O.O and hi!

[rynne]

First of all, I got a call from the Army today. O.O My sister handed me the phone and told me that the Army wanted to talk to me, and I was thinking "Sure, right" because sometimes she's just weird like that and jokes around. So I say hello, and dude, it really was from someone in the Army! This guy, Sergeant Something, said he was calling all incoming seniors at Reno High to talk to them about plans for summer and college and stuff, and, just as an aside, asked me if I was interested in possibly joining the Army. It was a bit freaky, to say the least. He was like, the official Reno High Army Recruitment Dude. I wanted to say something like, "No, Scary Army Recruitment Dude, I do not want to join the army and go off to fight and maybe possibly get blown to bits, or blow other people to bits, in Iraq when I'm eighteen (assuming we're still there when I'm eighteen). I want to go to college and read books and have blithery philosophical discussions about nothing. My plans for the future don't include waving guns at people, thanks."

There is not, of course, anything wrong with people who do choose the join the Army or some other branch of the military. I am full of the highest respect for them. I could just never do what they do, and I don't particularly want to. Waving guns at people is usually just Not My Thing. (Swords, yes. I can do swords. But guns are a no-no.)

Also, I took a look at my profile today, and there are apparently a lot of people reading me who I know absolutely nothing about.

So, hi!

You are apparently reading me, so you must find me somewhat interesting (heaven knows why). So come introduce yourselves! Maybe say how you found me and why you decided to friend me of all people. (People I do know are allowed to do this as well, assuming that you didn't find me just because I friended you first *snerk*) Come on, I don't bite! Hard. :D

Comments

[svz-insanity.livejournal.com]

Lol, hi! I've been getting letters asking me to join... o.o I'm only 14!

Anyways, I added you to my friends list because I really liked your fics ^^ Also, I find your life interesting. ^_^

booya ^_^

[crammer.livejournal.com]

heyo ^_^ how's goin? just thought i'd drop a line, coz i've been reading your journal for some time now, and i figured you don't me, and i don't know you either. hehe...

so, the name's ces. i found you through the gingersnap community (though i haven't posted there, or in FA for a while now. ack!). anywayz, i just thought it would be interesting to get to know other people/writers/bloggers. ehe ^_^

anywayz.. just saying hi. and i'll catch ya later!

[tinitinytina.livejournal.com]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the army. I have the utmost respect for people who do join. Well, the decent ones anyways.

But, like you, I just can't imagine myself actually in war. I like to think I'm emotionally tough and stronger than some, but hell, just imagining myself in an actual battle shooting people with bombs raining down on me and the chance of getting blown to bits and killed just scares me shitless.

Although would you rather be killed in an instant or injured, possibly losing a limb, but still alive? I think I just might prefer the first...

See? Deep down, I'm such a chicken.

[uozlulu.livejournal.com]

Hi. I'm Uozumi from fanfiction.net. I'm sort-of-single-in-that-odd-way and like long walks on moonlit beaches...

Ahahahaha...

I think I found you throught remusxsirius or some other way that a bunch of fic authors all wound up in one place at one time - I don't reember.

There you go.

~ Uozumi

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Because you friended me first. Because you wrote "Man That You Fear" and I am forthwith blaming all my R/S stories on you. Because there WILL be more.

[bluemeanie11.livejournal.com]

So, I haven't actually friended you (mostly cause my laziness knows no bounds), but as I do read this sometimes, I thought I'd pipe up. I'm pretty sure I must've stumbled upon your journal one day from one Remus/Sirius place or another, and basically I read in the hopes of finding you've written more fics. Don't think I've ever reviewed, though (see comment on laziness above).

As to the phone call from the army, all I've gotta say is get used to it. During my senior year, I got more calls from the army, navy, and whatever other assorted military things there are out there than I knew what to do with. My parents ended up screening calls for me. Plus, the recruiters start showing up at school. Well, they did at my school, anyway. And the calls lasted well into my freshman year of college, but then I was luckily halfway across the country and left my parents to deal with it.

Right. Didn't really know I had that much to say by way of introduction. So, hi. And, you know, bye. For now. Maybe I'll review someday, even...

[terredancer.livejournal.com]

I feel for you. *wry*

No, though, there was a period of time when I was being courted by the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. And the Navy were the ones who would not give it up. And there wasn't even a war on at the time. :p

Swords are good, though. Says she who turned her nose up at the quality of the swords being sold at the last computer show. (That's something I don't understand -- how swords and computers go together -- because every computer show I've been to has included a booth of guys selling swords.)

So yes, this is babble ;)

[cruisedirector]

I found you because you friended me first -- I'm still not sure whether it was random HP drabbles or the poetry, as I was in a rather LOTR- and HP-fallow period at the time. Thank the goddess I didn't know your age. *g*

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

So I'm Tommy. I'm a girl and a Virgo...

Oh wait, probably not the information you wanted.

I found you via a mention of your Shakespeare Challenge and I signed myself up. Then I read a few of your other entries, looked over our interests, and decided to friend you based on that.

I promise, no stalking on my part...and I don't make LJ paperdolls of people--well, unless they ask me to.

~~TG

[marauderthesn.livejournal.com]

Eek, the Army! If they ever call me I'll just hang up the phone.

[renee6612.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Renee, I come in peace . . . I'm from FictionAlley, so I've read some of your fics and seen you around on ship threads, etc. You seemed like an interesting person, so I friended you (hope you don't mind! :-)