aggienaut | Friendzy!

I thought I'd do something the lovely boxsofrain did a bit ago, and declare a Friendzy (Friending frenzy!). Actually I'm not sure she intended for it to work out quite like this but it did: (1) answer the following questions in a comment; (2) As Boxes says, "Also to make this more fun, feel free to read other peoples comments and reply to them with something nice about them. ... Make friends, add each other, mingle, just please be nice." (3) extra points if you mention the Friendzy in your own LJ and send people over to the party! (=

Name:
Age:
Location:
Occupation:
Story Behind Your LJ Name:
Favourite LJ Community:
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't):
Favourite Historical Event: (/ one you just think is neat and overlooked)
Picture (optional):

Other Known Friendzies

boxsofrain's original

agirlnamedluna's Friendzy

morning_stand's Friendzy

superhappytime's Friendzy (posted TODAY!)
EDIT: it just came to my attention that there's even a

frenziedfriends community!

PS: I'll answer my own questions in a comment a little bit later today.. so check back!

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Name: Tory
Age: freshly 25
Location: North-central PA
Occupation: Writer/Editor for an engineering department at a major university
Story Behind Your LJ Name: It's a conglomeration of the towns I live near: McElhatten, Avis, and Jersey Shore (which we call Dirty Whore).
Favourite LJ Community: WeddingPlans (and no, I'm not engaged - just a jackass)
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): Uhh, I already have two pit bulls; other pets would just get eaten.
Favourite Historical Event: It's not an event so much as a thing, and probably not all that overlooked in history circles, but I'm fascinated by the Holy Roman Empire (which, as my professor would say, was neither holy nor Roman, and arguably not an empire).
Picture (optional):

Name: Orenthal

Age: Youngish Middle

Location: Central NJ, USA

Occupation: Information Technology Business Analyst

Story Behind Your LJ Name: It's short for "Pop Culture Fiend"...it fits. My friend, Keith R.A. DeCandido (kradical) dubbed me with it.

Favourite LJ Community: don't really have one

Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): Not a pet person

Favourite Historical Event: Right now, I'm thinking the latest Presidential election. Here's why: http://popfiend.livejournal.com/2360134.html

Picture (optional): An oldie, but goodie...

ACK. Neighbor.

At least when you're in SCPA

For only about two more semesters after this one. Have no idea where I'm going to end up for Grad School yet.

I live on campus and I'm one of the quiet students. :P

I'm staff in engineering - I love it here but God is the weather SHIT! Good luck w/ finding a grad school. I did my MLA at Lock Haven U... not exactly prestigious ;)

Ah yes the Holy Roman Empire is a pretty interesting historical ... pseudo-entity.

I do a lot of Model United Nations stuff because I'm a huge nerd. There's often "Historical Committees" going sometimes as far back as the League of Nations. I've been pushing for a Model Holy Roman Empire (specifically, representatives of all the major electors, trying to negotiate the end of the Hundred Years War).. so far no luck )=

Also good work on the bolding. I tried to post it in a way that the html was visible so cut and pasting it would make it bold but it was too hard to not make the html html itself. d=

Your name is Orenthal? Neat.

For the record, frenzies are as old as dirt ;)

Name: Nathalie
Age: 28
Location: Mons, Belgium
Occupation: stay-at-home mom, translator, sometimes writer
Story Behind Your LJ Name: Luna used to be my pen name, and the LJ handle is based upon that and "a girl named Hope" by Atmosphere
Favourite LJ Community:

therealljidol of course ;)
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): I have a kid, that's weird enough - but I'd really like a lizard.
Favourite Historical Event: (/ one you just think is neat and overlooked) WWI - I grew up just behind the front in the only part of Belgium that was unoccupied at the time. / the Guldensporenslag, July 11th 1302 an army of Flemish (and some now Walloon) peasants stood behind their lords and kicked out the French knight army out of Flanders (the French had annexed the territory). July 11th is the Flemish "national" holiday nowadays :)
Picture (optional):

OMG the html took me forever because I tried to use "b" then realized I had to use "strong"

UGH! But I couldn't stand the way it looked other wise :)

Can you recommend any good books about the HRE? I'd like to do some historical reading!

Name:Ashlee
Age: 27
Location: NY
Occupation: Regulatory Analyst
Story Behind Your LJ Name: What do you want me to do to do for you to see you through? A a box of rain will ease the pain and love will see you through!
Favourite LJ Community:

spoiledgirls,

therealljidol,

ohnotheydidnt
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): I want the Siamese cats from Alice in Wonderland. :(
Favourite Historical Event: April 6, 1973 was the first pictures ever taken of Saturn, along with the discovery of some of Saturns moons and rings.
Picture (optional):

Thanks for the historical facts! I love things like that. I've been a bit interested in the Eighty Years War (which i understand is mostly about Netherlands but Belgium was kind of tangentally involved no?). When I get off work I'll probably look up the the 1302 event you mention (=

Hmm actually I know of no such books. I've done my reading up on it by mucking about on the internet (= d=

I just use [b] and [/b] myself. In triangle brackets of course. That wasn't working??

Nope - it gave me a list then of acceptable html tags, so I picked the appropriate "safe tag." lol. fascists.

Well, there's now snow flurries while the sun is shining, so the weather is weird.

I have no idea where to begin to look for grad schools. I guess poking the advisers is a good idea.

How peculiar. Test test

LJ Name is from a song I'm assuming? What song?
Not knowing that I've always just liked the image of boxes of rain your lj name conjur up (=

Also I have a siamese cat. Siamese cats are so cute.

Name: Wendy

Age: 28

Location: Bay Area, CA

Occupation: Piano teacher

Story Behind Your LJ Name: I wanted a simple, alliterative LJ handle, so I looked up common first names and surnames. At the time I created my journal, I was reeeeeally into baking bread, so

bettybaker seemed a good choice.

Favourite LJ Community:

frenziedfriends, but of course. =P

Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): A wee goblin, palm-sized.

Favourite Historical Event: (/ one you just think is neat and overlooked)My birthday. Most important day ever.

I didn't know that either. =)

OMG I can't believe I didn't know about your community already! Just joined it and.. This post is already linked to by

bendar. Awesome. (=

Yay! You're all join-ed and stuff. =) I like the questions you chose for this frenzy; not too many of them, but they're interesting.

Oh gosh. You're still gorgeous.

I thought about adding "Favourite Youtube video" but keeping it short and sweet won out.

Thanks! (=

I mention that all the time.

Does no one listen?

*sniffle*

The story: http://popfiend.livejournal.com/58044.html

I just noticed that all the frenzies in the community were posted TODAY. What a crazy coincidence! Its like, frenzy day!

Whoa just looked up dik-dik and they're CUTE!

Also, looked at

useless_facts, joined it! Thanks! (=

Also, environmental scientist sounds interesting.

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