Post 10 Facts About Yourself

[Gryffindorian]

It's okay to post additional 10 facts, folks. Don't be bashful (cuz I'm not).

1. I'm at my best: on weekends and holidays; when I'm with friends and family; late in the day or late at night; after a really good meal; when I'm able to work efficiently and smoothly.
2. I'm at my worst: early in the morning on workdays; when there's a dumbass driver on the road; when co-workers, family members drive me nuts.
3. I make a mean Tuna Helper casserole.
4. I have a moderate level of emotional intelligence, which is more than I can say about other people at work.
5. I have a crush on this cute Armenian guy at work, though I would never make a move on any person I like because I don't have the guts!
6. I have an interest in personality tests and books; e.g., astrology, MBTI, names, etc.
7. I'm a sushi lover, and I can see I'm not alone.
8. I like gift cards (giving and receiving them) for birthdays and Christmas.
9. If I could have super abilities, I would pick telekinesis, illusion projection, and emotional empathic control of others.
10. Although I read entertainment magazines, I don't care much for certain celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, etc.

 

[pigletsgiblets]

1.I'm an Atheist
2.I have four cats
3.I do not plan to have any kids
4.I'm 32 years old
5.I love to read Romance novels
6.I have one brother(he's younger)
7.I hate my sister-in-law
8.My birthday is in August
9.I'm not married
10.I'm sad that Lost will not be returning this season.

 

[Gryffindorian]

10.I'm sad that Lost will not be returning this season.

When did you find that out?

 

[iguana_tonante]

1) I've known I wanted to be a singer since I was in 6th grade, but really fell in love with opera when I was 14 thanks to my music teacher at the time and a certain someone named Renee Fleming, and I only finally decided I wanted to be an opera singer May of my senior year in high school (I dabbled between classical training and musical theatre.. still not sure!)

I love opera. I must confess I am rarely in the mood for listening to a full opera, but I have a fair share of arias and choruses in my playlist. As I mentioned elsewhere, there are very few things cooler than singing "Vesti la giubba" from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci at the top of your lungs while driving on the highway. Or alternatively, while your men beat the crap out of Sean Connery. But you'll find there are more than a few opera fans on this board.

 

[J.Ashmore]

I love opera. I must confess I am rarely in the mood for listening to a full opera, but I have a fair share of arias and choruses in my playlist. As I mentioned elsewhere, there are very few things cooler than singing "Vesti la giubba" from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci at the top of your lungs while driving on the highway. Or alternatively, while your men beat the crap out of Sean Connery. But you'll find there are more than a few opera fans on this board.

Yes! I love meeting other people who love opera! I sing a lot while driving. (Not all of it good, by the way!) You have to have the patience to listen to a 3 hour opera. I, myself, can have a hard time listening to a full length one, so it also depends on the singers and actors in the part. I'm so excited that there are other people out there who like opera! And Star Trek, for that matter. None of my friends like it and so I have to resort to the internet to talk about my favorite thing(s). -sigghh-

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Yes! I love meeting other people who love opera! I sing a lot while driving.

The kind of opera I like is by Philip Glass, which does not exactly lend itself well to that kind of singing.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

*raises hand* Another opera listener here!

 

[pigletsgiblets]

10.I'm sad that Lost will not be returning this season.

When did you find that out?

I knew about it when it ended last year.

 

[Mary Ann]

*raises hand* Another opera listener here!

Me, too! I can listen to an entire opera provided I'm doing something else, like housework or knitting. Otherwise simply listening to one of my Bryn Terfel CDs makes me a very happy girl.

 

[Expendable]

1) I have an affinity for addictions (coffee, nicotine, great food, beautiful people, comfortable sheets, crisp dress shirts, tie collecting...)
2) I am currently in law school, a wonderful place for previously mentioned addictions.
3) I hate Albuquerque with a passion greater than a thousand suns. I cannot wait to return to Texas where sanity is more objective.
4) I love college football (yet another reason why being in Albuquerque SUCKS AGAIN). I'm a life long Texas Tech fan. Guns up!
5) I am developing a special relationship with my Keurig coffee maker... I'm thinking that it might begin to replace my close human relationships.
6) I love my truck. I find that it's better than a dog in many ways, less feces and more force.
7) I am the oldest of two children and yet the farthest away from being an "adult". The thought of marriage and children aren't really something I've been too terribly interested.
8) I won the Presidents Award for best representing the values of my school as an undergraduate.
9) I've pondered a life as a stand-up comic though accounting and lawyer jokes don't seem to be as popular as they could be.
10) I'm dating an artist and I'm dealing with that...

 

[Tom Hendricks]

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4) I love college football (yet another reason why being in Albuquerque SUCKS AGAIN). I'm a life long Texas Tech fan. Guns up!

Here you go, this should make you happy.

