A Skirt Virgin's Queries

Posed by anngwish42
1. You get to live in any city you want. Whatever your dream job is, it's located in this city, and whatever friends you want to live there, live there. So in other words, your concerns are solely geographical. What city shall be your home, and why?

Seattle. I've been enough places to know that there are plenty of cool places to live, but all of them have cons to go with the pros. In my internal accounting, Seattle had the best ratio.

2. Do you speak any languages other than English?

I assume "1337" doesn't count, huh? I'm far from conversant in Spansh, as long as it's not spoken too quickly, and can generally yank meaning out of written Italian as well. . . there's also a Klingon dictionary that used to be thumbed through, but I'm out of practice.

3. When you were little (elementary-school age, say), what did you want to be when you grew up?

A paleontologist. I was the original dinosaur -fiend.-

4. What's the hardest thing (personally or professionally) you've ever had to do?

Talking to the NYS District Attorney in conjunction with exposing a former employer for fraud was more cathartic than anything - the actual meeting with the President and his lawyer when I was fired was much more personally stressful. Carrying my grandparents' caskets wasn't easy, either.

5. Where did you get that multicolored skirt, and what on earth possessed you to buy it?

A shop in the Boulevard Mall in a suburb of Buffalo called New Age Creations [yes, it's a hippie/head shop], shortly after xms of 1994 - my sisters gave me a gift cert, because I wore the black tye dye one a lot, and the colors appealed to me, in addition to matching my hair.

If there's a better way (as anything but a really hot girl) to stand out in a crowd of black-clad freaks while still looking a little weird yourself, I haven't seen it. *grin*

Helcat puts the screws to Yours Truly

1. What is your dream job?
If I was a rich bastard, I'd own a professional hockey or football franchise. Short of that, I make a pretty good oracle.

2. Why did it take you so long to add me to your friends list?
The first time? Because I was a clod. Then you posted a whole lot, and I was in a "holy fuck, she's making my flist scroll too much!" tizzy. . . then I got my shit something approaching together and re-added you.

3. How long have you been writing, and what made you start?
If you call what I do "writing," then the general answer is "college," where I was a creative writing/english major. If you're asking how long I've been a writer published by anyone other than me, than "October 2001, when i was writing for palaceofreason.com for no pay, or Fall of 1996, when I did a couple of columns for a trashy local rag on such highbrow topics as halloween costumes and how to find porn on the internet."

4. What's your favorite body part? Other than breasts, really.
Midriff. But an ass you can bounce a dime off of is appreciated....

5. Who is the most famous person you've ever met?
I shook Henry Rollins' hand the week after almost knocking Ann Coulter over. My dentist's sister is Martha Stewart, but I've never met her. I have archived emails from ESR and Woz.