Dasha is right :) (But I forget/am confused -- have you read the first Kvothe books, just not Wise Man's Fear, or you haven't read them at all yet? Because I thought you and Dasha were talking about Denna on her LJ...?)
I did see the internation gift exchange post :) (fortunately the flist problem, whatever that was, doesn't seem to have come back, though this is actually a good reminder for me to go back and check periodically). It seems like a really neat idea! I'm mulling over for myself whether I think I would find shopping for care package thingies for a person I didn't know well fun or stressful, for myself personally. (I used to enjoy "secret santa" type things, and then I had kids and with them came birthday parties for their friends and endless hours of wandering the toy aisles and asking, "No, but what does your friend like? Does he like Legos? Pokemon? superheroes? cars? How can you not know? What do you talk about?", and shopping for relatives who increasingly have everything, usually in triplicate, and looking for presents has gradually become more annoying than fun, with the exception of a couple of people whose literary tastes fortuitously seem to coincide with mine. :P) Anyway, that was neither here nor there -- thank you for the reminder about the post, and I'll come back to it if/when I'm done waffling, if that's OK? :) And, no worries, I know exactly how you mean it :)
Re:Kvothe - the only thing I did was paint the Eolian tee for Dasha, and that's as far as my acquaintance with the world goes =D
Okay, I'm glad to clear that one up without totally convincing you I'm a whiny nerd (hopefully) :DD I know what you mean about shopping when you have no idea - I had to help my brother with gift-shopping once *chuckle* But in the exchange I'm planning to post a questionnaire for the participants to fill out, to cover things like hobbies/allergies/food no-noes/preferences in fandoms/smells/jewellery and help the sender. Choosing stuff totally in the dark is not guaranteed fun) And then I'm redistributing the questionnaires to make a chain of gift-giving (not exactly pairing: person A mails to person B, but gets his own package from person C, hopefully all of them from different countries). Random information is random)))
I did see the internation gift exchange post :) (fortunately the flist problem, whatever that was, doesn't seem to have come back, though this is actually a good reminder for me to go back and check periodically). It seems like a really neat idea! I'm mulling over for myself whether I think I would find shopping for care package thingies for a person I didn't know well fun or stressful, for myself personally. (I used to enjoy "secret santa" type things, and then I had kids and with them came birthday parties for their friends and endless hours of wandering the toy aisles and asking, "No, but what does your friend like? Does he like Legos? Pokemon? superheroes? cars? How can you not know? What do you talk about?", and shopping for relatives who increasingly have everything, usually in triplicate, and looking for presents has gradually become more annoying than fun, with the exception of a couple of people whose literary tastes fortuitously seem to coincide with mine. :P) Anyway, that was neither here nor there -- thank you for the reminder about the post, and I'll come back to it if/when I'm done waffling, if that's OK? :) And, no worries, I know exactly how you mean it :)
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Okay, I'm glad to clear that one up without totally convincing you I'm a whiny nerd (hopefully) :DD I know what you mean about shopping when you have no idea - I had to help my brother with gift-shopping once *chuckle* But in the exchange I'm planning to post a questionnaire for the participants to fill out, to cover things like hobbies/allergies/food no-noes/preferences in fandoms/smells/jewellery and help the sender. Choosing stuff totally in the dark is not guaranteed fun) And then I'm redistributing the questionnaires to make a chain of gift-giving (not exactly pairing: person A mails to person B, but gets his own package from person C, hopefully all of them from different countries). Random information is random)))
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