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1. Which book do you consider to have influenced you most personally, and why?
"The Annotated Alice," which nurtured in me a love not only of words and nonsense and bizarre plots, but also a love of understanding what came behind those words. It also gave me my first glimpses of the fact that not all the world was like what I experienced around me; that, in fact, Victorian England was like a different world in how people thought and interacted.
2. If you could change one thing about your life now, what would it be and why?
The first answer that came into my head was that I'd be sitting next to you. But then I had to ask myself what I would have to change in order to have that. I'd need money and time. So I guess it falls back to the standard, "I'd win the lottery." How dull. But there's my reason why.
3. Think ahead to when you're 70. What do you wish to have accomplished before then?
I could die happy if I ever published a book. I might have time before then to learn how to write, if I get on it.
4. Is there anything that makes you nervous?
Lots of things - Eor calls me the poster child for the common phobia. ;) Deep, dark water, dark closets, heights. I suppose an odd one is that I hate cars coming up fast behind me, even when I'm on the sidewalk. I have this fear that someone will be carrying something badly tied on which will be sticking out over the sidewalk and hit me. But none of these fears incapacitates me, I still do everything I would.
5. Just because it really WAS a difficult question: Hugh or Stephen, and why?
It IS a difficult question, and I have always hated choosing. I know Stephen is intelligent and well read and I'd probably never get bored with him around. But do I also get to be the gender he wants, in the bargain? Because it might be rather frustrating, otherwise. Hugh, I can't know he's as intelligent, but I suspect he probably is, and at least I'm already his gender of preference. (Although honestly neither of them is my actual gender of preference.) They probably both like to be the center of attention every minute - could either of them give me the amount of alone time I need? Would either of them be as interesting to me without the other? Okay, stranded on a desert island, I guess I'll have to take Stephen. Yeah, this is hard!
If anyone wants to be interviewed by me, go ahead and post, then watch me scramble while I try to come up with questions. ;)
"The Annotated Alice," which nurtured in me a love not only of words and nonsense and bizarre plots, but also a love of understanding what came behind those words. It also gave me my first glimpses of the fact that not all the world was like what I experienced around me; that, in fact, Victorian England was like a different world in how people thought and interacted.
2. If you could change one thing about your life now, what would it be and why?
The first answer that came into my head was that I'd be sitting next to you. But then I had to ask myself what I would have to change in order to have that. I'd need money and time. So I guess it falls back to the standard, "I'd win the lottery." How dull. But there's my reason why.
3. Think ahead to when you're 70. What do you wish to have accomplished before then?
I could die happy if I ever published a book. I might have time before then to learn how to write, if I get on it.
4. Is there anything that makes you nervous?
Lots of things - Eor calls me the poster child for the common phobia. ;) Deep, dark water, dark closets, heights. I suppose an odd one is that I hate cars coming up fast behind me, even when I'm on the sidewalk. I have this fear that someone will be carrying something badly tied on which will be sticking out over the sidewalk and hit me. But none of these fears incapacitates me, I still do everything I would.
5. Just because it really WAS a difficult question: Hugh or Stephen, and why?
It IS a difficult question, and I have always hated choosing. I know Stephen is intelligent and well read and I'd probably never get bored with him around. But do I also get to be the gender he wants, in the bargain? Because it might be rather frustrating, otherwise. Hugh, I can't know he's as intelligent, but I suspect he probably is, and at least I'm already his gender of preference. (Although honestly neither of them is my actual gender of preference.) They probably both like to be the center of attention every minute - could either of them give me the amount of alone time I need? Would either of them be as interesting to me without the other? Okay, stranded on a desert island, I guess I'll have to take Stephen. Yeah, this is hard!
If anyone wants to be interviewed by me, go ahead and post, then watch me scramble while I try to come up with questions. ;)
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