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Dorktastic! The Story of Sisabet
So I have been tagged by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tzikeh to list five reasons that I am a dork. I think just linking to my five past LJ entries, while appropriate, would be cheating. So I shall meme away!
Top Five Dorkitude Moments In My Life
1. I not only purchased the "Josie and the Pussycats" soundtrack - I loved it. Yeah. That's right. You heard me. I am a punk rock prom queen! Sing it!
2. I apologize to dogs/cats/small animals when I trip over them. That is actually not dorky - that is just polite. I also tell them "excuse me" when I walk past them in hallways. If I walk into a wall (happens fairly frequently) I will say "excuse me" to the wall. If I sneeze? I will say "Bless me" cause I am kinda used to people not being around and I MUST BE BLESSED AFTER SNEEZING!
3. To decorate my new apartment (what was my new apartment), I ended up framing a bunch of comic books that I liked. Mostly Superman, but I did frame the Batman issue where Bane is breaking Batman's back over his knee, despite the fact that the Knightfall series is what drove me away from comic books for over ten years.
4. I can say things like "despite the fact that the Knightfall series is what drove me away from comic books for over ten years."
5. So like - I watched Due South. Well the first 3 seasons and The Call of the Wild. And the entire story of me ordering and getting the series is a lesson in Dorkdom but not one that belongs here. That should be its own post (and I *have* to figure out a way to get my hands on season 4, and I am trusting in my dorkness to lead the way). No the thing that makes me a big ole dork is that the hottest thing I have seen in the series is not Buddy Breathing (although I appreciate the classics. That is right up there. I did appreciate that entire sequence). It is not even Vecchio with the belt (although - hot like whoa).
No, the hottest thing I have yet to see, in fact one of the hottest things I have ever seen, period, was Benton Fraser in church. Yes. Pretty man wearing blue singing in the choir. Yowsa. My mother's imprinting apparently took and I just didn't realize for thirty years but that scene makes me weak in the knees.
Because I am a big Dork.
I now tagheres_luck, renenet, kadymae, laurashapiro (cause she is bored and needs something to do) and former birthday girl and all-around-Lex-Dork, linzeems for this meme.
tzikeh to list five reasons that I am a dork. I think just linking to my five past LJ entries, while appropriate, would be cheating. So I shall meme away! Top Five Dorkitude Moments In My Life
1. I not only purchased the "Josie and the Pussycats" soundtrack - I loved it. Yeah. That's right. You heard me. I am a punk rock prom queen! Sing it!
2. I apologize to dogs/cats/small animals when I trip over them. That is actually not dorky - that is just polite. I also tell them "excuse me" when I walk past them in hallways. If I walk into a wall (happens fairly frequently) I will say "excuse me" to the wall. If I sneeze? I will say "Bless me" cause I am kinda used to people not being around and I MUST BE BLESSED AFTER SNEEZING!
3. To decorate my new apartment (what was my new apartment), I ended up framing a bunch of comic books that I liked. Mostly Superman, but I did frame the Batman issue where Bane is breaking Batman's back over his knee, despite the fact that the Knightfall series is what drove me away from comic books for over ten years.
4. I can say things like "despite the fact that the Knightfall series is what drove me away from comic books for over ten years."
5. So like - I watched Due South. Well the first 3 seasons and The Call of the Wild. And the entire story of me ordering and getting the series is a lesson in Dorkdom but not one that belongs here. That should be its own post (and I *have* to figure out a way to get my hands on season 4, and I am trusting in my dorkness to lead the way). No the thing that makes me a big ole dork is that the hottest thing I have seen in the series is not Buddy Breathing (although I appreciate the classics. That is right up there. I did appreciate that entire sequence). It is not even Vecchio with the belt (although - hot like whoa).
No, the hottest thing I have yet to see, in fact one of the hottest things I have ever seen, period, was Benton Fraser in church. Yes. Pretty man wearing blue singing in the choir. Yowsa. My mother's imprinting apparently took and I just didn't realize for thirty years but that scene makes me weak in the knees.
Because I am a big Dork.
I now tag
heres_luck, renenet, kadymae, laurashapiro (cause she is bored and needs something to do) and former birthday girl and all-around-Lex-Dork, linzeems for this meme.
