The rest of the word meme

[vilakins]

OK, here's the rest of that word meme: me babbling on about the words sallymn gave me now I'm back and have some time. I'm pretty sure I've done some of these before.

Cats
I loved cats since I was tiny, even though the family cat was a bad-tempered grey Persian called Beethoven (he looked like the famous bust). If I saw a kitten or cat in the street, I had to rush over to it--and still do. They just have a huge fascination for me, in any size. I now have four cats, and believe me, it's hard to resist the weekly Lonely Miaow orphan in the local paper. I regard cats as the most beautiful creatures on this planet.

Art
I'm not that knowledgeable about art; do you mean mine? That's another passion that has ruled me all my life. When I was little, I even used to draw people in the air, create whole murals, rubbing out bits I didn't like with a wave of my hand. People must have thought I was cracked. I learned not to do that, and even not to doodle in meetings because people would become desperate to see what I was drawing. Drawing did make me friends at primary school (I cornered the market in war scenes with fighter planes, bombers, tanks, and little soldiers) and secondary school where I went into cartoons. I loved Ronald Searle's style and used to draw St Trinan's girls doing unspeakable things in the lab, and Romans doing even more murderous things to each other in the back of my Latin exercise book. I used to try to remember to rip those out until the Latin teacher, a deceptively conventional looking woman with a bun, asked me to leave them in because she and the staff room liked them. I wish I had more talent though. But I'm a dilettante.

Chocolate
What can I say? There are people who say this planet should be saved because it's the only one with cats and chocolate, and those are two damned good reasons! I just wish the supermarket would keep stocking the ones I've come to like. No more Cadbury's Old Gold liqueur selection for me, and I only discovered it a few months ago. :-(

Computers
Computers, or more specifically the internet, have given me some of the best friends I've ever had. I use mine mainly for LJ, writing, and drawing. I also spent a lot of my working life programming them till bastards in management drove me out. I'm not sure what else I can say about them, except that Zen made me cry, and I blame that little plastic rat Orac for S4.

Cheers
I assume I got this because of this very old icon. "Cheers" is used in my English as an informal goodbye, a casual "thanks, and a sort of "here you go!" And of course when having a drink. This has probably puzzled quite a few people here, so I hope that helped.

Comments

[the-summoning-d.livejournal.com]

We use 'cheers' a lot here. I'd never thought about it until my American flatmate asked what the hell we were all on about.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've had at least one person ask me about what the icon meant. It's what I usually put at the end of e-mails too, but I have to be careful who I do that to. :-)

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

They're all very nice things, I thought... and I like them in my life too :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You should get a couple of cats; you have the rest!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

We may later, but we had Lacey so long... Sis is still against another pet.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

D'ohh. I totally didn't realise it was one of these memes where you had to *talk* about the words given. Braiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin. But I suppose it'll be a good distraction...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I didn't either till I saw other posts! That's why this one is separate. :-) I may have given out some odd words because of that. :-P

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I kind of thought a meme where you just gave out words was cooler, actually, because if you're doing the one where people have to write about them, you have to choose the words more carefully and perhaps omit some that'd fit that person better. I mean, someone might say "short" at me, and I wouldn't know what to write on that topic since being short isn't that big a thing for me...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Which is why I gave quarryquest "strength" which puzzled her. :-P

[viciousdisorder.livejournal.com]

until the Latin teacher [...] asked me to leave them in because she and the staff room liked them.
This is particularly cool, sounds like you designed the forerunner to the "horrible history" books.

Cadbury's Old Gold liqueur selection for me
I didn't even know they had a liqueur selection. If I find some here would you like me to buy it and take it with me when we (my husband and I) go to NZ in early July?

I also spent a lot of my working life programming
What languages were you programming in? What kinds of projects were you working on.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They owed more to Molesworth and his dreams in Latin class!

They still make it here--I went to the website--but the local supermarket doesn't seem to have it. I'll have to ask them what happened to it. They had it two weeks ago, but they've moved all the chocolate around. They still have the tiramisu and creme brulee, but they're a bit too sweet. I liked the liqueurs.

Mostly Ingres and OpenRoad with some C++. I've done work for a whiteware manufacturer, a car leasing system, general manufacturing and financial software, and container tracking at the port.