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eponymous_rose1. This set of closely-related sentences that emulates stream-of-consciousness is, apparently, called a 100 list.
2. I came across the idea for the first time just now when searching for further information on sugar headaches.
3. I fight sugar headaches by drinking lots of milk and water and eating bananas.
4. This actually never works, so I wind up taking an Advil, which always works.
5. I try never to take painkillers if I can avoid it.
6. I can't avoid it during a certain obnoxious time of the month.
7. I can avoid it in most other situations, since I've developed a high pain tolerance.
8. When I had my wisdom teeth removed and the nurse handed me some heavy-duty pills for the pain, I palmed them and pretended to swallow them.
9. Somewhere in my cupboard is a collection of unused painkillers that can make wallpaper crawl.
10. Eventually I'll get around to throwing them out, but some weird part of me thinks they'd be important in an emergency.
11. I carry lots of odd things around in case of emergency, including a flashlight, a roll of measuring tape, a packet of bandages, chemical handwarmers, and a packet of kleenex.
12. All of these things have come in handy at least once.
13. I get teased the most over the handwarmers, because they're pretty heavy-duty.
14. When we built the weather station on the roof of a fifteen-storey building in the middle of winter, I was kind enough to forgive the ribbing and share.
15. Now they're all in my debt. *evil laugh*
16. I actually know very few of my classmates, because my program is so small and because I'm the only one in my high school graduating class who still attends this university.
17. The ones I have met are really nice, and it's always good to have someone with whom to argue loudly about tornadoes in a pub.
18. Though I could legally do so on my eighteenth birthday, I didn't visit a bar or pub until I was nineteen.
19. I don't drink, ever.
20. I also don't smoke or gamble, since I have an obsessive personality.
21. I like messing around with said obsessive personality, because it's just occurred to me that, if I focus hard enough, I can stop obsessing over things at will.
22. This is my superpower.
23. It's a pretty lame superpower, though, so I think I'll go with superhuman eyesight.
24. I have had a grand total of one eye appointment in the last ten years, and I hated it because of the eye drops that blurred my vision afterwards.
25. The scariest thing about my knee surgery was waking up in the recovery room and not being able to read the little clock on the other side of the room.
26. It took almost two weeks for my eyesight to get back to normal.
27. I spent those two weeks alternating between the hospital and my Mom's home office, the only room in the house with a bed that didn't involve stairs.
28. I watched a lot of Angel, because there was a handy-dandy little portable DVD player kicking around.
29. I can't remember a thing about that whole series.
30. I've been a Buffy fan for quite a long time.
31. My whole family is very much into Joss Whedony stuff.
32. When my Grandma called and asked what we were doing, my Dad once chirpily replied: "Watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer!"
33. Grandma never asked him to elaborate.
34. My Mom, for reasons far beyond comprehension, tried to get her ninety-year-old Mom, my Gran, hooked on Buffy.
35. It didn't work.
36. We have my Gran over for Christmas Eve/Day each year.
37. Last year, Mom spent Christmas Eve sleeping on the couch so she could remind Gran of where she was and what was happening every time Gran got out of bed looking for her usual room.
38. Memory loss is a scary thing, but Gran can pass (with flying colours) any of the ridiculous memory tests the doctors concoct because she's very good at filling in the gaps and is naturally clever.
39. My own memory is crap, which is why I have an elaborate system of notes and to-do lists in place throughout the school year.
40. During the summer, I frequently schedule three or four things for the same day because I cannot make the connection between these events.
41. I need a bigger calendar.
42. My current calendar has pictures of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce from the Sherlock Holmes series.
43. My Dad idolizes Basil Rathbone; Mom doesn't care for him.
44. Dad is a hopeless fanboy and has accepted this fact; Mom is just entering the strange new world of shipping/slashing and is a little terrified ("I was watching House the other day and couldn't help thinking that House and Wilson would make a really cute couple. Is that weird?")
45. My Dad does the previous-generation stereotype thing of discovering a word like "fandom" and bandying it about like he's invented it.
46. It should be annoying, but it's really sort of endearing.
47. I love the fact that my family is so atypical in a lot of ways, particularly when I put my roommates' family up for comparison.
48. In their family, the girls wear frilly dresses to special occasions or suffer the consequences.
49. My cousin wore a full tuxedo to her brother's wedding; nobody really noticed.
50. I can't remember the last dress I owned.
51. That's a lie; it was for my high school graduation, and it was a really just a simple blue-black gown with no frills or gimmicks.
