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jazzfishShape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, posting without content
--T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Bloggers"
1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, your favorite kind of sandwich, or maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
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fishy1:
1) when did you discover polyamory?
As a concept? I don't even remember. Probably sometime after I started college, almost certainly by the end of my second year at Tech.
As applicable to me? Late in the evening of November 25, 2005. I'd been kicking the idea around for about three months before my Moment of Clarity.
2) which traditional family holiday do you dislike the most?
Christmas for sheer volume of bad memories. Thanksgiving is a close second, since it has the poor taste to interfere with my birthday on occasion.
3) which is least attractive to you on other people; dyed hair, piercings (other than ear) or tattoos?
Hm. Dyed hair doesn't really bother me, and neither do tasteful piercings or tattoos. But it's a lot easier to have too much metal than too much ink. I guess that means "piercings."
4) have you considered body modification of any kind for yourself?
Every so often I think about getting a Jazz Fish tattoo.
5) if you were to go stark, raving, irrevocably mad, which form of insanity would you prefer?
Blergh. The kind where I have no clue as to my actual surroundings. I spent about half an hour in a military psych ward as a teenager, and that cured me of any desire to experience madness.
Paralysed force, posting without content
--T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Bloggers"
1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, your favorite kind of sandwich, or maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
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fishy1:1) when did you discover polyamory?
As a concept? I don't even remember. Probably sometime after I started college, almost certainly by the end of my second year at Tech.
As applicable to me? Late in the evening of November 25, 2005. I'd been kicking the idea around for about three months before my Moment of Clarity.
2) which traditional family holiday do you dislike the most?
Christmas for sheer volume of bad memories. Thanksgiving is a close second, since it has the poor taste to interfere with my birthday on occasion.
3) which is least attractive to you on other people; dyed hair, piercings (other than ear) or tattoos?
Hm. Dyed hair doesn't really bother me, and neither do tasteful piercings or tattoos. But it's a lot easier to have too much metal than too much ink. I guess that means "piercings."
4) have you considered body modification of any kind for yourself?
Every so often I think about getting a Jazz Fish tattoo.
5) if you were to go stark, raving, irrevocably mad, which form of insanity would you prefer?
Blergh. The kind where I have no clue as to my actual surroundings. I spent about half an hour in a military psych ward as a teenager, and that cured me of any desire to experience madness.
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Date: 2007-08-13 07:58 pm (UTC)ZELLLDAAAAA!
Date: 2007-08-14 03:09 am (UTC)2) When did you decide you were a writer?
3) How much longer are you staying in B'burg?
4) How much of a role does magick play in your life?
5) Favorite die type?
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Date: 2007-08-13 08:51 pm (UTC)on occasion
Date: 2007-08-14 03:25 am (UTC)2) Do you like living here more than B'burg?
3) What's a book that's influenced your outlook on life?
4) Do you think of yourself as more introvert or extravert?
5) What do you want to be doing?
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Date: 2007-08-13 09:11 pm (UTC)-Don John, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare
and i am /very/ sorry to have missed your shows, too.
Date: 2007-08-14 02:27 pm (UTC)2) What happens when we die?
3) What's the best book you've read lately?
4) Do you miss high school?
5) What would you rather be doing?
Re: and i am /very/ sorry to have missed your shows, too.
Date: 2007-08-21 05:29 pm (UTC)I love our house. I love being so close to work. And I hate the fact that east of the river is so APPALLINGLY underserved. Do you know there is only ONE sit-down restaurant in all of Ward 7 (my Ward) and it's a Denny's? Many major retailers don't have stores east of the river and some top it off by not even offering sites within the beltway in P.G. County. It's really sad and frustrating.
2) What happens when we die?
Our family and friends mourn and eventually, hopefully, celebrate our lives and the good we brought into the world, in our own little ways.
I'm reading a series right now that involves a very complicated afterlife of different ghost realms and angels and I would love for it to be true. I would love for our spirits to achieve peace while offering remenants of support to ease the pain for those still here. I can always hope, I guess.
3) What's the best book you've read lately?
I really enjoy Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld Series - last one I read was HAUNTED. Good stuff.
4) Do you miss high school?
Yes. It used to be a definite longing, but now it's more a general feeling. The Rudes really fill a niche that hasn't been filled since Troupe in high school.
5) What would you rather be doing?
Right now, I'd rather being floating down the Shenandoah River on an inner tube. and if that weather is prohibitive, I would love to be snuggled up in front of a warm fire, reading a good book or working on writing my own. But instead I must go run a meeting!
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Date: 2007-08-13 09:59 pm (UTC)a necessary but not sufficient condition
Date: 2007-08-14 02:59 pm (UTC)2) Is parenting everything you expected?
3) How about homeownership?
4) How much do you see your extended family?
5) What's fun?
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Date: 2007-08-13 10:10 pm (UTC)- Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess, pg 159.
no subject
Date: 2007-08-14 04:13 am (UTC)"Have been unavoidably detained by the world . . ."
Date: 2007-08-14 05:27 pm (UTC)1) Why did teaching stop being exciting?
2) What makes you grumpy?
3) Best game of the last five years?
4) What do you do on Tuesday nights?
5) What's your church like?
no subject
Date: 2007-08-13 10:18 pm (UTC)i _still_ haven't seen that yet.
Date: 2007-08-14 06:25 pm (UTC)2) What's the most important thing you've done in the last year or so?
