The "5 Things" Meme
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dewlineComment to this post and I will pick five things I would like you to talk about. They might make sense or be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.
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ms_danson is as follows:
What do you want to be famous for?
Several things are competing for that goal/title. Right now?
Storytelling in several of its forms. My oldest ambition was to have Charles Schulz' job and to play with the toys he made. Reality drove home the impossibility of that, and that impossibility is something I've accepted living with. So, being a good, competent comic book artist would be enough.
I keep dabbling with writing prose fiction, though. You,themoo37 and a few others lurking here watch me do some of that on occasion. And there's this "Great Canadian Space Opera" that needs some attention. It's been sitting on the hard drive unfinished for years now.
Also, the stuff for Spacing Ottawa. Which constitutes keeping the hand in the journalism field to whatever level I end up capable of.
Mapping
Hobby. Both collecting and designing. Spacing helps keep that flame burning.
Ice cream
Vanilla. Neapolitan. Mint-chocolate. Dare we stretch the definition to include certain sherbets?
New vs. comfortable
Sometimes the new is comfortable right off the bat. Sometimes, you have to work at making the new comfortable. Sometimes, the work fails.
The look of the prairies
The prairies as I knew them...were a vast thing. Not limitless, but certainly a wide-ranging landscape. Croplands, punctuated by roads, buildings (either on farms or in small villages and towns), the occasional herd of cattle, an oil-well here and there. Crops or snow, depending on the season.
No mountains. Not unless you build them from scratch, as one company did with Mount Blackstrap.
You can see something like it in large portions of the southern reaches of Ontario between the cities now, south of an imaginary line reaching from Sudbury to Pembroke. Or the bulk of Prince Edward Island. But in each of those areas, it's still not quite the same.
The list I was given by
ms_danson is as follows:What do you want to be famous for?
Several things are competing for that goal/title. Right now?
Storytelling in several of its forms. My oldest ambition was to have Charles Schulz' job and to play with the toys he made. Reality drove home the impossibility of that, and that impossibility is something I've accepted living with. So, being a good, competent comic book artist would be enough.
I keep dabbling with writing prose fiction, though. You,
themoo37 and a few others lurking here watch me do some of that on occasion. And there's this "Great Canadian Space Opera" that needs some attention. It's been sitting on the hard drive unfinished for years now.Also, the stuff for Spacing Ottawa. Which constitutes keeping the hand in the journalism field to whatever level I end up capable of.
Mapping
Hobby. Both collecting and designing. Spacing helps keep that flame burning.
Ice cream
Vanilla. Neapolitan. Mint-chocolate. Dare we stretch the definition to include certain sherbets?
New vs. comfortable
Sometimes the new is comfortable right off the bat. Sometimes, you have to work at making the new comfortable. Sometimes, the work fails.
The look of the prairies
The prairies as I knew them...were a vast thing. Not limitless, but certainly a wide-ranging landscape. Croplands, punctuated by roads, buildings (either on farms or in small villages and towns), the occasional herd of cattle, an oil-well here and there. Crops or snow, depending on the season.
No mountains. Not unless you build them from scratch, as one company did with Mount Blackstrap.
You can see something like it in large portions of the southern reaches of Ontario between the cities now, south of an imaginary line reaching from Sudbury to Pembroke. Or the bulk of Prince Edward Island. But in each of those areas, it's still not quite the same.
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Date: 2012-06-14 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-06-14 05:10 am (UTC)Okay, I'll play. Last time I attempted this meme (a few years ago; Agent Def assigned me five topics) I never actually finished the post, but I'll try to do better this time.
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Date: 2012-06-14 02:21 pm (UTC)