yakalskovich | Alphabetical questionnaire

Here you can find trivia and stats about me in the Real World; I ganked this cute little questionnaire from

wiebke because I instinctively found myself answering it while reading hers.

A - Age: 37
B - Band listening to right now: Alice Coltrane
C - Career in future: Same as now, plus more work as author (here, my answer is exactly the same as wiebke 's; I just left it in)
D - Dad's name: Eike
E - Easiest person to talk to: The Nazgul
F - Favorite song at the moment: "Molyarkitsa", a Russian Gypsy song performed by the group Loyko
G - Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms: Bears, please. Unless I can have Liquorice Snails?
H - Hometown: Gevelsberg
I - Instruments: recorder (painfully)
J - Job title: Network Administrator
K - Kids: None
L - Longest car ride ever: Munich to Lübeck (over 1000 kilometres in one go)
M - Mom's name: Irmela
N - Number of siblings: 1 sister
O - Oldest sibling: me
P - Phobia[s]: Heights, mummies (The second one is an ex-phobia that I got rid of by myself when I was about 17. It mostly survived as a sort of sick fascination and resurfaced only once during my adult life, and then very briefly. Making me look down from a high tower, as Sphinx, Markus and Phia once did in Frankfurt, is slightly probelmatic, though, to put it mildly.)
Q - Quote you like: The truth may be out there, but madness is certainly within your mind. (Terry Pratchett)
R - Reason to smile: The way the Metropolitan's dog, Q, kept nudging me to go on massaging his foot when I was down there just now.
S - Song you sang last: The Dwarves' washing-up song from Tolkien's "The Hobbit"
T - Time you wake up: 7:20 when I'm working, noon when not
U - Unknown fact about me: Despite being very pudgy and hating sports, I love cycling and bikes. I once went on a bike tour through Ireland with my sister, Sphinx, and generally think the common push-bike is very much underestimated thoughout the meme pool as a valid means of getting from A to B. (Motorising China?!? Are they daft!?!) I detest Sunday cyclists, though, that think they need to kit themselves out like Lance effin' Armstrong before they take to haunting the country lanes. They're usually male, around fourty-five, and terminally silly in their tight little magenta or canary yellow cycling oufits...
V - Vegetable you hate: Celeriac
W - Worst habit: Picking my nose (ahm; that one I took dorectly from wiebke as well...)
X - X-rays you've had: stomach, teeth
Y - Yummy food: mixed vegetables from the freezer that contain peas and corn
Z - Zodiac sign: Capricorn

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Ooh, everybody is doing this meme!

Question: What is Celeriac?

Also known as celery? A really smelly vegetable people eat as salad? Is considered very healthy for some reason? The only valid excuse for eating celery is that wonderful goo my American cousin-in-law Peggy makes to dip fresh raw veggies into...

When I was small, and my parents had "Selleriesalat", I refused to eat in the dining room and ate alone in the kitchen because I hated the mere smell of the stuff so much.-

Celery smells?

*baffled*

It smells horribly, especially in that sort of salad my parents used to eat...

shakes with revulsion

*raises tentative hand*

I think celery and celeriac are actually two different veggies, though they do look similar. I've had cooked celeriac and can testify that it has a strong odor. I suppose celeriac is to celery as cabbage is to lettuce, more or less.

I believe I've also seen celeriac called "celery root", although whether it is actually the root of celery, a celery, or a root, I haven't the faintest idea.

Yes, exactly, Teka; the offending salad was made from root celeriac, not from celery stalks.

It stinks!

It stinks!

Tastes awful, too. Though to my mind, no vegetable is yuckier than Brussels sprouts, which are (inexplicably to me) beloved by many.

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