when q&a memes strike.
And now, the conclusion of "When Q&A Memes Strike". (Not that those of you who haven't played yet aren't welcome to still play, if you want. I'm just sayin', this is all I've got for now. :D)
rytshen asked about wealth, reflection, memory, travel and James Lipton:
1. If you had a million dollars, what would you do?
Pay off my bills, my family's, and my friends'. (I wouldn't pay off my parents' houses, though; between that and the rest of my bills, all the money'd be gone from that alone. :\ ) I'd give half of whatever was left to charities and go back to school with the rest. That'd...yeah, school'd probably use up whatever was left.
2. What do you spend the most time reflecting about? The past, present, or future?
Past. Definitely, definitely the past.
3. Seeing that you have trouble remembering things, what is your earliest memory?
I actually genuinely can't answer this question, because part of the problem with my memory is my poor sense of chronology. Also, my brain likes to try to fill in the gaps on its own. What I mean is that, if I hear a story about my youth more than a few times, it latches on and it "remembers" it -- as though it's actually my memory. So I have the "memory" of telling my teachers that my father punched me in the face when I was in the first grade (when actually, I banged my eye into the car door getting out of it when I was upset), and I have the "memory" in the fifth grade of threatening to run away from home and get hooked on pot. (I told you, I was in fifth grade. LOL) I do have a very very faint memory of stealing school supplies from the TAG room at some point before the end of 5th grade, though I couldn't for the life of me tell you whether it was 5th grade or 1st.
4. Would you ever consider travelling to some place outside of North America, and if so where?
I'd love to, but it couldn't be anywhere too too far because I get really, really restless on flights longer than, say, Florida. (California is really the outer limits of what I can handle.) But yeah, see the international cities mentioned in the last responses. :D
5. And in all of James Lipton's glory, what sound or noise do you love?
Purrs. I don't care if it's a cat doing it or a girl, I love purring. :D
sarcasticsra asked about my favorite time of day, the movie I'd suddenly find myself in, my computer habits, mindcrushes, and words I'd strike from my vocab if I could:
1. What is your favorite time of day? Why?
Sunset, because of what it does to the sky. A close second is after 2am, because everything makes sense after 2am. :)
2. You're suddenly in a movie! What fictional or non-fictional characters are your sidekick/best friend, love interest, and antagonist? What's the basic plot of the movie? Any songs that simply must be on the soundtrack?
Gah, this is like, six questions in one! LOL. Uh, I can't imagine anyone but my BFF as my best friend, but if I have to pick a "character", I pick Rachel. :D Love interest would have to be...hm. Maybe Amy Gardner. (I love Mary-Louise Parker, and Amy's snark would fit well into my life, LOL.) Antagonist: ooh, "Stephen". I think the plot could be an awesome coming-out/coming-of-age movie where "Stephen" is all judgy and Amy is all hot and Rachel is encouraging and...wow, I kinda love this movie already. LOL I think Erin Mckeown's "How to Be a Lady" would be awesome on the soundtrack of this movie, and there should probably be some yearning Indigo Girls song, but nothing else specific, no.
3. What's the first thing you do when you get on the computer? The last, just before you get off?
That actually all depends on my Blackberry. I check my Blackberry constantly to see if I have email or tweets, and I do a lot of my random newsreading on my Blackberry as well. So more often than not, when I'm getting on the computer for personal use, it's only really either to look in more detail at something that I already saw in mobile form on my Blackberry, or to talk to someone on Google Talk. When that's not the case, the order is generally as follows: open Google Talk & Twitter clients, then check Facebook, DW, and LJ back to back. The last thing I do at night is check my email one last time.
4. Do you get mindcrushes? By which I mean, a crush wherein you wouldn't want to necessarily do someone as much as you would just want to follow them around and have them teach you things. If so, on whom? (I, for instance, have one on Neil Degrasse Tyson.)
Oh, god, yes. Well, first, a note: at least half my crushes start out as mindcrushes. LOL But um, let's see. Madeleine Albright is a major mindcrush for me, as is Aaron Sorkin. Chris Buckley and Doug Coupland are both awesome and crushworthy, too.
5. If you had to strike three words from your vocabulary, never to be used again, what would they be?
paradigm (even if it IS the name of a really good song, LOL), luscious and douche.
duckgirlie asked about people I will never fancy, my first ever fanfic, Law & Order, other fandoms and toelessness:
1) Five people (who are not on Fox News) who you will never, ever, ever ever fancy.
