2nd Annual Friendzy!
Nov. 25th, 2009 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Last year several of us started a sort of meme thing (or maybe it already existed and I wasn't aware), called the "friending frenzy," or as I like to call it, the "friendzy."
(1) answer the following questions in a comment; (2) Feel free to read other people's comments and respond to them. Mingle. Make friends. (3) Extra points if you mention this friendzy in your own lj and send people over.
Name:
Age:
Location:
Occupation:
Story Behind Your LJ Name:
Favourite Food:
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit:
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own:
Picture (optional):
Now with a poll!
[Poll #1490342]
Bargh! We all know I suck at making polls. I forgot the Middle East. Sorry
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Akka, Israel
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Date: 2009-11-25 07:52 pm (UTC)Age: 29
Location: Newark, DE
Occupation: Currently between jobs as of a week ago
Story Behind Your LJ Name: I'm sort of uncreative as far as names go, so it's just my first initial and last name.
Favorite Food: Thai curries
Favorite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: Haven't actually traveled yet, but when I get the chance it will probably be to North Africa, Tunisia area.
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own:
http://jfargo.livejournal.com/2128.html
Picture (optional):
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Date: 2009-11-25 07:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-11-25 07:53 pm (UTC)Age: 33
Location: Warwick, RI (currently) Attleboro, MA (usually)
Occupation: software engineer
Story Behind Your LJ Name: combination of purple and lavender = purlav
Favourite Foods: chocolate, falafel, pho (not all together though)
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: anyplace I've never been yet!
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: All my entries suck, sorry, more than 1/2 are probably just twitter posts. :-(
Picture (optional): a picture of me, or just a picture I like that I took or something? I have a bunch of pics and video posted on facebook, myspace and gypsii (friend me as purlav on any of them to see pics).
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Date: 2009-11-25 07:54 pm (UTC)Age: 38
Location: England
Occupation: IT Guru Guy
Story Behind Your LJ Name: It's my name :D
Favourite Food: (/ one you just think is neat and overlooked) Salmon...
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: San Francisco
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: Ummmm No idea... Probably my stories :D
Picture (optional): See icon :D
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Date: 2009-11-25 07:59 pm (UTC)Age: 29
Location: Mons, Belgium
Occupation: translator, mom
Story Behind Your LJ Name: Atmosphere's A Girl Named Hope + my old pen name Luna
Favourite Food: (/ one you just think is neat and overlooked) I'm currently trying to determine what I can actually eat without being sick. Carrots atm :(
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: I'd love to visit Norway!
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: My entries are TEH.AWESOME. I cannot decide. Ahem.
Picture (optional):
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:00 pm (UTC)Name: bethanne
Age: 30
Location: lansing, michigan
Occupation: unemployed artist/ rock star
Story Behind Your LJ Name: it was my old band's name. the band never took off though. but the name stuck.
Favourite Food: ice cream. one that is overlooked that i like is okra.
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: i'd love to visit australia and/or japan
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: that's like asking me what child i love more! probably the ones where i go on trips and take photos. like the huge move we did this year or my trips to visit family out of state
Picture (optional):
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:08 pm (UTC)Age: 35
Location: Bokeelia, FL, by way of Houston area, TX
Occupation: Office Manager (as of VERY recently)
Story Behind Your LJ Name: Angyl was taken. Not very interesting, huh?
Favourite Food: Hmmmm - Chicken Parmesan!
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: I've never been outisde the US, so I don't have a favorite foreign place, but my favorite "away from home" is Las Vegas
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: I have a few. I guess my Red Rubber Ball entery is my favorite. It's tagged under confidence, I think.
Picture (optional): See icon. :)
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:08 pm (UTC)Age: 51
Location: Portland, Oregon
Occupation: Painter,drawer, photographer I retired (work on my arts) after my stroke in 2002 Lost my left side use of
Story Behind Your LJ Name:A place I lived
Favourite Food: put it before me I'll probably try it
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: I've been to London and Russia (Soviet Union then) Netherlands, Germany
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: ? so many
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Date: 2009-11-25 11:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:17 pm (UTC)Age: 33
Location: VA
Occupation: Sr. Software Support person
Story Behind Your LJ Name: I honestly don't remember. Probably had to do with my obsession of a character I had called Ember, red hair and translated to flameprincess
Favourite Food: just one? my mother's mac 'n cheese
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: France, I got to go for work related reasons and I really want to go back. England is a close second.
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: one that existed between me and my (now) husband
Picture (optional): see userpics... it's dated but it's still me more or less
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Date: 2009-11-26 03:41 am (UTC)2. I really dig your LJ name
3. The people we both know I hold in high regard, so that means you're awesome.
4. Our interests bang together a bunch.
You've been added. =)
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:18 pm (UTC)Age: 26
Location: Winters, CA
Occupation: Executive Assistant for a non-profit
Story Behind Your LJ Name: Song from Kurt Weill musical based on "Cry, the Beloved Country"
Favourite Food: Pizza
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: um, I've only been to Mexico, but I would love to go to Ireland
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: Don't really have a favorite.
