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Five Questions meme
Another round of five questions meme! If you would like questions, say "Questions, please!"
Questions fromlucymonster.
1) For the next six months, your reading is restricted to a single genre of your choice. What do you pick?
Oh, this is cruel. Do “children’s books” count as a genre, or do I need to be more specific? It would probably be children’s fantasy or children’s historical fiction, and you would have to rip the ones that blur the lines between the two out of my cold dead hands.
2) What’s a once-embarrassing childhood memory that you’ve come to look back on more fondly?
Oh, gosh, so there was one time in high school that I vigorously accused my friends of STEALING my PEPPERMINT PATTY at lunch, only to realize to my horror that said peppermint patty was in my hand the whole time. At the time I had NO idea how to walk this back and simply sat there clutching my peppermint patty praying that no one would ask me to open my hands or I would have no choice but to die on the spot (thankfully no one thought to ask), but looking back, this is hilarious.
I can’t remember the ultimate fate of the peppermint patty. I assume that I clutched it in secret until I was alone, then gobbled the evidence.
3) Best dessert you’ve ever eaten?
No, I take it back. THIS is cruel. How can I pick just one dessert out of the galaxy of delicious desserts in my life?
One of the most memorable desserts of my life occurred when my parents and I visited Sydney when I was seventeen. We walked down to Cabbage Tree Point, where we ate at a restaurant called Le Kiosk, and for dessert I had what must have been a flourless chocolate cake - I believe my first ever flourless chocolate cake - with a luscious fruit compote. I loved it so much that I immortalized it in my scrapbook as “THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!”
4) What’s the first movie you can remember seeing in a cinema?
The first movie I know for sure that I saw in a cinema was The Lion King, and I was deeply scarred when Simba’s daddy died. He died. HE DIED!
I also felt that the sudden appearance of Timon and Pumba and all the fart jokes lowered the tone of the movie, although I didn’t find them quite as annoying as Mushu in Mulan a few years later. You’re going to make a perfectly good movie about a cross-dressing soldier and ruin it with a TINY IRRITATING DRAGON?
5) How often do you write by hand, and are you proud of your penmanship?
I actually write by hand pretty often, as one of my hobbies is penpalling. The best that can be said of my penmanship is that it’s mostly legible, but to be honest I think most people these days are so pleased to get a handwritten note that they don’t mind if it’s a bit messy.
Questions from
lucymonster.1) For the next six months, your reading is restricted to a single genre of your choice. What do you pick?
Oh, this is cruel. Do “children’s books” count as a genre, or do I need to be more specific? It would probably be children’s fantasy or children’s historical fiction, and you would have to rip the ones that blur the lines between the two out of my cold dead hands.
2) What’s a once-embarrassing childhood memory that you’ve come to look back on more fondly?
Oh, gosh, so there was one time in high school that I vigorously accused my friends of STEALING my PEPPERMINT PATTY at lunch, only to realize to my horror that said peppermint patty was in my hand the whole time. At the time I had NO idea how to walk this back and simply sat there clutching my peppermint patty praying that no one would ask me to open my hands or I would have no choice but to die on the spot (thankfully no one thought to ask), but looking back, this is hilarious.
I can’t remember the ultimate fate of the peppermint patty. I assume that I clutched it in secret until I was alone, then gobbled the evidence.
3) Best dessert you’ve ever eaten?
No, I take it back. THIS is cruel. How can I pick just one dessert out of the galaxy of delicious desserts in my life?
One of the most memorable desserts of my life occurred when my parents and I visited Sydney when I was seventeen. We walked down to Cabbage Tree Point, where we ate at a restaurant called Le Kiosk, and for dessert I had what must have been a flourless chocolate cake - I believe my first ever flourless chocolate cake - with a luscious fruit compote. I loved it so much that I immortalized it in my scrapbook as “THE LOVE OF MY LIFE!”
4) What’s the first movie you can remember seeing in a cinema?
The first movie I know for sure that I saw in a cinema was The Lion King, and I was deeply scarred when Simba’s daddy died. He died. HE DIED!
I also felt that the sudden appearance of Timon and Pumba and all the fart jokes lowered the tone of the movie, although I didn’t find them quite as annoying as Mushu in Mulan a few years later. You’re going to make a perfectly good movie about a cross-dressing soldier and ruin it with a TINY IRRITATING DRAGON?
5) How often do you write by hand, and are you proud of your penmanship?
I actually write by hand pretty often, as one of my hobbies is penpalling. The best that can be said of my penmanship is that it’s mostly legible, but to be honest I think most people these days are so pleased to get a handwritten note that they don’t mind if it’s a bit messy.
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I don't need any questions, but I really liked reading your answers (how's that for free ridership!)
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(1) "Revenge is a dish that's best served cold" --Okay, but what dessert should go with it? Yes, yes, probably poison (maybe poison?) but in what?
(2) "Earl Grey--hot." --You are planning a midsummer's tea party. What tea(s) will you serve?
(3) You have discovered a secret library. Where is it?
(4) Describe a building of your acquaintance that seems begging to be haunted.
(5) Name a character from a book you read as a kid that kid you would really loved to have been friends with. What sorts of things would you and that character have done together?
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Aw, Simba's daddy. It's so sad!
I always liked Timon and Pumba but it's true that they, Mushu, and the gargoyles in Hunchback are part of a general insistence on the comedy sidekicks in Disney Renaissance films that can really mess with the tone.
Hmm. Questions, please!
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I also felt that Frozen would have been a stronger movie without Olaf, or at least with LESS Olaf.
1. Favorite musical?
2. First fandom?
3. Winter, spring, summer, fall?
4. Favorite recent read?
5. Dream travel destination?