Here and Now — A Friendzy

[sound_of_silence]

I don't know about you, but lately I've been bored by the redundancy of friending memes. It feels like I'm always being asked the same things — favourite books/movies/games/fandoms, things I post about, things I look for in friends... This is all well and good, I don't have anything against those questions — I've found so many good LJ-friends through them, why would I? — but I find myself hoping to be asked something new at every friendzy I participate in.
And then I thought, why not organize one myself?
So here I am, with an attempt at an original friending meme! Share, comment, find friends, you know the drill!


<b>The Basics (Can't Really Change Them)</b><br /><i>Name:</i> <br /><i>Age:</i> <br /><i>Location:</i> <br /><br /><b>Currently, what are you...</b><br /><i>... Reading?</i> <br /><i>... Watching?</i> <br /><i>... Listening to?</i> <br /><i>... Playing?</i> <br /><i>... Working on (job-wise and/or leisure-wise)?</i> <br /><i>... Looking forward to?</i> <br /><i>... Worried/concerned/annoyed about?</i> <br /><br /><b>What were your last three LJ entries about and when did you post them?</b><br /><br /><b>Anything else?</b>


The more, the merrier:

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Comments

Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Summer coming in earnest. I already feel so sticky and bleh. But all the blossom and green!! is so beautiful <<

I love the flowers and all, but can't stand the heat. :P Fall and winter I love, spring I work outside a lot, summer I have to stay in and write during most of the day.

>>the first time I decided to do a weekly questions post<<

I like questions, and so do my fans, so I usually have at least one set going once a week. Currently that's Philosophical Questions.

>>I don't mind how often people post or what it's about as long as it's not very angry, or not regularly at least.<<

A majority of what I post is positive. I try not to post too much when I'm in a bad mood.

If you want stuff that's consistently pretty and upbeat, I recommend common_nature and gardening.

>> I try to comment on people's posts but I often can't think of anything to say, so I don't expect people to comment on my own posts either. <<

No big deal. Folks are free to lurk if they like.

Re: Hello!

[vegetablearian]

They make sodium-free salt and gluten-free bread, so surely one day they'll invent a heat-free summer, right? :)

Thank you for the recommendations for questions and communities! They look fun!

Re: Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Well, there are places where summers are cold, but they're rarely nice places -- up mountains the like.

The best place I've found to escape summer heat is caving. A cave always keeps roughly the same temperature, cool but not cold, and they're such interesting places.

Re: Hello!

[vegetablearian]

Yeah - I want the looks of a warm summer but not the feel. Maybe I would be better off hoping for some kind of air conditioned suit :)

Ooh... what kinds of caves? I don't think I've ever been in a cave, like a natural cave - I've toured old mines, and I guess that's a little similar. Damp, though, but so is everything in my country :)

Re: Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Yeah - I want the looks of a warm summer but not the feel.<<

Closest I can think of to that would be alpine territory. It's always cooler than below.

>> Maybe I would be better off hoping for some kind of air conditioned suit :)

Those do exist. The piped bodysuits are damn expensive. Much cheaper, however, is tucking ice packs under your clothes. I've done it for summer events, because I am like a candy bar: I melt quickly in the sun.

>> Ooh... what kinds of caves? I don't think I've ever been in a cave, like a natural cave - I've toured old mines, and I guess that's a little similar. Damp, though, but so is everything in my country :)

I've been in a bunch of different caves. I like live, wet cave better than dead, dry ones but I will explore just about any cave that offers a tour. Small ones have less flashy features but the groups are small and the guides more willing to goof around or go off-script. Big famous caves have stunning features but you usually get a canned presentation.

The last one I visited had just been opened. At one point there was a naked vein of flint overhead. Bare nodules the size of a fist or two, just hanging out of the ceiling, like it was boiling with rocks. I left a note in the guestbook that someone really ought to look for where that vein transects the surface, because if any of that area is not ploughed -- and there were creeks and hills all through, so it's a chance -- then search for signs of old hunting camps. Last chance for flint before mammoths!

I've been to Mammoth Cave and Carlsbad Caverns, which are big famous ones with lots of pictures.

https://www.nps.gov/maca/learn/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm

https://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np.carlsbad-caverns.all.html

Some places have caves carved by wind and sand instead of water. Those are a very different experience, and they tend to have colorful walls -- they're often carved from sandstone, rather than the limestone of wet caves.