The 5 Questions Meme

[geoviki]

painless_j asked me 5 questions for that meme (sorry for answering so late, but I've been gone a lot with RL stuff). Here are my answers:



1. Will you or will you not write Snarry??? This is a really vital question, you know. 'Cos how will you keep looking the Snarry crowd you hang out with at cons in the eye if you never do? :)

No, I never will. :-( And I dearly love all my Snarry friends and want to be cool like they are, but that pairing just does nothing for me. And sadly my antipathy to it is getting worse, not better. On the bright side, there are so many excellent Snarry writers that my absence isn't missed at all. I do like writing Snape as a character, though.

2. Did you try Hornblower? (I keep dreaming that you fall for one of my fandoms. Yeah, I know, but a girl can dream, right?)

We both have Pet Shop of Horrors, though! I haven't done the Hornblower scene yet, but I admit to being interested. When I was very young, an uncle raved about it to me. And I understand that the Star Trek universe was based on it. So there's hope.

3. Are you taking part in HD Worldcup? (No, I couldn't find other time or place to ask) Are you planning to take part in any fests at all?

Now that the list is out, you can see the answer – no. I'm really looking forward to reading all the stories, though. I was really, really tempted, and now that I see the list I feel a little sad that I didn't join, because ooh! The talent! But I realized that I'm not writing very much any more, and what I am writing is nearly all for fests. Don't get me wrong, I love fests, but sometimes writing to prompts or to a given direction/time/theme is sometimes limiting for me. I have a couple of stories I'm working on and want to finish instead.

4. Do you have pet names for your family?

Ha! Yes. My 21-year-old daughter is "Weet" or "Weetie", which came from me calling her "sweetie" when she was little. Then the 's' got dropped. I used to call my son "Mutt Man" until he got way bigger than me.

5. So tell me a story from those rebellious 20s. Something really stupid or absurd that you did?

Sadly, so many of them are still so horrible and embarrassing that they make me cringe to this day. I was horribly trusting and naïve with strangers, and in all honesty it's a wonder I wasn't murdered by serial killers or offed by my own stupidity. Once, I worked in the mountains in winter on a seismic crew and almost blew myself up with dynamite. I was learning how to wire buried sticks of dynamite together and decided to take off my nylon vest – which, it being a dry day, gave off lots of static electricity that could have sent up all the dynamite around me. I also nearly triggered an avalanche when the helicopter dropped off a pile of equipment that started to slide down the steep, snowy hill, and I tried to stop it.

One story that makes people laugh: I got thrown out of Disneyland for smoking pot way back in the '70s. Well, the Disneyland parking lot. I'd never been there, so I didn't know that it's very systematic. They guide all the incoming cars to park together, and the people are picked up together by a little train. I lingered behind. However, there's also an employee who looks for strays. He sternly tapped on my window, and when I rolled it down, I was busted and made to leave.

Comments

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

*sends subliminal Hornblower vibes your way*

[painless-j.livejournal.com]

Oh well, we have to live without your Snarry. But speaking of other fandoms, active participation! That's the way to go!

You did have a wild youth! :))

[jonem.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*

Disneyland!?!

...have you used yourself as an example of what not to do for your children? *grins*

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Well, you make number three of the people I know who got busted at Disneyland for drugs. I found out, given my friends' experience, that they have a number of plainclothes officers acting like tourists, whose sole purpose is to catch people doing illegal things. There is an actual JAIL for miscreant caught in the park doing the naughty things, and my one friend was busted by someone in a Mickey Mouse outfit. He said it scarred him for life!

[frayach-nicuill.livejournal.com]

Once, I worked in the mountains in winter on a seismic crew and almost blew myself up with dynamite.

Favorite sentence discovered in one of my friend's memes . . . ever.

[treewishes.livejournal.com]

5. made me giggle. I hope it was before you paid for the day...

[lagreyeyes.livejournal.com]

Ah, working with dynamite - now there's a lucrative career choice! *explodes with laughter...uh, sorry*

At my high school, Grad Night was held at Disneyland every year. It was an all-nighter, closed to the general public, and tradition decreed that acid or mushrooms were to be taken by all those so inclined. I won't even go into what that was like! Suffice it to say, the Disneyland experience was significantly enhanced, especially with "Haunted Mansion", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" (oh my god) and "Small World" (which brings one to near psychosis even under the most mundane of circumstances).

You stoner, you.