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[dr_pretentious]

purpledice tagged me with the eight random things meme. I don't generally do memes, but this one has been entertaining to read in other people's journals.

1.
There's a family of house finches nesting in our front porch's eaves. It's not a good thing for the porch. I don't have an official position on house finches--on the one hand, they're living creatures, while on the other hand, they're a species not native to North America--but I like their song, I like their plumage, and I like how happy our cat is to watch them through the window.

2.
I'm descended from a pope--an unremarkable, undistinguished pope, with one of the shortest reigns on record (913-914 CE).

3.
The items on this list aren't really random, of course. There are some things I don't talk about in public lj posts, and a few things I don't talk about on lj at all.

4.
I had one year of Ancient Greek at college. The first day, we learned a Sappho fragment about the evening star. Fifteen years later, whenever I see the evening star, I still greet it with those two lines of Sappho.

5.
My living room is not childproofed.

6.
I like Brandywines better than any other variety of tomatoes, but they're a pain in the ass to grow.

7.
The average American has three phobias, so I don't feel too bad about mine: heights, needles, eye injuries.

8.
After learning city driving in Seoul--where, at least in the 1980s, no traffic regulation had the force of law and the locals could get licenses without ever having to take a road test--I'm just not that impressed with the bad drivers in any US city. Not even Boston.

Comments

[reynaud.livejournal.com]

Even more so, it took a *long* time (the 2nd Lateran Council, 1139) for the concept of married clergy to be finally outlawed.

My big question on this would be, how do you know your descended from him?