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I also own the soundtrack for 'Josie and the Pussycats' and I listen to it on a regular basis. I have also been known to dance around the living room and sing along to it.
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2. would be me except that I avoid small animals too much to trip over them. I do, however, apologize to inanimate objects when I bang into them.
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You! You are with me in Dorkness.
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Dork? I think so. Also? I have a Word document icon. How dorky is THAT?
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Yes. Well, I say 'Gesundheit' because I grew up with a family who for whatever reason did not say 'Bless you' for sneezes, but yes.
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Could someone maybe offer a good definition of "dork" before I comply? I'm not sure that my "dork" is the same as your "dork", ya know? Like, how is "dorky" different from "geeky"? How is it different from "fannish", for that matter?
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I could have just described Five Things I Thought About Today and that would have worked.
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That said (*g*), my response to Laura's question would be that I think "dorky" and "geeky" can be used fairly interchangeably in many contexts, except that "geeky" is also frequently used to describe particularly focused or directed behaviors, i.e. you're a computer geek, a musical theater geek, etc., that have become codified in our understanding. We know what it means to be a particular type of geek. Similarly, we know what it means to be "fannish" about something. And those behaviors can be taken fairly seriously. But "dorky" seems to enter the picture during self-aware moments when we realize that spending twelve hours a day for two weeks painting tiny plastic figurines in colors that match the descriptions of characters' clothes in a series of fantasy novels and getting into a heated argument about how shades of blue reflect character motivations is, on some core level, a fundamentally *ridiculous* set of behaviors and we pause to laugh at ourselves...or at least smile ruefully as we vow never to share paint tubes again with anyone who doesn't pass an ideological screening. "Dorky" (or the more general use of "geeky") is the underlying quality of personality that leads us to these behaviors. The dorky list items, therefore, tend to be examples that express this underlying quality in a way that...well, if we were talking about fiction, we'd say it's stuff that reveals character rather than simply advances plot or describes surroundings. And the character that is revealed should be, well...ridiculous and/or obsessive and kind of endearing.
And if I'm not making any sense then what else is new? Anyway, that's my attempt at a descriptive (rather than a prescriptive) delineation of meaning(s). As such it is necessarily incomplete (if not wholly YMMV).
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I could have just described Five Things I Thought About Today and that would have worked.
I know exactly what you mean.
Off to meme...
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5. I am actually there with you. He's so pretty. And then when he's in the confessional in "Victoria's Secret." And also when he is all scarred up and sitting in the lunchroom after Zuko's thugs beat the crap out of him in "The Deal." (Which has nothing to do with Fraser in church, but everything to do with him being pretty.)
Though Vecchio...belt...mmm...
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But Fraser is extremely, other worldly, pretty. And I have defenses for that, I do - when I need them. I can still look at him and maintain normal functions and breathe and all that but put his ass in a choir and I am dying.
Hey! The choir and the belt are both from the same episode. That was a really great episode. I need to watch it again.
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It was an excellent episode. I think my favorite part of that scene with Ray and Zuko is not just the repressed anger (always nice) and the belt, but the fact that he's scared shitless throughout. And he still does it. Too. Hot.
Fraser is indeed, extremely pretty. And fucked up. Which is my favorite combo, really. (Although I always watch when he starts to cry in "Victoria's Secret," with all the candles around him and everything and he's falling apart, and think, "Mmmm, forearms." I am, perhaps, focused too much on the wrong things sometimes.
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Translated, this means spring of 2006. Or possibly summer.
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Not that I am bitter.
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Although it makes me wonder- we have a Best Buy here now (well, not here-here, but on the mainland, close to my parent's place. and i still don't understand why it's even there in the first place, since future shop and best buy are owned by the same parent company)- I wonder if the cheap sets will be there.
Wow, my parenthetical statement was longer than my actual statement.
Nice
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Seriously. DEAD. And it would be worth it.
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Linzee
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You want S4?
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OMG! I am so excited. You have made a bitter and tired and sad vidder so very very happy! YAY!!
Please email me at sisabet at yahoo dot com!! WHEE!
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