rionaleonhart: final fantasy x-2: the sun is rising, yuna looks to the future. (you have got to be kidding)
Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2008-11-25 10:45 pm

POST ENTRY POST

SO MY INTERNET IS CURRENTLY DEIGNING TO CONNECT FOR ABOUT TEN SECONDS EVERY THREE MINUTES. This is a problem. Please magically fix yourself before my data analysis is due, Internet connection!


Today, I met Graham Rawle, author of Woman's World, an awesome novel constructed entirely from words and phrases cut out of 1960s women's magazines. I gave him a high-five.


Because everyone in the world has posted it and I'm curious (obviously you need answer this only if you particularly want to):

What has surprised you the most about me (if anything) since beginning to read my LJ (or when you met me in real life, for those who have)? Was anything completely unexpected or have I always fit the picture of me you have in your head?


(Alternatively, tell me of a time your common sense has completely failed you. I have attempted to dry clothes after washing by hanging them in the wardrobe. I have turned a knob clearly labelled 'front right' and then spent fifteen full minutes trying to fry a piece of turkey on the front-left hob. My exchange with my father the first time I tried papaya went as follows:

Riona: I find papaya quite unpleasant.
Riona's Father: Okay, well, if you don't like it, just -
Riona: (catching sight of the plate in front of her father) Oh, are you not supposed to eat the skin?
Riona's Father: ...
Riona's Father: (cracks up)

Please share your tales of being an idiot so that I may feel less ashamed of myself.)

[identity profile] anazri.livejournal.com 2008-11-25 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I once attempted to microwave butter in order to melt it.

Unfortunately, it was still in the foil wrapper. There was lightning. And a small fire. >.> (In my defence, it - was very early in the morning!)
aestivalis: akito sits in a cockpit, the terraformed planet mars in full view behind him (martian successor nadesico) (Renton | Wise Up!)

[personal profile] aestivalis 2008-11-26 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
I HAVE DONE THIS :D

[identity profile] nixwilliams.livejournal.com 2008-11-26 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
ONCE I TRIED TO MICROWAVE FANTA. IN THE CAN.

D:

[identity profile] lasayla.livejournal.com 2008-11-28 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank god for the explosion, otherwise you would have had WARM FANTA!

[identity profile] nixwilliams.livejournal.com 2008-11-28 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I KNOWWWWW! WHY, SELF, WHY?!?

[identity profile] th-esaurus.livejournal.com 2008-11-26 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
I DID THIS TOOOOOO

And then I threw water in the microwave to put out the fire, and was about to stick my hand in it when my friend helpfully suggested I turn off the electricity first.