Meme procrastination!

[oyceter]

From lots of people:

Ten things I assume you know about me

• I am Chinese.
  
• I spent the latter half of my childhood and teen years living in Taiwan.
  
• I am feminist and anti-racist and my personal is political.
  
• I read. A lot.
  
• I have pet rats and I think they are the cutest thing ever with their fuzzy little paws and noses and whiskers and the way they lick my fingers and even Ruki who is evil and escapes all the time is the cutest thing ever.
  
• I live in the Bay Area and I love love love love love it. LOVE. I love the sunshine and the blue skies and how the grass covers the dirt hill in the winter thanks to the rain. I love the sometimes-embarrassing yuppiness of it and my farmers' market and how Asian it is so I can feel invisible for once and buy things I actually eat in supermarkets.
  
• I like food. A lot.
  
• I knit. A lot.
  
• I like genre and pop culture (despite having zero pop culture knowledge to speak of) and the fringe and the outcast and that which is generally not accepted. I like women who are girly and strong and women who are fighters and women who have the courage of their convictions. I like multi-cultural worlds that acknowledge non-standard family units and GLBT characters and POC.
  
• I am drawn like a moth to flame (or perhaps like a flying walrus to wolves?) to the crack.

And just for the heck of it...

Five things you may not know about me
(I can't think of ten)

• I am Chinese. As in, I am not Taiwanese, I do not speak Taiwanese or understand Taiwanese, despite spending eight years in Taiwan. I'm not insulted if people call me Taiwanese and normally would not care, except I feel like I am wrongfully appropriating, as people in Taiwan would consider me a mainlander because my grandparents emigrated to Taiwan from China while fleeing the Communists and there is a lot of anti-mainlander sentiment right now. Also, if you've called me Taiwanese in the past, it is ok! I usually don't explain unless I have a good half hour, just because the politics are so complicated. Anyway, I think now I identify as Chinese-American and Asian-American as well, though I didn't before. California is home now, though Taiwan will always be home as well.
  
• I am really girly. I like pink and skirts and knitting and dancing and butterflies and lace and anything cute. (I think most people know this? But maybe some do not?)
  
• I adore food science and reading about how recipes are constructed and how and why food works the way it does (Good Eats!), but I don't actually cook because I don't have time (or more accurately: I do have time, but I choose to spend it on rats and dancing and knitting instead). I do like making stuff for special occasions though, just not the stress of preparing daily meals.
  
• I hate going to bed and will in fact stay up as late as I possibly can (and usually later than is sane), but once asleep, I never want to get up. It also takes me forever to wake up (i.e never try talking to me before I am caffeinated), and I sleep like the dead.
  
• I hate competition and will generally try to avoid anything that will compare me with other people unless it is completely unavoidable.

Comments

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I hate competition and will generally try to avoid anything that will compare me with other people unless it is completely unavoidable.

Oh, geez, me too. It's one reason I prefer tabletop roleplaying games to any other kind of game: in general, if the GM is good, an RPG is a cooperative venture among the players, rather than a competition between them.

[oyceter]

Oooh yes. And that's why I like games more like Taboo or Cranium than things like chess or checkers.