entirely ruined her disposition with books

I have recently been informed that I have "poor person habits." Considering that I grew up very middle class (and surrounded by upper-middle and upper-class people--I know a lot of rich people), this surprised me very much.

The topic came up when I mentioned that I wash out Ziploc bags and reuse them. I mean, I was aware that this wasn't super common, but I didn't think it was that shocking? I have an unholy fear of throwing plastic in the garbage to sit in landfills for the next three thousand years or whatever.* I do end up throwing them away when they aren't any good anymore, but I rewash and use them many times before that point.

I also save plastic food containers--mostly sour cream containers, but also for things like salsa, cottage cheese, etc.--and reuse them. I don't own any fancy Tupperware or anything--I just use my old sour cream cartons to store my leftovers in the fridge. This is what my mama always did as we were growing up: you just put a piece of masking tape on the top and write with Sharpie what's in the container.

And while I use reusable bags at the grocery store and as many other places as I can, I do still end up accumulating more plastic shopping bags than I'd like. These I keep and either a) return to the recycle place at the grocery store, b) use them as trash bags for my little trashcan in my bathroom so I don't have to buy garbage liners, or c) use them to wrap up my shoes before I put them in my suitcase when I travel.

Anyway, apparently these are very uncommon(?) things to do, and I'm curious about how many people have these habits as well.


*Obviously, I do throw away plastic, but I really, really try to minimize it if at all possible. See: me searching frantically at the store for tampons with cardboard applicators instead of plastic ones. Why are they becoming harder and harder to find?

Okay, so. The other day some of my co-workers were mocking me because I still write in cursive. Yes, that's right: 90% of the time I use cursive. I can write in print, obviously, but my cursive is A) prettier and B) much, much faster (all the letters are connected! You don't have to pick your pen up nearly as much!). Apparently I am the only one who didn't learn it in third grade and then immediately start using print again as soon as I was allowed.

So I want to know about you! Take this poll! And note that the first two questions are asking about the majority of the time. Please only choose the "back and forth" option if you really do change it up most of the time as opposed to just some of the time.

[Poll #1817294]

[eta] One of my ultimate pet peeves: people who write "bare with me." NO I DO NOT WANT TO GET NAKED WITH YOU, AND CONSIDERING THAT WE HAVEN'T KNOWN EACH OTHER VERY LONG, I'M A LITTLE OFFENDED THAT YOU ASKED.

+ So I overslept, which meant I ran out the door, which meant that I didn't take my pills, which means that I will probably be feeling like I want to die at about 1:00 when my brain chemistry starts FREAKING OUT. Oh, anti-depressants. The things you do to me.

+ Anyway! I have a question for y'all who are X-Files-y inclined.

( x-files question )


+ And another question: if I want to change the text on my journal so that all of it (in the entries/comments) is in a darker font so that I can read it a little better (I love the color scheme, but it does require some eye-straining), what code do I need to look for in the CSS? I've changed a few colors, I thought, but nothing seems to have changed, so I must be changing the wrong thing, I guess? Any thoughts?


+ snickfic's latest fic revived all of my Jo Harvelle feelings and now I want ALL the fic where Jo's interacting with Dean (shippy or non, I don't even care). Any recs, y'all?


+ I miss Leverage already.

+ And a quick poll:

[Poll #1815188]

+ So I overslept, which meant I ran out the door, which meant that I didn't take my pills, which means that I will probably be feeling like I want to die at about 1:00 when my brain chemistry starts FREAKING OUT. Oh, anti-depressants. The things you do to me.

+ Anyway! I have a question for y'all who are X-Files-y inclined.

( x-files question )


+ And another question: if I want to change the text on my journal so that all of it (in the entries/comments) is in a darker font so that I can read it a little better (I love the color scheme, but it does require some eye-straining), what code do I need to look for in the CSS? I've changed a few colors, I thought, but nothing seems to have changed, so I must be changing the wrong thing, I guess? Any thoughts?


