac's age. Then again, the time travel was a little bumpy...)
And, cool! Glad it turned up. :) Feel free to ignore any and all suggestions I've made. Oh, and if that's the one you were worrying about the angst content of, I shouldn't worry - it was only the tiniest bit of angst, I doubt it'd upset the prompter.
TY!
And there have been other examples of them traveling in time. And how do we know that they got the Moebius jump right the first time... they could have done a babystep before the BIG leap. Maybe blown a fuse or something before they... well, um... anyway....
To be fair, there were three of us, and we thought about it for a long time. He pissed us off for quite a while before we Struck.
Some roommates suck. Some, however, are a delight, and I made some lifelong friendships in that house. Some people I might have liked if I didn't have to live with them. On the whole, men are worse by a factor of several billion. And people who claim to have given up smoking will turn out to be complete liars.
And, how come everyone has heard of green tea ice cream except me? Why have I missed out until now?!? It's a conspiracy.
I can't wait to hear stories.
As for the ice cream, there are two sort-of gourmet ice cream shops close to my school and both of them have green tea ice cream. It makes a refreshing switch from Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ^_^
I've always wanted to know whether my ex-flatmate used the Squeezy Cheese shower gel. It still makes me chuckle. In an evil way. *g* Those were self-inflicting punishments, and fit the crime beautifully - but it can be exhausting to get into all that stuff. Being at war with someone you live with is horrible - you can't get away from it. But, then, if we hadn't done that, I'd have felt angry and resentful about the rotten time we had with this guy. He cheated on his girlfriend, too, fully expecting us to keep his secret for him. Scumbag. Ugh.
*collapses in heap*
At school, my roommates and I have great fun watching the show "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" because we get to play along and then cackle at the people who, it turns out, are actually not smarter than a fifth grader.
Not so funny when I did an lj quiz about being able to pass... I forget what grade. 11th, maybe. I barely scraped through. But then, in my defence, there were a lot of questions about American stuff that I didn't know. And I don't remember most of the maths and science stuff I knew in school. I've had no reason to keep it in my brain.
(Icon words: annerb.)
*rocks back and forth*
It's horrible! My brain is under attack! *g*
And hey, I have very near that same screencap as an icon too, I think. lemme find it.
I think they came up with Angus because... I have no idea why they would do that, actually. That's just plain cruel. But it's all a horrible idea anyhow, so I'm not going to write it. *g*