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1. What is the soundtrack for this LJ?
At the moment, the shower, the air cleaner, and the answer to the next question. But usually it's music. I do have the Dresden Dolls' "Colorblind" stuck in my head, if that counts.
2. What's bothering you right now?
Since about eight-thirty this morning, I haven't been able to hear anything out of my left ear except for a constant white-noise hiss. I haven't been able to shake the cold from Readercon and my Eustachian tubes are like unto a clogged sink trap.
3. Do you close the door when you are sleeping?
Yes. Even when I had an apartment, I kept the door to my bedroom shut unless I needed it open for cold air in summer—the air conditioner was in the living room window—because streetlight and moonlight would slant through and keep me awake. Here it's less for darkness than the feeling that at least this space is mine.
4. What is in your wallet?
The essentials of driver's license, debit card, student ID, Charlie Card, and several bills. Also the usual cards for insurance, dental insurance, Brigham and Women's, Amtrak, Triple-A, the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cutler's Record Shop, Ciao Bella Gelato, Pandemonium Books and Games, McIntyre and Moore, and the Library of Congress; business cards for Greer Gilman, Mark Fenwick, Sharyn November, and Elizabeth E. Wein; the last month and a half's worth of receipts, an obsolete fifty-franc note, and a newly minted John Adams dollar. And what looks like the ticket stub for Brundibar at the Yale Rep in 2006. And possibly the handwritten receipt for my post box in New Haven. It's like archaeology. I should be thankful I stopped keeping my keys in my wallet when the old one broke.
5. Wallpaper on your computer's desktop?
None. I currently do not have a computer of my own, so I haven't put anything on the desktop of the one I'm using. On my laptop, it was an image of the White Star against a backdrop of green-and-gold nebulae.
6. Background on your cell phone?
None. Maybe I'm just boring.
7. Next time you will kiss someone?
I have no idea.
8. Where was your default picture taken?
For my livejournal? It was a gift fromyuki_onna, when I first signed on; I believe the image is an illustration for her first novel The Labyrinth.
9. Eyes:
Hazel. Slightly farsighted, in that I need reading glasses which I never remember to wear; I can get by without them, so mostly they stay on my desk.
10. Life:
I'm still alive.
11. House:
Contains all of my books, even if a good three-quarters of them are in cardboard boxes in the room my brother recently moved out of.
12. Doing this weekend?
The only certainty for this weekend, sadly, is that at some point I will walk into a bookstore, sit down for a couple of hours, and read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as I did last year with Half-Blood Prince. I hope to see friends and possibly a film. I would like to work on "The Salt House," which I had to abandon for Readercon and have not yet gotten back to. And it wouldn't hurt to get some sleep.
13. Wearing?
I have a laptop propped on my knees.
14. Who was the last person to send you a text message?
Someone who does not have a livejournal, and who I wish I would hear from more often.
15. If you could have one thing right now what would it be?
A head that does not hurt.
16. Listening to?
The same combination of internal and external white noise as the first time around. And in fact the same song. And I love you dumb and colorblind . . .
17. Ever kissed someone named John?
Nope.
18. What do you smell like?
Right now (and insofar as I can smell anything through this cold), like Dial soap and various sweet herbs, mostly chamomile and mint, because I got out of the shower about twenty minutes ago and have the amazing Hanukkah present from my brother wrapped around my shoulders. It doesn't do anything for the congestion, the headache, or the chronic sleeplessness, but it can heat up considerably before it starts to smell like burnt bread and the sweet herbs are fantastic.
19. Eating?
Not at the moment.
20. Favorite thing on your bed:
I don't have a sentimental attachment to any of my pillows, really. Earlier in the day I had some books I like piled on the quilt: Liz Williams' Nine Layers of Sky, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, and The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, ed. Bryce S. DeWitt and Neill Graham. It's the wrong season for the brown-and-white blanket with the cats on it.
21. Do you believe in a soul mate?
No. That doesn't mean I expect never to find someone I love enough to let their book collection move in with mine.
22. What do you wear to bed?
In winter, if it's bitter cold, a nightshirt.
23. Do you remember your dreams?
When I wake, yes. If I don't write them down, not for more than a few minutes.
24. Do you burn easily in the sun?
Not so far this summer. In past years, however, my face has occasionally looked as though it was slam-dunked into a watermelon.
25. Have you ever been gambling?
I don't think so. I have won bets, but never with cards or dice.
26. What's something you wish you could understand better?
Mathematics. It's integral to so many other disciplines.