+ snickfic's latest fic revived all of my Jo Harvelle feelings and now I want ALL the fic where Jo's interacting with Dean (shippy or non, I don't even care). Any recs, y'all?


+ I miss Leverage already.

+ And a quick poll:

[Poll #1815188]

Ugh. I really need to write my Yuletide fic, but I am just not in a write-y kind of mood today. Instead, I just want to catch up on TV shows and maybe watch Downton Abbey because the picspams on tumblr are killing me with awesome. And I have another picspam casting project that I kind of want to do....But I should write my Yuletide fic!

So have a poll!

[Poll #1655766]

So tonight was a night of ~conflicts when it came to the TV schedule. Too much awesomeness at one time, and you had to choose!

So I'm curious as to what your decisions were.

[Poll #1622958]

Personally, I just watched The Vampire Diaries (OMG STUFF HAPPENED!) and am now downloading Community. But it was a difficult decision, let me tell you.

So how did y'all decide?

I have come to two conclusions:

1. Shipper Wars are stupid.
2. I miss choco_cherries and crossovers in general (the rest of this conversation will make more sense if you familiarize yourself with the comm. WHICH IS THE GREATEST COMM EVER).

These two conclusions have met each other and exploded into an idea of awesome: forget about pairing The Greatest Person in the Universe (aka Buffy Summers) with only people on her own show! Crossovers are better!

So I've decided that for the duration of silliness, whenever the Shipping Wars threaten to pop up, I will immediately wax poetical about my favorite Buffy ship. The catch: it's with someone who isn't even in the Buffyverse! People will become confused! And distracted! Scott Allie might make fun of me in a Q&A! Poor "Spray" fan! It'll be awesome!

But the question is: Who will be the other half of that ship? That's what this poll will help me determine!

I've already written Buffy/Tommy and you may have noticed me flailing with joy over John Crichton mentioning Buffy and we all know how I feel about anything remotely involving Enver Gjokaj, so they're the front-runners at this point. But I am open to suggestions! Convince me!


[Poll #1550370]

*Someone mentioned the idea of Enver playing Spike on Gabs' journal, and now I desperately want fic in which a post-"Chosen" heartbroken Buffy gets Victor imprinted with Spike's personality so that she can tell him all the things she never got to say to him....

Emmie, could I write that for the "Who Are You?" fic-a-thon?

1. Gah! I got up and read through my post from last night, and there was grammar!fail everywhere! So many wrong words! Why didn't y'all tell me? I'm so embarrassed!

But I seriously blame it on how hopped-up on upset-ness I was because of the race!fail argument (wow. Awkward syntax much?). My apologies.

2. angearia has obliged me, as she is wont to do because she is wonderful, and written me Buffy and Spike ice skating fic! The Cutting Edge references! Flashbacks to Fanged Four days! Flirty adorableness! A title from a Frost poem! Greek mythology references! General sweetness! Go forth and read!

3. I was surprised and delighted by all the Angel/Darla love in the thread last night. DARLA DARLA DARLA. It inspired me to do a poll!

The first question is just about Angel's canon relationships (and no, Spangel shippers, "one time" doesn't count as canon--sex only counts as a relationship if you do it often enough ;D), and you can only pick one. With the second: go wild!

One caveat on that one, though: I think a lot of us are of the opinion that just about any pairing can work of the author is extraordinary. But this isn't a crack!pairing-that-might-work-under-the-right-circumstances questions. It's more a, "Can you imagine various scenarios in which a variety of various decent writers could make this work?" Or, alternately: "Pretend these people are real. Which one would really work?"

And the final question is just me being silly.


[Poll #1545059]

[Poll #1348704][Poll #1348704]
Let me know what you think and why!

[EDIT] Whoa! Looks like the Spike fans are really vocal about choosing Num3ers. That totally cracks me up. Any BSG fans out there?