52. I went to the back of the auditorium for the silly promenade, and suddenly a guy I barely knew was stammering and blushing and asking to walk with me.
53. It was weird, but flattering.
54. In October of my first year of university, a guy in my Physics class stopped me in the hallway and asked if I wanted to go for coffee, and I agreed.
55. We discovered that neither of us actually liked coffee and spent the three hours of our "date" wandering through a forest and swapping zombie stories.
56. I don't have the first idea how to be a girlfriend, but I think I can make a pretty good friend.
57. The overwhelming majority of my friends are male.
58. This is probably because I'm in a bit of a male-dominated profession (female professors in my department? zero.), and because the only sport I do is fencing.
59. I like fencing because I can spin all sorts of wild theories and strategies and discourse for hours about the differences between sabre and foil(and how they're both clearly inferior to my weapon) and then get up to the piste and forget everything and fence purely by instinct.
60. I'm not a particularly good fencer, but I love fencing.
61. The same goes for piano.
62. My parents caved and let me start taking piano lessons at seven (I was taking ballet at the time as well) once they realized that I'd faked sick several dozen times over the past few years just so I'd have to come along to my little brother's lessons.
63. My brother gave up piano when he was five.
64. He started choir when he was fifteen and never looked back.
65. It was like he'd spent his whole life not having any idea what he wanted to do, and suddenly it just snapped.
66. I suppose that sort of thing happens to a lot of people, but it's still amazing to have witnessed.
67. All through high school, I didn't have a clue what I wanted to do with my life, because I was interested in everything.
68. I picked the right little piece of everything to pursue.
69. I'm still not sure whether I want to be an operational meteorologist (forecaster) or a professor.
70. I don't know if I could handle the former; it's very repetitive work, and while I thrive on repetition, when it turns to routine I'm sunk.
71. Being a professor seems like a dementedly difficult and frustrating job.
72. I think I'd love it.
73. I want to go somewhere else to take my graduate degree, but some part of me suspects that I'll just stick around here for the rest of my life, because this is where the weather happens.
74. That bothers me.
75. I am considering sneakily applying for an internship in Montreal this October instead of the one here.
76. I can't remember Montreal at all, but desperately want to go back.
77. I visited it twice, in grades five and six, for the same French spelling contest.
78. The first time, I had such severe food poisoning on the day of the contest that I couldn't even get into the ambulance - but was perfectly fine the next day.
79. The second time, I did the contest and was on national TV and didn't win, but it was okay because they gave me a big backpack full of French magazines and interesting software as a consolation prize.
80. I've always liked computers because I'm a bit of a sequential processor myself.
81. I pick up programming languages extremely quickly and sort of regret not taking the more advanced computing course so I could at least have taken other computing courses without having to bulk up my prerequisites.
82. On the other hand, the course I did take was an easy A.
83. I worked hard to get top marks in high school for financial reasons, but somewhere along the way I realized how much I loved studying and learning.
84. I love university more than I ever though possible.
85. People in my classes generally don't know what my marks are, because high school was a mess of other people trying to get me to do their homework and exclaiming loudly if they ever discovered a mark below 95% on my desk.
86. I hold my tongue when the cocky, misogynistic astrophysicist in one of my classes brags loudly about his A- in Newtonian Mechanics and Relativity (I got an A, jerkface.)
87. I love tutoring people.
88. In high school, I accepted two tutoring jobs that I really wasn't prepared for.
89. The first was for my brother's classmate, who was having trouble getting her 80% in tenth-grade math.
90. She got it, but I'm pretty sure she would've anyway, because she was downright brilliant and just forgot about Pythagoras.
91. The second was for my Dad's secretary's son, who was taking Calculus at the same time as me.
92. He didn't mind the fact that our class didn't do differentiation and integration of exponentials or logarithms, and so I wound up teaching myself along with him.
93. I once went back to see my second-grade teacher, in preparation for a tutoring job with a girl I babysat.
94. She was shorter than I remembered, and she spoke French with an English accent.
95. I hate the fact that I'm losing my French, because I love the language so much.
96. There's time enough to learn it again, though.
97. When I was little and both of my parents were working long hours, we'd have a fifteen-minute period at seven o'clock where they'd both drop whatever they were doing and do whatever my brother and I wanted to do.