27. What did you do last weekend?
Went to see Paprika for the second time with Eric, Anita, and Eddy; we had ice cream afterward in Davis Square and could not avoid listening to the most emo busker on the face of the earth. The next day, I visitedcaptainbutler for the first time in months; I hadn't seen his apartment before, but it has a very respectable collection of film posters.
28. Who do you miss?
Of the living, my best friend and sister who lives in Hawaii. Of the dead, my grandmother.
29. Who is the last girl you hugged?
What kind of question is that? Probablyfleurdelis28.
30. Orange or apple juice?
Mango.
31. Who was the last person you went somewhere with?
My brother's godparents, who stopped by this afternoon on their way back from Iceland.
32. What was the last text message you sent?
"Rao."
33. Have you kissed anyone on your friendslist?
Yes. What, you want names?
34. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
That we grew? I think I was in high school. The garden was subsequently overrun by rhubarb.
36. What was the last thing you drank?
Water from the Britta in the refrigerator.
37. Whose house did you go to last night?
If last night is now Wednesday, no one's other than mine. If last night is Tuesday, Eric's; we watched Donnie Darko and about ten minutes of Steven Wright, who was the most surrealist stand-up I've ever seen. I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
38. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital?
The father of a friend of mine.
39. Do you like someone right now?
I like most of the people I know; otherwise I wouldn't count them as friends. Take that, middle-school phraseology.
40. What do you wear more, slacks, jeans, or sweatpants?
Corduroy trousers. Of my favorite pairs of jeans, two dramatically wore out earlier this summer, and I hate buying clothes; I've never owned sweatpants and I have exactly two pairs of formal slacks. And one of those is technically a pair of olive silk cargo pants, which should not be the same thing.
41. What is the last movie you watched? With who?
The aforementioned Donnie Darko, with the usual suspects; it was my first time seeing the film, Eddy's second, and Eric's umpteenth.
42. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink:
Er. Water, pomegranate tea, ginger beer, if "regularly" can be extended to include "in the proper season."
43. What are you excited about?
My latest assignment from the Center for Hellenic Studies involves proofreading a new translation of Cavafy, whose poetry, I realized tonight, reminds me ofpoliphilo's.
44. Do you want someone you can't have?
I don't know. I might have answered this question very differently six months ago.
45. Who was last to slap your butt?
Yikes. I can't remember. Not anyone for years, certainly.
46. Where was the last place you went?
Legal Sea Foods, for dinner with my brother's godparents.
47. What's on your mind right now?
I'm still trying to remember if anyone has slapped my butt since high school.
48. Have you cried recently?
No. It's a great improvement on most of the last year and a half. Before then, I could measure the time between episodes of tears in years.
49. When you think of your crush, who is it?
I don't have a crush. I'm much more likely to want to have intense conversations with people, anyway, than to seize up with lust when I see them.
50. Is taking a shower a daily habit?
Yes. But my hair takes forever to dry.
docbrite.1. What is the soundtrack for this LJ?
At the moment, the shower, the air cleaner, and the answer to the next question. But usually it's music. I do have the Dresden Dolls' "Colorblind" stuck in my head, if that counts.
2. What's bothering you right now?
Since about eight-thirty this morning, I haven't been able to hear anything out of my left ear except for a constant white-noise hiss. I haven't been able to shake the cold from Readercon and my Eustachian tubes are like unto a clogged sink trap.
3. Do you close the door when you are sleeping?
Yes. Even when I had an apartment, I kept the door to my bedroom shut unless I needed it open for cold air in summer—the air conditioner was in the living room window—because streetlight and moonlight would slant through and keep me awake. Here it's less for darkness than the feeling that at least this space is mine.
4. What is in your wallet?
The essentials of driver's license, debit card, student ID, Charlie Card, and several bills. Also the usual cards for insurance, dental insurance, Brigham and Women's, Amtrak, Triple-A, the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cutler's Record Shop, Ciao Bella Gelato, Pandemonium Books and Games, McIntyre and Moore, and the Library of Congress; business cards for Greer Gilman, Mark Fenwick, Sharyn November, and Elizabeth E. Wein; the last month and a half's worth of receipts, an obsolete fifty-franc note, and a newly minted John Adams dollar. And what looks like the ticket stub for Brundibar at the Yale Rep in 2006. And possibly the handwritten receipt for my post box in New Haven. It's like archaeology. I should be thankful I stopped keeping my keys in my wallet when the old one broke.
