You can find some of these answers and more in my user info.

1. My username is cottontimer because Cotton Time is one of my favorite Japanese crafts magazines and I was living in Japan when this journal was created in November 2003.

2. My journal is titled Cotton-Pickin’ Days because I wanted to continue with the cotton theme and because “cotton-picking” is a slang adjective that tells someone you’re annoyed, i.e., “Keep your cotton-pickin’ hands off my intellectual property!”

3. My subtitle is Striving for excellence because my good friend WHLK and I used to say that to each other in jest when we needed to get psyched.

4. My friends page (aka feed aggregator for those not familiar with LiveJournal lingo) is called Something Interesting because…well that should be self-explanatory even if not always true.

5. My default userpic is

because it’s the most recent picture I have that’s suitable and doesn’t freak me out every time I look at it.

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The meme questions in their original, fill-in-the-blank format.

1. My username is ____ because ____.
2. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
3. My subtitle is ____ because ____.
4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.