98. That was a brilliant move on their part, because fifteen minutes is forever to a little kid.
99. I like doing things that make the minutes stretch by, and I strongly dislike watching the clock.
100. Nonetheless, this took me way too long to do. Heehee. :D
2. I came across the idea for the first time just now when searching for further information on sugar headaches.
3. I fight sugar headaches by drinking lots of milk and water and eating bananas.
4. This actually never works, so I wind up taking an Advil, which always works.
5. I try never to take painkillers if I can avoid it.
6. I can't avoid it during a certain obnoxious time of the month.
7. I can avoid it in most other situations, since I've developed a high pain tolerance.
8. When I had my wisdom teeth removed and the nurse handed me some heavy-duty pills for the pain, I palmed them and pretended to swallow them.
9. Somewhere in my cupboard is a collection of unused painkillers that can make wallpaper crawl.
10. Eventually I'll get around to throwing them out, but some weird part of me thinks they'd be important in an emergency.
11. I carry lots of odd things around in case of emergency, including a flashlight, a roll of measuring tape, a packet of bandages, chemical handwarmers, and a packet of kleenex.
12. All of these things have come in handy at least once.
13. I get teased the most over the handwarmers, because they're pretty heavy-duty.
14. When we built the weather station on the roof of a fifteen-storey building in the middle of winter, I was kind enough to forgive the ribbing and share.
15. Now they're all in my debt. *evil laugh*
16. I actually know very few of my classmates, because my program is so small and because I'm the only one in my high school graduating class who still attends this university.
17. The ones I have met are really nice, and it's always good to have someone with whom to argue loudly about tornadoes in a pub.
18. Though I could legally do so on my eighteenth birthday, I didn't visit a bar or pub until I was nineteen.
19. I don't drink, ever.
20. I also don't smoke or gamble, since I have an obsessive personality.
21. I like messing around with said obsessive personality, because it's just occurred to me that, if I focus hard enough, I can stop obsessing over things at will.
22. This is my superpower.
23. It's a pretty lame superpower, though, so I think I'll go with superhuman eyesight.
24. I have had a grand total of one eye appointment in the last ten years, and I hated it because of the eye drops that blurred my vision afterwards.
25. The scariest thing about my knee surgery was waking up in the recovery room and not being able to read the little clock on the other side of the room.
26. It took almost two weeks for my eyesight to get back to normal.
27. I spent those two weeks alternating between the hospital and my Mom's home office, the only room in the house with a bed that didn't involve stairs.
28. I watched a lot of Angel, because there was a handy-dandy little portable DVD player kicking around.
29. I can't remember a thing about that whole series.
30. I've been a Buffy fan for quite a long time.
31. My whole family is very much into Joss Whedony stuff.
32. When my Grandma called and asked what we were doing, my Dad once chirpily replied: "Watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer!"
33. Grandma never asked him to elaborate.
34. My Mom, for reasons far beyond comprehension, tried to get her ninety-year-old Mom, my Gran, hooked on Buffy.
35. It didn't work.
36. We have my Gran over for Christmas Eve/Day each year.
37. Last year, Mom spent Christmas Eve sleeping on the couch so she could remind Gran of where she was and what was happening every time Gran got out of bed looking for her usual room.
38. Memory loss is a scary thing, but Gran can pass (with flying colours) any of the ridiculous memory tests the doctors concoct because she's very good at filling in the gaps and is naturally clever.
39. My own memory is crap, which is why I have an elaborate system of notes and to-do lists in place throughout the school year.
40. During the summer, I frequently schedule three or four things for the same day because I cannot make the connection between these events.
41. I need a bigger calendar.
42. My current calendar has pictures of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce from the Sherlock Holmes series.
43. My Dad idolizes Basil Rathbone; Mom doesn't care for him.
44. Dad is a hopeless fanboy and has accepted this fact; Mom is just entering the strange new world of shipping/slashing and is a little terrified ("I was watching House the other day and couldn't help thinking that House and Wilson would make a really cute couple. Is that weird?")
45. My Dad does the previous-generation stereotype thing of discovering a word like "fandom" and bandying it about like he's invented it.
46. It should be annoying, but it's really sort of endearing.
47. I love the fact that my family is so atypical in a lot of ways, particularly when I put my roommates' family up for comparison.
48. In their family, the girls wear frilly dresses to special occasions or suffer the consequences.
49. My cousin wore a full tuxedo to her brother's wedding; nobody really noticed.
50. I can't remember the last dress I owned.
51. That's a lie; it was for my high school graduation, and it was a really just a simple blue-black gown with no frills or gimmicks.
52. I went to the back of the auditorium for the silly promenade, and suddenly a guy I barely knew was stammering and blushing and asking to walk with me.
53. It was weird, but flattering.
54. In October of my first year of university, a guy in my Physics class stopped me in the hallway and asked if I wanted to go for coffee, and I agreed.
