Comments | rj_anderson: Your Questions Answered, Part I

rj_anderson

Your Questions Answered, Part I

Apr 15, 2004 23:04

You all asked such interesting questions, and as usual I blathered way too much giving the answers, so I'm pasting them here with cut-tags -- the ones I've got done so far, at least. Thanks to everyone who's participated!

( What do you like about your country? What makes you really happy? What would you say/do if you met JKR? )

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Comments 16

yahtzee63 April 15 2004, 20:32:22 UTC

Irina's very capable and efficient, so we'd definitely arrive at our destination, but she's also warm and personable, so she would probably talk to me along the way and there would be a chance of finding out something fascinating about her.

I'd be scared that I'd read the map wrong, and she'd kill me!

In all seriousness, my personal pick would be Dixon. Reliable, capable, friendly without being pushy, and anybody who's traveled with kids is going to be really, really patient. Also, that St. Aidan he was driving in "Conscious" was pretty darned cool. ;)

rj_anderson April 16 2004, 09:03:08 UTC

LOL. See, I wouldn't worry that Irina would kill me, even if I read the map wrong, because she's reasonable enough not to kill people over petty things, and too smart and perceptive to mistake my ineptitude for malice or some other threat to her. My biggest worry would be if she saw any advantage to misleading/manipulating me for her own purposes -- not being that good at reading people myself, I'd probably get suckered right in if she did...

kerravonsen April 15 2004, 22:16:58 UTC

...knowing also that like me you believe in intelligent design, Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe strikes me something you might really enjoy

Let me heartily second this. It's a really interesting well thought out book. I didn't do biochemistry at uni, just plain ordinary chemistry, so I wasn't familiar with the examples he was using, but I could still follow what he was saying.
I should read that again.

Chopped cooked turkey rocky_t April 16 2004, 06:38:03 UTC

For future reference, a quick and easy thing to do with chopped cooked turkey (or any meat or poultry) is to heat it up in a skillet with some tomato sauce and spices, thus turning it into sloppy joes which can be eaten in buns or pitas, or else spooned over rice.

If you feel more ambitious, the meat can be turned into shepherd's pie or else enclosed in dough to make dumplings.

Bon apetit!

Re: Chopped cooked turkey rj_anderson April 16 2004, 09:03:34 UTC

Thanks for the suggestions, Rocky! I'll keep those in mind.

Re: Chopped cooked turkey rocky_t April 16 2004, 10:41:49 UTC

More chopped cooked turkey recipes:

http://freebiesandstuff.freeyellow.com/christmas/leftover-turkey.html

Karen

sannalim April 16 2004, 07:44:06 UTC

Anyway, my feeling about the "sensuality" issue is that I do think sexual desire, in itself, is a normal and healthy appetite given us by God; and that to portray people honestly experiencing and facing that desire, then choosing to act in principled ways in spite of the power of such desire, is better than to gloss over the issue -- or worse substitute some saccharine, sanitized counterfeit that denies the reality of Christian living and makes it look insipid and ludicrous.

And that, in a nutshell, is what I like about your approach to writing romance.

Thanks for the recs; I'll keep them in mind for when the massive stack of library books currently occupying my reading desk has shrunk a bit.:)

chresimos April 16 2004, 11:23:33 UTC

Hmm, makes for very interesting reading. ;) I have naught of use to say, but will record that Squirrel Nutkin seriously disturbed me as a youth, but not as much as that other horrible one about the frog, and that I really like your answer to the best question ever. and that to portray people honestly experiencing and facing that desire, then choosing to act in principled ways in spite of the power of such desire, is better than to gloss over the issue -- or worse substitute some saccharine, sanitized counterfeit that denies the reality of Christian living and makes it look insipid and ludicrous. Yees. I was, in fact, surprised at the lack of sex in D&L (not because of anything the story suggested, but because I had seedy assumptions about fanfic in general which were later not proved wrong), and thought that it was really rather timid as regards such matters. However, I liked that - it was refreshing - and I'm me, and will take sexual tension(restraint = yay) and a good snog or two over sex scenes any day. ;)