shower me!
Jun. 4th, 2003 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phineasjonesthe shower meme. (explained here by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tradescant.) questions from holographis.
1) Do you have any scars, and if so, how did you get them?
i wish i had an exciting answer to this question. there's a small scar on my right knee where i knocked out a chunk of flesh when i tripped and fell in my kitchen around age 10. not exactly badass. hm, it seems to have faded but for a while i had a scar on my right forearm. also acquired in my kitchen, this time by scraping my arm on the paper towel holder. age 17. the more exciting part of that story is the reason it became a scar. i did it just before leaving for colorado where i met up with my friend claire and her dad and we went off to the sun dance on the pine ridge reservation in south dakota. i spent 5 days out in the sun - burning the scratch into a scar. of course, the irony is that the sun dance involves ritual scarification. but i wasn't actually doing any dancing. other than those, i just have continuous stream of temporary scars provided by my lovely cat, chloe.
2) What is your favourite way to spend a day, and why do you prefer that over anything else?
i can think of elements to a perfect day, but not really one thing i would do with the whole day. a perfect day would have writing in my paper journal, reading in sunlight - or candlelight if raining, time with rach, time with friends, dancing, singing... performing. what i really should say is that my favorite way to spend a state is in a state of relaxation. because i'm always stressed out and it makes it so i can't enjoy anything i do. if i could really relax, i would enjoy all these things i do - since most of my days involve those things i listed at the top of this answer.
3) How do you think your life would be different if it wasn't for livejournal?
wow, this is an interesting question. i've only been on lj for a little over a year, so you might think it would be easy to say. but. i got into slash first and, in a way, i think lj has helped me to make slash more of a hobby and less of a full-time obsession. and also helped to calm my inner fear that my interest in slash was freakish and that i was isolated in it. my connections to a lot of people would be different.starbuckle and annelarissa are two of the most important people to me right now and i wouldn't know them if it weren't for lj. i wouldn't be as close to some friends that i already knew (scottxwl, harrimad_sol). but, to be fair, i also would have to find other ways to spend my time and could quite possibly be more productive. also, i probably would never have posted any fic of my own - starbuckle gets the credit for helping me break down that barrier.
4) Is there any type of fic you absolutely will not read and if so, why not?
yes. sort of. i will not read fic featuring character death or blatant non-con/rape. now, the caveat: sometimes these can be written in an intelligent and thought-provoking, critical way (ex. ivyblossom's 'your darkest voice'). that is different from gratuitous death ... for example, i once came across an h/d fic which read like a fairly typical story until draco suddenly and violently killed harry in the end. it made me want to vomit. if there had been a warning for character death, i wouldn't have read it. that's not quite the same as, say, ron dying in the war against voldemort. that could be done well and sensitively, and i would likely read it. however, i will NEVER read a suicide fic. this may be partly because my life was affected by suicide, but it's also because it's just about the cheapest plot device around. insta-angst! no work required! ick. bleh.
[edit] also, i just remembered that my original aversion to deathfic came from reading lotrips. rps death fic squicks me beyond the telling of it. would not read it. ever.]
5) What did you study at university and in retrospect, would you have chosen to do anything else instead?
i went to a liberal arts college and i majored in music, minored in religion. it took me a long time to get there, though. when i started, i thought i might major in english or french or history/native american studies. after a couple good religion classes, i declared a religion major in my sophomore year, planning to focus on historical jesus study. then i took more and more music classes and decided to declare a double major. then, when in senegal, i realized there were too many classes in too many subjects that i want to take and i would never be able to and finish both majors, and also that i wanted to be a choral conductor. So i dropped religion. i don't regret any of this. i got a very well-rounded education. i took classes in french, german, literature, history, astronomy, calculus, anthropology, music, religion, dance, wolof, geography, and art. i had time to focus on just music in grad school. i would like to have taken more languages, have started the music classes earlier so i would have had more time for electives... but any addition would mean getting rid of something i did do, and i can't imagine what that would be.