55. We discovered that neither of us actually liked coffee and spent the three hours of our "date" wandering through a forest and swapping zombie stories.
56. I don't have the first idea how to be a girlfriend, but I think I can make a pretty good friend.
57. The overwhelming majority of my friends are male.
58. This is probably because I'm in a bit of a male-dominated profession (female professors in my department? zero.), and because the only sport I do is fencing.
59. I like fencing because I can spin all sorts of wild theories and strategies and discourse for hours about the differences between sabre and foil
60. I'm not a particularly good fencer, but I love fencing.
61. The same goes for piano.
62. My parents caved and let me start taking piano lessons at seven (I was taking ballet at the time as well) once they realized that I'd faked sick several dozen times over the past few years just so I'd have to come along to my little brother's lessons.
63. My brother gave up piano when he was five.
64. He started choir when he was fifteen and never looked back.
65. It was like he'd spent his whole life not having any idea what he wanted to do, and suddenly it just snapped.
66. I suppose that sort of thing happens to a lot of people, but it's still amazing to have witnessed.
67. All through high school, I didn't have a clue what I wanted to do with my life, because I was interested in everything.
68. I picked the right little piece of everything to pursue.
69. I'm still not sure whether I want to be an operational meteorologist (forecaster) or a professor.
70. I don't know if I could handle the former; it's very repetitive work, and while I thrive on repetition, when it turns to routine I'm sunk.
71. Being a professor seems like a dementedly difficult and frustrating job.
72. I think I'd love it.
73. I want to go somewhere else to take my graduate degree, but some part of me suspects that I'll just stick around here for the rest of my life, because this is where the weather happens.
74. That bothers me.
75. I am considering sneakily applying for an internship in Montreal this October instead of the one here.
76. I can't remember Montreal at all, but desperately want to go back.
77. I visited it twice, in grades five and six, for the same French spelling contest.
78. The first time, I had such severe food poisoning on the day of the contest that I couldn't even get into the ambulance - but was perfectly fine the next day.
79. The second time, I did the contest and was on national TV and didn't win, but it was okay because they gave me a big backpack full of French magazines and interesting software as a consolation prize.
80. I've always liked computers because I'm a bit of a sequential processor myself.
81. I pick up programming languages extremely quickly and sort of regret not taking the more advanced computing course so I could at least have taken other computing courses without having to bulk up my prerequisites.
82. On the other hand, the course I did take was an easy A.
83. I worked hard to get top marks in high school for financial reasons, but somewhere along the way I realized how much I loved studying and learning.
84. I love university more than I ever though possible.
85. People in my classes generally don't know what my marks are, because high school was a mess of other people trying to get me to do their homework and exclaiming loudly if they ever discovered a mark below 95% on my desk.
86. I hold my tongue when the cocky, misogynistic astrophysicist in one of my classes brags loudly about his A- in Newtonian Mechanics and Relativity (I got an A, jerkface.)
87. I love tutoring people.
88. In high school, I accepted two tutoring jobs that I really wasn't prepared for.
89. The first was for my brother's classmate, who was having trouble getting her 80% in tenth-grade math.
90. She got it, but I'm pretty sure she would've anyway, because she was downright brilliant and just forgot about Pythagoras.
91. The second was for my Dad's secretary's son, who was taking Calculus at the same time as me.
92. He didn't mind the fact that our class didn't do differentiation and integration of exponentials or logarithms, and so I wound up teaching myself along with him.
93. I once went back to see my second-grade teacher, in preparation for a tutoring job with a girl I babysat.
94. She was shorter than I remembered, and she spoke French with an English accent.
95. I hate the fact that I'm losing my French, because I love the language so much.
96. There's time enough to learn it again, though.
97. When I was little and both of my parents were working long hours, we'd have a fifteen-minute period at seven o'clock where they'd both drop whatever they were doing and do whatever my brother and I wanted to do.
98. That was a brilliant move on their part, because fifteen minutes is forever to a little kid.
99. I like doing things that make the minutes stretch by, and I strongly dislike watching the clock.
100. Nonetheless, this took me way too long to do. Heehee. :D
That was fun. Just got back from playing basketball with my roommate; we're both terrible at it and have agreed to make it a regular thing. Huzzah! :D
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Date: 2007-07-28 05:12 am (UTC)"Make Someone Feel Special! Let's Commit a Rhyme Together!"
It's... it's like a felony, committing a rhyme. Goodness.
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Date: 2007-07-28 06:11 am (UTC)I can't make these things up. :D