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linden_jayTHE RULES: (My WORD this is a bossy meme. No manners.)
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favourite lyric to your current favourite song. Or your favourite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. (Or just to totally mess with you and ask you weird assed shit I feel like knowing... whatever.)
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions. (Or, y'know... post the answers here, whatever floats your boat. Geez, meme, what's with all the ass-caps?)
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post. (see above re: If you bloody well feel like it.)
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions. (Well, it is a meme, so if you're going to post it, I suppose it makes sense that you want to ask people questions, but still... BOSSY.)
In other words--in classic Jay tradition--do this meme if you please, and if you please alone. Ask me for questions, answer them here, your journal, wherever you please. Also, if you want to ask me questions as well, go right ahead!
My answered questions from:
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apetslife
1) If you could pick one place (not in North America) to visit for a full year, where would you go? Why?
Scotland. Really, the entire United Kingdom, but absolutely Scotland. Almost my entire family on all sides is there (except one quarter split evenly between England and Denmark), and I've always wanted to go. I like the idea of going back to the place my family history started from.
2) Which is the better pet: Hamster, gerbil, or guinea pig?
Hamster. They're cuter than gerbils, especially the fluffy fat teddy bear hamster type, and they don't have those kind of tails like gerbils do. And guinea pigs just kind of creep me out a little bit… I don’t like the way their fur feels. Hamsters are soft and fuzzy and awesome. I had one when I was eight.
3) If you had to road trip with just one of them, who would you pick, Sam or Dean?
Oh man, this is an EVIL question. See, Dean would let me eat all the junk food in the car that I wanted and wouldn’t complain, but he really reminds me of my sister sometimes and I think being trapped in a car with him long enough, I’d probably end up wanting to kill him, even if he’s a sexy bitch and the rest stops would be … entertaining *g*. So I think I’d go with Sam. I could see us just ending up nattering and talking the whole way, jumping from topic to topic and having a blast. And I’d let him drive.
4) What's your favorite rock album (if you have one) and why?
Oh, this is HARD. Mostly because I have very few favourite albums—I’m very much a singles girl, and it’s hard for me to find an entire album that I really truly love. Right now, probably my very favourite is a British Columbia band that just about no one’s ever heard of called ‘Redfish’, and their album Silvertonia.
I used to go watch them play all the time when I was working at a ski resort, since they’d play every other weekend or so. We had a lot of live bands/cover bands up there, and most of them were absolutely terrible, particularly their own stuff, but these guys just had something really cool about them, something that just felt perfectly Western Canadian and just always reminds me of home. I should find that cd and upload it sometime…
5) Describe a phobia you have
I’ll give you three for the price of one, since they’re my three biggest and also my three weirdest: Monkeys, bobbleheads, and animatronic things that talk and/or move.
Monkeys just… man, they just freak me out. They’re creepy, and eerie and if I turned around and saw a monkey just sitting there looking at me, I would sit down and cry. My only exception is for gorillas. Gorillas are beautiful, especially the mountain gorillas. But chimps, monkeys, orangs? Omg do not want.
Bobbleheads I don’t even think need an explanation. They’re scary and creepy and no one’s head should wobble around on their neck like that. I cover my eyes when I see commercials that have them, and run away in the stores. Yes. I am a loser.
The best example of what I mean by animatronic things that talk and/or move is big Billy bass. My sister in law has one and I hate it with the passion of 1000 suns. It sings and it moves and it responds to motion sensors and it scares me EVERY damned time. Hate. So. Much.
tjournal
1. What book/movie/fic story do you wish you'd written? And why.
Your questions are INVOLVED. Hmm… book? ‘Gathering Blue’, by Lois Lowry. I read a lot of children’s literature, and it and its companion book ‘The Giver’ are two of my favourite books of all time. Hell, anything she writes, actually, but you didn’t say pick an author. But ‘Gathering Blue’ was just one of those books where I really felt I was seeing the world as it existed through the eyes of the main character, so clearly and so vividly that I could almost reach out and touch it. I love when that can happen.
2. What is your dream vacation?
The place that I want to visit most is Scotland/The UK, so I’d probably have to say being able to go there, and just … wander. No timetables, no having to be anywhere in any rush, just getting to roam all over the place. And minimal sun, which makes my pale-self very happy.
3. Best.Day.Ever?
Fantasy best day? AH gets a job, one that he really wants and will really, truly enjoy, and makes enough money that we can manage to eat food AND me go back to school again.