who wants to be interviewed by me? anyone?
tradescant.) questions from holographis.1) Do you have any scars, and if so, how did you get them?
i wish i had an exciting answer to this question. there's a small scar on my right knee where i knocked out a chunk of flesh when i tripped and fell in my kitchen around age 10. not exactly badass. hm, it seems to have faded but for a while i had a scar on my right forearm. also acquired in my kitchen, this time by scraping my arm on the paper towel holder. age 17. the more exciting part of that story is the reason it became a scar. i did it just before leaving for colorado where i met up with my friend claire and her dad and we went off to the sun dance on the pine ridge reservation in south dakota. i spent 5 days out in the sun - burning the scratch into a scar. of course, the irony is that the sun dance involves ritual scarification. but i wasn't actually doing any dancing. other than those, i just have continuous stream of temporary scars provided by my lovely cat, chloe.
2) What is your favourite way to spend a day, and why do you prefer that over anything else?
i can think of elements to a perfect day, but not really one thing i would do with the whole day. a perfect day would have writing in my paper journal, reading in sunlight - or candlelight if raining, time with rach, time with friends, dancing, singing... performing. what i really should say is that my favorite way to spend a state is in a state of relaxation. because i'm always stressed out and it makes it so i can't enjoy anything i do. if i could really relax, i would enjoy all these things i do - since most of my days involve those things i listed at the top of this answer.
3) How do you think your life would be different if it wasn't for livejournal?
wow, this is an interesting question. i've only been on lj for a little over a year, so you might think it would be easy to say. but. i got into slash first and, in a way, i think lj has helped me to make slash more of a hobby and less of a full-time obsession. and also helped to calm my inner fear that my interest in slash was freakish and that i was isolated in it. my connections to a lot of people would be different.
starbuckle and annelarissa are two of the most important people to me right now and i wouldn't know them if it weren't for lj. i wouldn't be as close to some friends that i already knew (scottxwl, harrimad_sol). but, to be fair, i also would have to find other ways to spend my time and could quite possibly be more productive. also, i probably would never have posted any fic of my own - starbuckle gets the credit for helping me break down that barrier.4) Is there any type of fic you absolutely will not read and if so, why not?
yes. sort of. i will not read fic featuring character death or blatant non-con/rape. now, the caveat: sometimes these can be written in an intelligent and thought-provoking, critical way (ex. ivyblossom's 'your darkest voice'). that is different from gratuitous death ... for example, i once came across an h/d fic which read like a fairly typical story until draco suddenly and violently killed harry in the end. it made me want to vomit. if there had been a warning for character death, i wouldn't have read it. that's not quite the same as, say, ron dying in the war against voldemort. that could be done well and sensitively, and i would likely read it. however, i will NEVER read a suicide fic. this may be partly because my life was affected by suicide, but it's also because it's just about the cheapest plot device around. insta-angst! no work required! ick. bleh.
[edit] also, i just remembered that my original aversion to deathfic came from reading lotrips. rps death fic squicks me beyond the telling of it. would not read it. ever.]
5) What did you study at university and in retrospect, would you have chosen to do anything else instead?
i went to a liberal arts college and i majored in music, minored in religion. it took me a long time to get there, though. when i started, i thought i might major in english or french or history/native american studies. after a couple good religion classes, i declared a religion major in my sophomore year, planning to focus on historical jesus study. then i took more and more music classes and decided to declare a double major. then, when in senegal, i realized there were too many classes in too many subjects that i want to take and i would never be able to and finish both majors, and also that i wanted to be a choral conductor. So i dropped religion. i don't regret any of this. i got a very well-rounded education. i took classes in french, german, literature, history, astronomy, calculus, anthropology, music, religion, dance, wolof, geography, and art. i had time to focus on just music in grad school. i would like to have taken more languages, have started the music classes earlier so i would have had more time for electives... but any addition would mean getting rid of something i did do, and i can't imagine what that would be.
who wants to be interviewed by me? anyone?