5. Wallpaper on your computer's desktop?
None. I currently do not have a computer of my own, so I haven't put anything on the desktop of the one I'm using. On my laptop, it was an image of the White Star against a backdrop of green-and-gold nebulae.
6. Background on your cell phone?
None. Maybe I'm just boring.
7. Next time you will kiss someone?
I have no idea.
8. Where was your default picture taken?
For my livejournal? It was a gift from
yuki_onna, when I first signed on; I believe the image is an illustration for her first novel The Labyrinth.9. Eyes:
Hazel. Slightly farsighted, in that I need reading glasses which I never remember to wear; I can get by without them, so mostly they stay on my desk.
10. Life:
I'm still alive.
11. House:
Contains all of my books, even if a good three-quarters of them are in cardboard boxes in the room my brother recently moved out of.
12. Doing this weekend?
The only certainty for this weekend, sadly, is that at some point I will walk into a bookstore, sit down for a couple of hours, and read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as I did last year with Half-Blood Prince. I hope to see friends and possibly a film. I would like to work on "The Salt House," which I had to abandon for Readercon and have not yet gotten back to. And it wouldn't hurt to get some sleep.
13. Wearing?
I have a laptop propped on my knees.
14. Who was the last person to send you a text message?
Someone who does not have a livejournal, and who I wish I would hear from more often.
15. If you could have one thing right now what would it be?
A head that does not hurt.
16. Listening to?
The same combination of internal and external white noise as the first time around. And in fact the same song. And I love you dumb and colorblind . . .
17. Ever kissed someone named John?
Nope.
18. What do you smell like?
Right now (and insofar as I can smell anything through this cold), like Dial soap and various sweet herbs, mostly chamomile and mint, because I got out of the shower about twenty minutes ago and have the amazing Hanukkah present from my brother wrapped around my shoulders. It doesn't do anything for the congestion, the headache, or the chronic sleeplessness, but it can heat up considerably before it starts to smell like burnt bread and the sweet herbs are fantastic.
19. Eating?
Not at the moment.
20. Favorite thing on your bed:
I don't have a sentimental attachment to any of my pillows, really. Earlier in the day I had some books I like piled on the quilt: Liz Williams' Nine Layers of Sky, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, and The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, ed. Bryce S. DeWitt and Neill Graham. It's the wrong season for the brown-and-white blanket with the cats on it.
21. Do you believe in a soul mate?
No. That doesn't mean I expect never to find someone I love enough to let their book collection move in with mine.
22. What do you wear to bed?
In winter, if it's bitter cold, a nightshirt.
23. Do you remember your dreams?
When I wake, yes. If I don't write them down, not for more than a few minutes.
24. Do you burn easily in the sun?
Not so far this summer. In past years, however, my face has occasionally looked as though it was slam-dunked into a watermelon.
25. Have you ever been gambling?
I don't think so. I have won bets, but never with cards or dice.
26. What's something you wish you could understand better?
Mathematics. It's integral to so many other disciplines.
27. What did you do last weekend?
Went to see Paprika for the second time with Eric, Anita, and Eddy; we had ice cream afterward in Davis Square and could not avoid listening to the most emo busker on the face of the earth. The next day, I visited
captainbutler for the first time in months; I hadn't seen his apartment before, but it has a very respectable collection of film posters.28. Who do you miss?
Of the living, my best friend and sister who lives in Hawaii. Of the dead, my grandmother.
29. Who is the last girl you hugged?
What kind of question is that? Probably
fleurdelis28.30. Orange or apple juice?
Mango.
31. Who was the last person you went somewhere with?
My brother's godparents, who stopped by this afternoon on their way back from Iceland.
32. What was the last text message you sent?
"Rao."
33. Have you kissed anyone on your friendslist?
Yes. What, you want names?
34. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
That we grew? I think I was in high school. The garden was subsequently overrun by rhubarb.
36. What was the last thing you drank?
Water from the Britta in the refrigerator.
37. Whose house did you go to last night?
If last night is now Wednesday, no one's other than mine. If last night is Tuesday, Eric's; we watched Donnie Darko and about ten minutes of Steven Wright, who was the most surrealist stand-up I've ever seen. I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
38. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital?
The father of a friend of mine.
39. Do you like someone right now?
I like most of the people I know; otherwise I wouldn't count them as friends. Take that, middle-school phraseology.
40. What do you wear more, slacks, jeans, or sweatpants?
Corduroy trousers. Of my favorite pairs of jeans, two dramatically wore out earlier this summer, and I hate buying clothes; I've never owned sweatpants and I have exactly two pairs of formal slacks. And one of those is technically a pair of olive silk cargo pants, which should not be the same thing.
