Question meme
So, this meme was doing the rounds weeks ago, and linaerys gave me this great set of questions. Finally, almost a month later, I have answers, though I think they reveal me to be the pretentious and overly serious person I am in my non-fannish life. I usually try to shield y'all from this aspect of me, sorry! Feel free to defriend me now that it's been revealed.
Or, hit me up for questions! I am home this week, and I would love to find out more about you guys:
Comment with "Come at me, sweet thang [or your favorite endearment]," and:
- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
Also, if anyone wants to ask me questions, feel free.
1. What media do you wish had a fandom but doesn't?
I think this might be a trick question. Ever since I found out about professional sports RPS and lolitics, I have been pretty sure that everything out there has been fandomed already. Seriously, if you told me someone had filled their kink_bingo card with pairings from NPR, I wouldn’t blink an eye.
But, let’s see: not a separate media, exactly, but the art form I like the most that I don’t see people talking about on lj is dance-both ballet and modern. Though I expect there is fic out there, both rpf and otherwise.
2. What is your dream vacation?
A week in London on my own with enough money to stay in a nice hotel and go out to the theater/opera/various forms of performance art every night. In June or July, so it would be light ‘til 11pm. And plenty of friends in town. I love New York, but, American that I am, London is really the city of my heart.
A place that I’ve been that I’d love to go back to is the west coast of Ireland. A place I’ve never been to that I’d like to visit is the Costa Rican rain forests (with my boys). Despite all those years in the Rocky Mountain West, I have much more affinity for the flat, the humid, the marshy and the coastal.
3. What's your favorite picture of Michael Fassbender? (Hahaha, that one is totally for my enjoyment).
Well, I have to admit it’s probably this one:
But in the end, I think I’m more interested in him as an actor than as a sexy person, so it might be this (from Hunger)
But lest you think I’m only interested in one thing, here’s a monologue from Hunger (warning-he’s not discussing what it feels like to starve to death, but the subject matter is somewhat disturbing nevertheless).
4. What is your "road not taken" career? Is there something you seriously considered other than what you have now?
You know, one of the things that I’m most grateful for is that I still enjoy the career I chose right out of college. Also-and I’m just as grateful for this-it has always given me steady, secure employment that’s made it possible for me to support my family. There have been ups and downs and things that annoy me, sure, but I have to say that the pleasure I take in my work has been one of the most stable things in my life.
When I was in college, I flirted with the idea of doing something medical-being a doctor, maybe, or, more plausibly, doing something in public health. The things I would have liked about this would have been: more contact with people; working with bodies instead of minds, as it were; and a more tangible sense of doing good. But I’m certainly not good enough with science to have been a particularly good doctor, so I don’t have particular regrets about going another way.
That said, I have a retirement career already picked out! I want to get certified to teach pre-natal yoga. Yoga kind of saved my life both times I was pregnant (and thereafter), so I’d like to give something back. Also, see above, working with bodies, not minds.
5. What is a book that you think your friends list should read, and why?
Lol-that’s a dangerous question to ask a pedantic person! Um, Gulliver’s Travels? Paradise Lost?
I feel like I’m always urging people to read The Eagle of the Ninth and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
But the book that really blew my mind last year was Robert Fagles’s translation of the Aeneid. I read the Aeneid in college, and it made just about zero impression on me (as witnessed by my clueless annotations-clearly only what my professor had told me to write). But Fagles’s new translation makes it come alive in a completely different way. Or it could be that it’s a story that you have to be a bit older to appreciate. It’s all about the experience of exile and starting a second life: a second love, a second home-the burden of the past and the burden of working for an uncertain future. So yeah: read that! Very accessible and engaging, I promise.
Or, hit me up for questions! I am home this week, and I would love to find out more about you guys:
Comment with "Come at me, sweet thang [or your favorite endearment]," and:
- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
Also, if anyone wants to ask me questions, feel free.
1. What media do you wish had a fandom but doesn't?
I think this might be a trick question. Ever since I found out about professional sports RPS and lolitics, I have been pretty sure that everything out there has been fandomed already. Seriously, if you told me someone had filled their kink_bingo card with pairings from NPR, I wouldn’t blink an eye.
But, let’s see: not a separate media, exactly, but the art form I like the most that I don’t see people talking about on lj is dance-both ballet and modern. Though I expect there is fic out there, both rpf and otherwise.
2. What is your dream vacation?
A week in London on my own with enough money to stay in a nice hotel and go out to the theater/opera/various forms of performance art every night. In June or July, so it would be light ‘til 11pm. And plenty of friends in town. I love New York, but, American that I am, London is really the city of my heart.
A place that I’ve been that I’d love to go back to is the west coast of Ireland. A place I’ve never been to that I’d like to visit is the Costa Rican rain forests (with my boys). Despite all those years in the Rocky Mountain West, I have much more affinity for the flat, the humid, the marshy and the coastal.
3. What's your favorite picture of Michael Fassbender? (Hahaha, that one is totally for my enjoyment).
Well, I have to admit it’s probably this one:
But in the end, I think I’m more interested in him as an actor than as a sexy person, so it might be this (from Hunger)
But lest you think I’m only interested in one thing, here’s a monologue from Hunger (warning-he’s not discussing what it feels like to starve to death, but the subject matter is somewhat disturbing nevertheless).
Click to view4. What is your "road not taken" career? Is there something you seriously considered other than what you have now?
You know, one of the things that I’m most grateful for is that I still enjoy the career I chose right out of college. Also-and I’m just as grateful for this-it has always given me steady, secure employment that’s made it possible for me to support my family. There have been ups and downs and things that annoy me, sure, but I have to say that the pleasure I take in my work has been one of the most stable things in my life.
When I was in college, I flirted with the idea of doing something medical-being a doctor, maybe, or, more plausibly, doing something in public health. The things I would have liked about this would have been: more contact with people; working with bodies instead of minds, as it were; and a more tangible sense of doing good. But I’m certainly not good enough with science to have been a particularly good doctor, so I don’t have particular regrets about going another way.
That said, I have a retirement career already picked out! I want to get certified to teach pre-natal yoga. Yoga kind of saved my life both times I was pregnant (and thereafter), so I’d like to give something back. Also, see above, working with bodies, not minds.
5. What is a book that you think your friends list should read, and why?
Lol-that’s a dangerous question to ask a pedantic person! Um, Gulliver’s Travels? Paradise Lost?
I feel like I’m always urging people to read The Eagle of the Ninth and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
But the book that really blew my mind last year was Robert Fagles’s translation of the Aeneid. I read the Aeneid in college, and it made just about zero impression on me (as witnessed by my clueless annotations-clearly only what my professor had told me to write). But Fagles’s new translation makes it come alive in a completely different way. Or it could be that it’s a story that you have to be a bit older to appreciate. It’s all about the experience of exile and starting a second life: a second love, a second home-the burden of the past and the burden of working for an uncertain future. So yeah: read that! Very accessible and engaging, I promise.