what the hell

Normally I let meme tags slide on by, but I'm home, and why not? Here goes...

1. Thank the person who tagged you.
2. List 5 random/strange/weird things about yourself
3. Tag 5 other people.

1. Thank you, mr_weasel!!

2. Ummm... but what if I can't think of anything?
- People who love me claim that my handwritten "f"s look like "g"s. I blame this on changing schools in the middle of learning to do joined-up writing. I also figure that after, what, 23 years of it, my parents at least should really have figured my writing out by now.
- I used to have pierced ears, but I don't any more because they developed keloids and it was really gross.
- I took 4 years of Latin in high school, and was head of the Classics Club. Sadly this does not make me any better at remembering anything about classical civilization.
- I refuse to wear maroon and grey together. In practice this means I refuse to wear maroon, because it really doesn't go with much else.
- I will eat just about anything, but I realized recently that spinach salad -- raw spinach, raw mushrooms, and walnuts -- is a kind of culinary perfect storm of yucky for me.

3. I hate tagging people, but do this if you feel like it. You won't have 7 years of bad luck if you don't or anything, I promise. That's an urban myth.

zowie.

When I go through my Friends list in the evening I realize two things:

1. My Friends list is freaking HUGE.
2. I was clearly spending way too much time on LJ at work.

A little pruning may be in order. Not today though.

In actual news:

1. OMGSQUEEEE!!!11one!! The duct guys came today! (This almost merited an entry at work when I heard from Jen, but I was strong.) They're going to be bloody expensive but I don't care.

2. Gods, benevolent spirits, saints and little fishes help me, I finally signed up for Lavalife yesterday. (Don't laugh, it took me a month and a half to work up to it.) Initially I was worried because (a) I know people who've had no response at all on it, and that's a bit of an ego-crusher, (b) I know people who've had nothing but responses from losers, and that's amusing but unproductive, (c) gack! I didn't mean it! I take it all back! I'm actually very happy in my single bliss! I'll get a dog! that is to say, I'm kind of a chickenshit, my dating experience thus far having been kind of so-so. I was really bad at it, actually.

Now (a) no longer applies, as I have some smiles, but that freaks me out too... *hyperventilates*

Those of you who've done Lavalife or other online dating: any advice? Like, if I instantly weed out the ones with more than one typo, does that make me a bad person?