Dark Side of the Moon

These were from dreda, and thank you for them:

Delight : There's that "light" in it, right?  So it's a sort of sparkly (nothing to do with vampires!) happiness,  effervescent bubbles of little oohs of joy catching sunlight.   Not really made for lasting, but sometimes it does, and often it's enough to note the source.  More sparkles may come from it.

Voice : "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue."   The instrument for the spoken word (and the metaphor for the written) to distinguish you from another, you from other versions of yourself,  in tone and timbre and inflection and all the other choices at your disposal.

Path : A small and narrow way to go, well-trodden enough to exist, but not enough to be a road.  Often they don't lead where you expect them to.  Sometimes they seem to lead nowhere, just fade away at the end, and you wonder how and why they were made in the first place and was it that everyone split off in different directions at that point?   Making your own path, of course, is always an option.

Dance :  Movement to music?  Movement, certainly, and usually to a pattern and rhythm.   One person can dance, or many, and so can stars and fireflies and the spirit inside you even if you're holding the outside perfectly still.   I don't think it's possible to be completely depressed, and dancing, at the same time.  More people should dance. 

Lambent :  Okay, I'll admit it, I looked this one up because I didn't trust myself.  I thought something like "softly glowing" and that's one of the meanings, but the other is "lightly flickering over the surface".   Since they use moonlight on water as the example, they cover both.  I shall remember bouncy (or wobbly) little "lambs" and that will keep me from thinking of it as too steady a light. 

If anyone still wants to play, ask for your five words.
  

Words given to me by 

peregrinning:

 

Cups
The suit in the Tarot deck springs to mind faster than "being in one's...".  Cups are what turned into Hearts, so they're Love (in all its aspects, familial as well as romantic), and by extension, emotions and feelings rather than the intellectual processes. Which ties back to "being in one's..." where "in vino veritas" has nothing to do with scientific truths.  Generosity is in there, too, to fill one's glass, or another's, to overflowing.

Song
"The singer is not the song." But if you could become one... not easy, not likely.  It's interesting to realize that I'd respond differently to "Music" rather than "Song".  Music is on the outside. Song is what resonates on the inside and while you're singing you're inside it, too. "To lift up the voice in song."  And with the lifted voice the rest is lifted up as well.

Gift
The unasked for, the unexpected. (I'm sorry, but to pick something off of a person's Amazon "wish list" is very nice but it's to give them a present, not a gift.)  And when someone has a special talent for something, "a gift", it's called that because it's unexpected, inexplicable, and not just what comes from dedicated practice, even if that, too, reaches the same level or even higher. A gift is wonderful, but it's not everything.

Vintage
Of wine, of clothing, of jewelry, that which somehow develops added value and garners greater appreciation as it ages. Yes, I know that's not the most exact definition: it really means to be of a particular year.  Or, just old.  But going by -my- definition, I hope to be considered "vintage" someday. :-)

Network
Computer geek, it's connections of signals.  Of wires. Of people. Of rope, of thread. Of... well obviously of anything. The connections that allow a joining from here to there, no matter how indirectly, along paths that all have similar nature. Wired or wireless, the internet is a network, but if you need to send a paper letter to someone to tell them about the latest YouTube sensation, that's outside the network.  Similarly, the relative to whom I only send a Christmas card once a year is outside my network of friends, even if more closely connected by blood.

(Ask me for words if you like.)
 

Booklist game
List 15 books you've read that will always stick with you: list the first 15 you can recall in 15 minutes. Don't take too long to think about it.

( ~ list and commentary ~ ) 
  

I took an Asperger's Syndrome quiz.  I claim it's not fair, there's something wrong with its rating.  It's this one: 
http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/asperger-test-aq-test/

( ~ results ~ )
  

Eh.  Short quiz, not very much choice, and not very accurate results, but the questions are nice to think about, even if it's in a gods-get-me-out-of-this-cubicle! way. :-)

You Are a Lynx

You are a quiet observer of the world around you. Your wisdom comes from listening carefully. You've always been extra sensitive and aware. And it's made it difficult for you to fit in. You see past people's outward personas. You are able to penetrate a stranger's soul. What you've learned about people is both beautiful and ugly. And you keep these secrets to yourself.

Not at all what I'd expected:

I am: William Gibson The chief instigator of the "cyberpunk" wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Work is endless and involves too much hitting people over the head with clue-by-fours, I've developed a bad cold with sore throat and headache, plus I have a sugar overdose from the gigantic pastries someone brought to the team meeting.  I don't want to hear anything good.  Tell me something bad.  Tell me about someone who done you wrong, and we'll play Dante and come up with an appropriate punishment.  Tell me how the universe has screwed you, and we'll come up with ways to screw it back. (How many LJers does it take to screw the universe?  ha!)

Any lurkers out there are welcome to join in. 

Later: Wimps. Or your life is wonderful.  Well, good.  *sniffs, sneezes, and downs another spoonful of cough syrup*
 

I'm not in a good headspace today.

Please tell me something good going on?
  

Friday meme time, and I haven't yet done the classic...

( ~ 25 random things about me ~ )

The questions aquarian_azalea picked hit some things that meant a lot to me, that needed long anwers... and I think I've been honest.

( ~ six questions, six answers ~ )
  

http://community.livejournal.com/write_away/1389797.html

Because it fit the prompts. :-)
  

My Political Views
I am a center-left moderate social libertarian
Left: 2.41, Libertarian: 2.46

Political Spectrum Quiz



(Well, not much surprise. I think I'm more left in social issues than shown, but the phrasing of the questions left me answering "neutral" more often than not.)

I checked the (not-so-)fine print, and I get a year, so little things like running an event shouldn't keep me from fulfilling the terms of the deal.   And I love random inspirations. :-)

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

Please note:
I make no guarantee that you will like what I make.
What I create will be just for you.
It'll be done this year (year from now, not calendar year)
You have no clue or input into what it's going to be.
I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well. We all can make stuff!

What's made might be a poem or story, a drawing or sculpture, jewelry or candy or cordial, or a recipe designed and named for you.

Useful addition to the meme:
Please let me know things I really shouldn't make or include, such as if you have objections to animal products (fur, leather, etc.), or dietary restrictions/allergies, or similar.

You don't have to be in the US.  You don't have to be on my flist.  You don't have to know me in person.  I'll figure something out from your LJ, or it might be totally on a whim.  But you do have to be willing to send me (privately of course!) a mailing address. 
  

Because someone noted that their subjects were more indicative of the year than their first lines for the first post from each month, I've included both. 

( ~ 2008 ~ )

And that was 2008.  More about writing and less about cooking than I would have thought, and not nearly enough about art.   Since I'm intending to keep the monthly card readings going, the same sort of listing for 2009 should be even less useful in summarizing what my journal is all about.
  

Which creature of the night are you? Your Result: Sorceror   Control is the name of your game. You are a studied tactician and scientist and you seek a kingdom where things make sense, damn the morals, even if you have to create it. You are cold, calm and calculating.
Vampire
Incubus/Succubus
Demon
Werewolf
Cthulu Spawn
Ghost
Which creature of the night are you? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Copied from several... and knowing that most on my flist haven't met me in person....

If they were making a movie about me, who would you recommend they cast as me?
For that matter, who would you like cast as you?

Added: Perfectly okay to cast dead actors, or "X at age Y" if you want to.
  

Link that should be shared, because "turning the economic crisis into one of those clever internet memes" is pretty much all that most of us can do about it.

http://sadguysontradingfloors.tumblr.com/ 
   

Answers!

( ~ twenty song shuffle ~ )