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1. Name: Rachel
2. Age: 20
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose? Somewhere
where it's warm and there are polite people and reasonably permissive gun laws. I'm
from Texas (born and raised) and I kind of like it here, but I wouldn't be averse to
moving if I had a good reason. I'm not the kind of person that would just pack up
and move solely for a change of scenery.
4. What would your Room of Requirement look like? Most days? A bed with a
quilt and lots of blankets and a freshly-bathed dog to snuggle with. If there's a
laptop with wireless and a Chinese buffet, so much the better.
5. Who is your least favorite Harry Potter character? Know what? I
don't hate any canon characters. I could say Umbridge or something, but that's kind
of a copout because you're supposed to hate her. I'm not fond of Ginny, I
suppose, because she smacks of Mary Sue and I was rooting for Harry/Luna in HBP, but
I don't want her to die or something. The books would probably be poorer without
her, because JKR seems to be completely incapable of operating without literary
cliches.
6. Is the glass half empty or half full? The glass is neither half-empty nor
half-full; it's merely twice as large as it needs to be. Inexactness annoys me. I'm
more a pessimist than an optimist (mostly because life dealt me a crap hand in some
ways), but my first reaction to that question is always the engineer's answer.
7. Give us a quotation (Can be from a famous person, a song, or even a
poem-whatever you want) you feel represents your life or personality. "Reality
is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick.
I'm not sure how well it represents my life, per se, but it codifies my outlook
pretty well. I'm a big fan of honesty and the concrete, and I prefer to see things
the way they are rather than the way they appear to be, or the way I'd like them to
be. It makes me pretty cranky sometimes, but I think it beats self-deception.
8. In your life, who comes first: family or friends? The distinction is kind
of blurred, but given the choice between saving my best friend and saving my little
brother, I'd probably pick the sib. I don't make friends easily, but I absolutely
can't get another brother.
9. What is your favorite childhood memory? I don't really remember anything
from my childhood particularly fondly, not because I had a sucky one but just
because the memories have kind of lost their luster. I generally remember the bad
things much better than I do the good ones, anyway. My favorite adolescent memory is
of summer camp the year I was 14, which is kind of silly because it was an academic
camp at Southern Methodist University called TAG, but there are a lot of really good
memories there.
10. What would you say is your biggest flaw? I slack like it's going out of
style. I skip class a lot, I never do homework, and just in general am a really poor
student. I can usually get things done when it comes down to it, especially if it's
important, but I can never seem to make myself work or study when I really should.
This is partially because I never had to study for the first sixteen years of my
life, and partially because I just don't have that great an attention span.
11. If you had been at Hogwarts during Harry’s fifth year, do you think that
you would have joined the D.A.? Hell yes. Practicing hexes would be
awesome to begin with, and I have a little bit of an authority problem to
begin with so I'd have really hated Umbridge and her bureaucratic nonsense.
12. Describe how you react to difficult or stressful situations. I put off
dealing with them, mostly. I usually have problems asking for help when I need it,
unless things are really bad.
13. Which do you value more: compassion or justice? Justice. In a world that
is blatantly unfair, forcing people to deal with the consequences of their actions
is one of the only ways we can equalize things.
14. Would you say that you’re a child at heart, or that you have an old
soul? It depends on my mood, but most likely old. I like quiet and solitude,
though I value my friends. I enjoy some silly childish things, and I'm often
irreverent and flighty, but it comes in bursts and generally I'm much more serious
than most people think I am. I don't enjoy the "college life" as much as everyone
around me seems to; I actually am really fed up with it and want to get the hell out
and start my life already. If that doesn't make me an old wet blanket, I don't know
what does.
15. Which Hogwarts House do you think that the Sorting Hat would place you
in? Ravenclaw. I read voraciously and when I was a kid, I was massively
obnoxious about being smarter than everyone else. No other house would have put up
with me or provided me with the support I required from intellectual peers.
16. If you have a picture of yourself and feel comfortable posting it, please do
so! Pictures are fun!