LOL wow, I am not a fan of these questions. I just pretend people I don't fancy don't exist. :D
a) Howard Stern. I know people who think he's hot, and it makes me wanna vomit.
b) Sarah Jessica Parker. Her face just looks wrong to me.
c) Janice Dickinson. Honey, stop with the work. We get it, you think you still look like you did 80yrs ago when you were still actually alive and not reanimated, but really, you just scare children and adults alike.
d) Paris Hilton. Spoiled + whore = ew.
e) Brad Pitt. I genuinely don't get the appeal. At all.
2) What was your first ever fanfic? Was it any good?
Oh, gosh, that I wrote? I started two stories that no one ever really saw and I never finished. One was a Buffy fic, Willow/Faith, that I got about a handwritten two pages or so before I just gave up and tossed it. The other was Gilmore Girls, Jess/Dean, that was going to be chaptered. I actually got almost a chapter of that done before I realized how horrifically bad my dialogue was and just gave up. That was in college, and I didn't write again (fanfic, anyway -- I wrote a ton of other random original stuff) until this Queer as Folk drabble. I don't think it's all that great? But it's not, I don't think, terrible. This Sports Night PB story is the first thing I ever actually shared with anyone outside of my own journal, and I actually think it's kind of okay, especially for as many firsts as it is (first actual story, first porn, first Sports Night fic...).
3) Why do you love/not love Law & Order?
I don't like the original much at all. I don't have any like, real reason for it; I'm just generally not a huge crime drama fan. I did get sucked into SVU for a while, though -- there was one of many marathons on the tv one boring holiday weekend -- and I think the reason I like it is that even if we didn't know more about the detectives on SVU than we do the other L&O shows, the stories themselves are inherently more personal, which I enjoy.
4) What are your other fandoms?
I'm not really active in any fandoms other than fakenews/pundits right now, but I have been known to fangirl Gossip Girl, West Wing, Sports Night, How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, The Office...and oh, yeah, anything I've ever ficced about, too. LOL
5) Have you ever seen someone in barefeet and nylons and thought that they didn't have nay toes? How long did it take you to realise they did, in fact, have toes?
I don't know that I have, actually! TBH, the only person I remember ever seeing in nylons is my mom, and I kinda already knew she had toes. ;)
ginevra_alessa hates me asked about memories, mostly, with some pictures of me thrown in for good measure:
1. 3 of your best memories.
Why would you ask the girl with the damaged memory about her memories? MEAN.
a) The play at Arch Street and the stolen moments it allowed with Em, end of my senior year through the summer.
b) The twice, I think? that I drove up and met Linds in Noho, but especially the time that she came out for my birthday and we went to see Erin and ♥.
c) My birthday last year, with the Hamptons and Erin and awesomeness.
2. 3 of your worst memories.
a) The fight where my mom put her hand through the wall.
b) The day that Oz moved out on me and left me to clean up the mess.
c) Thanksgiving in Michigan, though I have no idea what year that was. It would've been seventh or eighth grade, maybe? Yeah.
3. 3 random memories that don't seem significant but you always think of them.
a) Whenever I'm at or around Lincoln Center, the one thing I desperately want to do (but obviously can't) is go wander around the fourth floor of Juilliard. The fourth floor is where the practice rooms are, and even though I hated having to use them at the time -- have hated every practice room I've ever been in, in fact -- I still feel drawn to them. Also, just wandering the halls of Juilliard in general. I'm pretty sure that, even with my memory being what it is, I could sit down for you and diagram the entire Juilliard School floorplan -- and it would all be sense memory. I could literally walk the halls in my sleep -- and I have, a few times -- and I could tell you the best and fastest way to get anywhere. (Pre-construction, of course; I know for a fact they redesigned the floorplan when they did the renovations.)
b) I have always been a mood eater, and I've always eaten in uh, phases, I guess? There's not really a way to describe it. When I was a kid, like, 8, maybe, I LOVED cream cheese. I would eat cream cheese sandwiches daily for lunch. But then suddenly one day, I took one bite of my cream cheese sandwich and almost threw up from the taste of it. I didn't eat cream cheese again until I was at Juilliard. Same thing with yogurt. I loved it for the longest time, and then suddenly I just couldn't eat it anymore. It's actual physical responses; my body did the same thing with spaghetti when I was in high school. To this day, I have a really hard time eating anything thicker than angel hair, because I'm afraid my throat'll close up like it did on me in high school.
