owlmoose | chatty meme

Okay... have you ever considered having kids?

Wow, a biggie right out of the gate! :) Yes, I have considered it, and had to think about it very seriously at a couple of points in my life. In the end, I came to the same conclusion every time: "no". At first it was more of a "not right now", but as I've gotten older the decision has become pretty final. I have nothing against kids; there are some kids in my life whom I enjoy very much. But I think I'm much happier as an aunt (both biological and honorary) than I would be as a mother.

Do you like living in Australia?

As far as the country itself goes, yes. The people are friendlier and there's so many more social services and things over here. But there alot more people I miss in the US...

What is the actual degree you have, from whetever univeristy it was you went to?

I have two degrees, a bachelors and a masters. I got my BA (actually, an AB -- Arts Bacceloreate; my school is all pretentious and gives its degrees in Latin) at Bryn Mawr, a liberal arts women's college in the Philadephia area, and majored in Urban Studies. (I thought I wanted to be an architect, and that was the closest they had to a pre-architecture program. I took a year of studio and realized I was wrong. Still a fascinating program, though.) I got my Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS, the degree you need to be a librarian) at San Jose State University here in CA.

So I know this is a stupid bad grown-up question, but I am genuinely curious. What do you want to do once you're done with college?

Move back to the USA (probably New York, because I have alot of relatives there and with the exception of my Aunt in CA it's not too far from anybody), get a teaching job at a High School (I'm fairly set on being a teacher, but this is assuming my Australian degree holds up and I don't have to do any extra courses or anything), get a nice little apartment and a nice little car (assuming I can drive competently by then), get married and start a family, in that order. Maybe that sounds overwhelming, and I'm obviously not sure that's how it'll turn out, but that's generally what I'd like to happen...

How old were you when you met T, and how did you meet him? :)

I have always wanted to live in New York (assuming you mean NYC) for a little while. I think it would be an amazing experience. I don't know that it'll ever happen, but I still dream about it sometimes.

I met T when I was 25. Believe it or not, we met online. This was back in 1998, when it was a lot rarer, and I felt a little weird about it at first, but everyone was cool about it and so I relaxed fairly quickly. Now I know tons of people who met their partners that way.

What food do you absolutely refuse to eat?

I don't strictly mean NYC, actually. I'd probably settle in Poughkeepsie, which is about an hour's drive north of the city (that's where my grandparents, 2 of my great-grandmothers, and my great grandmother's sister Annette live). And you know what? My mom and stepdad met online in 1993 (I think, it might have been 1994), when it was even more rare ;)

I won't eat tuna, or tomatoes (I love ketchup, but I mean the real tomatoes that you put on salads and burgers). Here's an interesting question, for you... what time of day were you born? (I know mine, but I don't really know how many other people know theirs)

I, too, am not a fan of tomatoes but like ketchup. I've gotten more willing to eat them as I've gotten older, though, cooked anyway. And I've always loved tomato sauce. Still won't eat them raw, though.

I was born in the afternoon. 2:30 PM, I think.

Why FFX-2? As in, why is that the fandom you have chosen to write about primarily?

I guess it's because I got into fanfiction not long before I played FFX-2 for the very first time. That and the fact that FFX/X-2 are my favorite playstation games of all time. Spira also has so many more characters in it than the FF8 world, so I've found it easier to write about (I never quite bonded with the main characters in FF8 the way I did with the ones in X/X-2, either). I've never really gotten the inspiration for a Harry Potter fic, either.

PS: I was born at 8:18 in the morning :)

What was your first job, and how old were you?

I totally agree with you regarding all of Spira's characters. It's such a rich world, too, with its long history and complex cultures. There's so very much to write about. I think it might keep me busy for a long time!

Not counting regular babysitting gigs (among other things, I used to do the childcare for my parents' church choir practice in exchange for voice lessons from the director), my first job was at a movie theater. I started behind the snack bar but moved fairly quickly to working in the ticket booth most of the time. I was 17 (started the summer before my senior year of HS), and I worked there through the end of the next summer, when I went to college. Not a great job, not a terrible one. The free movie passes were a great perk.