So-far-in-my-life best day? Oh, I’ve got to go with sappy and say my wedding day. For real though. It was just SO much fun—it was as close to perfect as was possible, almost all my family and friends were able to be there, and we just had a complete and total blast the whole day. I wish I could have been a guest at my wedding because everyone really seemed to have a great time… I think I’d even have had more fun if I hadn’t had to be doing bride-stuff.
4. If you could become any teevee character, who would it be?
Inara, from 'Firefly'. Beautiful and elegant and talented and cultured smart as hell, and with the lovely clothes and smarting off at Mal and just yes. I was so disappointed when I peeked into that fandom and saw so much anti-Inara sentiment because I just love her.
5. I'm gonna give you a super power, any one you want. What is it? What super power WOULDN'T you want?
I'm going with Heroes superpowers, 'cause they're in my head right now. I want Charlie's power--enhanced memory (listed in the Heroes wiki as: The ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume. Seriously--how cool would that be? I'd become fluent in every language under the sun, and then I'd just travel around everywhere and go see plays and just man... how awesome would that one be?
What don't I want? Telepathy. Just the mere thought of what might be going on in some people's heads is bad enough--I seriously don't want the actual confirmation of what might be crawling around up there.
fiercy
1. If you could eradicate one thing/behaviour/hardship/insect/law--anything--from the face of the planet, what would it be and why?
Willful or apathetic ignorance. I can understand differences of opinion, even if I don't agree, as long as it's a considered, thoughtful position. Anything that smacks of I don't know, and I don't care, and I'm revelling in my choice to be ignorant, or just completely refusing to even consider another opinion--both make me completely lose my shit. It's a weird one to choose to eradicate, but honestly, I think if you get people talking and thinking and actually considering things, and a lot of other horrible things will snowball and change.
2. You're stage managing a production cast entirely of television actors. What production and who's your dream cast and director?
You're too creative for your own good, you know that? And the television actors thing, that's just unfair. I'm stage managing Romeo and Juliet, directed by Joss Whedon. Am I about to get a little kooky? Ohhh probably. You know how I feel about Romeo and Juliet (or if you don't, lord, duck out of the way, I could go on for ages...)
The main cast is (HEAVILY influenced by my recent television habits...):
Romeo: Jared Padalecki
Juliet: Hayden Panettiere
Mercutio: Christian Kane
Tybalt: Jensen Ackles
Benvolio: Morena Baccarin (Yes, yes I know, but I've always thought this would be a great cross-cast role. That's how I'll cast it when I do my own version anyway.)
Balthazar: Eric Millegan
Nurse: Margaret Cho
Paris: Milo Ventimiglia (or David Boreanaz--I'm really torn on which direction to go here)
Capulet: Jack Coleman
Lady Capulet: Ali Larter
Montague: Jim Beaver
Prince: Sendhil Ramamurthy
Father Lawrence: Jeffrey Dean Morgan
3. AH just got a great job, not magically great, but really solid with a reasonably good paycheck. You're moving into your next place. What's it like?
It's an apartment, utilities included, maybe third or fourth floor, so we can open the windows at night. Two bedrooms, and the bedroom we're sleeping in has big, big windows--flat ones that the cats can't climb on the sill and fuck with the Venetian blinds. All hardwood or tile--no carpet anywhere--and it's got air-conditioning, damn it! I like division of space, as opposed to big, wide open rooms, so there'd be separations between, say, the kitchen and the dining area, as well as the living room. I'm not picky about decor, but there needs to be room for bookshelves bookshelves bookshelves, as far as the eye can see, and I want my bedroom painted a soft, pale yellow. Everything else the AH can pick.
4. You can only eat five things for an entire year. What are those five things? The recipes can be as complicated or as simple as you like, and beverages don't count.
Ham and Extra Cheese Pizza (deep dish, plenty of sauce), Steak (New York, medium rare), Mr. Sub Pizza subs, Turkey and stuffing (it counts as one thing--you can technically have the one without the other, but that's just WRONG, plus stuffing is cooked inside the turkey, so it totally counts as one 'recipe'), and spaghetti with meat sauce, baked with mozzarella cheese on top. Sadly? I could probably eat this quite literally for a year and be just about content with that amount of dietary 'variation'. I'm sure Jess will read this and faint at the utter lack of any sign of a vegetable. But, you said beverages don't count, so I'll drink orange juice, as not to get scurvy.
5. If you could snap your fingers right now and be somewhere with lodging paid for a week and a $1000 in your pocket, where would you go?
Victoria, BC. With no family obligations for once, no one to see or meet, just about to be a tourist in a city that I've been to so many times, we stopped doing the cooler tourist stuff awhile ago. I'd love a week there with cash in my pocket to just enjoy it.
