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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 09:29pm on 10/05/2006 under , ,
It's back again. Courtesy this time of [livejournal.com profile] wwhyte who indulged my blatant begging for another letter. Today I am 'M'.

Metro: The Paris Metro fills my conceptual space of the ideal public transport. Maybe it's because I was exposed to it as a kid, or because I lived in Paris and integrated it into my ideas of the sort of city I'd like to live in, but however it came about, I think of the Metro as just right when it comes to city transport. I've come to also love trams but the metro-trains are still my favourite, particularly on that stretch of the Ligne 6 between Le Motte-Piquet and Passy where the trains soar up above the streets and carry you over the Seine, gazing along the river and into the apartment life of the Parisians.

mp3: I've completely changed my music listening habits since the advent of mp3 players and digital music on my computer(s). I rarely listen to a complete album any more, and find myself in an endless loop of randomly selected music from a large catalogue of stuff I have squirrelled away on one hard drive or another. I use a Creative Zen Nano, or what was called a MuVo N200 when I bought it. It doesn't support playlists so I've never gotten into that approach of crafting a list of complementary tracks. Aleatoire, c'est moi.

memory: I have what I regard as a pretty poor memory. All my friends have heard me complain about that large blank I seem to have prior to about age 10 or so. My childhood memories are sketchy at best and are almost entirely created from later retellings of events. Even my teenage years and college memories are scanty now, and I'm jealous in some ways of those who seem to effortlessly recall key moments from their pasts. On the other hand I love keeping a journal and it serves me fairly well as a record when I need to dredge something up from the past.

In all though, I try not to dwell on the past, nor think too hard about the future. Life is now, and I have to remember that.

marriage: I'm one of those rare fellows who was proposed to, rather than who did the proposing. [livejournal.com profile] sammywol surprised me one day on the doorstep and the rest is history. We dallied a goodly while before getting married, it wasn't until September 1998 that we actually got hitched in the eyes of the Irish state. In fact we happened to get married on the 11th of September, which was rather spoilt for us in 2001. Luckily we don't really celebrate that date, but instead remember the 19th of September, the day when we had the party in Dublin for our friends and family, and performed our own ceremony. I still think it was the best wedding ceremony ever.

This year we'll be eight years married. Google tells me that the traditional gifts are bronze and the modern gifts are linens or lace. Knowing my propensity for confusion, [livejournal.com profile] sammywol is likely to end up with frilly bronze undies, or a linen bust of Shakespeare.

mouths: I'm fascinated by mouths. Apart from their obvious sensual qualities, mouths are so expressive even when you're not hearing the words they speak.

mumbling: I don't know if it's married life, or having a kid, or the inexorable workings of my genetic heritage, but I do mumble some. Sometimes I can pretend that others just can't focus long enough to absorb my pearls of wisdom, but in fact it's that they just can't make out what I'm saying.

methods: I'm endlessly interested in how other people do things. Another person's methods or procedures reveals something to me of how they think and how they process the world. It's another window on someone else's mind and it's fascinating.

making: I don't do nearly enough stuff with my hands. I cook, particularly baking of breads and cakes and such, but I have a plan to get more involve in bookcrafts, particularly binding my own books at home. I've made a couple of simple stab bound books and found the physical act of making a thing very rewarding. I need to make time for this and a place in which make things without leaving stabby implements lying around where little hands might find them.

masturbation: It's great. Everyone should masturbate and celebrate the fact that we all can entertain ourselves at the drop of a hat. (If falling hats gets you hot).

Meme-whore: Well, it goes without saying, doesn't it? And the sad thing is the number of quizzes and such I do that I never bother to post the results for.

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