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badseed1980She asked five questions, so here are my answers. If you want me to ask YOU five questions, comment here and let me know. I'll ask, and you answer in your own journal.
Her questions:
1) Do you consider yourself a geek?
2) If The Doctor (whichever incarnation suits you best) showed up and wanted to whisk you away for an indeterminate period, would you go?
3) Are you a witch?
4) If you could have any super power, what would it be (I'll get an answer out of everyone yet!)
5) If you could create your perfect poly arrangement, what would it look like?
1) Yes. I get all excited about a lot of very specific things that usually are an attraction for people in the geek subculture. Science fiction and fantasy are my two biggest geekdoms. I'm not a gamer, and I'm not all that into computers or gadgets, but I love the movies, TV, and books. I also geek about things that aren't particularly geeky per se, but about which one can obsess and learn a lot. I think obsession and desire to learn are the two biggest characteristics of geekiness. Things in that category include knitting, cooking, and beer.
2. It would have to be Nine. :) I'd only go if I could choose how much time to spend away. I would miss too many things about my life--my loves, my family, etc.--to leave them behind with no guarantee of when I'd return. I want adventure (and, um, wild sex with Christopher Eccleston or his character), but I am deeply invested in the real world here.
3. What makes you think I am a witch? Do I LOOK like I'm made of wood? :P Yes, I am a witch. I practice witchcraft within the religious context of Wicca, and also to help me with mundane matters.
4. I would want to be able to fly. I love doing it in my dreams, and it would make transportation easier sometimes, especially when I have sore feet. I'd love to be able to fly right across the Charles from work to my dance class, instead of walking down to the BU bridge, crossing, and then walking back upriver toward class.
5. I'd be living in a nice big home with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pierceheart that had several bedrooms. Each of us would have our other loves living nearby enough that we could easily spend time with them. They would be living with any partners of their choice, and would also have plenty of bedrooms in their places. Everyone involved would be happy with the arrangement. We might do something like have the primary couples spend their holidays with their respective families (e.g., me and pierceheart spending them together with his family or mine), but we would also have big parties around the holidays where all the partners would get together, with any of the kids we might have, and it would be sort of an other-family get together.
Her questions:
1) Do you consider yourself a geek?
2) If The Doctor (whichever incarnation suits you best) showed up and wanted to whisk you away for an indeterminate period, would you go?
3) Are you a witch?
4) If you could have any super power, what would it be (I'll get an answer out of everyone yet!)
5) If you could create your perfect poly arrangement, what would it look like?
1) Yes. I get all excited about a lot of very specific things that usually are an attraction for people in the geek subculture. Science fiction and fantasy are my two biggest geekdoms. I'm not a gamer, and I'm not all that into computers or gadgets, but I love the movies, TV, and books. I also geek about things that aren't particularly geeky per se, but about which one can obsess and learn a lot. I think obsession and desire to learn are the two biggest characteristics of geekiness. Things in that category include knitting, cooking, and beer.
2. It would have to be Nine. :) I'd only go if I could choose how much time to spend away. I would miss too many things about my life--my loves, my family, etc.--to leave them behind with no guarantee of when I'd return. I want adventure (and, um, wild sex with Christopher Eccleston or his character), but I am deeply invested in the real world here.
3. What makes you think I am a witch? Do I LOOK like I'm made of wood? :P Yes, I am a witch. I practice witchcraft within the religious context of Wicca, and also to help me with mundane matters.
4. I would want to be able to fly. I love doing it in my dreams, and it would make transportation easier sometimes, especially when I have sore feet. I'd love to be able to fly right across the Charles from work to my dance class, instead of walking down to the BU bridge, crossing, and then walking back upriver toward class.
5. I'd be living in a nice big home with
pierceheart that had several bedrooms. Each of us would have our other loves living nearby enough that we could easily spend time with them. They would be living with any partners of their choice, and would also have plenty of bedrooms in their places. Everyone involved would be happy with the arrangement. We might do something like have the primary couples spend their holidays with their respective families (e.g., me and pierceheart spending them together with his family or mine), but we would also have big parties around the holidays where all the partners would get together, with any of the kids we might have, and it would be sort of an other-family get together.
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Date: 2009-12-15 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-15 01:41 am (UTC)1. What do you consider to be the greatest step forward taken in the laws of the land in the past ten years? You can answer this on a local, state, or national level.
2. A lot of people have referred to you as a hub of the poly community in the area in that EVERYONE knows you. How does this make you feel?
3. If you could have the entire population of the world learn one particular learnable skill (even if there might be people out there with handicaps that would prevent them from learning it), would what it be?
4. What would your ideal vacation look like?
5. If someone were to knock on your door and present you with a tin of cookies, as I just did to some neighbors across the street and a few blocks away, what kind of cookies would REALLY make you do the happy dance?
the easy ones
Date: 2009-12-15 02:09 am (UTC)5: large soft cookies without nuts - especially if they were chocolate chip w/toffee. or linzer cookies.
Okay, now to think about what my answers to the other three are...
Re: the easy ones
Date: 2009-12-15 02:31 am (UTC)the laws
Date: 2009-12-21 02:26 am (UTC)* Lawrence v. Texas. It's actually much broader than usually described. It didn't just strike down "sodomy" laws, it actually said anything consenting adults do in private is by default okay, and just as importantly, defined "private" to mean that they didn't *intend* for it to be visible to people who didn't want to see it and had a reasonable expectation that would be the case, which means a party or other gathering can be "private", and that being accidentally discovered doesn't make it not private. It was one of the most sweeping increases of legal freedom in a long time.
