"getting right under my skin"
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omnia_mutanturSo, the question meme comes 'round again:
if inclined, ask me to interview you, post the results in your own journals, and then other people will question you, and the cycle will continue.
(i love this because it a) gives me new things to think about and b) lets me be nosy)
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circehellene deigned to ask me
1.) You write so beautifully ... I've always wondered, is it a part of what you do professionally? Do you write fiction?
as much as I would love to, no. i've no idea how one starts to write professionally, or really, if there's any market for the kind of writing i'm good at, or how to become good at some other form of writing. professionally, i actually baby-sit insurance billing software at a hospital.
2.) How do you choose your gorgeous nicknames for people?
some combination of my gut and a thesaurus. people give me certain sensations, light feels like something necessary and the way that the sun looks like when it pours out from behind clouds and you almost drive off the road trying to look at it. history's a piece of me i could never get rid of, and would never want to and bar none, the individual who has loved me the longest, through all my changes. spark is a teeny woman with more energy than most powerplants. junkyard's the nicest person i know, but tries to hide it and claims he's 'junkyard mean'. my crush on sanguine is both about her optimistic side and her bloody side (and a play on her name)
you'd probably be argent, from the silversmith and the whiteness of complexion in your lj icon, which for reasons unbeknownst to me connotes both swift movement and the sort of argument made for clarity's sake, rather than combat's.
3.) To satisfy my own raging curiosity ... how did you meet Light?
In a summerschool in Concord, NH in '93, the summer between our junior and senior years of high school. He took Physics, I was taking Ancient Greece. We fell in and out of touch for the intervening decade, and then starting emailing and talking almost nonstop after he contacted me after his marriage ended. I fell madly in love with him almost instantaneously, a couple months later, he fell back.
4.) Perfect happiness - a definition?
no such thing. there's too much changing/learning in my definition of happiness for it to be any one thing. but more immediate answer would be correctly sugar-and-milk cinnamon tea, a comfy chair, a limitless number of books that i both want to read and am intellectually comfortable reading, sprinkled with enough guiltypleasure reads to make me grin. happy cats, light somewhere nearby playing videogames or on his computer. the sort of relaxation that comes when you know for a fact that everyone you love is happy, healthy and safe. plans for the immediate future that involve live music or people coming over to my house and laughing and eating something i've baked.
5.) A top ten list of "good things" - things that you're glad to see in the world, in your life.
(i'm leaving people out, and going with things as either abstract concepts or material possessions)
1. literacy (printing press, ample access to books, writers, etc)
2. choice (even when it's limited, it exists)
3. my cats
4. the painting "Birthday Surprise" by Dorothea Tanning
5. tea, in all of its infinite varieties
6. raspberries
7. the way old books smell
8. the Iron Horse music hall venue
9. irises
10. ginger
if inclined, ask me to interview you, post the results in your own journals, and then other people will question you, and the cycle will continue.
(i love this because it a) gives me new things to think about and b) lets me be nosy)
circehellene deigned to ask me 1.) You write so beautifully ... I've always wondered, is it a part of what you do professionally? Do you write fiction?
as much as I would love to, no. i've no idea how one starts to write professionally, or really, if there's any market for the kind of writing i'm good at, or how to become good at some other form of writing. professionally, i actually baby-sit insurance billing software at a hospital.
2.) How do you choose your gorgeous nicknames for people?
some combination of my gut and a thesaurus. people give me certain sensations, light feels like something necessary and the way that the sun looks like when it pours out from behind clouds and you almost drive off the road trying to look at it. history's a piece of me i could never get rid of, and would never want to and bar none, the individual who has loved me the longest, through all my changes. spark is a teeny woman with more energy than most powerplants. junkyard's the nicest person i know, but tries to hide it and claims he's 'junkyard mean'. my crush on sanguine is both about her optimistic side and her bloody side (and a play on her name)
you'd probably be argent, from the silversmith and the whiteness of complexion in your lj icon, which for reasons unbeknownst to me connotes both swift movement and the sort of argument made for clarity's sake, rather than combat's.
3.) To satisfy my own raging curiosity ... how did you meet Light?
In a summerschool in Concord, NH in '93, the summer between our junior and senior years of high school. He took Physics, I was taking Ancient Greece. We fell in and out of touch for the intervening decade, and then starting emailing and talking almost nonstop after he contacted me after his marriage ended. I fell madly in love with him almost instantaneously, a couple months later, he fell back.
4.) Perfect happiness - a definition?
no such thing. there's too much changing/learning in my definition of happiness for it to be any one thing. but more immediate answer would be correctly sugar-and-milk cinnamon tea, a comfy chair, a limitless number of books that i both want to read and am intellectually comfortable reading, sprinkled with enough guiltypleasure reads to make me grin. happy cats, light somewhere nearby playing videogames or on his computer. the sort of relaxation that comes when you know for a fact that everyone you love is happy, healthy and safe. plans for the immediate future that involve live music or people coming over to my house and laughing and eating something i've baked.
5.) A top ten list of "good things" - things that you're glad to see in the world, in your life.
(i'm leaving people out, and going with things as either abstract concepts or material possessions)
1. literacy (printing press, ample access to books, writers, etc)
2. choice (even when it's limited, it exists)
3. my cats
4. the painting "Birthday Surprise" by Dorothea Tanning
5. tea, in all of its infinite varieties
6. raspberries
7. the way old books smell
8. the Iron Horse music hall venue
9. irises
10. ginger
