J.A. speaks

A couple of my friends have this meme in their LJs:

Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Randomly surfing, I found this version on a total stranger's blog:

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you’re in a heterosexual marriage/relationship (or if you think you might be someday), and you don’t want it “protected” by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Naturally, I like the latter version, because I don't feel left out. But I suspect it sounds weaker than the former.

1.) Go to Career Cruising
2.) login nycareers; password landmark
3.) Take the career match maker quiz and list the top 10 responses

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1.Website Designer
2.Industrial Designer
3.Technical Writer
4.Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
5.Desktop Publisher
6.Interior Designer
7.Fashion Designer
8.Multimedia Developer
9.Anthropologist
10.Writer

I wonder if this means my next career will be as a cartoonist... or anthropologist? or interior designer *snicker*

Is there really such a job as "desktop publisher"?

At any rate the top 3 seem pretty on target...

( and for completeness, the rest )

via eac

The first five people to respond to this post, will get some form of art, created by me, about them. I make no guarantees about quality or type, but I will assure that I will give it good effort and that the art will be individual to you, so if you get a mix CD or a haiku or some strange needlework wall hanging, yours is the only one like it.

The only catch, of course: as with most memes, if you sign up, you have to put this in your own journal as well.

via podle, paraphrased slightly

See behind the cut for a list of banned books compiled by someone eac knows, in honor of banned books week. The meme instructions:
Bold the ones you've read. Tell me which one was your favorite. Suggest one to read.
( the list )

Going through this reminded me of a lot of books I read as a child and hadn't thought of for eons. At age 11ish, I had a real love-hate relationship with Judy Blume -- I read and re-read her books obsessively, despite despising the protagonists, whom I found unbearably sappy.

For my current taste, I'd probably pick Harry Potter as my favorite -- these days I have a sweet tooth for highly refined brain candy. OTOH, anyone who hasn't read any Mary Renault is missing a treat.

I tried to just post this as a comment in podle's LJ, but it told me it was too long. Meh.

( silly zombie memey )

( world view quiz meme thingy )

Yeah, I'll own to that.

via podle