chatty meme

[owlmoose]

This seems like fun. Swiped from bottle_of_shine.

Ask me a question about anything -- fandom, real life, music, vegetables, the weather, etc. -- and I will answer you and then ask YOU a question and then the whole process could be repeated if anyone wants to keep it up. If this works, by the end we could know each other so well we're sick of each other and have to quit one another for a while.

Comments

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

Okay... have you ever considered having kids?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

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?

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

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?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

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?

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

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? :)

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

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?

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

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)

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

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?

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

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?

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

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?

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

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...

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

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?

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

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?