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All about my mother's daughter
Jun. 6th, 2010 11:10 amLa ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ultraruby was giving out questions:
1.) What plans do you have? And what dreams? By which I mean, do you have ideas about how you'd like your future to turn out?
2.) What are the three best and worst things about living in Hackney?
3.) What are you main talents?
4.) And your main failings?
5.) Describe yourself in 19 words
1. Crikey. I'm not a big planner. I am only motivated to e.g. change my job when I can bear it no longer. We could probably afford a bigger place but the thought of moving fills me with dread. I have idle plans of living elsewhere but I'm not sure I'll ever see them through. My only ever desire when younger was to live in London and be part of the indie scene and I've done that. I want a garden and a cat, those are the only (material) things that make me envious of other people.
2. Best: The, for want of a better word, community. The artists and the boat dwellers. The cyclistas and fashionistas and baristas. The bike shops, coffee shpos, book shpos, record shops. Street markets. The people who are doing shit themselves, rather than deferring their lives to Soho or to B&Q and a 2.4 lifestyle. The Jews and the Muslims. The open spaces that still seem to be secret.
Worst: Noise, crime, kids eating junk food on buses and shrieking.
3. This is like a job interview. Not withstanding my obvious prejudices towards public school boys, Tories, the rich, old people, young people, children, car drivers, Arriva buses and Daily Mail readers, I'm pretty open minded. Being able to see people's strengths/weaknesses quite clearly without being fooled by their popularity, fashionability, seeming confidence etc. Loyalty, un-flakiness (I'll be where I've said I'll be at the right time), tenacity (once I've said I'll do something I will do it and not let people down), not believing the hype, bone-dry sense of humour, sarcasm. You could probably categorise these things as NORTHERN, although I didn't know I was northern until I became a southerner.
4. Negativity, pessimism, apathy, being unable to warm to people until I've known them for a long time, argumentativeness, lack of motivation (see 1), sarcasm, facetiousness, bored easily but resistant to change (see 1), social awkwardness, sociopathic tendencies, desire for solitude, intolerance to noise and crowds, hormonal moods, default setting = grumpy and suspicious.
5. I am one of the most wonderful human beings you will ever meet. No, that's not right is it.
ultraruby was giving out questions:1.) What plans do you have? And what dreams? By which I mean, do you have ideas about how you'd like your future to turn out?
2.) What are the three best and worst things about living in Hackney?
3.) What are you main talents?
4.) And your main failings?
5.) Describe yourself in 19 words
1. Crikey. I'm not a big planner. I am only motivated to e.g. change my job when I can bear it no longer. We could probably afford a bigger place but the thought of moving fills me with dread. I have idle plans of living elsewhere but I'm not sure I'll ever see them through. My only ever desire when younger was to live in London and be part of the indie scene and I've done that. I want a garden and a cat, those are the only (material) things that make me envious of other people.
2. Best: The, for want of a better word, community. The artists and the boat dwellers. The cyclistas and fashionistas and baristas. The bike shops, coffee shpos, book shpos, record shops. Street markets. The people who are doing shit themselves, rather than deferring their lives to Soho or to B&Q and a 2.4 lifestyle. The Jews and the Muslims. The open spaces that still seem to be secret.
Worst: Noise, crime, kids eating junk food on buses and shrieking.
3. This is like a job interview. Not withstanding my obvious prejudices towards public school boys, Tories, the rich, old people, young people, children, car drivers, Arriva buses and Daily Mail readers, I'm pretty open minded. Being able to see people's strengths/weaknesses quite clearly without being fooled by their popularity, fashionability, seeming confidence etc. Loyalty, un-flakiness (I'll be where I've said I'll be at the right time), tenacity (once I've said I'll do something I will do it and not let people down), not believing the hype, bone-dry sense of humour, sarcasm. You could probably categorise these things as NORTHERN, although I didn't know I was northern until I became a southerner.
4. Negativity, pessimism, apathy, being unable to warm to people until I've known them for a long time, argumentativeness, lack of motivation (see 1), sarcasm, facetiousness, bored easily but resistant to change (see 1), social awkwardness, sociopathic tendencies, desire for solitude, intolerance to noise and crowds, hormonal moods, default setting = grumpy and suspicious.
5. I am one of the most wonderful human beings you will ever meet. No, that's not right is it.
