Belated April Fool
Jun. 12th, 2007 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyI had a Homer Simpson-esque "d'oh!" moment the other day because I realised I had forgotten, yet again, my LJ's anniversary. You wouldn't think that April Fool's Day would be so hard to remember, but apparently it is. So in the interests of making it up to my journal*, and even though my March Meme Madness is well and truly over, I'm going to steal this from, well, lots of people:
1. My username is todayiamadaisy because it's the first name I could think of that wasn't already taken. It's the title of a song by Australian singer, Deborah Conway: Today I am a daisy/Tomorrow I will be Vincent's sunflowers, Claude's lilies, anything I want. I worried that it might be too unwieldy at first, but after three (and a bit) years I quite like it; I think there is definitely a "daisy" character to this journal that would have developed differently if I'd chosen another song title. How different would my f-list, my chosen subjects, my writing be if I'd become, say,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sheprefersfire?
2. My journal is titled Mortal by nature, and ephemeral becauseI'm a bit pretentious it comes from a quote I like - I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet. - from astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (around 150 AD).
And because the relevance of this LJ is nothing if not ephemeral.
3. My subtitle is We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it., which is a quote from Winnie-the-Pooh. It's from Chapter 6, "In Which Eeyore Has A Birthday And Gets Two Presents", and the full passage goes :
"Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh.
"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.
"Why, what's the matter?"
"Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."
"Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose.
"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush."
"Oh!" said Pooh. He thought for a long time, and then asked, "What mulberry bush is that?"
"Bon-hommy," went on Eeyore gloomily. "French word meaning bonhommy," he explained. "I'm not complaining, but There It Is."
Eeyore's thought process is the closest to my own I've ever found in literature. :-)
4. My friends page is called Cads and Bounders because of this entry in 2005, which, for those of you who don't want to click the link, was the result of me reading a book of rather preposterous Christmas stories by the likes of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy and lamenting that there's not enough people going round exclaiming "By Jove!" and calling a cad "a cad" these days. There still isn't really, despite my best efforts.
5. My default userpic is an image that came up on the front page of Google Image when I searched for "daisy" one day in mid-2004. My original icon was a single, white daisy, but I changed to this quite early on and haven't looked back. I do have other icons - I really do - but I tend to stick with this one, if only because it makes it easier for me to find a comment I've left on a page. The only other icon that gets used on a regular basis is the "yay!" bunny, and even that's a very distant second.
* Oh, all right. I'm really doing this to stop myself screaming in horror at today's "For Better or For Worse". Argh!
1. My username is todayiamadaisy because it's the first name I could think of that wasn't already taken. It's the title of a song by Australian singer, Deborah Conway: Today I am a daisy/Tomorrow I will be Vincent's sunflowers, Claude's lilies, anything I want. I worried that it might be too unwieldy at first, but after three (and a bit) years I quite like it; I think there is definitely a "daisy" character to this journal that would have developed differently if I'd chosen another song title. How different would my f-list, my chosen subjects, my writing be if I'd become, say,
sheprefersfire?2. My journal is titled Mortal by nature, and ephemeral because
And because the relevance of this LJ is nothing if not ephemeral.
3. My subtitle is We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it., which is a quote from Winnie-the-Pooh. It's from Chapter 6, "In Which Eeyore Has A Birthday And Gets Two Presents", and the full passage goes :
"Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh.
"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.
"Why, what's the matter?"
"Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."
"Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose.
"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush."
"Oh!" said Pooh. He thought for a long time, and then asked, "What mulberry bush is that?"
"Bon-hommy," went on Eeyore gloomily. "French word meaning bonhommy," he explained. "I'm not complaining, but There It Is."
Eeyore's thought process is the closest to my own I've ever found in literature. :-)
4. My friends page is called Cads and Bounders because of this entry in 2005, which, for those of you who don't want to click the link, was the result of me reading a book of rather preposterous Christmas stories by the likes of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy and lamenting that there's not enough people going round exclaiming "By Jove!" and calling a cad "a cad" these days. There still isn't really, despite my best efforts.
5. My default userpic is an image that came up on the front page of Google Image when I searched for "daisy" one day in mid-2004. My original icon was a single, white daisy, but I changed to this quite early on and haven't looked back. I do have other icons - I really do - but I tend to stick with this one, if only because it makes it easier for me to find a comment I've left on a page. The only other icon that gets used on a regular basis is the "yay!" bunny, and even that's a very distant second.
* Oh, all right. I'm really doing this to stop myself screaming in horror at today's "For Better or For Worse". Argh!