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jazzfishAsk me and I'll give you five questions to answer in your own journal. You know the drill.
1. Are you glad you've gone back to school?
Lord, yes. Finishing something I started ten years ago. Making myself theoretically employable. Meeting interesting people (professors mostly, but a couple of classmates have been not wastes of flesh). Despite the hell of design lab I am eminently glad to have gone back to school.
2. Have you ever done anything in life that you've truly regretted?
Hm. I used to regret not taking AP CompSci in high school; if I'd done that, a lot of career-related things would've turned out a lot differently. It's not something that bothers me now, though.
There's nothing specific that I really regret: I tend to float through life, and regrets would tie me down to something. I'll beat myself up over bad decisions for ages but that's not quite the same thing.
3. What is your fondest memory from Blacksburg?
Doing laundry late at night and arguing about the existence of objective reality. There really isn't anything that can compare to it.
4. Is there anyone who has wandered out of your life that you wish would wander back in?
A couple of friends from very very long ago. The chances of this happening are roughly one in six billion, so it doesn't keep me up at night.
There are several people I'd like to keep in closer contact with, but oh well.
5. Can you recommend a few good authors for me to check out - my reading has lately consisted of rereading?
Gene Wolfe if you're wanting to have to put some thought into it. I'd start with Book of the Long Sun (sci-fi) or maybe The Wizard Knight (fantasy). Patricia Wrede is good lighter stuff, especially the Enchanted Forest Chronicles (Dealing with Dragons, etc) and Sorcery and Cecilia. Emma Bull and John M. Ford are both good but most of their books are OoP. Neil Gaiman, of course, and Tim Powers. And read Agyar by Steven Brust if you haven't yet.
1. Are you glad you've gone back to school?
Lord, yes. Finishing something I started ten years ago. Making myself theoretically employable. Meeting interesting people (professors mostly, but a couple of classmates have been not wastes of flesh). Despite the hell of design lab I am eminently glad to have gone back to school.
2. Have you ever done anything in life that you've truly regretted?
Hm. I used to regret not taking AP CompSci in high school; if I'd done that, a lot of career-related things would've turned out a lot differently. It's not something that bothers me now, though.
There's nothing specific that I really regret: I tend to float through life, and regrets would tie me down to something. I'll beat myself up over bad decisions for ages but that's not quite the same thing.
3. What is your fondest memory from Blacksburg?
Doing laundry late at night and arguing about the existence of objective reality. There really isn't anything that can compare to it.
4. Is there anyone who has wandered out of your life that you wish would wander back in?
A couple of friends from very very long ago. The chances of this happening are roughly one in six billion, so it doesn't keep me up at night.
There are several people I'd like to keep in closer contact with, but oh well.
5. Can you recommend a few good authors for me to check out - my reading has lately consisted of rereading?
Gene Wolfe if you're wanting to have to put some thought into it. I'd start with Book of the Long Sun (sci-fi) or maybe The Wizard Knight (fantasy). Patricia Wrede is good lighter stuff, especially the Enchanted Forest Chronicles (Dealing with Dragons, etc) and Sorcery and Cecilia. Emma Bull and John M. Ford are both good but most of their books are OoP. Neil Gaiman, of course, and Tim Powers. And read Agyar by Steven Brust if you haven't yet.
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Date: 2004-12-23 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-24 05:55 pm (UTC)(AFAIK, his non-Trek books in print are limited to the urban fantasy _The Last Hot Time_ and a story collection. V.sad.)