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favourite lyric to your current favourite song. Or your favourite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. (Or just to totally mess with you and ask you weird assed shit I feel like knowing... whatever.)
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions. (Or, y'know... post the answers here, whatever floats your boat. Geez, meme, what's with all the ass-caps?)
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post. (see above re: If you bloody well feel like it.)
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions. (Well, it is a meme, so if you're going to post it, I suppose it makes sense that you want to ask people questions, but still... BOSSY.)
In other words--in classic Jay tradition--do this meme if you please, and if you please alone. Ask me for questions, answer them here, your journal, wherever you please. Also, if you want to ask me questions as well, go right ahead!
My answered questions from:
apetslife1) If you could pick one place (not in North America) to visit for a full year, where would you go? Why?
Scotland. Really, the entire United Kingdom, but absolutely Scotland. Almost my entire family on all sides is there (except one quarter split evenly between England and Denmark), and I've always wanted to go. I like the idea of going back to the place my family history started from.
2) Which is the better pet: Hamster, gerbil, or guinea pig?
Hamster. They're cuter than gerbils, especially the fluffy fat teddy bear hamster type, and they don't have those kind of tails like gerbils do. And guinea pigs just kind of creep me out a little bit… I don’t like the way their fur feels. Hamsters are soft and fuzzy and awesome. I had one when I was eight.
3) If you had to road trip with just one of them, who would you pick, Sam or Dean?
Oh man, this is an EVIL question. See, Dean would let me eat all the junk food in the car that I wanted and wouldn’t complain, but he really reminds me of my sister sometimes and I think being trapped in a car with him long enough, I’d probably end up wanting to kill him, even if he’s a sexy bitch and the rest stops would be … entertaining *g*. So I think I’d go with Sam. I could see us just ending up nattering and talking the whole way, jumping from topic to topic and having a blast. And I’d let him drive.
4) What's your favorite rock album (if you have one) and why?
Oh, this is HARD. Mostly because I have very few favourite albums—I’m very much a singles girl, and it’s hard for me to find an entire album that I really truly love. Right now, probably my very favourite is a British Columbia band that just about no one’s ever heard of called ‘Redfish’, and their album Silvertonia.
I used to go watch them play all the time when I was working at a ski resort, since they’d play every other weekend or so. We had a lot of live bands/cover bands up there, and most of them were absolutely terrible, particularly their own stuff, but these guys just had something really cool about them, something that just felt perfectly Western Canadian and just always reminds me of home. I should find that cd and upload it sometime…
5) Describe a phobia you have
I’ll give you three for the price of one, since they’re my three biggest and also my three weirdest: Monkeys, bobbleheads, and animatronic things that talk and/or move.
Monkeys just… man, they just freak me out. They’re creepy, and eerie and if I turned around and saw a monkey just sitting there looking at me, I would sit down and cry. My only exception is for gorillas. Gorillas are beautiful, especially the mountain gorillas. But chimps, monkeys, orangs? Omg do not want.
Bobbleheads I don’t even think need an explanation. They’re scary and creepy and no one’s head should wobble around on their neck like that. I cover my eyes when I see commercials that have them, and run away in the stores. Yes. I am a loser.
The best example of what I mean by animatronic things that talk and/or move is big Billy bass. My sister in law has one and I hate it with the passion of 1000 suns. It sings and it moves and it responds to motion sensors and it scares me EVERY damned time. Hate. So. Much.
tjournal 1. What book/movie/fic story do you wish you'd written? And why.
Your questions are INVOLVED. Hmm… book? ‘Gathering Blue’, by Lois Lowry. I read a lot of children’s literature, and it and its companion book ‘The Giver’ are two of my favourite books of all time. Hell, anything she writes, actually, but you didn’t say pick an author. But ‘Gathering Blue’ was just one of those books where I really felt I was seeing the world as it existed through the eyes of the main character, so clearly and so vividly that I could almost reach out and touch it. I love when that can happen.
2. What is your dream vacation?
The place that I want to visit most is Scotland/The UK, so I’d probably have to say being able to go there, and just … wander. No timetables, no having to be anywhere in any rush, just getting to roam all over the place. And minimal sun, which makes my pale-self very happy.
3. Best.Day.Ever?
Fantasy best day? AH gets a job, one that he really wants and will really, truly enjoy, and makes enough money that we can manage to eat food AND me go back to school again.