Have you ever had a pet?

We had a dog from about 3 years before my older brother was born until I was about 5 years old, and we've got a dog now, but I've never personally had a pet. My older brother does though: they took in a stray kitten into my dad's house in the winter of 2004 and it has since then become specifically his cat, so when he moves out he'll take the cat with him.

did you ever get a detention in school? I've only ever gotten one, for talking too much in 7th grade one day...

I might have gotten a couple of late homework dententions in junior high. Usually, though, the only thing that ever landed me there was cutting class. Not that I did that often, maybe two or three times a year on average. More my senior year; senioritis hit me pretty hard, especially once I knew I'd gotten in to college.

Who's your favorite author?

JK Rowling, hands-down. I love Matthew Reilly, and I love Diana Gabaldon, but Harry Potter has been my favorite for years :)

Where were you/what were you doing on September 11th, and how did you first hear about it?

What is your favorite animal?

Depends on for what. To live with: Cats. To watch at the zoo: Otters, or possibly bears. To eat: Cows. To speak of randomly with my friends: Alces alces himself.

Which is better: chocolate or lemon?

So, I'm picky about both chocolate and lemon. But I think it's far easier to get the right kind of chocolate. And bad chocolate is far better than bad lemon. I actually passed on some lemon girl scout cookies in the group office earlier because I knew they'd have that fakey lemon taste. So I guess the answer is chocolate.

If there was someplace you could go for a day but then never go again, where would you go?

The Grand Canyon. I've never been there, so I really would like to see it in person, but since I'm not much of a camper or a hiker I doubt I would want to stay there for longer than a day, and getting one look at it is all I need.

What crafting project are you the most proud of?

Just a quick post to say that you have stumped me with this question. I'm still thinking about it.

How are you not an existentialist?

I was thinking of absurdism rather than extensialism before -- I was referring to the philosophy that there is no point in looking for a meaning of life because life has no meaning, and that's absurdism. So actually I don't know that I would say that I'm not an existentialist -- I would need to do more reading on the topic.

Paper or plastic? Why?

Both - I usually get paper, because it's more ecofriendly. I use plastic bags for kitty litter, and for lining my trash cans, so if I need more of those, I'll ask for plastic.

What's your favorite musical instrument?

Does the human voice count? If not, then the piano -- I love its versatility, that it is equally lovely by itself and as accompaniment, and much of the music that is written for it.

What's the worst book you ever read?

Ever had a close brush with death (your own)?

I think the closest I've ever come was on a drive from Philadelphia to New York. I was in a car with some friends and we were driving down a narrow street in Queens when a semi-truck suddenly turned a corner and appeared right in front of us. We all had to slam on the brakes and for a second I was convinced that either the car or the truck wasn't going to stop in time. This was a small, light-weight car, so if we had collided head-on we would have likely been creamed. Probably the single scariest moment of my life.

Do you like dogs? Or are you strictly a cat person?

That'd scare the shit out of me.

I don't dislike dogs. I nothing them. They're too dependent on their owners for me to truely lke them. Cats are more indipendent and i admire that.

Who was your first love?

My high school boyfriend. We met through a mutual friend and were involved for just over a year, although several months of that was long distance, during my first semester of college. It wasn't a particularly deep or abiding sort of love, but I think it was meaningful. At least it seemed so at the time.

Is there any game that you can play over and over?

Like, every game i've ever owned! I think i might have some sort of OCD, because whenever i get a new game i play it over and over and over and over... like FFX, FFX-2, all my PC games, especially Doom 3 and Unreal Tournament 2004.

What was your first computer game?

The first computer game that I ever played obsessively was probably Arkanoid II, the PC version of the arcade game. I was addicted to that one summer back in high school. But the game that really got me into video games and forced me to finally identify as a "gamer" was my first Playstation game: FFX. T is a gamer from way back, and I had watched him play parts of FF8 and all of FF9 (like watching a very long movie), but with FFX he put the controller in my hands one day and I was hopelessly hooked. To this day, FFX is still my favorite game; I've played it completely through at least three times and parts of it much more than that.

What's your favorite place to travel?

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