c) When I was at Juilliard, I would go to Blockbuster on my lunch breaks and just walk around, looking at the movies on the shelves. There weren't really video stores near me, certainly no Blockbusters, and I had never heard of 85% of the movies in the Blockbuster near Juilliard. To this day, walking into a Blockbuster is like a ritual for me. I have to go through the new release shelves, in order, just looking to see what's there -- even if I already know exactly what I want to rent and where it is. (The Blockbuster near my house has the end of the alphabet at the entrance, and it drives me absolutely crazy having to go backwards, but I do it.)
4. 3 photographs of you when you were really happy.
See, I don't know how well this'll work, because I don't have a lot of photos on the computer. But let's see what we have.
The "krispy kreme krew" was one of the silliest things we ever came up with, and I loved it. I think you can see this in the supergraininess of this poorly scanned polaroid. LOL
This was kind of a sad day, in that I'm pretty sure it was the day I was leaving, but man, did we have fun taking these pictures.
My favorite picture of my childhood -- which I don't know if I was actually happy or not, but since I was a baby I'm going to say I was -- is at my dad's and isn't anywhere in digital form. It's me and him in the snow, and I swear to god, it's the best picture of either of us I've possibly ever seen. I'm all bundled up like an eskimo, and he's all young and happy, and for a long time I had stolen that picture, brought it upstairs and it was the only one I had in my room. Then I went off to school and he went off and moved and well, now it's in his living room, in the same frame it's been in for the last 25+ years.
(There's also a metric ton of baby pictures of me in albums that my grandmother had kept when I was a child, and I look happy in 98% of them, but again, not in digital form.)
5. 3 photographs of you that make you feel attractive.
Um, such a thing does not exist. But since I have to come up with something:
I feel like I'm in the minority here, but I really do like the way I look with a bandanna on.
I may not hate this picture. (I have no idea where it's from! Though I guess it's from the night we saw Away We Go? But I may not hate it.)
I wouldn't say that I feel attractive in this one, but I like what the light does to me. So that's something.
So, uh, that should be that for this meme. Questions, comments, the like, feel free to throw them here.
mwahs!
~a
rytshen asked about wealth, reflection, memory, travel and James Lipton:
1. If you had a million dollars, what would you do?
Pay off my bills, my family's, and my friends'. (I wouldn't pay off my parents' houses, though; between that and the rest of my bills, all the money'd be gone from that alone. :\ ) I'd give half of whatever was left to charities and go back to school with the rest. That'd...yeah, school'd probably use up whatever was left.
2. What do you spend the most time reflecting about? The past, present, or future?
Past. Definitely, definitely the past.
3. Seeing that you have trouble remembering things, what is your earliest memory?
I actually genuinely can't answer this question, because part of the problem with my memory is my poor sense of chronology. Also, my brain likes to try to fill in the gaps on its own. What I mean is that, if I hear a story about my youth more than a few times, it latches on and it "remembers" it -- as though it's actually my memory. So I have the "memory" of telling my teachers that my father punched me in the face when I was in the first grade (when actually, I banged my eye into the car door getting out of it when I was upset), and I have the "memory" in the fifth grade of threatening to run away from home and get hooked on pot. (I told you, I was in fifth grade. LOL) I do have a very very faint memory of stealing school supplies from the TAG room at some point before the end of 5th grade, though I couldn't for the life of me tell you whether it was 5th grade or 1st.
4. Would you ever consider travelling to some place outside of North America, and if so where?
I'd love to, but it couldn't be anywhere too too far because I get really, really restless on flights longer than, say, Florida. (California is really the outer limits of what I can handle.) But yeah, see the international cities mentioned in the last responses. :D
5. And in all of James Lipton's glory, what sound or noise do you love?
Purrs. I don't care if it's a cat doing it or a girl, I love purring. :D
sarcasticsra asked about my favorite time of day, the movie I'd suddenly find myself in, my computer habits, mindcrushes, and words I'd strike from my vocab if I could:
1. What is your favorite time of day? Why?
Sunset, because of what it does to the sky. A close second is after 2am, because everything makes sense after 2am. :)
2. You're suddenly in a movie! What fictional or non-fictional characters are your sidekick/best friend, love interest, and antagonist? What's the basic plot of the movie? Any songs that simply must be on the soundtrack?