So-far-in-my-life best day? Oh, I’ve got to go with sappy and say my wedding day. For real though. It was just SO much fun—it was as close to perfect as was possible, almost all my family and friends were able to be there, and we just had a complete and total blast the whole day. I wish I could have been a guest at my wedding because everyone really seemed to have a great time… I think I’d even have had more fun if I hadn’t had to be doing bride-stuff.
4. If you could become any teevee character, who would it be?
Inara, from 'Firefly'. Beautiful and elegant and talented and cultured smart as hell, and with the lovely clothes and smarting off at Mal and just yes. I was so disappointed when I peeked into that fandom and saw so much anti-Inara sentiment because I just love her.
5. I'm gonna give you a super power, any one you want. What is it? What super power WOULDN'T you want?
I'm going with Heroes superpowers, 'cause they're in my head right now. I want Charlie's power--enhanced memory (listed in the Heroes wiki as: The ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume. Seriously--how cool would that be? I'd become fluent in every language under the sun, and then I'd just travel around everywhere and go see plays and just man... how awesome would that one be?
What don't I want? Telepathy. Just the mere thought of what might be going on in some people's heads is bad enough--I seriously don't want the actual confirmation of what might be crawling around up there.
fiercy1. If you could eradicate one thing/behaviour/hardship/insect/law--anything--from the face of the planet, what would it be and why?
Willful or apathetic ignorance. I can understand differences of opinion, even if I don't agree, as long as it's a considered, thoughtful position. Anything that smacks of I don't know, and I don't care, and I'm revelling in my choice to be ignorant, or just completely refusing to even consider another opinion--both make me completely lose my shit. It's a weird one to choose to eradicate, but honestly, I think if you get people talking and thinking and actually considering things, and a lot of other horrible things will snowball and change.
2. You're stage managing a production cast entirely of television actors. What production and who's your dream cast and director?
You're too creative for your own good, you know that? And the television actors thing, that's just unfair. I'm stage managing Romeo and Juliet, directed by Joss Whedon. Am I about to get a little kooky? Ohhh probably. You know how I feel about Romeo and Juliet (or if you don't, lord, duck out of the way, I could go on for ages...)
The main cast is (HEAVILY influenced by my recent television habits...):
Romeo: Jared Padalecki
Juliet: Hayden Panettiere
Mercutio: Christian Kane
Tybalt: Jensen Ackles
Benvolio: Morena Baccarin (Yes, yes I know, but I've always thought this would be a great cross-cast role. That's how I'll cast it when I do my own version anyway.)
Balthazar: Eric Millegan
Nurse: Margaret Cho
Paris: Milo Ventimiglia (or David Boreanaz--I'm really torn on which direction to go here)
Capulet: Jack Coleman
Lady Capulet: Ali Larter
Montague: Jim Beaver
Prince: Sendhil Ramamurthy
Father Lawrence: Jeffrey Dean Morgan
3. AH just got a great job, not magically great, but really solid with a reasonably good paycheck. You're moving into your next place. What's it like?
It's an apartment, utilities included, maybe third or fourth floor, so we can open the windows at night. Two bedrooms, and the bedroom we're sleeping in has big, big windows--flat ones that the cats can't climb on the sill and fuck with the Venetian blinds. All hardwood or tile--no carpet anywhere--and it's got air-conditioning, damn it! I like division of space, as opposed to big, wide open rooms, so there'd be separations between, say, the kitchen and the dining area, as well as the living room. I'm not picky about decor, but there needs to be room for bookshelves bookshelves bookshelves, as far as the eye can see, and I want my bedroom painted a soft, pale yellow. Everything else the AH can pick.
4. You can only eat five things for an entire year. What are those five things? The recipes can be as complicated or as simple as you like, and beverages don't count.
Ham and Extra Cheese Pizza (deep dish, plenty of sauce), Steak (New York, medium rare), Mr. Sub Pizza subs, Turkey and stuffing (it counts as one thing--you can technically have the one without the other, but that's just WRONG, plus stuffing is cooked inside the turkey, so it totally counts as one 'recipe'), and spaghetti with meat sauce, baked with mozzarella cheese on top. Sadly? I could probably eat this quite literally for a year and be just about content with that amount of dietary 'variation'. I'm sure Jess will read this and faint at the utter lack of any sign of a vegetable. But, you said beverages don't count, so I'll drink orange juice, as not to get scurvy.
5. If you could snap your fingers right now and be somewhere with lodging paid for a week and a $1000 in your pocket, where would you go?
Victoria, BC. With no family obligations for once, no one to see or meet, just about to be a tourist in a city that I've been to so many times, we stopped doing the cooler tourist stuff awhile ago. I'd love a week there with cash in my pocket to just enjoy it.