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Date: 2009-11-26 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-25 08:23 pm (UTC)Age: soon to be 28
Location: San Jose, CA
Occupation: psychotherapist and editor
Story Behind Your LJ Name: I didn't want to represent just any one aspect of myself with something creative, so I kept it simple.
Favourite Food: vegetarian
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: Maybe I haven't found it yet, but I loved Alaska.
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: Interesting question..I'm more likely to have favorite experiences that get blogged about but in terms of a favorite entry..maybe something that inspired lots of discussion in comments.
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:29 pm (UTC)Age: 27
Location: So Cal today, the sea off the northwest coast next week, Cairo two weeks ago.... :D but "home base" is southern California.
Occupation: adventurer
Story Behind Your LJ Name: It started out as a joke and a joke on a joke and now I'm stuck with people calling me "emo" for short! ):
Favourite Food: mmm I think it would have to be thai ::salivates::
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: People keep asking me that but every place has a different reason to love it. I really liked Israel and want to go back. I made a bunch of good friends in Egypt. Not foreign but I really liked the US Pacific Northwest.
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: Melissa
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:29 pm (UTC)Age: 27
Location: Burbank, CA
Occupation: composer/pianist/music teacher/arranger/waitress
Story Behind Your LJ Name: It's the name of a character in a story I was writing but never finished!
Favourite Food: breakfast cereal.
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: Paris!
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: I like doing picture posts of trips and adventures.
Picture (optional): That's me in my icon, doing kung fu a year ago when I was still an orange belt!!!
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Date: 2009-11-26 02:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:30 pm (UTC)Age: 40
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
Occupation: Secretary & Professional Musician
Story Behind Your LJ Name: I am a Daughter of Odhin... Follower of Odhin
Favourite Food: I'm going to say it is a tie between a really good steak and reall good sushi
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: Great Britan, but desperately want to go to Eire
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: http://daughterofodhin.livejournal.com/734441.html - not because of what it is about, but because it is probably some of the best writing I have done in a long long time.
Picture (optional):
http://pics.livejournal.com/daughterofodhin/pic/0003wdg4/g83
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:41 pm (UTC)Age:27
Location:Ohio
Occupation:graduate student
Story Behind Your LJ Name: lol ummm from a friend of mine. (it's a reallllly long story)
Favourite Food: yes
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: England
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: ummm don't have a fave
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Bonus (from me - feel free to pick and choose):
Can you fake any accents? Southern, English, once upon a time Russian
You wouldn't be caught dead where? at a frat party
Do you have any hidden talents? no I like attention too much
Do you have any siblings? What are they like? 2 sisters: we're all really close
What was your favorite musical group from junior high? probably NSync
Worst roommate you've ever had? never had a roomie
Favorite TV shows: Bones, AMerican Idol, SYTYCD, Glee
Favorite movies: PRincess Bride, LOTR a host of others
Favorite band/singer(s): DAVID COOK.
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:48 pm (UTC)You wouldn't be caught dead where? Hmmm I hate shopping. If I need need need new clothes I get in and get out as fast as I can, and even then I start to feel miserable. I haate clothing stores.
Do you have any siblings? My younger brother is a former marine, now a police officer, my older brother is getting his PhD in quantum physics or some such.
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:49 pm (UTC)Age: 47
Location: in the Shadow of Tahoma (Mt Rainier's real name) in the city of Tacoma
Occupation: day job-Fraud Investigator * passion job-outdoor photographer/columnest
Story Behind Your LJ Name: Celtic = of Celtic ancestry Wild Rose = favorite flower and the one that most resembles me (roses have thorns and wild roses flourish in unexpected places)
Favourite Food: Yes please (oh... you mean what kind... Pacfic Northwest Wild Salmon, Mexican, Itailain, Spicy Asian, Wood Fired Pizza
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: Well, Canada's just up the road...
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: My current favorite is my "Black Friday-A Sad Day Indeed" http://wildcelticrose.livejournal.com/950170.html
Picture (optional):
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:52 pm (UTC)Age:33
Location:Burnsville, MN
Occupation:Conflicts New Matter Specialist and grad school student who is currently in limbo
Story Behind Your LJ Name: well it's pretty easy...I am a libra and a dragon. I figured it was a pretty fitting name for me after my previous LJ names.
Favourite Food: oh really depends on the mood but I do have a monster sweet tooth
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: I haven't really traveled outside the US except for two trips to Jamacia so I would love to see a lot of different places
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own:I have a few from LJ Idol I enjoyed but over I wouldn't say I have one.
Picture (optional):see icon
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:56 pm (UTC)Age: 28
Location: Midwest
Occupation: Author
Story Behind Your LJ Name: It's the meaning of my name.
Favourite Food: Gosh. I love chocolate chip cookies.
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: Costa Rica
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: This is pretty much impossible to answer if you've been at LJ for eight years. Just saying. So many entries. So many memories.
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-11-25 08:59 pm (UTC)Age: 25
Location: North Carolina
Occupation: Second Grade Teacher
Story Behind Your LJ Name: onda bianca means white wave in Italian. White wave is the meaning of my (other) name, Jenny.