 

[Expendable]

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4) I love college football (yet another reason why being in Albuquerque SUCKS AGAIN). I'm a life long Texas Tech fan. Guns up!

Here you go, this should make you happy.

The fact that I didn't have to see that HORRIBLE ORANGE in a bowl game this year made me plenty happy!

 

[KimMH]

*raises hand* Another opera listener here!

Me, too! I can listen to an entire opera provided I'm doing something else, like housework or knitting. Otherwise simply listening to one of my Bryn Terfel CDs makes me a very happy girl.

Guuurl - I swear we must have been separated at birth!!!! My parents tell me I'm Irish and Polish though . . .

Our inimitable *YeomanRandi* is another Opera afficionado.

I'm actually new to the genre - I just wanted to listen to something grownup - and my son of all people kept giving me cds to listen to.

 

[thestrangequark]

*raises hand* Another opera listener here!

Me, too! I can listen to an entire opera provided I'm doing something else, like housework or knitting. Otherwise simply listening to one of my Bryn Terfel CDs makes me a very happy girl.

I'm an opera fan as well. My mother and I held season tickets to the Seattle opera when I was a kid, and some of my fondest memories are of dolling up to go to the opera with her. After Billy Bud, during the performance of which the lead was clad only in shorts and suspenders, we exited behind a very elderly couple and I caught a hilarious snippet of there conversation: the husband was saying to his wife, "...I'm sure all the ladies were, he was a very attractive young man!" I would have loved to have heard what preceded that. The best, though, was during the performance of Die Zauberflote, when Papageno, here played by the most charming, gorgeous young man in the world (who was a great actor as well as singer), pled with the audience for a woman. One middle aged lady on the second balcony was so caught up in the production that she stood up and hollered, "I'll have you! I'll have you, Papageno!" Which, of course, is how the production likely originally played.

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

1) I'm the oldest sibling, with a younger brother and sister.
2) Places I've traveled to include Alaska, Patagonia, Estonia and Latvia, and Japan.
3) I'm a 52-year-old male virgin.
4) I've worked for the same company for 25 years.
5) I have Master's degrees in physics and computer science.
6) I've never smoked, drank alcohol, or tried marijuana.
7) I learned to recite the 50 American states in alphabetical order when I was in school, and can still do so.
8) I got my driver's license 30 years ago, and have never driven since then.
9) I wear glasses because my vision is about 20/200.
10) I've played Ranma 1/2 characters Mousse, Tatewaki Kuno, Happosai, and Kasumi Tendo in anime LARPs (live action roleplaying games).

 

[Holdfast]

10) I've played Ranma 1/2 characters Mousse, Tatewaki Kuno, Happosai, and Kasumi Tendo in anime LARPs (live action roleplaying games).

Playing Happosai seems the perfect recipe for a lawsuit.

... Which, of course, is how the production likely originally played.

This touches on what I dislike about classical concerts and why I don't really go to any. I'm don't find music in itself worthy of rapt attention and contemplation. I can't consume it that way. I prefer it as entertainment and background.

So while I can enjoy a good opera production (because the music is being used to tell an story), I really don't like just listening to music played by an orchestra with nothing else for me to do. I quickly tire of it. So I like listening to the odd movement or aria here and there instead, while doing something else: driving, reading, chatting to someone, whatever.

Essentially I like to treat all music as divertimento pieces.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

This touches on what I dislike about classical concerts and why I don't really go to any. I'm don't find music in itself worthy of rapt attention and contemplation. I can't consume it that way. I prefer it as entertainment and background.

So while I can enjoy a good opera production (because the music is being used to tell an story), I really don't like just listening to music played by an orchestra with nothing else for me to do. I quickly tire of it. So I like listening to the odd movement or aria here and there instead, while doing something else: driving, reading, chatting to someone, whatever.

Essentially I like to treat all music as divertimento pieces.

I'm somewhat different. I like seeing things in the music itself that stimulates the mind and the soul in different ways, whether it tickles me on an intellectual, thought-provoking basis (especially during the JS Bach era), or is purely there for creating a particular atmosphere or mood (which for me is what the early to mid 20th Century pieces feel like) or is merely a bit of in-between. If it explicitly tells a story or accompanies or enriches some other medium such as stage, moving pictures, or dance, then it's an added bonus.

I should listen to more music, I think.

 

[Holdfast]

This touches on what I dislike about classical concerts and why I don't really go to any. I'm don't find music in itself worthy of rapt attention and contemplation. I can't consume it that way. I prefer it as entertainment and background.

So while I can enjoy a good opera production (because the music is being used to tell an story), I really don't like just listening to music played by an orchestra with nothing else for me to do. I quickly tire of it. So I like listening to the odd movement or aria here and there instead, while doing something else: driving, reading, chatting to someone, whatever.

Essentially I like to treat all music as divertimento pieces.