Gah, this is like, six questions in one! LOL. Uh, I can't imagine anyone but my BFF as my best friend, but if I have to pick a "character", I pick Rachel. :D Love interest would have to be...hm. Maybe Amy Gardner. (I love Mary-Louise Parker, and Amy's snark would fit well into my life, LOL.) Antagonist: ooh, "Stephen". I think the plot could be an awesome coming-out/coming-of-age movie where "Stephen" is all judgy and Amy is all hot and Rachel is encouraging and...wow, I kinda love this movie already. LOL I think Erin Mckeown's "How to Be a Lady" would be awesome on the soundtrack of this movie, and there should probably be some yearning Indigo Girls song, but nothing else specific, no.
3. What's the first thing you do when you get on the computer? The last, just before you get off?
That actually all depends on my Blackberry. I check my Blackberry constantly to see if I have email or tweets, and I do a lot of my random newsreading on my Blackberry as well. So more often than not, when I'm getting on the computer for personal use, it's only really either to look in more detail at something that I already saw in mobile form on my Blackberry, or to talk to someone on Google Talk. When that's not the case, the order is generally as follows: open Google Talk & Twitter clients, then check Facebook, DW, and LJ back to back. The last thing I do at night is check my email one last time.
4. Do you get mindcrushes? By which I mean, a crush wherein you wouldn't want to necessarily do someone as much as you would just want to follow them around and have them teach you things. If so, on whom? (I, for instance, have one on Neil Degrasse Tyson.)
Oh, god, yes. Well, first, a note: at least half my crushes start out as mindcrushes. LOL But um, let's see. Madeleine Albright is a major mindcrush for me, as is Aaron Sorkin. Chris Buckley and Doug Coupland are both awesome and crushworthy, too.
5. If you had to strike three words from your vocabulary, never to be used again, what would they be?
paradigm (even if it IS the name of a really good song, LOL), luscious and douche.
duckgirlie asked about people I will never fancy, my first ever fanfic, Law & Order, other fandoms and toelessness:
1) Five people (who are not on Fox News) who you will never, ever, ever ever fancy.
LOL wow, I am not a fan of these questions. I just pretend people I don't fancy don't exist. :D
a) Howard Stern. I know people who think he's hot, and it makes me wanna vomit.
b) Sarah Jessica Parker. Her face just looks wrong to me.
c) Janice Dickinson. Honey, stop with the work. We get it, you think you still look like you did 80yrs ago when you were still actually alive and not reanimated, but really, you just scare children and adults alike.
d) Paris Hilton. Spoiled + whore = ew.
e) Brad Pitt. I genuinely don't get the appeal. At all.
2) What was your first ever fanfic? Was it any good?
Oh, gosh, that I wrote? I started two stories that no one ever really saw and I never finished. One was a Buffy fic, Willow/Faith, that I got about a handwritten two pages or so before I just gave up and tossed it. The other was Gilmore Girls, Jess/Dean, that was going to be chaptered. I actually got almost a chapter of that done before I realized how horrifically bad my dialogue was and just gave up. That was in college, and I didn't write again (fanfic, anyway -- I wrote a ton of other random original stuff) until this Queer as Folk drabble. I don't think it's all that great? But it's not, I don't think, terrible. This Sports Night PB story is the first thing I ever actually shared with anyone outside of my own journal, and I actually think it's kind of okay, especially for as many firsts as it is (first actual story, first porn, first Sports Night fic...).
3) Why do you love/not love Law & Order?
I don't like the original much at all. I don't have any like, real reason for it; I'm just generally not a huge crime drama fan. I did get sucked into SVU for a while, though -- there was one of many marathons on the tv one boring holiday weekend -- and I think the reason I like it is that even if we didn't know more about the detectives on SVU than we do the other L&O shows, the stories themselves are inherently more personal, which I enjoy.
4) What are your other fandoms?
I'm not really active in any fandoms other than fakenews/pundits right now, but I have been known to fangirl Gossip Girl, West Wing, Sports Night, How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, The Office...and oh, yeah, anything I've ever ficced about, too. LOL
5) Have you ever seen someone in barefeet and nylons and thought that they didn't have nay toes? How long did it take you to realise they did, in fact, have toes?
