(a day late, seems to be a habit I’m picking up around here)

Nettle has tagged me for a “Six Random Things” meme, so here is my offering. ;)
http://everthorn.net/Musing/2007/06/eight-random-facts/?p=37

But Maebius, you cry, it is against the rules of blogging to simply link to prior posts as content?!? I’ll grant you that one.

The rules are:

1. Link to the person or persons who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

1) I am currently wearing khaki corduroy pants and a black long-sleeved lighter-than-sweater, heavier-than-t-shirt ensemble at work. Lately, I’ve been on a black pants and sweater kick, but my black pants have all gotten too dirty and need washing today. My co-worker commented that he was surprised to see I switched my wardrobe around (black top) since it was becoming my “uniform” to wear black slacks or jeans, or trousers every day for the last two or three months. Wonder why I dislike jeans and khakis all the sudden?

2) This is the Flory coat of arms/crest. My surname is of French descent, though my geneology here on this continent is mainly German, PA Dutch, and Scottish background. The French influence had long since been diluted, though the name carried down the paternal chain before the first settlers landed in America. My great, great, etc, great grandfather (Joseph J. Flory) rode over on the ship “Hope” according to our research, and arrived in the US in 1733.

(Here is a link to a decent summary, chapter 2 mentions Joseph J Flory.)

3) While I am right-handed, there are a number of things I do wth my left hand unless actively thinking about switching to the other. They include: Eating, Throwing Frizbees, typing most things (I don’t touch-type, and my left finger usually goes as far over as H on the keyboard), and stirring things, as well opening push doors (I pull w/ right, push w/ left). Some people find this odd.

4) I have a crazy attraction to pottery. I’ve long harbored a desire to take a pottery class, but never got the willpower to do it since “I might not create the ultimate masterpiece I have in my mind”. However, I could spend days in the corning glass museum, pottery barn, and other stores just looking at the myriad of clay-based creations. Renaissance Faires and other artisan-friendly craft markets are like a drug. I want to BUY IT ALL, but know I’d never actually use the pieces and they’d take up too much space. Still, there’s that instinctive urge to look/touch/own anything from the smallest kindergarden-made snake, to elaborate drinking bowls and ceramics.

Strangely, Play-Doh and clay don’t call to me to create things with them. It’s only fired and glazed items made by others that I vicariously crave the ability to make. This= /drool

5) I have a small collection of secret-treasure books. These are old large tomes from various flea markets, or garage sales and each is thick like a dictionary, but are various subjects like “cooking for parties (from 1970, etc)”, or old faded fictional works I never intend to read. The reason I call them treasure books are that each has had the inner pages cut out to make a kind of box-storage space between the covers, which looks like a normal book from the outside. I have about 5 of these, and they are all currently empty since I don’t know what to store inside them. :)

6) When I play certain RPG-style video games, I am the type of person who seeks out the “non-standard” methods of playing. For those who know the genre, I like healers more than warriors, and tend to see how ‘buff’ I can make a healing character. I play defensively in that I value armor over weapon skill, and enjoy the challenge of playing Final Fantasy 7 with a focus on Red13 and Yuphie, rather than Cloud and Tifa.

In the World of Warcraft MMO, I play a discipline Priest and a survival Hunter, for the very same reasons. They are considered “off-spec” and garner a slight amount of derision for not being the most min-maxed characters in a raiding situation. I don’t raid, I roleplay. I think this stems from some sort of desire to be “outcast/fringe” in nature. Hmmm..

Tagging people who read my blog, but since just about every pagan-friendly blog in my feed reader has already DONE this, I’ll have to limit it to Wren of Kwitchery, and Varulv of…er… Varulv’s unknown blog that needs to exist. :)

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