Since I have lots of new people on my friends list thanks to a combination of Phoenix Rising and Strikethrough '07 (best friending meme, evar!), this is where you get to ask random questions and I'll answer them.
If you had a $1000 Amazon Gift Card for your Wishlist, which things would you get? Or would you use it on someone else instead? A mix? With the $1000 trapped to be spent only at Amazon, how would you distribute it?
If I could use it for Amazon merchatn partners or whatever that is I'd get the really expensive riding boots I want, and absurdly, the rather nice small sword I've seen through Amazon.
There's also the matter of DVDs (Rome, season 2!; V for Vendetta) and fencing books I'm not supposed to be reading yet.
Finally, I would totally buy shit for people, because I'm very much that type of person. I often have the curb the impulse because it freaks other people out.
When I went to Hewitt we were required as children to take music, dance and art, as a well-rounded young woman was knowledgeable about all three. IN fourth grade, we had to choreograph our own performances and this being, I guess, 1983? I choreographed mine to the theme song from Fame. And it didn't suck.
I'd never done anything that hadn't sucked before. I was terrible in gym, had been originally placed in all the B (slow) classes because "only pretty girls were good girls" and so forth. Suddenly, here was something I could do.
So my parents, with I imagine some sense of great relief, sent me to dance classes. I went to a performing arts camp in the summers where I studied ballet and modern and folk, and studied once I was old enough (you have to be 11) at the Maratha Graham School of contemporary dance. Martha Graham technique is really, entirely about sex and death and I was a quiet child, awkward, but with an odd stillness and ability to portray pain. I wasn't technically great, my tendons were too tight for that, but I had art.
The thing is because I was naturally good at it, I was also a slacker, and because my parents would have pitched a fit had I said this was what I wanted to do for a living, I drifted into other things. But it's always been a fact of me. For the last 4 or 5 years I've studied historic dance -- Regency, and more recently Baroque and Renaissance. I also have a smattering of tap, jazz, tango and ballroom from along the way.
I've studied French, Spanish, Latin, Classical Greek and ASL. I can speak French and ASL; Spanish when I have to (I can read it and understand it, but I just use it a lot less).
Dark chocolate. Non-negotiable.
Weirdly, I'm not much for music therapy. For me music is abut how I construct my environment, so it doesn't respond to moods so much as what music is for Decensus, what music is for the novel, what music is for my life as a gentleman, etc.
I have an aversion to the texture of most fruit. Things with skins in particular. While I like cherry flavour, strawberries disturb me less.
8 - 11. They are smart and very serious, ALWAYS and like that I treat them like little adults. And generally their parents approve. I find younger children adore me too, but it usually freks the panrets out when I use complete sentences.
8 - 11. They are smart and very serious, ALWAYS and like that I treat them like little adults. And generally their parents approve. I find younger children adore me too, but it usually freks the panrets out when I use complete sentences.
I can totally believe that. Although I only met you briefly I am fairly sure that my son would think you were very cool. If only for the swords. I am more frustrated when people assume children are the lowest common denominator of taste and language and therefore speak childish to my son.
While I could say something long and complicated about my fictional worlds or my townhouse or my own glory, I think the fact is that the Mirror of Erised shows us not just our greatest desire, but our greatest sadness as interpretted through desire. In which case, I i'magine it would be some variation merely on being chosen first for something. I tend to, or at least perceive myself as the perennial second choice -- professionally and personally in the lives and worlds of others.
Brilliant interpretation of the Mirror. I guess that's why it drives people mad. Maybe we're all supposed to have a hole of sadness that may be filled, only to have another tear in the fabric rip open to discover yet another hole.
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total cop out but I honestly want to know
Date: 2007-06-20 07:07 pm (UTC)Re: total cop out but I honestly want to know
Date: 2007-06-20 07:26 pm (UTC)Re: total cop out but I honestly want to know
Date: 2007-06-20 07:48 pm (UTC)Re: total cop out but I honestly want to know
Date: 2007-06-20 07:53 pm (UTC)If I could use it for Amazon merchatn partners or whatever that is I'd get the really expensive riding boots I want, and absurdly, the rather nice small sword I've seen through Amazon.
There's also the matter of DVDs (Rome, season 2!; V for Vendetta) and fencing books I'm not supposed to be reading yet.
Finally, I would totally buy shit for people, because I'm very much that type of person. I often have the curb the impulse because it freaks other people out.
no subject
Date: 2007-06-20 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-20 08:25 pm (UTC)I'd never done anything that hadn't sucked before. I was terrible in gym, had been originally placed in all the B (slow) classes because "only pretty girls were good girls" and so forth. Suddenly, here was something I could do.
So my parents, with I imagine some sense of great relief, sent me to dance classes. I went to a performing arts camp in the summers where I studied ballet and modern and folk, and studied once I was old enough (you have to be 11) at the Maratha Graham School of contemporary dance. Martha Graham technique is really, entirely about sex and death and I was a quiet child, awkward, but with an odd stillness and ability to portray pain. I wasn't technically great, my tendons were too tight for that, but I had art.
The thing is because I was naturally good at it, I was also a slacker, and because my parents would have pitched a fit had I said this was what I wanted to do for a living, I drifted into other things. But it's always been a fact of me. For the last 4 or 5 years I've studied historic dance -- Regency, and more recently Baroque and Renaissance. I also have a smattering of tap, jazz, tango and ballroom from along the way.
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Date: 2007-06-20 09:12 pm (UTC)What languages can you speak? What languages do you wish you could speak?
dark or milk chocolate?
best song for when you feel blue, but not about anything in particular?
cherries or strawberries?
if there are children going to be seated at table with you, what age do you hope they'll be?
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Date: 2007-06-21 02:06 pm (UTC)Dark chocolate. Non-negotiable.
Weirdly, I'm not much for music therapy. For me music is abut how I construct my environment, so it doesn't respond to moods so much as what music is for Decensus, what music is for the novel, what music is for my life as a gentleman, etc.
I have an aversion to the texture of most fruit. Things with skins in particular. While I like cherry flavour, strawberries disturb me less.
8 - 11. They are smart and very serious, ALWAYS and like that I treat them like little adults. And generally their parents approve. I find younger children adore me too, but it usually freks the panrets out when I use complete sentences.
no subject
Date: 2007-06-21 02:28 pm (UTC)Hah, see, again you remind me of this ex of mine. She was the only person I peeled tomatoes for.
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Date: 2007-06-21 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-21 03:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-21 02:57 pm (UTC)I can totally believe that. Although I only met you briefly I am fairly sure that my son would think you were very cool. If only for the swords. I am more frustrated when people assume children are the lowest common denominator of taste and language and therefore speak childish to my son.
Bandwagon
Date: 2007-06-20 09:42 pm (UTC)Any supposed urban myths you are convinced are real and why?
What is a cheesy indulgence you can't live without?
Re: Bandwagon
Date: 2007-06-21 02:07 pm (UTC)I don't think so.
Er. Baz Luhrmann?
Re: Bandwagon
Date: 2007-06-21 03:16 pm (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2007-06-20 10:25 pm (UTC)Re: Yay!
Date: 2007-06-21 02:08 pm (UTC)Re: Yay!
Date: 2007-06-21 02:32 pm (UTC)Here's to becoming first!