this looks fun.

[phineasjones]

gacked from cimorene111

1. Go to my user info page.
2. Pick one person on my friends list that you're curious about.
3. Add a comment to this entry with the username you've selected.
4. I will tell you what I know about them...
5. Post this meme in your journal.

Comments

[minervacat.livejournal.com]

jjtaylor, pls. :)

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

oh, i'm so glad you asked.

jjatylor appeared on my radar when she friended me and i checked out her journal and found a shared love of sirius/remus. and so friended her back and omg, that was the best plan ever.

i adore jj. she puts amazing amounts of thought and consideration into both her fic and her posts. one of my (and many other people's) favorite things that she writes are conversations between herself and various hp characters. this sounds sort of silly but really they are always profound in some way. she rides the bus with snape, meets lupin at a bus stop, walks around a lake with mcgonagall. once as i recall, she encounters lily in a library. these work because of the quiet thoughtfulness of her tone and i find myself completely believing in the premise. it really feels like the characters are talking to her.

i went to see if she had these stored in her memories and i'm astonished to see that there are only 3 there. i'm going to have to get on her case about archiving. :) but here (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=jjtaylor&keyword=Bus+ride&filter=all) are those three. 'say his name' is one of the best known and loved. and i have more saved if you want linkage.

fortunately, she's kept better track of her actual fic (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=jjtaylor&keyword=Fic&filter=all). she's written mostly hp, x-men, and matrix. i've beta-ed most of it and i find, amazingly, she even sucks me into the matrix stories - when i have no particular love for the canon.

jj and i went to the same college, thought not at the same time. and now she lives in the city where i lived until last year. we met once, and barely started to talk about all the things we could have in the short few hours. she doesn't tend to write about her personal life in her lj, i think because she wants to preserve it as an outlet for her fannish thought. which is certainly fulfulling to read.

so, have i said enough? you happened to choose a person about whom i am extremely enthusiastic.

[jjtaylor.livejournal.com]

OMG, I missed this when you first posted it, but, wow, you've made me all teary, and simultaneously all warm and happy. You're so sweet.

About the archiving: Um....oops? No, really, I did all of that archiving in one day, just by hitting the 'back 20 entries' button, because I was having a hard time finding my own old entries. But some of the bus stories were waaaaaayyy back there in the calendar and I ran out of steam before I could enter them into memories. Hopefully I'll get to it sometime soon.

we met once, and barely started to talk about all the things we could have in the short few hours

Oh, I wish we lived close enough so we could have regular coffee get-togethers or something, because I feel like there are a zillion things I would love to talk to you about in person. OMG, so many things.

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

oh, when you decide to archive, i can help. i found links when trolling old entries for recs. so i've collected a bunch in a word doc.

i think we should try to have coffee or something once before the summer is through, don't you? if i ever finish this fricking temp job, i can hitch a ride to boston when rach goes for her internship and we can make a plan. how does that sound?

[jjtaylor.livejournal.com]

think we should try to have coffee or something once before the summer is through, don't you?

I think that would be wonderful. I can try and get the morning and afternoon off from work so that I don't make you sit in my boring, grey office for any length of time. Let me know when The Evil Office sets you free. Oh, I am so looking forward to this.