Interviewed by zylch

[triadruid]

1. What's your favorite guilty-pleasure crappy popcorn SF/F novel (eg, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, that sort of thing)?
   
   e.e. "doc" smith's Skylark series probably would count if it wasn't so "classic". However, my biggest guilty-pleasure series is probably Animorphs. I was a junkie for those during my summers in college, because my hometown libraries had nearly the entire series. I could crank out one or two a day on the weekend. Granted, I also liked Manimal for the brief time it was on TV in the 80's, so that probably says something about me, too.
   
   
2. If you could be perfectly fluent in one modern foreign language, other than varients of Gaelic, what would it be? Why?
   
   Italian, because then I'd have a lock on the primary Romance languages, which would be fun right up until I started blending them again (asked a question in French, I may respond in Spanish).
   
   
3. Assume some weird alternate universe where you and I actually met when we were both in the Manhattan/JC area. What was I like? (this would be around kindergarten/first grade for me)
   
   Thinking back, that would be early 6th grade to me, right? I'd probably think you were a cute kid who reminded me of me for some reason, and I *might* know your brother. How much older is he than you? Assuming he didn't, I might have told on them/intervened when someone was picking on you, because I didn't like that happening to me either.
   
   
4. Turn about is fair play. If I weren't your sister, would you kiss me?
   
   Probably once. More than that seems perilous (in this universe); like dangerous resonances, only moreso.
   
   By the way, I still owe you a reply email.
   
   
5. Leather or silk?
   
   Yes! Actually, I prefer wearing leather because it doesn't fatigue as often, and I'm more likely to do things that are suitable for leather than wearing silk; also, silk is very warm, and I might combust. For play purposes, however, silk as a non-clothing toy has more uses in my world.
   

Comments

Mixed up Romance languages

[cynthiaweb.livejournal.com]

Buon giorno. I have that problem with Spanish and Italian. I'm useless in both languages because I can't sort them out. I might understand what you say to me, but I usually can't reply because I get stuck trying to figure out if the words in my head belong to the right language. But I'd love to have a chance to go back to Italy to work on getting that sorted out!

Re: Mixed up Romance languages

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who did that! I did it in my Spanish II class in college, after taking two years of French, after my two years of Spanish, in High School... fortunately, my instructor was the Romance Language chair, and understood what my problem was.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

3. I was in K when the Challenger blew up. fenton would have been in 3rd grade when I was in K. You'll have to do the math from there. ::secretly gleeful at the number of friends I just made feel old::

4. Yes, you do. Or a conversation, or a haiku, or something. Hopefully sometime before old age makes the topic irrelevant :-)

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think Challenger blew up right when I got to KS (halfway through my fifth grade year), because it was my brother's birthday, and we were going to get our military IDs in the car when we heard.