Five Questions Meme
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osprey_archerIt’s been ages since I’ve done a meme, but this five questions meme was going around and I couldn’t resist. If you’d like questions, comment “Questions, please!”
Questions fromtroisoiseaux
1. Who was your childhood hero?
Emily Dickinson. The thing where she was a recluse who never spoke to anyone but sometimes drifted through the fields and woods and went home to weave her gossamer webs of poetry really spoke to me. I understand that in recent years there has been some pushback against Emily Dickinson, The Recluse, but as a child I was blissfully unaware of this and frankly would have lost a lot of interest in her if anyone had managed to convince me that she wasn’t actually as reclusive as all that. You want my heroine to be some NORMIE with a SOCIAL LIFE? Get out. Emily and I will sit here blissing out on being nobodies and you can go be a somebody, public as a frog, somewhere else.
2. If you could spend one day with a fictional character (in their world), who would it be?
Oh, this is hard, but upon given the matter serious thought, I think I would visit Greensky (of Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Greensky trilogy), because the characters live in a tree city on a planet with such light gravity that they can glide just by stretching out their arms so their shubas (big cloaks that are bound at the wrist) act like wings. I would fly!
And also preferably I would be about eight so that I could spend the day hanging out with Teera and Pomma as their new best friend and we could all play telepathy games together.
3. What's your favorite type of weather?
A crisp, sunny autumn day, with just enough of a breeze to send the leaves skittering along the paths.
4. You can teleport anywhere, but only twice (there & back)! Where do you go?
Oh, this is hard! I think I’d pick Japan, though, because I’ve never been there and the plane ride is sooooo long. I would spend a month or so journeying about Japan, hitting Tokyo and Kyoto of course but also some of the smaller and less famous places (have not yet done a lot of research on where exactly), and then teleport home.
5. What's your favorite holiday and/or specific holiday tradition?
This is so basic, but I love decorating the Christmas tree. Once the tree is up and the lights are on (the hard bits), I get a hot chocolate and turn on the Christmas carols and unpack the ornaments, and it’s so nice to see them again after they’ve been packed away for a year, and reminisce about, oh, I got this one in Chicago when I was visiting Rachel, and this one is from the Irvington Holiday Bazaar, and these little guys came from the Bloomington Nutcracker and I named this ballerina Nina because I watched Black Swan that year…
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troisoiseaux1. Who was your childhood hero?
Emily Dickinson. The thing where she was a recluse who never spoke to anyone but sometimes drifted through the fields and woods and went home to weave her gossamer webs of poetry really spoke to me. I understand that in recent years there has been some pushback against Emily Dickinson, The Recluse, but as a child I was blissfully unaware of this and frankly would have lost a lot of interest in her if anyone had managed to convince me that she wasn’t actually as reclusive as all that. You want my heroine to be some NORMIE with a SOCIAL LIFE? Get out. Emily and I will sit here blissing out on being nobodies and you can go be a somebody, public as a frog, somewhere else.
2. If you could spend one day with a fictional character (in their world), who would it be?
Oh, this is hard, but upon given the matter serious thought, I think I would visit Greensky (of Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Greensky trilogy), because the characters live in a tree city on a planet with such light gravity that they can glide just by stretching out their arms so their shubas (big cloaks that are bound at the wrist) act like wings. I would fly!
And also preferably I would be about eight so that I could spend the day hanging out with Teera and Pomma as their new best friend and we could all play telepathy games together.
3. What's your favorite type of weather?
A crisp, sunny autumn day, with just enough of a breeze to send the leaves skittering along the paths.
4. You can teleport anywhere, but only twice (there & back)! Where do you go?
Oh, this is hard! I think I’d pick Japan, though, because I’ve never been there and the plane ride is sooooo long. I would spend a month or so journeying about Japan, hitting Tokyo and Kyoto of course but also some of the smaller and less famous places (have not yet done a lot of research on where exactly), and then teleport home.
5. What's your favorite holiday and/or specific holiday tradition?
This is so basic, but I love decorating the Christmas tree. Once the tree is up and the lights are on (the hard bits), I get a hot chocolate and turn on the Christmas carols and unpack the ornaments, and it’s so nice to see them again after they’ve been packed away for a year, and reminisce about, oh, I got this one in Chicago when I was visiting Rachel, and this one is from the Irvington Holiday Bazaar, and these little guys came from the Bloomington Nutcracker and I named this ballerina Nina because I watched Black Swan that year…