3) What made you realise you were poly?
4) What language would you like to learn?
5) What was your favorite book as a child?
no subject
Date: 2007-08-13 10:46 pm (UTC)Down from the heavens/descended Chuck Norris
"spock, the rock, doc ock, and hulk hogan"
Date: 2007-08-14 07:59 pm (UTC)2) What's the most important thing you don't believe in?
3) Which two hours of your life do you most want back?
4) What piece of advice would everyone be better off if they'd just follow?
5) How's the dvorak working out for you?
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Date: 2007-08-14 12:24 am (UTC)For somebody famous to kidnap and love
I'll beat off the army with a tennis racket
... That's my whole plan (But I keep it upstairs)
Keep it upstairs for the grand finale
I keep it upstairs
Gonna be a blank slate
Gonna wear a white cape
(But I keep it upstairs)
~Blank Slate, The National, Boxer
huh. will have to look that up.
Date: 2007-08-16 12:18 am (UTC)2) What artist (in any medium) has really opened you to a new way of seeing things?
3) Written anything lately?
4) How's life in your own house?
5) What are you scared of?
no subject
Date: 2007-08-14 12:32 am (UTC)... but someday I'll steal your car and switch the gears,
and drive that Cherokee straight off this trail of tears
-The Dresden Dolls, The Jeep Song
i should listen to more of their stuff.
Date: 2007-08-16 01:49 am (UTC)2) What's your favorite article of clothing?
3) Who, other than your family, have you known the longest and still manage to keep in touch with?
4) What do you do on Wednesday nights?
5) How important is your religion to you?
Re: i should listen to more of their stuff.
Date: 2007-08-17 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-14 02:34 am (UTC)Ontology recapitulates philology.
Date: 2007-08-16 04:47 pm (UTC)2) If you hadn't majored in CS, what would you have majored in?
3) Why furs?
4) Where do you want to be this time next year?
5) What's your first memory?
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Date: 2007-08-14 02:36 am (UTC)"and what do fish remind you of?" "other fish."
Date: 2007-08-16 07:59 pm (UTC)2) Are you happy?
3) How's things with your parents?
4) What book should I have already read, and should fix this dreadful omission at the earliest opportunity?
5) What show are you proudest of having worked on?
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Date: 2007-08-14 04:29 am (UTC)(Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)
"what a great friend i have in the eagle!"
Date: 2007-08-17 01:07 pm (UTC)2) How have you changed in the past five years?
3) What's the worst book you've read lately?
4) Are you religious at all?
5) When did you become a feminist?
no subject
Date: 2007-08-14 01:22 pm (UTC)This sentence has a point... does that mean it doesn't meet the above criteria?
i'm so popular, i think this comment is about me.
Date: 2007-08-17 03:02 pm (UTC)2) What do you not miss about Blacksburg?
3) What's your favorite song?
4) What makes you happy?
5) Who do you want to spend more time with?
no subject
Date: 2007-08-14 02:10 pm (UTC). . . sorry, i got nothing.
Date: 2007-08-17 07:15 pm (UTC)2) Do you have any nicknames?
3) City, 'burbs, or country?
4) If you weren't an architect, what would you be doing?
5) Do you do any gaming these days?
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Date: 2007-08-14 03:59 pm (UTC)standing in the back, looking around?
Are you gonna waste your time thinking,
how you've grown up, or how you missed out?
Things are never gonna be the way you want
words are gonna get you acting silly
Things are never gonna be quite what you want
even at 25 you gotta start sometime
probably.
Date: 2007-08-20 12:17 am (UTC)2) What was your most recent nightmare?
3) Why Victoriana?
4) What are your thoughts on kids? (your own, someone else's, in general, whatever)
5) What's the most important thing you've learned in the past year?
no subject
Date: 2007-08-14 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-20 01:11 am (UTC)2) How many different places have you lived?
3) When did you go Mac?
4) Do you worry about money?
5) What's the weirdest thing you've done?
no subject
Date: 2007-08-14 11:28 pm (UTC)dare you find it's heart?
eh, probably not this time. nental spelunking works better in person.
Date: 2007-08-20 07:18 pm (UTC)2) What's your religious/spiritual identity like?
3) What got you into manga/anime?
4) Where do you really want to live?
5) Who's been the biggest influence in how you look at life?
no subject
Date: 2007-08-15 03:27 pm (UTC)"but i don't even have a little dog toto!"
Date: 2007-08-21 01:02 pm (UTC)2) What keeps you up at night?
3) What work of art (music, writing, whatever) has really moved you?
4) What's your favorite season?
5) You still up for sushi and kvetching similar some weeknight?
stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust
Date: 2007-08-16 03:59 am (UTC)put my life in a box and let my imagination run wild
pour the cement for my feet
the heart and the mind on a parallel course
never the two shall meet...
no one can convince me we aren't gluttons for our doom
Date: 2007-08-22 02:34 pm (UTC)2) What's your favorite breakfast?
3) Where that you've been would you like to go back to?
4) What used to scare you, but doesn't anymore?
5) If you got a do-over on the last five years, would you take it?
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Date: 2007-08-17 04:46 am (UTC)o my fair northwestern starmouse
Date: 2007-08-24 07:28 pm (UTC)2) What's your second-favorite (after Changeling) role-playing game?
3) Would you rather write or draw for a living?
4) What's your best physical feature?
5) If you'd heard six years ago what your life would be like now, how much of it would you have believed?