I don't know that I have, actually! TBH, the only person I remember ever seeing in nylons is my mom, and I kinda already knew she had toes. ;)
ginevra_alessa hates me asked about memories, mostly, with some pictures of me thrown in for good measure:
1. 3 of your best memories.
Why would you ask the girl with the damaged memory about her memories? MEAN.
a) The play at Arch Street and the stolen moments it allowed with Em, end of my senior year through the summer.
b) The twice, I think? that I drove up and met Linds in Noho, but especially the time that she came out for my birthday and we went to see Erin and ♥.
c) My birthday last year, with the Hamptons and Erin and awesomeness.
2. 3 of your worst memories.
a) The fight where my mom put her hand through the wall.
b) The day that Oz moved out on me and left me to clean up the mess.
c) Thanksgiving in Michigan, though I have no idea what year that was. It would've been seventh or eighth grade, maybe? Yeah.
3. 3 random memories that don't seem significant but you always think of them.
a) Whenever I'm at or around Lincoln Center, the one thing I desperately want to do (but obviously can't) is go wander around the fourth floor of Juilliard. The fourth floor is where the practice rooms are, and even though I hated having to use them at the time -- have hated every practice room I've ever been in, in fact -- I still feel drawn to them. Also, just wandering the halls of Juilliard in general. I'm pretty sure that, even with my memory being what it is, I could sit down for you and diagram the entire Juilliard School floorplan -- and it would all be sense memory. I could literally walk the halls in my sleep -- and I have, a few times -- and I could tell you the best and fastest way to get anywhere. (Pre-construction, of course; I know for a fact they redesigned the floorplan when they did the renovations.)
b) I have always been a mood eater, and I've always eaten in uh, phases, I guess? There's not really a way to describe it. When I was a kid, like, 8, maybe, I LOVED cream cheese. I would eat cream cheese sandwiches daily for lunch. But then suddenly one day, I took one bite of my cream cheese sandwich and almost threw up from the taste of it. I didn't eat cream cheese again until I was at Juilliard. Same thing with yogurt. I loved it for the longest time, and then suddenly I just couldn't eat it anymore. It's actual physical responses; my body did the same thing with spaghetti when I was in high school. To this day, I have a really hard time eating anything thicker than angel hair, because I'm afraid my throat'll close up like it did on me in high school.
c) When I was at Juilliard, I would go to Blockbuster on my lunch breaks and just walk around, looking at the movies on the shelves. There weren't really video stores near me, certainly no Blockbusters, and I had never heard of 85% of the movies in the Blockbuster near Juilliard. To this day, walking into a Blockbuster is like a ritual for me. I have to go through the new release shelves, in order, just looking to see what's there -- even if I already know exactly what I want to rent and where it is. (The Blockbuster near my house has the end of the alphabet at the entrance, and it drives me absolutely crazy having to go backwards, but I do it.)
4. 3 photographs of you when you were really happy.
See, I don't know how well this'll work, because I don't have a lot of photos on the computer. But let's see what we have.
The "krispy kreme krew" was one of the silliest things we ever came up with, and I loved it. I think you can see this in the supergraininess of this poorly scanned polaroid. LOL
This was kind of a sad day, in that I'm pretty sure it was the day I was leaving, but man, did we have fun taking these pictures.
My favorite picture of my childhood -- which I don't know if I was actually happy or not, but since I was a baby I'm going to say I was -- is at my dad's and isn't anywhere in digital form. It's me and him in the snow, and I swear to god, it's the best picture of either of us I've possibly ever seen. I'm all bundled up like an eskimo, and he's all young and happy, and for a long time I had stolen that picture, brought it upstairs and it was the only one I had in my room. Then I went off to school and he went off and moved and well, now it's in his living room, in the same frame it's been in for the last 25+ years.
(There's also a metric ton of baby pictures of me in albums that my grandmother had kept when I was a child, and I look happy in 98% of them, but again, not in digital form.)
5. 3 photographs of you that make you feel attractive.
Um, such a thing does not exist. But since I have to come up with something:
I feel like I'm in the minority here, but I really do like the way I look with a bandanna on.
I may not hate this picture. (I have no idea where it's from! Though I guess it's from the night we saw Away We Go? But I may not hate it.)
I wouldn't say that I feel attractive in this one, but I like what the light does to me. So that's something.
So, uh, that should be that for this meme. Questions, comments, the like, feel free to throw them here.
mwahs!
~a