* The steady march of lgbt rights that has really picked up steam, from VT civil unions early in this decade, to a variety of new equal marriage, antidiscrimination, school safety, and other laws, all over the country.
* Massachusetts' health care reform. Messy, but very important.
1 and 5
Date: 2009-12-21 02:33 am (UTC)BTW, back to #5: this weekend my housemate Valerie made:
- ginger chocolate chip molasses cookies
- vegan vanilla freckled cookies
- oatmeal white chocolate chip berry cookies
- frosted apple-pie spiced vegan cookies
All of them semi-soft.
(She's not vegan but she's planning on giving a bunch to a vegan friend).
I've been very happy to get to taste some from each batch. Creative cookies!
Re: 1 and 5
Date: 2009-12-21 07:11 pm (UTC)vacation
Date: 2009-12-25 01:25 am (UTC)This was the hardest one because I don't have one coherent image of a perfect vacation, or even two or three. I've had several different sorts of vacations that I've really loved. Part of what I like is variety, and part of what I like is repeating the same sort of thing that worked out really well, with minor variations, and sometimes what makes a vacation great is that it's something knew. Mostly, though, my favorite vacations have had some combination of these elements (some of which are not quite compatible with each other, so I don't really want one vacation that has them all):
* A long, flexible road trip (1 week or more, often 3-5 weeks) where I have a general outline of where I'm going and places I'll stop, but can change and adapt, and don't plan in detail too far ahead.
* Being in a foreign place and staying with someone I know who lives there, which lets me discover it both on my own and through a local who will show me their favorite places, bands, etc., and introduce me to friends.
* Getting to know cities - either cities that are new to me, or cities I like from past visits and want to get to know better.
* Visiting people I really like who live elsewhere.
* Meeting some cool new people who I click with and maintain contact with afterwards and end up friends.
* Having a partner along for the trip, especially one I'm involved with. Often, on long roadtrips, this can be transporting someone for part of the way.
* Sleeping with friends as I visit them, a night or two with each one. And perhaps one brand new hookup (especially the unexpected kind that turns into a new friendship with someone I didn't know before).
* Learning fragments of a language or culture I hadn't been in firsthand before.
* Visiting beautiful, striking, or ecologically/geologically fascinating natural places.
* An airplane flight that gives me a great view of pretty/interesting places or of places I know well.
* Listening to a lot of music and saved-up NPR recordings on a road trip.
* Anything that feels like it has added to my sense of what's in the world. Anything that feels like it has given me (or strengthened) good connections with people.
A few things my ideal vacation would almost certainly NOT include, though:
* Very detailed plan in advance of exactly where I'm going to be when.
* A lot of time spent in contrived tourist/resort type places - unless they're very weird from a cultural point of view, but even then, they shouldn't make up a majority of the trip.
* Avoidance of being *there*, by spending much of my time doing the sorts of things I might do at home, like going to chain restaurants or chain movie theaters or spending most of my time inside a building that's not particularly different from a building I might be in at home, etc.
* Hurrying to try to see everything available in a particular place that one is supposed to see while there, or that might interest me. Each thing I do or see deserves to be enjoyed for what it is, and if there's not enough time for some things, oh well.
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Date: 2009-12-15 01:40 pm (UTC)1. If you could live anywhere in the world, and it wasn't dependent on your job or on any financials, where would you live?
2. What experience since the time we graduated from high school has changed your life the most?
3. If a bartender were to name a drink after you, what would it contain?
4. What would your dream job look like?
5. What's the most difficult thing about dealing with family, for you?
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Date: 2009-12-15 02:04 pm (UTC)2. What one thing would you love to be able to cook spectacularly well?
3. I hear you gushing about women more often than men, with the exception of your hubby. Is there a male celebrity out there who you think is drop-dead gorgeous and who you swoon over?
4. If you could spend a year living in one period in history that was before your birth, wherever in the world you liked, when and where would you choose?
5. Do you perform/celebrate any kind of religious rituals outside of doing so at 4QF, and if so, what do you do?
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Date: 2009-12-15 02:47 pm (UTC)Go for it.
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Date: 2009-12-15 03:22 pm (UTC)2. Do you have any particular baby names you're secretly hoping to be able to use when we have kids (and if so, what are they)?
3. Is there anything in particular I don't cook, or don't cook often, that would really make you happy if I cooked it?
4. If the next five times you brewed beer, you had the choice of either working one recipe five times to try to perfect it, or working five different recipes one time each, which would you pick?
5. What do you most love about yourself?
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Date: 2009-12-17 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-17 05:26 pm (UTC)2. What do you think you'll miss most about the U.S., other than people here?
3. What kind of job would you like to have in the long term?
4. Does it bother you that your husband is not a vegetarian?
5. I know you're not much of a drinker in general, but what is your favorite alcoholic beverage?
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Date: 2009-12-17 02:50 am (UTC)Hmm, you'll be tough!
Date: 2009-12-17 05:32 pm (UTC)2. You seem like a real foodie. What's the best meal you've eaten, or one of them?
3. Continuing on the theme from #2, what is your favorite thing to cook?
4. How would you describe your spiritual path, assuming the person you're talking to has a pretty good familiarity with various Pagan and alternative spiritual paths?
5. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
PS: I friended you here. Hadn't realized I'd neglected to do that!
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Date: 2009-12-17 10:17 pm (UTC)1) What do you most enjoy about belly dancing?
2) Have you always had poly. relationships? Would you ever enter into a monogamous relationship if you were asked?
3) Are you out of the closet to your family & co-workers in regards to being poly? How do people react when you tell them?
4) Give me just a small glimpse of your ideal life.
5) What are your top five or less desert island dishes?