A Meme
Taken from girlnorth.
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate!
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
1. What's your favorite book?
Damn. This is always impossible to answer. Taken literally, my favorite "book" is my Riverside Shakespeare. Comfort reads that I go back to over and over are Kate Ross's Julian Kestrel series, Neal Stephensen's Snow Crash, Barbara Hambly's Those Who Hunt The Night (or I would re-read it if an ex-friend hadn't borrowed it, gotten a divorce, and moved away taking it with him), Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint, Charles DeLint's Moonheart which I'm proud to own in a first printing pb edition, most things by Barbara Michaels, and Michel de Montaigne's Essays. To my utter shame I still like Mercedes Lackey's The Fire and the Rose and will re-read it, even though as per usual she killed the concept by turning it into a series. I'll also re-read Twilight Time by Shadow, whenever I feel like some good, plotty slashfic (BTVS, Spike/Xander).
2. How would you spend a perfect hour?
In a comfy chair in front of a fire, with a good book, a cat in my lap (but, mysteriously, not impeding either reading or eating), and a side table filled with bread, sausage, cheese, fruit, and an amaretto sour.
3. Who is your favourite fictional character of all time?
Another tough one. And I just know I'll forget someone even better. But at 10:30 AM on this sunny Tuesday, I'll have to go with Severus Snape. Ask me again on July 22nd of this year, and my answer will probably be different.
4. How much time does it take you to get ready in the morning?
Well I'm not gainfully employed, so being "ready" in the morning (mid-morning, more like) usually means meeting the standard of "wearing both a top and a bottom and able to answer the doorbell if it rings", so about 2 minutes. I chopped most of my hair off last year and I've never learned how to wear makeup, so a full regiment of showering/washing/brushing/dressing takes me a half hour, tops.
5. When/where would you go in the TARDIS?
Well, I'd be too busy squeeing that it's all real and hoping I ended up with Nine piloting the TARDIS to really care about where to go in it. =P On a cynical day I'd want to go 100 years in the future, so that in the unlikely event I should ever consider having children, I'd know whether Al Gore is right. I'd like to go meet Oscar Wilde, but I can't imagine he'd have any interest in meeting me. And I'd like to meet Shakespeare, but everyone always says that, even people who don't really like Shakespseare the way I do.
In the end though I'd ask to go to the Visigothic court of King Athanagild, because I wrote my undergraduate thesis on his daughters, sisters Galswinth and Brunhilde, who led soap-opera lives of adultery, murder, and blood feud when they married Merovingian kings. I'd like to know if I was at all right about them. =) (Getting geeky here, but you can tell by the relative length of those entries that not much is known about elder sister Galswinth... most of the juicy stuff is about her sister and Fredegund, the servant girl who got Galswinth killed and then married her king. It was highly unusual that Brunhild, the younger sister, would've been married off first... so I suspect that there was something not-quite-right about Galswinth, and Fredegund and her King Chilperic weren't necessarily the villains they seem to be. In those days, if you were a foreign trophy-wife with mental or emotional problems, you really were asking for it, unfortunately.)
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate!
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
1. What's your favorite book?
Damn. This is always impossible to answer. Taken literally, my favorite "book" is my Riverside Shakespeare. Comfort reads that I go back to over and over are Kate Ross's Julian Kestrel series, Neal Stephensen's Snow Crash, Barbara Hambly's Those Who Hunt The Night (or I would re-read it if an ex-friend hadn't borrowed it, gotten a divorce, and moved away taking it with him), Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint, Charles DeLint's Moonheart which I'm proud to own in a first printing pb edition, most things by Barbara Michaels, and Michel de Montaigne's Essays. To my utter shame I still like Mercedes Lackey's The Fire and the Rose and will re-read it, even though as per usual she killed the concept by turning it into a series. I'll also re-read Twilight Time by Shadow, whenever I feel like some good, plotty slashfic (BTVS, Spike/Xander).
2. How would you spend a perfect hour?
In a comfy chair in front of a fire, with a good book, a cat in my lap (but, mysteriously, not impeding either reading or eating), and a side table filled with bread, sausage, cheese, fruit, and an amaretto sour.
3. Who is your favourite fictional character of all time?
Another tough one. And I just know I'll forget someone even better. But at 10:30 AM on this sunny Tuesday, I'll have to go with Severus Snape. Ask me again on July 22nd of this year, and my answer will probably be different.
4. How much time does it take you to get ready in the morning?
Well I'm not gainfully employed, so being "ready" in the morning (mid-morning, more like) usually means meeting the standard of "wearing both a top and a bottom and able to answer the doorbell if it rings", so about 2 minutes. I chopped most of my hair off last year and I've never learned how to wear makeup, so a full regiment of showering/washing/brushing/dressing takes me a half hour, tops.
5. When/where would you go in the TARDIS?
Well, I'd be too busy squeeing that it's all real and hoping I ended up with Nine piloting the TARDIS to really care about where to go in it. =P On a cynical day I'd want to go 100 years in the future, so that in the unlikely event I should ever consider having children, I'd know whether Al Gore is right. I'd like to go meet Oscar Wilde, but I can't imagine he'd have any interest in meeting me. And I'd like to meet Shakespeare, but everyone always says that, even people who don't really like Shakespseare the way I do.
In the end though I'd ask to go to the Visigothic court of King Athanagild, because I wrote my undergraduate thesis on his daughters, sisters Galswinth and Brunhilde, who led soap-opera lives of adultery, murder, and blood feud when they married Merovingian kings. I'd like to know if I was at all right about them. =) (Getting geeky here, but you can tell by the relative length of those entries that not much is known about elder sister Galswinth... most of the juicy stuff is about her sister and Fredegund, the servant girl who got Galswinth killed and then married her king. It was highly unusual that Brunhild, the younger sister, would've been married off first... so I suspect that there was something not-quite-right about Galswinth, and Fredegund and her King Chilperic weren't necessarily the villains they seem to be. In those days, if you were a foreign trophy-wife with mental or emotional problems, you really were asking for it, unfortunately.)