Poll: Identity posts

[pegkerr]

It seems to me that I haven't written a real sink-the-teeth-into-the topic for awhile. In the past, I've done a series of posts about identity, which have kicked off some interesting comments:

Security and Transformation
Being a karate student
Being a mother
Being a writer
Character flaws

and a couple which were locked to smaller filter groups.

Since I'm at rather a low ebb, fretful and indecisive, I am having a difficult time settling on a topic. Therefore, why not a poll?

[Poll #572144]

[Obligatory disclaimer: The Management reserves the right to tabulate your votes and then ignore them entirely and do about something totally different. If the Supreme Court can do that in 2000, so can I.]

Comments

[chazzbanner.livejournal.com]

Which none of my family has ever said. However, we played a game called 'duck, duck, grey duck':-) Goose? what goose? Grey duck.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Goose? what goose? Grey duck.

Heh.

I'm from Illinois, which, I have it on good authority, many people from further north-west don't consider to be really the midwest at all. But I spent quite a bit of time in college with a friend from North Dakota (who now lives in Minnesota and has an LJ, come to think of it), who instructed me in the proper function of 'Ufda,' taught me Sven and Ollie jokes, leant me Howard Mohr's How to Talk Minnesotan, and watched MacGuyver with me analytically to catch all the classic midwesternisms. At one point, early in our friendship, we were exiting a building ogether, me half a pace behind her, and at some movement I made she shied away slightly and then explained, "I thought you were going to kick me."

And I said, "No, I don't do that so much."

At which she burst out laughing and said, "Oh, you ARE a midwesterner, after all! What you mean is, 'Why, [hername], I would never *dream* of doing that!!!'"

As I recall, I just shrugged, which made her laugh even more.

:)