41. What is the last movie you watched? With who?
The aforementioned Donnie Darko, with the usual suspects; it was my first time seeing the film, Eddy's second, and Eric's umpteenth.
42. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink:
Er. Water, pomegranate tea, ginger beer, if "regularly" can be extended to include "in the proper season."
43. What are you excited about?
My latest assignment from the Center for Hellenic Studies involves proofreading a new translation of Cavafy, whose poetry, I realized tonight, reminds me of
poliphilo's.44. Do you want someone you can't have?
I don't know. I might have answered this question very differently six months ago.
45. Who was last to slap your butt?
Yikes. I can't remember. Not anyone for years, certainly.
46. Where was the last place you went?
Legal Sea Foods, for dinner with my brother's godparents.
47. What's on your mind right now?
I'm still trying to remember if anyone has slapped my butt since high school.
48. Have you cried recently?
No. It's a great improvement on most of the last year and a half. Before then, I could measure the time between episodes of tears in years.
49. When you think of your crush, who is it?
I don't have a crush. I'm much more likely to want to have intense conversations with people, anyway, than to seize up with lust when I see them.
50. Is taking a shower a daily habit?
Yes. But my hair takes forever to dry.
Left in the ones that interested me
Spock with a beard.
8. Where was your default picture taken?
The one of me was taken at Mamouns. The default one was taken at a fashion show.
9. Eyes:
Blue, narrow, moderately nearsighted, but good in the dark.
10. Life:
Medieval Baebe's "Kinderly" comes to mind, though it's not near that bad.
11. House:
Filth pit. Wants cleaning. Needs cleaning. Needs cleaning like red warrior and blue valkyrie need food.
12. Doing this weekend?
Weddings. I forget whose.
13. Wearing?
Smelly jeans, stupid shoes, red stripey bandana, green shirt, drawers.
16. Listening to?
The empty office, twitching. Also radio and RJ music combo.
17. Ever kissed someone named John?
No, but sometimes when I need to relax, I think of all the Johns I know...
18. What do you smell like?
Mitchum greenwood and second week denim (I really should have thrown these in the wash)
21. Do you believe in a soul mate?
Not as such, but I believe that your friendships are one of the only things you get to take with you when you die, if that counts.
23. Do you remember your dreams?
Unfortunately.
24. Do you burn easily in the sun?
Less so as I age, but my head burns like crazy.
25. Have you ever been gambling?
Once. My stepma won $400 on my quarter, so we split the difference.
26. What's something you wish you could understand better?
Spanish. Chinese. German. Right now, also what Waterbury looked like in 1902.
27. What did you do last weekend?
Went to
31. Who was the last person you went somewhere with?
34. Last time you ate a homegrown tomato?
Last year. Farmer's market. If you're looking for ones I had a part in growing, it was much longer a time ago.
36. What was the last thing you drank?
Mountain Dew. With a Coffee chaser.
37. Whose house did you go to last night?
Dan's. Ran the first bit of a new game, inspired by
38. Who was the last person you visited in the hospital?
Stepma, for knee surgery.
40. What do you wear more, slacks, jeans, or sweatpants?
Cargo pants. Pockets are important.
41. What is the last movie you watched? With who?
Potter with Kate.
42. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink:
Coffee, Mountain Dew, Water
43. What are you excited about?
Sent off my proposals. I hope they are well recieved.
45. Who was last to slap your butt?
This meme doesn't really work on married folk, does it?
46. Where was the last place you went?
Work, and here I am. Procrastinating.
47. What's on your mind right now?
A story about harpies that cause traffic accidents which I haven't written.
48. Have you cried recently?
Yeah, in as much as I cry (about a tear and a half) over the loss of Devin.
49. When you think of your crush, who is it?
Erm. I still have crushes, but they are fairly brief and mild and for entertainment purposes only. I recently remembered my old celebrity crush on Annie Lennox, who is still very attractive.
50. Is taking a shower a daily habit?
Else my skin turns red and tries to escape my flesh. In the summer it can be a twice daily habit.
Re: Left in the ones that interested me
A story about harpies that cause traffic accidents which I haven't written.
Do you often script car accidents? I think most policies have an exclusion for "property damage caused by act of mythological beast or persona", which is a bitch since there was a Minotaur here yesterday knocking the shit out of peoples' Hummers. It was sort of a Jack Kirby moment.
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Is this for a story or curiosity?
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