Another meme going around.
(swiped from wordweaverlynn) Please fill out this survey so I can get to know you better. Old friends, fill it out too! Even if I know you well, I may find out something about you I never knew. Feel free to spread this around so we can all get to know each other. If there is a question you don't want to or don't know how to answer, just tell me something else instead.
Name: Linda. I’ve always been Linda, not Lin, not any other diminutive. My dad was Linn, so when I was growing up, if you asked for Linn, you got my dad.
Preferred gender pronoun: She. Interesting how these questions change over time. 10 years ago I couldn’t imagine anyone asking such a question in a meme. Times have changed.
Birthday: May 14. Year unimportant. It seems that half the time my birthday is the day of or after Mother’s day.
Where do you live and/or time zone: I live on the Left coast, at the coast, in the fog. Also known as the Edge of the World. I like it here, it’s quiet. Except when some idiot runs off Devil’s Slide, then there are sirens.
What are you studying/What are you working as: I don’t know how to answer this question anymore. I guess I am a botanical artist, since that’s what I spend my non-homeschool teacher/mother time as. Or Graphic Designer, but that implies a kind of creativity I don’t have. Scanner-and-cleaner-upper-of-photos-and-artworks seems kind of long. Widow. Much too young.
What makes you happy/hobbies: Reading. Writing. Traveling with my son. Music, especially hearing my son play cello. I’m not happy too much these days, I still miss my late beloved husband terribly, although it has been almost ten months.
An interesting fact about you: I set my own path. In the early 1970s, I went to University of Michigan and studied Electrical/Computer Engineering. I also joined a sorority. When that didn’t work out (late 70s), I packed myself up, and without a job or a college degree moved 2700 miles away from my family and friends. In the 1980s, I drove race cars (road racing) competitively and broke into technical writing - demanding a man’s salary and getting it. In the 1990s, I got married, bought a house in paradise, had a baby, and published a book on cryptography. In the 2000s, I survived breast cancer, became an artist, and started home-schooling my son.
Are you in love/have a crush at the moment? In a way. I am still very much in love with my dear, departed husband. I will always love him. The men that are usually displayed as “crushes” are young enough to be my kids; and some of them are young enough to be my grandkids.
Favorite place to be: Home. I live two blocks from the ocean. I am happy here. Elsewhere, I love Muir Woods.
A word to describe yourself: determined.
Favorite Fandom(s): I am enjoying learning more about animé and manga from my son, and we even went to FaniméCon this past Memorial Day weekend. I am getting a bit into steampunk. I like the alternative universe idea where steam and mechanics ruled. I love reading fantasy, so long as the story is good. I like the Harry Potter universe because it is so completely crafted.
OTP/OT3: I had to look this one up. Depending on your social circle, it could mean:
- One TIme Programmable (type of read-only memory in electronics)
- One Time PAD (cryptography)
- One TIme Password (authentication)
- Open Telecom Platform (standard open-source libraries and tools for Erlang programming language )
- Opposite Track Path (optical DVD technology phrase, allowing fast switching from layer 0 to layer 1)
- Outdoor Therapeutic Program (wilderness/adventure programs)
- On Time Performance (quality measurement for mass transit)
- Off The Plan (purchasing property before construction has started)
- One True Pairing ( a type of fandom relationship, be it stated, wished, or implied). OT3 is a trio version of this.
Now that we know what it might mean, lets look it over. All the programming/telecom definitions are superfluous, and if you think I’m going to give you any of my passwords, you are nuts. The wilderness/adventure programs hold no interest to me, mostly because I consider anything less than a 3-star hotel something to be avoided. The mass transit definition is only important when I have a tight schedule, and I don’t have enough money to be able to afford the property definition. That leaves the fandom relationship, which, to be honest, I could not care less about. Maybe Hei and Yin from the animé Darker than Black.
Celebrities you flail over: Assuming you mean the Kermit the Frog arm-waving type flail, ummm, no-one. There are celebrities I like, but none that I flail over.
Favorite music: Yes. I love Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, played by Joshua Bell. Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach’s Cello Suites or the Piazzolla Tangos. My son, playing anything on cello (*grin*). John Mayer, Chris Isaak, Mark Knopfler, Indigo Girls.
One thing you like about LJ/DW: I like LJ because it is still here, ten years after I started using it.
Two things you like about yourself: I’m smart, and I’m clever.
What House in Hogwarts are you in/would you be in? Every last one of those “what-house-at-Hogwarts” quizzes I’ve taken puts me in Ravenclaw, so I guess I’ll stay there.