Poll: Distraction Is Good

[thefourthvine]

I'm kind of - not too bright sometimes. For example, when I grabbed an oven rack to move it around without, um, checking to see if it was hot? That was a "not so bright" moment in my life, right there.

Also, ow.

So I want distraction, with a minimum of typing involved. It's time for a poll! With, ideally, lots of comments! Come on, people - please. Distract me.

(I do actually have a place I'm going with this, by the way - except for the last question, which is there solely because LJ is crazed tonight. I'm trying to find out what fans do and how they do it. Assuming the ice does its job, I'll have a meta post on this sometime in the distant, murky future. Probably.)

[Poll #830222]

Comments

[etben.livejournal.com]

I am sort of a magpie and sort of a gorilla - I'll read in pretty much any fandom, following good authors and recs by people (like you!) whose taste I trust. I'm really only fannish about a couple of fandoms, though - or, well, fine, four. Five. Whatever. Point is, my reading tastes and my writing-watching-squeeing-thinking-obsessing tastes are not the same things. I am a butterfly of reading and a gorilla of everything else.

...and that's a bizarre mental image, so I'm going to go drink some peppermint tea. Don't touch hot things! and make sure the oven is empty before you set it to preheat (that's the one that always gets me...).

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I am sort of a magpie and sort of a gorilla

You know, I wish I had realized, when I made this post, that I would be envisioning an awful lot of horrible chimeras.

I'm trying right now to decide if you are a very hairy magpie with arms, or if you're a feathered gorilla with wings. Or maybe a gorilla with a magpie head? It's a tough call.

I am a butterfly of reading and a gorilla of everything else.

*nods*

This makes sense. It's necessary to be less selective in the reading, at least for me - I mean, I'm really damn selective in quality, so I have to be willing to branch out a bit in terms of fandom.

and make sure the oven is empty before you set it to preheat (that's the one that always gets me.

*nods sadly*

Oh, I've been there. There was this unfortunate period when we were using the oven as a place to hide things from the dogs (one of our dogs is incredibly tall and was very prone to counter-surfing when we got him, so we had to put everything behind closed doors in the kitchen).

We had, um, several preheating-related oven fires during that era. It was a dark and smoke-filled time.