1. Name: Rachel
2. Age: 20
3. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you choose? Somewhere
where it's warm and there are polite people and reasonably permissive gun laws. I'm
from Texas (born and raised) and I kind of like it here, but I wouldn't be averse to
moving if I had a good reason. I'm not the kind of person that would just pack up
and move solely for a change of scenery.
4. What would your Room of Requirement look like? Most days? A bed with a
quilt and lots of blankets and a freshly-bathed dog to snuggle with. If there's a
laptop with wireless and a Chinese buffet, so much the better.
5. Who is your least favorite Harry Potter character? Know what? I
don't hate any canon characters. I could say Umbridge or something, but that's kind
of a copout because you're supposed to hate her. I'm not fond of Ginny, I
suppose, because she smacks of Mary Sue and I was rooting for Harry/Luna in HBP, but
I don't want her to die or something. The books would probably be poorer without
her, because JKR seems to be completely incapable of operating without literary
cliches.
6. Is the glass half empty or half full? The glass is neither half-empty nor
half-full; it's merely twice as large as it needs to be. Inexactness annoys me. I'm
more a pessimist than an optimist (mostly because life dealt me a crap hand in some
ways), but my first reaction to that question is always the engineer's answer.
7. Give us a quotation (Can be from a famous person, a song, or even a
poem-whatever you want) you feel represents your life or personality. "Reality
is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick.
I'm not sure how well it represents my life, per se, but it codifies my outlook
pretty well. I'm a big fan of honesty and the concrete, and I prefer to see things
the way they are rather than the way they appear to be, or the way I'd like them to
be. It makes me pretty cranky sometimes, but I think it beats self-deception.
8. In your life, who comes first: family or friends? The distinction is kind
of blurred, but given the choice between saving my best friend and saving my little
brother, I'd probably pick the sib. I don't make friends easily, but I absolutely
can't get another brother.
9. What is your favorite childhood memory? I don't really remember anything
from my childhood particularly fondly, not because I had a sucky one but just
because the memories have kind of lost their luster. I generally remember the bad
things much better than I do the good ones, anyway. My favorite adolescent memory is
of summer camp the year I was 14, which is kind of silly because it was an academic
camp at Southern Methodist University called TAG, but there are a lot of really good
memories there.
10. What would you say is your biggest flaw? I slack like it's going out of
style. I skip class a lot, I never do homework, and just in general am a really poor
student. I can usually get things done when it comes down to it, especially if it's
important, but I can never seem to make myself work or study when I really should.
This is partially because I never had to study for the first sixteen years of my
life, and partially because I just don't have that great an attention span.
11. If you had been at Hogwarts during Harry’s fifth year, do you think that
you would have joined the D.A.? Hell yes. Practicing hexes would be
awesome to begin with, and I have a little bit of an authority problem to
begin with so I'd have really hated Umbridge and her bureaucratic nonsense.
12. Describe how you react to difficult or stressful situations. I put off
dealing with them, mostly. I usually have problems asking for help when I need it,
unless things are really bad.
13. Which do you value more: compassion or justice? Justice. In a world that
is blatantly unfair, forcing people to deal with the consequences of their actions
is one of the only ways we can equalize things.
14. Would you say that you’re a child at heart, or that you have an old
soul? It depends on my mood, but most likely old. I like quiet and solitude,
though I value my friends. I enjoy some silly childish things, and I'm often
irreverent and flighty, but it comes in bursts and generally I'm much more serious
than most people think I am. I don't enjoy the "college life" as much as everyone
around me seems to; I actually am really fed up with it and want to get the hell out
and start my life already. If that doesn't make me an old wet blanket, I don't know
what does.
15. Which Hogwarts House do you think that the Sorting Hat would place you
in? Ravenclaw. I read voraciously and when I was a kid, I was massively
obnoxious about being smarter than everyone else. No other house would have put up
with me or provided me with the support I required from intellectual peers.
16. If you have a picture of yourself and feel comfortable posting it, please do
so! Pictures are fun!