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yakalskovich) wrote2010-03-13 03:50 pm
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01) Are you currently in a serious relationship? Nope. I don't do them. Too much hassle.
02) What was your dream growing up? To be a writer
03) What talent do you wish you had? Music -- that's the one I lack most of.
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be? Depends on the place and time. Right now? Pint of cider at the Australian pub down the block.
05) Favourite vegetable? Avocado
06) What was the last book you read? Finished? 'Mordshunger' ('Murderous Hunger') by Frank Schätzing, author of Urquhart's canon. Currently reading, halfway through, 'The Swarm', his big international best-seller. I've been poking at it for a while, but it's somehow too pretentiously international to be as enjoyable as his earlier books. The bloke's writing suffers if there is no Cologne in his book. He's a very locally grounded kind of writer, bit like Phil Rickman in that respect. What I like about it is how he finally takes his 'fox and wolf' kind of archetypal antagonists a step further. But that will merit an entry all of its own, when I finished the book.
07) What zodiac sign are you? Capricorn, with ascendant Libra. In the Chinese zodiac, I am a Fire Horse, just barely, twelve days before the year was out by the Chinese calendar.
08) Any tattoos and/or piercings? Explain where. A picture says more than a thousand words, right? Here's the picture:
09) Worst habit? Snarky temper
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride? If I had a car in the first place, and knew it was you (any 'you' on my flist, actually), or course I would!
11) What is your favourite sport? Baseball on the Wii! **grins**
12) Do you have a pessimistic or optimistic attitude? Bit of both, really.
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? Talk until help arrived?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you? Excuse me, not going there. I don't like to talk about bad things having happened.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you. I detest blokes with moustaches. Anybody sports a snot-brake? Immediately loses my respect as a human being.
16) Do you have any pets? Oh, as if you didn't know! Again, picture says more than a thousand words:
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly? Again, anybody from my flist would be welcome, would be offered tea or coffee, be introduced to the cats, and then asked for what their plans are and how long they'd like to stay. I can put up up to two people. It's a bit crowded, due to more than half the flat belonging to the cats at night, but quite doable for a week or so.
18) What was your first impression of me? Depending on who the 'me' asking this is, is it?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? Neither. They are annoying and boring.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? Hmmmm. I'd like my eyes to be a bit greener, maybe?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? Crime partner!
22) What eye colour do you have? Muddy green with brown spots. As I said, it would be fun for them to be a little bit greener.
23) Ever been arrested? Nope.
24) Bottle or can soda? Bottle. Cans have stopped being used here, mostly.
25) If you won $/£/€10.000 today, what would you do with it? Buy electronics. I'd quite like a 27" iMac to use for graphics and movie/TV watching, as a music centre etc. Oh, and make that pounds, out of the three choices. We don't have parity of those three currencies yet, luckily.
26) What's your favourite place to hang out at? The little Italian street café on the way to the train station.
27) Do you believe in ghosts? Erm, yes. I witnessed one in action at Peterborough cathedral, you know.
28) Favourite thing to do in your spare time? RP in Milliways and Morningstar Manor.
29) Do you swear a lot? Yes.
30) Biggest pet peeve? Resource hoggery. You know, the dog-in-a-manger thing. People taking up space they're not using, or keeping other people from getting somewhere because they're standing in the middle of where everybody needs to go, or using up most of the shared bandwidth in a network for some silly superfluous rich media nonsense. Oh, and SUVs totally fall in that category. Burning up the last of the oil to blast through an innocent suburb with a fucking tank? Resource hoggery of the finest.
31) In one word, how would you describe yourself? Fierce
32) Do you believe/appreciate romance? Only if it's fictional
33) Favourite and least favourite food? Maize. Celeriac.
34) Do you believe in God? Depends. Is a bit complicated to explain.
35) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? Sure, gank it all you want!
02) What was your dream growing up? To be a writer
03) What talent do you wish you had? Music -- that's the one I lack most of.
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be? Depends on the place and time. Right now? Pint of cider at the Australian pub down the block.
05) Favourite vegetable? Avocado
06) What was the last book you read? Finished? 'Mordshunger' ('Murderous Hunger') by Frank Schätzing, author of Urquhart's canon. Currently reading, halfway through, 'The Swarm', his big international best-seller. I've been poking at it for a while, but it's somehow too pretentiously international to be as enjoyable as his earlier books. The bloke's writing suffers if there is no Cologne in his book. He's a very locally grounded kind of writer, bit like Phil Rickman in that respect. What I like about it is how he finally takes his 'fox and wolf' kind of archetypal antagonists a step further. But that will merit an entry all of its own, when I finished the book.
07) What zodiac sign are you? Capricorn, with ascendant Libra. In the Chinese zodiac, I am a Fire Horse, just barely, twelve days before the year was out by the Chinese calendar.
08) Any tattoos and/or piercings? Explain where. A picture says more than a thousand words, right? Here's the picture:
09) Worst habit? Snarky temper
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride? If I had a car in the first place, and knew it was you (any 'you' on my flist, actually), or course I would!
11) What is your favourite sport? Baseball on the Wii! **grins**
12) Do you have a pessimistic or optimistic attitude? Bit of both, really.
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? Talk until help arrived?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you? Excuse me, not going there. I don't like to talk about bad things having happened.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you. I detest blokes with moustaches. Anybody sports a snot-brake? Immediately loses my respect as a human being.
16) Do you have any pets? Oh, as if you didn't know! Again, picture says more than a thousand words:
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly? Again, anybody from my flist would be welcome, would be offered tea or coffee, be introduced to the cats, and then asked for what their plans are and how long they'd like to stay. I can put up up to two people. It's a bit crowded, due to more than half the flat belonging to the cats at night, but quite doable for a week or so.
18) What was your first impression of me? Depending on who the 'me' asking this is, is it?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? Neither. They are annoying and boring.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? Hmmmm. I'd like my eyes to be a bit greener, maybe?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? Crime partner!
22) What eye colour do you have? Muddy green with brown spots. As I said, it would be fun for them to be a little bit greener.
23) Ever been arrested? Nope.
24) Bottle or can soda? Bottle. Cans have stopped being used here, mostly.
25) If you won $/£/€10.000 today, what would you do with it? Buy electronics. I'd quite like a 27" iMac to use for graphics and movie/TV watching, as a music centre etc. Oh, and make that pounds, out of the three choices. We don't have parity of those three currencies yet, luckily.
26) What's your favourite place to hang out at? The little Italian street café on the way to the train station.
27) Do you believe in ghosts? Erm, yes. I witnessed one in action at Peterborough cathedral, you know.
28) Favourite thing to do in your spare time? RP in Milliways and Morningstar Manor.
29) Do you swear a lot? Yes.
30) Biggest pet peeve? Resource hoggery. You know, the dog-in-a-manger thing. People taking up space they're not using, or keeping other people from getting somewhere because they're standing in the middle of where everybody needs to go, or using up most of the shared bandwidth in a network for some silly superfluous rich media nonsense. Oh, and SUVs totally fall in that category. Burning up the last of the oil to blast through an innocent suburb with a fucking tank? Resource hoggery of the finest.
31) In one word, how would you describe yourself? Fierce
32) Do you believe/appreciate romance? Only if it's fictional
33) Favourite and least favourite food? Maize. Celeriac.
34) Do you believe in God? Depends. Is a bit complicated to explain.
35) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? Sure, gank it all you want!