Getting to Know Me Meme

[jesse_the_k]

Meme borrowed from delight

Are you named after someone? Yes, the songwriter Jesse Winchester, whose “Yankee Lady” I loved to sing a long time ago.

When was the last time you cried? Yesterday, reading the fabulous Sherlock BBC fic, Truth May Vary by amalnahurriyeh (for the third time)
https://archiveofourown.org/series/36364

Do you like your handwriting? I’m proud of it: learned Johnson’s Foundational Bookhand as a kid, and sold calligraphy as an adult.

What is your favorite lunch meat? Chopped chicken liver

Do you have kids? Nope. I’m allergic.

If you were another person, would you be friends with you? definitely—not easy to find someone with my particular obsessive interests.

Do you use sarcasm? More than is helpful or effective.

Do you still have your tonsils? Yep.

Would you bungee jump? You couldn’t pay me enough money.

What is your favorite kind of cereal? Hot steel-cut oatmeal, with coconut milk & blueberries

Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? Yes, unless I’ve installed stretchy laces.

Do you think you’re a strong person? I have not a clue.

What is your favorite ice cream? Chocolate Shoppe Zanzibar Chocolate

What is the first thing you notice about people? Their height, their apparent gender and race, their glasses.

What color pants and shoes are you wearing now? Tan pull-on canvas pants, dark brown ankle-height boots

What are you listening to right now? The many trucks that have swooped into our neighborhood now that the ground has thawed.

If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Burnt Umber.

Favorite smell? Chocolate and coffee (together)

Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? BB, who has known me since I was 17.

Favorite sport to watch? Submarine races

Hair colour? Brown with grey bits.

Eye colour? Brown with green bits.

Do you wear contacts? Tried but discarded.

Scary movies or comedy? Comedy!

Last movie you watched? Love & Mercy (about the Beach Boy’s Brian Wilson – 6/10)

What colour shirt are you wearing? Dark brown tank top with maroon sweatshirt cardigan

Summer or winter? Fall.

Hugs or kisses? Kisses.

What book are you currently reading? audio: Lab Girl by Hope Jahren; paper: A Life Discarded by Alexander Masters; ebook: The Case of the Green Dress by splix

What is on your mouse pad? I’m a trackpad fiend.

What is the last TV program you watched? One Mississippi by Tig Nataro (10/10)

What is the best sound? Ocean waves.

Rolling Stones or The Beatles? The Beatles

What is the furthest you have ever traveled? 9136 km (as the crow flies) Boston MA to Tel Aviv

Do you have a special talent? Synthesizing heaps of data.

Where were you born? Brookline Lying-In Hospital, Boston MA

Comments

[luzula]

Huh, maybe I should do this meme.

How are you liking the audiobook of Lab Girl?

[jesse_the_k]

I am adoring it. The author does an outstanding job -- makes me believe she's a good teacher -- and I really feel t when she talks about her mental health issues.

[luzula]

Me too! She does such a great job with the reading.

[jesse_the_k]

....and backreading I see I have you to thank for turning me on to it. Like you I'm so delighted to hear about the close working relationship between Bill & Hope. Also, I would like to have Bill along for my next disaster.

[sasha_feather]

I loved Lab Girl. :D She grew up just down the road from me.

[sasha_feather]

Neat meme!

[sanguinity]

Truth May Vary is so good. It was on my shortlist of things-to-rec this last round at 221b-recs.

[tim]

Oh hey, I was born just down the street (Beth Israel).

[replyhazy]

I adore Zanzibar Chocolate, but I tend to order Mint Avalanche more often. But my absolute fave from any supplier who has it (like Michael's) is coffee frozen custard with oreos crushed in it.