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yakalskovich) wrote2010-07-23 02:53 pm
yakalskovich) wrote2010-07-23 02:53 pm
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Interview meme -- now, finally!
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ceitfianna and alas_a_llama. There are only nine, as the thing about the perfect day was asked by both.
1. How did you get into roleplaying?
I'd been on LJ for a few months when, in mid-February 2004, I discovered a journal for Vetinari. After some days, I realised that an entire system of fictional blogs on a notional Discworld network was attached -- the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
discworld_rpg. A few more days, and there I joined it as margolotta .
2. Where in the world would you most like to visit and why?
Mauritius. It's a bit complicated.- And yes, not only for the Douglas Adams quote. There seems to be everything there you can possibly want for an exotic holiday, with several cultures mixing, and no real abject poverty and no mass tourism. There are other places I'd like to go, but they are sort of realistic -- Scotland, the Welsh Border and Cardiff, that Croatian island which does a medieval week each summer which Antonia in Ljubljana told me about; or Crete. They are all places I might realistically get to. But Mauritius is sort of the Dream Vacation.
3. Where in the world would you least like to visit and why?
China, followed by Texas. I don't want to go to places where they execute you at the drop of a hat, and which is ruled by crazies that have the power to do so. The devil is a squirrel, and I don't want to end up executed by crazies for something I didn't do just because they insist on thinking I did, being crazy and divorced from a calm perception of reality. Worse, I don't want somebody else executed at the drop of a hat because I made some sort of mistake and failed them, and the crazies won't listen to reason, see above. China comes first on the list because the pollution in the air is incredible, according to the Nazgul. And they do kill more people, in absolute numbers. And cruelly exploit the ones they don't kill. Number three would be Dubai, for the fake plastic trees.
4. Describe yourself in three words.
Fat geek goth.
5. What would the perfect day entail?
Sleep late, have a nice breakfast, lounge with cats a little. Have a bath, or go swimming. Go out. meet somebody for a drink and a chat, perhaps shopping for fun things, or dinner in an interesting place. Something cultural at some stage, like a movie or a concert or a museum. Come back (home, or hotel if it's on a holiday), start up computer and thread for a few hours. Rinse and repeat. Every day of my short holiday in Ljubljana last year was like that (minus the cats, but instead of those, there was the wonderful friendly hostel staff to chat to), so that was probably another reason why I liked it so much there. It was a short but shiny string of perfect days.
1. Is there a type of music that can always make you smile?
Gogol Bordello and Cat Empire. They're a genre, but what would I call it? Global ethno punk?
2. Do you have a favorite place? Where is it and why?
I had many, down the years. At the moment, it's the little Italian street café around the corner.
3. What inspires you?
Thing popping up on my radar from different directions more than once, in relatively short succession. That indicates an idea worth paying attention to, and perhaps interacting with or contributing to in some way. It might be a ball to run with. Or selective perception entrenching itself with repetition.
5. You can live anywhere or -when for a month: - where and why?
Oh. Time travel. I think it's still St. Petersburg in the spring of 1912. Of course, I'd need a cover story that would get me places. Meeting Rasputin wouldn't be that hard, especially not at that stage. But to chat with Felix and Dmitri at the stage where they were definitely an item, much more so. I'd need introductions to get at least a chance at some research. And then I'd finally bury the idea of my book forever, because you can't possibly write smut about real people you know. It is the most ick thing known to any writing or reading person...
If you want me to ask you five questions, then leave a comment saying 'Interview me!'
ceitfianna and alas_a_llama. There are only nine, as the thing about the perfect day was asked by both.1. How did you get into roleplaying?
I'd been on LJ for a few months when, in mid-February 2004, I discovered a journal for Vetinari. After some days, I realised that an entire system of fictional blogs on a notional Discworld network was attached -- the
discworld_rpg. A few more days, and there I joined it as margolotta .2. Where in the world would you most like to visit and why?
Mauritius. It's a bit complicated.- And yes, not only for the Douglas Adams quote. There seems to be everything there you can possibly want for an exotic holiday, with several cultures mixing, and no real abject poverty and no mass tourism. There are other places I'd like to go, but they are sort of realistic -- Scotland, the Welsh Border and Cardiff, that Croatian island which does a medieval week each summer which Antonia in Ljubljana told me about; or Crete. They are all places I might realistically get to. But Mauritius is sort of the Dream Vacation.
3. Where in the world would you least like to visit and why?
China, followed by Texas. I don't want to go to places where they execute you at the drop of a hat, and which is ruled by crazies that have the power to do so. The devil is a squirrel, and I don't want to end up executed by crazies for something I didn't do just because they insist on thinking I did, being crazy and divorced from a calm perception of reality. Worse, I don't want somebody else executed at the drop of a hat because I made some sort of mistake and failed them, and the crazies won't listen to reason, see above. China comes first on the list because the pollution in the air is incredible, according to the Nazgul. And they do kill more people, in absolute numbers. And cruelly exploit the ones they don't kill. Number three would be Dubai, for the fake plastic trees.
4. Describe yourself in three words.
Fat geek goth.
5. What would the perfect day entail?
Sleep late, have a nice breakfast, lounge with cats a little. Have a bath, or go swimming. Go out. meet somebody for a drink and a chat, perhaps shopping for fun things, or dinner in an interesting place. Something cultural at some stage, like a movie or a concert or a museum. Come back (home, or hotel if it's on a holiday), start up computer and thread for a few hours. Rinse and repeat. Every day of my short holiday in Ljubljana last year was like that (minus the cats, but instead of those, there was the wonderful friendly hostel staff to chat to), so that was probably another reason why I liked it so much there. It was a short but shiny string of perfect days.
1. Is there a type of music that can always make you smile?
Gogol Bordello and Cat Empire. They're a genre, but what would I call it? Global ethno punk?
2. Do you have a favorite place? Where is it and why?
I had many, down the years. At the moment, it's the little Italian street café around the corner.
3. What inspires you?
Thing popping up on my radar from different directions more than once, in relatively short succession. That indicates an idea worth paying attention to, and perhaps interacting with or contributing to in some way. It might be a ball to run with. Or selective perception entrenching itself with repetition.
5. You can live anywhere or -when for a month: - where and why?
Oh. Time travel. I think it's still St. Petersburg in the spring of 1912. Of course, I'd need a cover story that would get me places. Meeting Rasputin wouldn't be that hard, especially not at that stage. But to chat with Felix and Dmitri at the stage where they were definitely an item, much more so. I'd need introductions to get at least a chance at some research. And then I'd finally bury the idea of my book forever, because you can't possibly write smut about real people you know. It is the most ick thing known to any writing or reading person...
If you want me to ask you five questions, then leave a comment saying 'Interview me!'
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2. What's your favourite thing at college?
3. If you could change one thing about reality, what would it be?
4. What makes you rant furiously?
5. A Dream Vacation, or one place you'd like to visit in the course of your life.