I'm somewhat different. I like seeing things in the music itself that stimulates the mind and the soul in different ways, whether it tickles me on an intellectual, thought-provoking basis (especially during the JS Bach era), or is purely there for creating a particular atmosphere or mood (which for me is what the early to mid 20th Century pieces feel like) or is merely a bit of in-between. If it explicitly tells a story or accompanies or enriches some other medium such as stage, moving pictures, or dance, then it's an added bonus.

I should listen to more music, I think.

The "somewhat different" is a bit of an understatement.

You consume music in precisely the opposite way to me; it's fascinating, really, to think of the different neuronal pathways, learned interactions, cognitive processes, emotional biases, and so on, that are involved in such a completely divergent understanding of the same stimulus.

I just cannot find value in music the way you do. For me, my favourite music (if it is not used for storytelling purposes) is something like K136; stimulating, engaging, elegantly and skillfully put together, but light enough to not annoyingly intrude on conversation. A silk scarf blowing in the breeze, if you will. An enhancer of activity, rather than an activity of its own. Of course, it was deliberately designed to be such, but that doesn't take away from the point that it's exactly the kind of classical music I prefer.

 

[J.Ashmore]

*raises hand* Another opera listener here!

Me, too! I can listen to an entire opera provided I'm doing something else, like housework or knitting. Otherwise simply listening to one of my Bryn Terfel CDs makes me a very happy girl.

OMG I love Bryn Terfel!!! I have his and Renee Fleming's CD and DVD "Under the Stars.." Also, I love love love love Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

Yay more opera friends!!

Music for me is an essential part of my life. When I listen to music, either I'm just listening it for the lyrics (like popular music on the radio) or I find myself analyzing the music (harmonies, musical terminology, intervals, cadences) or I just close my eyes and let the music wash over me like a blanket. I always have an emotional response to music. I can either listen to it for entertainment purposes, as background music whilst doing something else, or something to make me feel better and help me think, and sometimes even to help me understand why music is important to me.

I feel like I've helped move this conversation away from the original wishes of the thread so I'll post another 10 facts:

1. I own all but two of Renee Fleming's CDs and own three operas on DVD and one on CD, all with her in the respected lead role.

2. I love watching NFL games and am a Vikings fan (though this season I'm a little hesitant to say anything) I couldn't believe they won against the Eagles last night. Woo!

3. I just ate Cinnamon Toast Crunch for breakfast with a large cup of coffee.

4. Since I've been home from college, I've slept on the couch every night and I couldn't be happier!

5. All in a matter of 4 months, I hit a 9pt buck (5x4 deer) with my vehicle, fixed it up with used body parts from an identicle car, then proceeded to roll it in the ditch. I wasn't severly hurt, but did have a severe concussion.

6. The town I grew up and lived in had less people in it than my graduating class.

7. I received a $25 gift card for barnes and noble for Christmas and the same day I got it, I spent it on the Star Trek CD with all the music from the movies and shows, and a collector's pack of all the TNG movies. I felt really good about this purchase.

8. I can't wear socks to bed.

9. I get claustrophobic if blankets cover my face and I breath in hot air. I also get claustrophobic if the air conditioner in a car doesn't work, so I have to always have a window open during the summer.

10. I love, love, LOVE Holdfast's avatar!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

This touches on what I dislike about classical concerts and why I don't really go to any. I'm don't find music in itself worthy of rapt attention and contemplation. I can't consume it that way. I prefer it as entertainment and background.

So while I can enjoy a good opera production (because the music is being used to tell an story), I really don't like just listening to music played by an orchestra with nothing else for me to do. I quickly tire of it. So I like listening to the odd movement or aria here and there instead, while doing something else: driving, reading, chatting to someone, whatever.

Essentially I like to treat all music as divertimento pieces.

I'm somewhat different. I like seeing things in the music itself that stimulates the mind and the soul in different ways, whether it tickles me on an intellectual, thought-provoking basis (especially during the JS Bach era), or is purely there for creating a particular atmosphere or mood (which for me is what the early to mid 20th Century pieces feel like) or is merely a bit of in-between. If it explicitly tells a story or accompanies or enriches some other medium such as stage, moving pictures, or dance, then it's an added bonus.

I should listen to more music, I think.

The "somewhat different" is a bit of an understatement.

You consume music in precisely the opposite way to me; it's fascinating, really, to think of the different neuronal pathways, learned interactions, cognitive processes, emotional biases, and so on, that are involved in such a completely divergent understanding of the same stimulus.

I just cannot find value in music the way you do. For me, my favourite music (if it is not used for storytelling purposes) is something like K136; stimulating, engaging, elegantly and skillfully put together, but light enough to not annoyingly intrude on conversation. A silk scarf blowing in the breeze, if you will. An enhancer of activity, rather than an activity of its own. Of course, it was deliberately designed to be such, but that doesn't take away from the point that it's exactly the kind of classical music I prefer.

I think I should have majored in music. Or maybe not: it would seem too much like work.