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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YES ABOUT THE TRUCE!
that's one of the most awesome things ever to happen. Where I lived it's actually common knowledge, but it is globally unknown or rather it isn't talked about. My grandpa used to tell me that story. Did you know there's a French movie about it? I'd have to look up the title, but when the film came out the story was apparently a shock to many people because you know, TEH EVILE GERMANS. My grandpa always used to say that the German soldiers were just boys anyway (he was a doc during WWII) and that you could hardly blame THEM for everything. But, I love, love, love that story about WWI.

19th century Europe was full of secret agreements and such. At least the later half was. I just had to go through class today listening to a lecture about diplomacy that led up to the First World War and read about it last night. x.x

It's all really fascinating since no one actually knew the all of the details of what was going on. They knew these agreements were there between other countries, but they weren't sure what they contained if they weren't involved and even in their own country all of the details of a treaty was kept to only a couple of people.

Might still be going on today.

its one of the few stories that really makes you think wow, maybe there really is still some humanity in humanity. I literally cannot adequately sum up how I feel about the incident in writing in any way that does it justice.

Randomly, I own a book about the Truce myself. Then again, I'm one of the weird Americans who knows more about WWI than celebrity culture.

I also hate that "evil German" stereotype too.

Name: Dennis
Age: 31
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Occupation: Engineer
Story Behind Your LJ Name: I appreciate the irony of it
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): a dominatrix
Favourite Historical Event: Teddy Roosevelt abandoning the GOP
Picture (optional): see icon

also, I really feel the urge to randomly comment on people's pictures with "you're hot," but I won't.

Name: Wendy...known on teh internetz as devoosha
Age: 35...I think? yeah
Location: Bristol, CT
Occupation: Master Control Operator 2 at ESPN
Story Behind Your LJ Name: it's from a book...ever see that kick-a$$ show, Alien Nation? Well some books were also written by the writers when the show got canceled. It's a name from that book (actually Emily's alien name)
Favourite LJ Community: Hmm...the crafty ones...and mine ;)
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): Giraffe
Favourite Historical Event: (/ one you just think is neat and overlooked). Hm...good question. There's so many to me...I am a HUGE history freak. I'm really into the Tudor family...and while everyone knows about them, a lot of people don't KNOW about them, if you know what I mean? Henry Viii was intensely interesting...but nothing compared to his daughter, Elizabeth.
Picture (optional): I would love to share...but they are all on my computer. I'm on my husband's computer because mine is slowly dying. I need to get the stuff OFF that computer and rescue it...

Yeah I have that effect on people ;D

Where's your picture from?

Rocky Mountain National Park, Labor Day Weekend

Name:Robin
Age:Older than dirt!
Location: NC
Occupation:Clerical Monkey
Story Behind Your LJ Name:I used to use this name on AOL for sexcapades, so when I wanted a naughty LJ I brought it back- then ended up using this as a writing journal instead! :p
Favourite LJ Community: LJ Idol is the only one I'm in.
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't):Not much for odd pets- I'm a cat person.
Favourite Historical Event: So far this year's election!
Picture: No pics please- I'm incognito!! ;)

Sounds fun. You got more pictures from the park?

I'll just continue to think of you as looking like your icon then ;D

Good-- she's a cutie!! ;)

Those glasses look really good on you!

Yeah...most of them are here.

And other pictures from the same time frame are here, just down a few posts.

Some people like to be bit. Hello, Twilight!

*chomp* Hello to you too!

uh what's with the Twilight? I'm too blonde for my own good.

It's okay, I am a blonde too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/

I keep hearing about this masterpiece from the yanks but noone over here even knows it exisits. Would you recommend it?

Name: Corrie
Age: 30
Location: Tucson, AZ
Occupation: Customer Service
Story Behind Your LJ Name: My husband nicknamed me Starshine, and I live in Arizona...hence, Arizona (AZ) Starshine
Favourite LJ Community:

therealljidol,

sf_drama
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): A ferret
Favourite Historical Event: The plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens...aka "the day the music died"

That's me in the icon. :)

And here's some other stuff.

Writer. Wife. High-functioning autistic. Voracious reader. Crocheter. Dog owner. BBW.

I work in customer service.

My favorite song is American Pie by Don McLean, because I'm old school like that.

No kids (yet) but my husband and I are practicing with two chocolate labs.

I think I'm interesting.

I hope that you will too. :)

Edited 2008-12-02 23:57 (UTC)

The fact that you mentioned Katherine Mansfield sold me...adding you. :)

I so should have said 1820 - whoops!

Name: Sally
Location: Old enough to be your mother
Occupation: Attorney for non-profit(part time/Volunteer) caregiver for my disabled daughter
Story Behind Your LJ Name: my daughter's name is Maggie. My journal is about life with her. Hence I am Magsmom. Wickedly clever, I know
Favorite LJ Community: haven't really looked. I will, I promise
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): A chimp. he would always be dressed like Lance LInk, Secret Chimp (told you I was old)
Favourite Historical Event: Hard to say - but I like the neighborhood stories, the things that shape a city or region but outsiders don't realizet. the Chinese settling in San Francisco is like that only bigger
Picture: If only I knew how to post them in comments

Name: Stephen
Age: 43
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Occupation: Translator/publisher
Story Behind Your LJ Name: Irish for "Stephen"
Favorite LJ Community: At the moment it's

customers_suck or

bad_service
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): Maybe an ocelot
Favorite Historical Event (one you just think is neat and overlooked): The McDonald's across the street is built on an ancient burial mound

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