vaznetti | eight facts meme

cameragrl tagged me with the "eight random facts meme" a few days ago, and it's been a while since I've done one of these so here we go:

1. I really hate providing personal information about myself, and will usually deflect questions about myself with stories about my parents, grandparents, cousins, great-aunts and great-uncles, most of which seem far more interesting to me than anything that I would say about myself.

2. I watched I, Claudius when I was fairly young, with my parents, and it made a huge impression on me. For a long time, I wanted to be just like Livia, when I grew up.

2a. It is perfectly safe to eat food I've prepared, though. Really.

3. In fact I am a pretty good cook, although my mantra whenever trying something new is, "I don't think this will turn out well."

4. I reread my own fic; recently I've been doing a lot of that, since I'm pulling my webpage together and trying to update it. I find that I like most of what I've written. Not that it's as good as it could be, perhaps, but very little of it fills me with horror.

5. I tell myself enormous, overwrought, Mary-Sue-centered crossovers in my head every night before I go to sleep.

5a. Luckily for all of you, I will never commit these to text: for one thing, if I did I couldn't change them to suit my interests.

6. I think it's perfectly OK to split an infinitive every now and then. The comma-splice, however, is another matter entirely.

7. When I was in second grade, my teacher thought I might be hyperactive, because I kept jumping out of my desk and running to the front of the room and then back to my desk. In fact the problem was that I needed glasses, and had to get closer to the board to see what it said.

7a. I am so nearsighted that now that I'm getting older, my eyesight is improving. Perhaps if I live long enough, I'll be able to see clearly!

8. I am having an incredibly difficult time thinking of an eighth fact.

8a. OK. I have a weirdly competitive relationship, as a fan, with the shows I'm fannish about and the creators of those shows. I do see fanfic as a way of "fixing" things I don't like, or solving problems I perceive in the canon. It's not that I don't like the shows I'm fannish about -- indeed, I become less and less tolerant of negative comment, the longer I stay in fandom -- but I do sometimes look at them and think, "You know, I would have done that differently. And you know what else? It might have been better." I am not a very respectful fan, in part because I'm used to thinking I'm about as smart as my contemporaries. I reserve my real respect for the classical authors.

Other information about me can be found in the ten things I assume you know about me meme and generally via the formative lists tag.

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Since I mentioned that whole website-building exercise, I might as well ask a question. Do I give drabbles their own page? do I post them at all? some of the Supernatural drabbles I wrote last summer can be grouped together into a loose series, and some of them I like enough to post on their own. But there are all kinds of random short pieces scattered here and there, and I just don't know what to do about them.