porphyry: (Hygeia)
porphyry ([personal profile] porphyry) wrote2008-04-07 07:45 pm

Meme Borrowed from Common Reader

Memity meme meme meme
1. My username is ______ because ______.

"Malkhos" because my husband picked it. I joined this whole LJ thing long after he did but chose not to start my own journal. I'm too inconsistent. Oddly, some nutty nut former friend found this offensive even after we'd unfriended her. People are weird.

2. My name is _____ because ______.

My name is Rita because all Catholic mothers used to name their children after saints. St. Rita of Cascia (Italy) is my namesake; she is the female counterpart of St. Jude, and therefore the patron saint of hopeless or impossible cases. Appeal to me, O those in need of miracles! ;) Is that blasphemy?

3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.

"Hymn to Apollo" because it's the one my non-Catholic, pagan husband picked. Whatever reasons exist for it, he might have told me but I've forgotten.

4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.

I really didn't know you could name a Friends page.

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.

"Hygeia" because 1) it's by Gustav Klimt, my favorite 20th century artist; 2) it is a detail from a much larger work called "Medicine"--Hygeia (health) is the central feature of the picture, and who wouldn't want that with respect to the mind and soul?

[identity profile] malkhos.livejournal.com 2008-04-08 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, he'll live with it. :) I've been proclaiming for years that Dali makes me nervous--his work always strikes me as too everything although I can appreciate what he did.

[identity profile] himmapaan.livejournal.com 2008-04-08 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'd agree with that! I do appreciate what he did - I'm just no fan, alas.