Favourite Food: Peanut Butter and Jelly...because really, if I were on a deserted island...
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: Your mom. Or Italy. Only, I've never actually been to Italy.
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: I don't have a "favorite" but this one still makes me "l" to th "o-l". ;) http://onda-bianca.livejournal.com/294804.html
Picture (optional): My icon is me. I have several photos of myself throughout my journal too.
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Date: 2009-11-26 05:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:18 pm (UTC)Age: 27
Location: Renton, Washington
Occupation: I'm a thief and a shitkicker...and I'd like to be famous.
Story Behind Your LJ Name: I've worn cardboard robot costumes out in public more often than the average bear.
Favourite Food: I could eat a gyro pretty much daily.
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: I lived in Taiwan for a year, which was pretty awesome, I'd definitely like to go back to visit at some point.
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: I'm honest enough to admit that I love a lot of my journal entries, but my White Trash Birthday Party (http://teh-dirty-robot.livejournal.com/343431.html) is one of my favorites.
Picture (optional):
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:52 pm (UTC)White Trash Birthday Party was the best thing I've seen in a long time...
I am so friending you!
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:22 pm (UTC)Age: 28
Location: Warwick, RI
Occupation: office bitch.
Story Behind Your LJ Name: My original LJ name was Dakota Falling which was the name of a screenplay I was writing at the time, but some crazy bitch started sending my friends only entries to people I didn't want to see it and she was kind of stalking me so I had to change LJ names and Risingtofall just sounded like Dakotafalling to me.
Favourite Food: home made mac n cheese.
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: I've not left the country but I love South Beach Miami.
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: I don't really have a favorite entry of my own. I'd have to go back and look at like 8 years worth of entries to find one.
Picture (optional):
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Date: 2009-11-26 02:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:37 pm (UTC)Age:early 40s
Location: Central NJ
Occupation: IT Consultant/Business Analyst/Project Mgr. Solutions/Architect
Story Behind Your LJ Name: Short for "Pop Culture Fiend"
Favourite Food: Yes
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: Montreal and the Carribean
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: Deep look at a difficult subject - On Discussing the Issue of Race/Racism
Picture (optional):
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Date: 2009-11-25 10:32 pm (UTC)This crap always happens to me, these coincidences. If only I could harness the power.....
Go back to what you were doing.
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:42 pm (UTC)Age: 36
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation: Full time mum and some time writer and publisher
Story Behind Your LJ Name: It's the name I publish under
Favourite Food: I really don't know. I yearn for proper chow mein the way you get it back home. Most specifically from a fabulous restaurant in Welwyn Garden City.
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: San Francisco. My favourite city in the whole wide world and the place where I've had the most fun and adventure.
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: My Smile story for this season's Idol. It's f-locked now so you either got to read it when it was up or you didn't.
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:56 pm (UTC)Can you fake any accents? Various southern English dialects (Cockney and Essex so maybe not various so much as two), vaguely Irish, vaguely French but realistically I'm useless at accents. Even my normal accent doesn't really sound like anything.
You wouldn't be caught dead where? At an open ritual.
Do you have any hidden talents? If I have, they're so well hidden I haven't found them.
Do you have any siblings? What are they like? 3 older half brothers (the youngest of these is my favourite since he is the coolest person ever and owns Star Child in Glastonbury), one younger brother and an 8 year old half sister. There's about 40 years between the oldest and the youngest and most of them I don't have any contact with about from Glen.
What was your favorite musical group from junior high? I listened to nothing but the Beatles until I was 16 at which point I expanded my repertoire by adding the Doors.
Worst roommate you've ever had? I've never had a room mate. But the people I shared a house with in my third year at college were so horrible I left and stayed with my then boyfriend's family to study.
Favorite TV shows: At the moment, my regular viewing comprises of The Mentalist, Shortland Street, Hell's Kitchen, Glee, RuPaul's Drag Race and Dexter.
Favorite movies: Head and the Rutles. There are loads of others I love but those are my two favourites that I've seen well over a hundred times each. I've even managed to catch Head on the big screen twice and saw the Rutles perform live.
Favorite band/singer(s): I'm quite fickle because I have too much good music that I keep rediscovering. The best live band ever were Crosy Stills and Nash, closely followed by Wheatus. I can really get into anyone who really enjoys what they do and Wheatus just had so much fun. No one will ever, EVER top CSN though - those dudes totally rocked and when you get within touching distance of Stephen Stills, you never forget it!
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Date: 2009-11-25 09:49 pm (UTC)Age: 30
Location: Elmvale, Ontario, Canada
Occupation: Artist
Story Behind Your LJ Name: Honestly, there really isn't one...I think someone called me that once, dunno who, and it's just what came to mind when I signed up for LJ.
Favourite Food: Chicken fried rice
Favourite Foreign (to you) Place to Visit: Vegas
Favourite LJ Entry of Your Own: Oh god, I don't know. I have 4,123 of the damn things!
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