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[liptonrm_backup]

Behold the power of the meme. Gacked from hjcallipygian, he who is the Harry to my Ron.

01. Reply with your name and I will write something I like about you.
02. I will then tell what song/movie/icon reminds me of you.
03. If I were to apply an o'clock to you, it would be...
04. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
05. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
08. Put this in your journal.

Comments

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

I am not hairy at all!

Er. Wait. You didn't say that, did you? =)

"your name"

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

I can't believe it. I actually laughed at one of your puns. Oh the shame.

*giggle*

01. What don't I like about you? It's always something to find someone with whom you share a brain. You already said everything I wanted to say, anyway.
02. Green Day. Smart, good beat, fun and too clever for your own good;-).
03. Late afternoon. 4PM, or so.
04. mierda =D
05. The birth of the Spike/Rogue crossover. It had everything, intrigue, insanity and accents.
06. Irish Setter was the first thing that came to mind. Let's go with that.
07. What do you like best about teaching?

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

It's funny -- the thing I like best about teaching is the process of finding out the best way to explain something to a person. Obviously, any concept can be explained in a myriad of different ways, and it's fun to see how many I can come up with.

Of course, I don't know if that would actually work in a classroom -- all of my teaching experience (well, most of it, at any rate) is in a tutoring basis. The classes I taught for the computer center were either lecture-based or tiny (the programming class was 4 people).

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

So it's all about the intellectual exercise for you. I see. Vedy interesting. Actually, I bet that would work really well in a classroom. You'd be one of those cool teachers who actually explains what he's talking about rather then droning on and on forever while the kids in the back make paper airplanes or sniff crack off the desk or whatever it is that kids do nowadays.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

When I was in school, we'd get those big black markers and color an entire sheet of paper and then roll it up and inhale it until you saw stars. Well, actually, I never did that. We also used to smuggle alcohol into school in thermoses (yeah, getting drunk out of an old Transformers lunchbox is the height of hip), but then one of the guys got caught with vodka in a water bottle and that was the end of that.

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

Ooh, fun!

hiyacynth

*runs off to be a copycat*

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

p.s. be nice about #5

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Man, I was such a nerd in high school. But, you know, vodka in a water bottle isn't a bad idea, too bad that kid was stupid and got caught.

And I'll have to remember that permanent marker trick ...

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is that I went to the nerd school. We didn't even have a football team.

He got caught because he poured some "water" into the sodas of several people in a not-so-circumspect manner. Yeah.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

*pouts* You're no fun. Just for that you get the creepy Frodo icon. *sticks out tongue*

01. You are one of the most supportive people I know. Always there to cheer people up and help them and make them feel better about themselves. Jolly Saint Cyn.
02. You Can't Say No to a Paratrooper Soldier - Joan Merrill
03. 1 AM and you can't get past Lake Homoerotica.
04. effulgent
05. That late night multi-fandom conversation we had the last night of the February RHAR Meeting. I don't remember exactly what was said but I do remember how comfortable and engrossing it was.
06. A cat
07. What made you decide to study journalism?

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Didn't even have a football team? Is that even possible? I went to the rich school. They weren't necessarily bright but the popular kids were awfully shiny.

Another example of how drinking makes you stupid. Or is that adolescence?

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

I think it was a perfect mixture of both. =)

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

Aww, see? My heart expands, has grown a bulge in it! You're Lip! Great for morale!

Hmm... Journalism. I've always written and edited, but when I started college I had this idea that I'd be a teacher. So I started out in OSU's School of Education. Which I found to be deadly dull. They wouldn't let you take any major classes until your last two years, and I think I got committmentphobic: What if I got to those classes and realized I didn't like it and then had to start all over? So over the summer I talked with my mom, and she reminded me of the reading/writing/editing thing. When I got back to school I went to talk with the head of the J Department straight off. He impressed me enough that I signed up for the three J courses I could take as a new major. And I loved it. Loved the care we were forced to take with our words; loved the really tough grammar training we got that all students should get in high school but don't; loved being in whole classes full of likeminded word geeks; loved that I really had to work to earn my grades, because if you got sloppy they flunked your story. I started working at the paper almost immediately, to meet my classes' publication requirements, and loved that even more.

Seriously, if anyone out there is in college or heading there soon, take a newswriting class, take a grammar/wordcraft/editing class. Not only will it make you a better writer, but it will allow you to coast through any other class or job where you have do to any writing at all. Never underestimate the ability to write a complete sentence and summarize things succinctly.

Also, man, whose idea was it to drink rapidly and heavily to celebrate V-E Day? Because I blame that person entirely for the Stall of Lake Homoerotica and all ensuing madness. Oh, wait. That was me. Crap.

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

lol. i love that my whole speech about journalism and how it makes you a succinct writer took like four pages.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Hee, well, if it's any consolation it could have been a whole lot longer. My college writing experience was the complete opposite. History majors are supposed to be long-winded and pedantic.

Shoot, the Stall at Lake Homoerotica is one of my favorite moments ever. It was well-deserving of a prolonged investigation. mmmmmmm ... thigh

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

I say we add further study of the Lake Homoerotica phenomenon to the agenda of the next meeting of the RHAR Executive Committee.

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

Me! This sounds like fun. :)

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

I second this inspired motion. So let it be written, so let it be done.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

You you you! =D

01. You don't let other people tell you what you should be. You are who you are and that's that, no matter what anyone else says. You're also wicked creative, you sing, you write, you sew and you've found a way to balance the things that are important to you so that you can be both happy and productive.
02. S'on me regard - Anonymous 4. A medieval french madrigal performed by a group of a capella female vocalists.
03. 11 AM
04. multifaceted
05. I'm terrible at remembering specifics, but I do remember a great lj chat about mormon feminists. *points to icon* That was a good moment.
06. a cocker spaniel
07. What do you find most intriguing about medieval history/literature/etc.?

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

And here's (http://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0JYALFVJ738IK3AOOZVOR4GDVM) the song I was talking about.

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

I must have that CD! That song is gorgeous!

Oh, and in answer to the medieval question: I like medieval lit and history because it tells incredible stories. I am a complete sucker for a good yarn, and there were a lot in the medieval times.

:)