a++ would smuggle into space again

Ask Me Anything meme!

Hilariously, the version going around has a bit about how no one remembers the actual wording. The gist:

1. Ask me anything! From bookelfe: "if there is anything you are curious to know about me because you are new around here/are old around here but feel like you should already have known it/have never gotten around to asking despite the fact that you know multitudinous other details of my life like what I eat for breakfast every morning, today is a day to ask it. (It does not have to be RL stuff necessarily! Fannish questions are fun too.)"

2. Management reserves the right to not answer some questions.

3. Management also reserves the right to screen answers to other questions.

4. But seriously, ask away.

Technically, the Week Of Turning Things In On Time is complete now. I even did all my reading in advance! Which is a big deal for me. However, I still have one huge paper upcoming, so I'm not going to rescind my general absenteeism until Friday night. Even then -- I just had two midterms, which I did not do so fabulous on; I'm clearly in need of a lifestyle change. Expect less of me. Well, more of me than you had last week. Well --

Anyway, part of what I did in terms of finding new, exciting ways to procrastinate involved answering the question memes, but I got really wordy, so I think this may have to be two posts.

polaris_starz asked first. ( book picks, dr. mossy lawn, and the difficulties of stephen fry )

madbonnycaptain inquires pointedly about matters of interest: ( he'lades, alice larkin, and discordianism )

Is there anything that you want to know about me? About how I work?

Anon posting: on. IP logging: off.

... I post this not so much because, like fahye, I don't examine how I work, but because like freaking Mr Atherton, I examine how I work all the time. And. Um. Like sharing it? I dunno. Blame egotism.

:D?

i - d - i - o - syn - cra - sy

1. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
2. A physiological or temperamental peculiarity.
3. An unusual individual reaction to food or a drug.

List five of your own idiosyncrasies and then tag five friends to do the same.

( Victorian houses, musical strangeness, and closed doors )

I tag polaris_starz, erythros, lah_de_dah, winterwolfsong, and if Anna has time (which of course she doesn't, but what the hey) evil_overlords. Because they're the only people off the top of my head who haven't been tagged yet.

(There was a point in my life when I made posts that weren't lists. Then school started.)

Questions from schiarire

( Bloch, dawn sightings, and London repetition. )

Questions from the unparalleledly lovely litsares, who is clearly the coolest coproducer ever, even though we have done it so far for two hours or so. And not developed any actual script. MWAHAHA YET.

( Rhinos, evil overlord plots, and disturbing mental images )

Questions from Limyaael! To quote her:
"Let me know in a comment if you want me to ask you questions, or if you want to ask me questions, or if you want to comment on the weirdity of my answers. Whatever."
I love this meme.

1) If you were offered the power to change into just one animal, what would the animal be? (It can't be a shapeshifter, or anything else that can take multiple forms).

I suppose a cat. All my life I've been anything but graceful, and cats are graceful, intelligent, and beautiful creatures. Maybe a cougar--they are so incredibly powerful.

And no one hunts cougars in California anymore.


2) Do you think you would make a good world leader?

*giggles* Oh, God, no. I'd destroy the world within minutes. I'd like to think I'd do a halfway decent job as evil overlord, but as someone genuinely working for the good of the world and dealing with people politically, I'd balls it up. I'm antisocial, which is generally not a good first step, and then I have the unenviable quality of making terrible snap decisions.

3) What level of fame would you be comfortable dealing with? What level would make you uncomfortable?

My dream would be posthumous fame, or fame as a writer or songwriter; I don't want to have to deal with cameras or anything. Ideally it would be something like my mother's achieved: fame in a local area or specific interest group. Oh, and the decent amount of money that comes with it (which incidentally my mother has not achieved yet. Poor Mama.)

4) What's the greatest disappointment you've experienced in the realm of art?

What, just one? Probably the stories and poems I've sent into magazines, contests, etc. I've never won jack. I also spent a good deal of a class working on one painting. On the last day of class I spilled black ink over it.

5) WHat's the oddest skill you have?

I can read upside-down; backwards/mirror-writing to some extent; and on trains or cars without motor sickness.