The Friday Five (hey, everyone else is doing it!).

I figured that since I tend to write a bunch of random meme-like things, anyway, I may as well have some interesting questions. So here's this week's thefridayfive, because everyone likes to feel unique! :D

1. What sets you apart from your friends?

My interest in old movies and my sometimes-overbearing cheerfulness, I guess! :D Oh, and my inability to maintain eye contact. That's always awkward.

2. What sets you apart from your family?

Not a whole lot, really. I don't drink - ever - so I guess that's something. Also, my family's known for its punctuality - obviously, I missed that boat! Heehee.  Oh, and my (relative) patience with technology.  The first time I ever heard my Dad curse just happened to coincide with the purchase of our first computer.  How mysterious.

3. What sets you apart from your coworkers/fellow students?

Coworkers? That I don't have a degree. *sadface* Fellow students? That I can sit in one place for eight hours and review the same material without taking a break. And that most days I'd much rather study than do absolutely anything else.

4. What is the one thing about you that is most unique?

I'm physically incapable of getting bored. :D It's a nice trait to have, but it means that I often feel I have to make excuses for just hanging out in my room and reading dictionaries or whatever it is I do.

5. What is your most interesting quality?

Interesting to other people? I'm not sure, you'd have to ask them. My most interesting quality to me is the seemingly random way that I'll dive into weird (and potentially not-so-good) situations. Or not. Makes things unpredictable, to say the least, though, like most impulsive things, it often backfires.

Well, that was exciting.  I hadn't memed in a while! :D

Heehee - my mood icon looks like some sort of a commercial for generic orange-coloured beverage.  THE DOCTOR AND ROSE ENDORSE ORANGE JUICE!  This is trufax.

Weather!babble and a history lesson!

Well, I predicted our little rainstorm today to within twenty minutes of its beginning, using only radar imagery.  Huzzah! 

That's the fun thing about weather forecasting - if you concentrate on a small enough area and if you know its general weather patterns well enough, you can, with a little practice, predict the next day's weather in an hour-by-hour format, and be just about always right.  And then you can extrapolate, using intuition and experience and whatnot.  I once sketched up a little weather map of the province based entirely on the clouds I saw on the bus ride to my parents' house - I managed to include all of the large-scale features, in approximately the right place.

( Cut, belatedly, because it occurred to me that not everyone's interested in 19th century weather forecasting. )

What else is new?

Well, speaking of numbers, if you sum together the years I've spent fencing and the years I've spent playing piano, you get my age.   Uh.  Yeah.  Not really that exciting, but it'll only happen once.

Heat wave's broken!  My room's 29.7 degrees C and falling.  It smells like rain.

Pointless Meme! :D

Yeah, I dunno.  Haven't done one of these in, oh, a few hours.  And I know I've been tagged on a few others.  I'll get to them someday! :D

( Cut for meme goodness! )