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Nov. 28th, 2009 02:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arisha~ First off, if anyone cares, I edited the answers to my movie quiz into the post. And now I am stealing another meme, this time from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_wykydtron.
1. My username is ______ because ______.
I have definitely answered this one before.
2. My name is _____ because ______.
Sarah. Lolariously enough, before they even met, both of my parents had decided they wanted to name their future daughter Sarah. My mother chose the name because both of her grandmothers were named Sarah. My dad is a genealogist, and he chose the name because it's the most common name among my female ancestors. :P (My brother's name is the most common name among our male ancestors.) When I was younger, I definitely wanted to change my name, but eventually I just got used to it, although I continue to be annoyed by how common it is. (My mom insists it wasn't common until after I had been named, ha!)
I have two middle names: my maternal grandmother's first name, and my paternal grandmother's first name. (My brother's middle names are flipped: our paternal grandfather's first name, our maternal grandfather's first name.) My second middle name is the reason my mother cries, "Hey, it's your song!" every time "Hey There Delilah" comes on the radio. ^^;
3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
¡Sarah! Because exclamation marks are awesome. (The "by betraying other pirates" subtitle is from one of my favourite lines in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. xD )
4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
Not Androkles. I recognize that this is purely for my own amusement, hahaha. It's from Disney's Hercules TV series, from the episode where Cassandra tries to teach Hercules to lie and he can't even manage to tell someone his name is Androkles. For a while the title of my journal was "Androkles," hence everyone on the friends page being "Not Androkles." Why yes, this is exactly how cool I am.
5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
Reina Tanaka from Morning Musume, because she is awesome.
~ I should probably mention at some point that I have kinda-sorta-mostly dropped out of NaNoWriMo this year. In a previous entry where I was freaking out about my ability to finish NaNo and pass the JLPT,the_wykydtron correctly pointed out that I would be more upset if I failed the JLPT than if I failed NaNo, and ... there it is. I'm glad I made this decision, because I have definitely felt less stressed since I made it, but at the same time I'm really bummed and really frustrated that I let myself get so behind in both tasks that in the end I had to drop one completely. I shall just have to do lots of writing in December to make up for it, I guess! :3 (lol, but remind me to change my excerpt before it's too late! I'm not sure I like the current one enough for it to be up for an entire year. ^^; )
UGH though, the amount of work I'm having to do to protect my precious little study time! It's like as soon as I decided that studying was my number one priority, all of my co-workers have a desperate need for me to take their shifts. Often because they have exams to study for, lolariously enough. Well too bad, I booked this time off and it is MINE. :P
~ My mom's work is doing this thing through the Salvation Army where each employee is assigned a child in need to buy a Christmas present for! My mom was supposed to buy a gift for a five-year-old girl, and so yesterday she and I went and bought a bouncing Tigger board game sort of thing (and the necessary batteries) and a Dora the Explorer puzzle. (lol, yes, a puzzle - I'm totally going to be one of those adults from whom no kid wants to get presents, haha!) So that was fun! Mom asked what my work is doing for the holidays and I kind of laughed at that. Like, one year I think they did a can drive, and that's about it. I don't have a lot of faith in the humanitarian spirit of this company. :X
~ November has gone way too quickly, what the heck. :|
the_wykydtron.1. My username is ______ because ______.
I have definitely answered this one before.
2. My name is _____ because ______.
Sarah. Lolariously enough, before they even met, both of my parents had decided they wanted to name their future daughter Sarah. My mother chose the name because both of her grandmothers were named Sarah. My dad is a genealogist, and he chose the name because it's the most common name among my female ancestors. :P (My brother's name is the most common name among our male ancestors.) When I was younger, I definitely wanted to change my name, but eventually I just got used to it, although I continue to be annoyed by how common it is. (My mom insists it wasn't common until after I had been named, ha!)
I have two middle names: my maternal grandmother's first name, and my paternal grandmother's first name. (My brother's middle names are flipped: our paternal grandfather's first name, our maternal grandfather's first name.) My second middle name is the reason my mother cries, "Hey, it's your song!" every time "Hey There Delilah" comes on the radio. ^^;
3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
¡Sarah! Because exclamation marks are awesome. (The "by betraying other pirates" subtitle is from one of my favourite lines in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. xD )
4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
Not Androkles. I recognize that this is purely for my own amusement, hahaha. It's from Disney's Hercules TV series, from the episode where Cassandra tries to teach Hercules to lie and he can't even manage to tell someone his name is Androkles. For a while the title of my journal was "Androkles," hence everyone on the friends page being "Not Androkles." Why yes, this is exactly how cool I am.
5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
Reina Tanaka from Morning Musume, because she is awesome.
~ I should probably mention at some point that I have kinda-sorta-mostly dropped out of NaNoWriMo this year. In a previous entry where I was freaking out about my ability to finish NaNo and pass the JLPT,
the_wykydtron correctly pointed out that I would be more upset if I failed the JLPT than if I failed NaNo, and ... there it is. I'm glad I made this decision, because I have definitely felt less stressed since I made it, but at the same time I'm really bummed and really frustrated that I let myself get so behind in both tasks that in the end I had to drop one completely. I shall just have to do lots of writing in December to make up for it, I guess! :3 (lol, but remind me to change my excerpt before it's too late! I'm not sure I like the current one enough for it to be up for an entire year. ^^; )UGH though, the amount of work I'm having to do to protect my precious little study time! It's like as soon as I decided that studying was my number one priority, all of my co-workers have a desperate need for me to take their shifts. Often because they have exams to study for, lolariously enough. Well too bad, I booked this time off and it is MINE. :P
~ My mom's work is doing this thing through the Salvation Army where each employee is assigned a child in need to buy a Christmas present for! My mom was supposed to buy a gift for a five-year-old girl, and so yesterday she and I went and bought a bouncing Tigger board game sort of thing (and the necessary batteries) and a Dora the Explorer puzzle. (lol, yes, a puzzle - I'm totally going to be one of those adults from whom no kid wants to get presents, haha!) So that was fun! Mom asked what my work is doing for the holidays and I kind of laughed at that. Like, one year I think they did a can drive, and that's about it. I don't have a lot of faith in the humanitarian spirit of this company. :X
~ November has gone way too quickly, what the heck. :|