No one expects the marchenland inquisition!

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1) Do you have, or have you had, any animal-type pets? What kind, what were their names, and what were they like? If not, what kind of pet would you want to have?

As a kid, my family had a Kuvasz - Wolf was generally known around the neighborhood as "that dog that looks like a polar bear and lets himself out for walks." I sobbed for hours the day he died, and still miss him. Toby [another Kuvasz] was inherited as his replacement from friends of my parents, but didn't have the brains or personality Wolf did. Then, we became a cat household - Morris [who died young of kidney problems], Pumpkin [who is now 19, but not long for the world], Oscar [cat with a deviated septum = cat snot wake-up calls *ewwww*], Seamus [squirrel hunter and brawler extraordinaire - at 13, he's still a scrapper], Fern & Lili [adopted strays about 3 years old].

K & I have a pair of meows - Loki & Lamia; littermates, black, will be 4 in April. They're adorable, but they're occasionally assholes [he's a pushy bitch, she has bad timing for jumping on the bed, and a weird fixation for chewing the earpieces of K's glasses].

2) How do you feel about living in NOLA. What did yiou expect, and did it mett those expectations? What do you love or hate about it? What do you love AND hate about it? How big is the BIGGEST roach you've ever seen wandering around like it owned the damn street? Basically, tell me about your NOLA experience.

I like the general "party" atmosphere, but it's nice to be able to step away and turn it off - much like me, people have this expectation that it's nonstop debauchery, when it isn't -always- like that. :-) The oppressive heat & humidity during the summer can suck my left one, but I'm wearing shorts in January, so it's not all bad. The people are friendlier than up north, but the poverty and crime are entirely too prevalent for my suburban whitebread ass. The whole "gorgeous house, gorgeous house, crack house" neighborhood thing will baffle me forever.

Honestly, I think I've only seen three or four roaches since we moved here. My widlife highlight was seeing a 5 foot cane break rattler cross the road at K's facility, and hearing all the cranes calling at 1am was very Jurassic Park.

3) You make it VERY clear that your job is... eh. What would you LOVE to do instead? Basically, this is the "perfect job" question.

Are you intimating that I bitch about my lame employment situation? ;-)

Honestly, the gig with MSFT, if it's writing video game manuals, would be pretty spiffy. I've never been able to answer this question well - I have no idea. I'd like to own a sports franchise [football or hockey]; the way Mark Cuban handles the Dallas Mavericks impresses me because he's not some disintrested fat cat - he's a fan.

If I could get paid a decent wage for offering advice [assuming my advice is worth paying for, of course]. . . Hmmmm.

4) What IS the story with that skirt???

What? It's comfy, it makes my dancing look better, and it offends the excessively pretentious. . . Besides, in a horde of black-clad freaks with weird hair, a guy's gotta do -something- to stand out. :-)

5) If you could live -- as yourself, not as an existing character -- in any fictional (movie, book, etc.) world, which would you choose, why, and what would you do there?

I've always been partial to the post-superflu world in The Stand, because, the occasional flight of ego aside, I'm frighteningly normal, and would probably not be able to hack it as a Gunslinger in the Dark Tower world [and shitting in the woods doesn't appeal], and wouldn't be the one doing the cool shit with Molly Millions in Gibson's near future. I will say that the world of Stephenson's Diamond Age is also pretty nifty. . . but I'd want to be boffing Princess Nell. ;-)

Bonus: Do you recall freaking me out in the parking garage at C5, so bad that I almost walked right into a POST?

Barely. . . it was the contacts, wasn't it? What happened? *blink, blink*

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[sylvara.livejournal.com]

Go on then, interview me!

(Note: I accept that I may well live to regret saying that) ;)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

muahahaha.

1) Favoirte drink recipe? [this information may be used to serve the powers of evil later]
2) What's your favorite thing to do with D?
3) What three books couldn't you live without?
4) Tell me about your first meeting with cavalorn.
5) You get a weekend to snog and scromp one fictional character. Who, where, and how? ;-)

[sylvara.livejournal.com]

Answers posted :)