Answering the questions
Beggar_always asked me these five questions. If anyone wants to answer questions of their own, leave me a comment letting me know.
1. Where is one place you'd like to visit in your lifetime?
The moon. Or space in general. I read a great deal of science fiction and I'm really ready for us to leave the planet and start colonizing other worlds. Now, please.
2. What would you like to be doing in ten years?
In ten years I should be coming up to my last year or so in the Navy and getting ready for retirement. Unless I decide to stay in for a further 5-6 years, which I may very well do depending on what happens between then and now. I'm currently focusing on putting together an OCS package, but if that doesn't go through then I'll be putting together a chief's package within five years, and might decide to strive for senior chief or master chief. It depends. While I enjoy the "taking care of sailors" aspects of being a chief, possibily because I am an inherently maternal/guardian type person, what I really want to do is shape policy on a higher level, and that requires a commission.
Of course, even if I stay in, I won't be more than about 45 when I retire. So I will be pursuing a second career in theatre. Possibly. Right now it's just a hobby, and one I can pursue rather nicely in Japan, actually. I'd like to get involved in producing and directing as well as acting, and see where that takes me until I'm ready to retire.
The other option is going back to work for the government as a civilian. Or with any number of private security companies or consultantcies. 20 years' experience in the Navy, a couple of degrees, and a Top Secret clearance? I could get a job two days after I start looking.
So there we have it: A. About to retire from the Navy and pursue a second career in theatre or national security policy. Or B. Re-enlisting for another 5-6 years before pursing that second career.
3. Do you have any "strange" talents?
Not as such. Few of my talents are actually demonstrable. Children and dogs like me. I can read really fast, and synthesize information fairly well. I have a talent for awkwardness, but I don't think that's what you were looking for.
4. What's your favorite historical era?
The Middle Ages/Medieval period. No question. I'm a member of a combat-oriented live-action roleplay fantasy boffer group. We like to beat on each other with sticks. Add in my love for High Fantasy and the fact that I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons since I was six, and there's really no other choice.
5. Which character from any other fandom would you most want Dean Winchester to meet?
It took me a while, but I think Jack Harkness. Captain Jack would understand Dean in a way few other people would. He'd tell him that enjoying sex is not an inherently bad thing, but substituting physical actions for emotional needs is not healthy, especially when other people are involved with helping you try to fulfil those needs. Actively respecting and liking the people you have sex with helps a lot, and won't leave you feeling empty and unfulfilled. Jack also understands the whole Guardian mentality: the world sucks mightily but it's the only one we've got and we need to preserve it. People are more important than principles and rules.
Jack knows what it's like to die and come back to life, and to lose people who are not so charmed as he. And he knows that he has to keep fighting no matter how many he loses, because there's always more to lose if you don't. He's someone Dean can actually respect, who knows that choosing between family and duty is the worst possible choice anyone can be forced to make, but that someone HAS TO, and it sucks mightily, but there are more things in this universe than are dreamt of in anyone's philosophy, and a lot of them are hostile, and someone has to stand on the wall.
Mind you, Dean would still be a smart-alecky twerp, and Jack would have all sorts of interesting questions for him and for Castiel, but at least Dean would know that he's not alone. And that's the most important thing.
I should probably learn to be concise. I babble even more online than I do off.
1. Where is one place you'd like to visit in your lifetime?
The moon. Or space in general. I read a great deal of science fiction and I'm really ready for us to leave the planet and start colonizing other worlds. Now, please.
2. What would you like to be doing in ten years?
In ten years I should be coming up to my last year or so in the Navy and getting ready for retirement. Unless I decide to stay in for a further 5-6 years, which I may very well do depending on what happens between then and now. I'm currently focusing on putting together an OCS package, but if that doesn't go through then I'll be putting together a chief's package within five years, and might decide to strive for senior chief or master chief. It depends. While I enjoy the "taking care of sailors" aspects of being a chief, possibily because I am an inherently maternal/guardian type person, what I really want to do is shape policy on a higher level, and that requires a commission.
Of course, even if I stay in, I won't be more than about 45 when I retire. So I will be pursuing a second career in theatre. Possibly. Right now it's just a hobby, and one I can pursue rather nicely in Japan, actually. I'd like to get involved in producing and directing as well as acting, and see where that takes me until I'm ready to retire.
The other option is going back to work for the government as a civilian. Or with any number of private security companies or consultantcies. 20 years' experience in the Navy, a couple of degrees, and a Top Secret clearance? I could get a job two days after I start looking.
So there we have it: A. About to retire from the Navy and pursue a second career in theatre or national security policy. Or B. Re-enlisting for another 5-6 years before pursing that second career.
3. Do you have any "strange" talents?
Not as such. Few of my talents are actually demonstrable. Children and dogs like me. I can read really fast, and synthesize information fairly well. I have a talent for awkwardness, but I don't think that's what you were looking for.
4. What's your favorite historical era?
The Middle Ages/Medieval period. No question. I'm a member of a combat-oriented live-action roleplay fantasy boffer group. We like to beat on each other with sticks. Add in my love for High Fantasy and the fact that I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons since I was six, and there's really no other choice.
5. Which character from any other fandom would you most want Dean Winchester to meet?
It took me a while, but I think Jack Harkness. Captain Jack would understand Dean in a way few other people would. He'd tell him that enjoying sex is not an inherently bad thing, but substituting physical actions for emotional needs is not healthy, especially when other people are involved with helping you try to fulfil those needs. Actively respecting and liking the people you have sex with helps a lot, and won't leave you feeling empty and unfulfilled. Jack also understands the whole Guardian mentality: the world sucks mightily but it's the only one we've got and we need to preserve it. People are more important than principles and rules.
Jack knows what it's like to die and come back to life, and to lose people who are not so charmed as he. And he knows that he has to keep fighting no matter how many he loses, because there's always more to lose if you don't. He's someone Dean can actually respect, who knows that choosing between family and duty is the worst possible choice anyone can be forced to make, but that someone HAS TO, and it sucks mightily, but there are more things in this universe than are dreamt of in anyone's philosophy, and a lot of them are hostile, and someone has to stand on the wall.
Mind you, Dean would still be a smart-alecky twerp, and Jack would have all sorts of interesting questions for him and for Castiel, but at least Dean would know that he's not alone. And that's the most important thing.
I should probably learn to be concise. I babble even more online than I do off.