5 questions interview meme
Well, I was DENIED on acquiring more Dresden books - temporarily. The Tattered Cover has Jim Butcher's Summer Knight and P.N Elrod's A Song In The Dark, the next Vampire Files book at their other store and I can pick them up tomorrow. They ordered Butcher's Death Masks for me. Tattered Cover is one of the largest independant booksellers in... used to be the US, but that's probably changed by now. I thought of ordering them from Amazon, but even with free shipping, the handling charges cost almost as much as one of the books. And doing business with a brick-and-mortar independant bookseller is a good thing.
But on to the Interview. surrealphantast has asked me some really good interview questions.
1 - If you could back to college and get any degree you wish, what would you get?
Probably Archeology or Anthroplogy - not just because of Dr. Jackson, either! ;) I really loved Anthropology, especially Modern Anthropology. But I'm not big on History and the idea of having to memorize all those ancient gods for Mythology made my head want to explode just thinking about it. I studied bugs and apes instead. My degree (Environmental Conservation/Geography) is actually an amalgam of a lot of different disciplines, including Anthropology.
2 - You're in an alternate reality where all fictional characters are real. Which one, *not* including Daniel Jackson, would you date?
Wow, so many fictional characters and so little time! And only one... Okay, right now I can only get it down to two. Cam Mitchell, because I agree with you that he'd be a great date. And Harry Dresden, though he'd probably get dragged off to a haunting or something in the middle of it ;)
3 - What else do you do well besides write?
LOL! My very first reaction was "Oh, LOTS of things" and my second was "Uh... like what?" Actually, I can be a very good cook, when I have the incentive. I made soups for a coffee house for awhile.
4 - Of all the places you've been, which was the most beautiful?
That's a really hard one! So many places are really beautiful in different ways, but I'd have to pick Italy. I spent most of my time in the countryside there and in *really* old cities and towns. There was even this really tall, ancient Roman aquaduct that just blew me away because it was hard to believe it was real.
5 - If you won the lottery, what would you do?
I've actually had this decided for some time now. I would buy modest homes in a couple of different places. Vancouver, for one, and someplace in the Caribbean for another. Not sure where else but probably a place here in Denver, too. Then I my friends and I can follow the good weather or whatever we liked!
So, there you have it!
But on to the Interview. surrealphantast has asked me some really good interview questions.
1 - If you could back to college and get any degree you wish, what would you get?
Probably Archeology or Anthroplogy - not just because of Dr. Jackson, either! ;) I really loved Anthropology, especially Modern Anthropology. But I'm not big on History and the idea of having to memorize all those ancient gods for Mythology made my head want to explode just thinking about it. I studied bugs and apes instead. My degree (Environmental Conservation/Geography) is actually an amalgam of a lot of different disciplines, including Anthropology.
2 - You're in an alternate reality where all fictional characters are real. Which one, *not* including Daniel Jackson, would you date?
Wow, so many fictional characters and so little time! And only one... Okay, right now I can only get it down to two. Cam Mitchell, because I agree with you that he'd be a great date. And Harry Dresden, though he'd probably get dragged off to a haunting or something in the middle of it ;)
3 - What else do you do well besides write?
LOL! My very first reaction was "Oh, LOTS of things" and my second was "Uh... like what?" Actually, I can be a very good cook, when I have the incentive. I made soups for a coffee house for awhile.
4 - Of all the places you've been, which was the most beautiful?
That's a really hard one! So many places are really beautiful in different ways, but I'd have to pick Italy. I spent most of my time in the countryside there and in *really* old cities and towns. There was even this really tall, ancient Roman aquaduct that just blew me away because it was hard to believe it was real.
5 - If you won the lottery, what would you do?
I've actually had this decided for some time now. I would buy modest homes in a couple of different places. Vancouver, for one, and someplace in the Caribbean for another. Not sure where else but probably a place here in Denver, too. Then I my friends and I can follow the good weather or whatever we liked!
So, there you have it!