What ingredients does it take to make you?

[kimberlite8]

A bit of silliness, one of those generator thingies called "What makes You?"

Post your generated ingredient list.

Here's mine...surprisingly thought provoking and not untrue:

Kimberlite8 is made of yarn, fire, and soil. With a dash of Disney.

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[kimberlite8]

Your partner is also turning 33? What a coincidence! Well, I hope you and him have a great day together! Are you going out or staying in and cooking?

My husband and I, along with some friends and family, went out to dinner at one of my favorite fine dining restaurants in LA. Unfortunately, the tasting menu turned out to be terrible, almost embarrassing, I don't know what the chef was thinking! But it was nice to get together with your loved ones and talk and giggle and rant! I went on an impassioned rant about Avatar: Legend of Korra (if you haven't watched Avatar: the Last Airbender, I would recommend it - one of the most satisfying storytelling experiences of my life. Korra was such a disappointment and had the most infuriatingly meathead heroine and a villain whose cause for equality was so sympathetic that I rooted for him the whole time).

Humor is the hardest theme to find in Sansan, even though Sandor's voice (and behavior :/) is very funny or ripe for some roasting. Zmeicha wrote a pretty funny Sansan story about their wedding told from Tyrion's POV. I like Westeros High too.

I picked up "Waning of the Middle Ages" again based on our discussion. If you have any spare time, I would recommend it. (I prefer the older "Waning" to the new translation "Autumn of the Middle Ages." Its incredibly dense and assumes a level of knowledge about the historical middle ages that a layman like me just doesn't have (ie Im continually looking up stuff like Council of Pisa). But as a slice-of-life Burckhardtian type portrait, its a great read, with some fabulous prose. His primary thesis is that medieval people aren't like modern people - they are more volatile and intense: "So violent and motley was life, that it bore the mixed smell of blood and roses. The men of that time always oscillate between the fear of hell and the most naive joy, between cruelty and tenderness, between harsh asceticism and insane attachment to the delights of this world, between hatred and goodness, always running to extremes."

The first chapter "The Passionate Intensity of Life" gives you a good preview of what to expect:

When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness that joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child. Every event, every deed was defined in given and expressive forms and was in accord with the solemnity of a tight, invariable life style. The great events of human life-birth, marriage, death-by virtue of the sacraments, basked in the radiance of the divine mystery. But even the lesser events-a journey, labor, a visit-were accompanied by a multitude of blessings, ceremonies, sayings, and conventions.

Its honestly a slog to read due to my lack of familiarity with history and historical personages. But I'm learning about the mindset, the modes of perception and feeling, of these people, which is the part of history that I find fascinating, so I'm making painfully slow progress rather than stopping altogether. Did you know that medieval people use to cut their apples into threes to represent the Trinity or drink their wine in five draughts to represent the five wounds of Christ? Anyway, I thought this would be interesting to incorporate into a Sansan (perhaps yours!) fanfic, though how to do it gracefully, I dunno. I struggle with incorporating my interests in fairytales, myth, history, (smut :P), in my stories so that it doesnt come across as boringly didactic or pointless.

Sorry to hear that school work is so stressful. One of the reasons why I majored in math is because I couldn't handle the coursework of the humanities. All that reading and writing and with writing, unlike math, I could sit down for 3 hours to write and still end up with a very little to show for it. Anyway, if you ever want to talk- drop me a note, I'm a sympathetic ear.