Two Memes and Life is Good

[ceitfianna]

Last night after spending the afternoon with the_croupier and rushin_doll, I went to a small exhibit that the woman I'm working with for my internship was in. It was such a treat, she feels like someone that really is turning into a friend, which is a great surprise.

Tonight there will be sushi and Inception, which should be fun. the_croupier and rushin_doll will be fascinating to talk about it with. Then next week, Punch Brothers with sardonicynic and moofoot with accompanying puppy.

First meme from doihearawaltz and I love this one, because I love thinking about pairings and making things for people.

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request ~something~ of any pairing/character* of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal. If you absolutely can't write, you can offer drawings or icons or something instead (meta? picspams? reasons why that character/pairing rocks/doesn't rock?).

Second meme is another round of five questions from yakalskovich

If you want me to ask you five questions, then leave a comment saying 'Interview me!

1. I know you've stayed in many interesting places all over the world. Which was the one that you could least easily adapt to, and why?

The apartment that I lived in Athens, the city was wonderful, but this was one of the worst places I've lived. What made it so hard were the people I was sharing it with, I just never really clicked with them. My bed was incredibly uncomfortable, the room was horribly dark, I need natural light to sleep. Also the woman who was my roommate always had to go to be quickly and in darkness. Normally I read before I sleep, it helps me relax my mind, in that room, I was allowed to read maybe fifteen minutes at the maximum. So I had horrible nightmares while I lived there, literally wake up screaming nightmares. I never adjusted to that apartment even though I lived there for four months. The only benefit was that I spent so much time wandering Athens and falling in love with the city.

2. What do you see when you look out of your window?

I see a strip of green and a fence with plants growing over it. Over that fence is a park and so many times, animals will wander by my window.

3. Do you have a favourite place in Ann Arbor? And do you have a picture of it?

This is tricky, because there are so many wonderful places from cafes to just beautiful spots. I"m not sure if I can really trick. Currently the Law Quad is one of my favorites and that was the vaguely medieval one from one of my past picture posts.

4. Which was your favourite book when you were 13, and why?

Oh, this is really tricky, because I have no idea. I don't tend to think about books in terms of what age I was when I read them at all.

5. A Dream Vacation, or one place you'd like to visit in the course of your life.

I want to go to Hawaii, its a place that has a connection to my grandmother since she used to there on vacation almost every year. My parents have been there and its in the Pacific, which I've been missing so much.

Comments

[doihearawaltz.livejournal.com]

Interview me!

Also, a request: Tiwa/James - May Day.

[ceitfianna]

I love that request.

1-What's your dream job and why?
2-Someone gives you the money to make the movie of your dreams. Who's in it, what's it about?
3-Is there someplace where you can go and just feel better, where is it and why do you like?
4-Describe yourself in five words.
5-What's your favorite way to create?

Dance with Me on Beltane

[ceitfianna]

James always felt odd about visiting Tiwa's world and especially the court bit of it. It was where she fit and was more bird and sort of strange. He never quite understood all of her, but loved the way she would shift and shimmer, so much more than her quick laughter. So he let her drag him along to a party in a park on top of a hill in Wellington.

Below them the city was laid out in gleams of lights and a bonfire made the strangeness of the company of Fae more pronounced. Strange shimmers caught the flash of elf ears, the deep blue of trolls and glimpses of other things in the shadows. There wasn't exactly dancing just movement and drink and he held tightly to her hand as her dress shone with silver and feathers and she laughed.

Time seemed to shift and slip away that night and somehow when it was morning, they were leaning against a tree and she was in his arms and not fully awake. He kissed her and she smiled at him as she said, "Happy Beltane."

[yakalskovich]

Oh, this is really tricky, because I have no idea. I don't tend to think about books in terms of what age I was when I read them at all.

That's funny -- I on the other hand measure my life in books, and especially for my childhood and teenage years can clearly tell what I read when, and in what succession. They defined me, in a way. And I find that some of the most lastingly important ones, I read around the age of 13, which is why I asked.

Of course, now that you mention it, I do realise that not everybody measures their mental development that way...

**grins wryly**

[ceitfianna]

I associate books with where I was and sometimes grades, but less my age.

Books have always been there for me and I reread books a lot that I've kind of forgotten when I first read some books.

[yakalskovich]

I remember sometimes where I was when I read something, but not very often.

I was on a bus going home to my old flat on the other side of the city (with the swimming pool on the roof) when I was reading 'Precursor' by C.J. Cherryh for the first time, and missed my bus stop because the great big spoilery plot point blew away my brain. But that was extreme.

I was in my first rented room here in Munich, at some stage in 1987 or 1988, when I pulled an all-nighter with the second part of Jean M. Auel's 'Ayla' series, starting the book at nine in the evening and going to bed at seven in the morning after I'd finished it. I remember sitting there, with my right elbow on that antique hand-painted rustic chest, and just reading and reading and reading. But that was extreme, too.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

*sings* "Ayla, you got me on my knees, Aylaaaaaa!" Or something like that.

[yakalskovich]

Well, the first two or three books in the series were quite good. But then it got the two deathly bugs of "Too Many Needless Sex Scenes", and "Special Snowflake Heroine Invents Everything", and it got very tedious.-

[erinmuse.livejournal.com]

interview, please? :)

[ceitfianna]

1-What's your favorite part of being a lawyer?
2-What's been the most rewarding part of your transition?
3-You can spend a week anywhere, where and why?
4-Reading or writing and why?
5-Tell me your favorite comfort dish and why?

Also I'm going to be visiting my family in Delaware and Jersey around the start of August. I'm not sure how much free time, I'll have, but I'd love to try and do lunch or something.

[erinmuse.livejournal.com]

Sorry I took a few days to get to this. I caught some sort of summer crud. Better now.

Also, it would be lovely to catch up. I should be free in early August, as I'm between jobs at the moment, and I should have my own car again to travel as needed. I believe you have my email address, but if not, I have yours and can drop you a line.

1. Lawyers aren't usually grouped into what are called the "helping professions." Doctors, teachers and therapists get that distinction. But I feel that, done right, being a lawyer is most certainly another form of helping profession. Knowing that I have saved at least 1 person from losing his home is worth more than anything I can say.

2. Finally feeling like myself and finally getting to just be. The glimmers were always there, but hidden by too much pain and frustration. It's not that I feel like I'm a better person for it, but I do feel I'm a more complete person. I no longer feel I have to pretend to be someone I'm not.

3. Korea. Ever since I left I've been weirdly homesick for it, even though it's not my home.

4. Reading. I can't remember a time in my life when I wasn't constantly reading. Also, it feeds my desire for knowledge. I love soaking up facts and trivia and storing them away. I'm not a bad writer, but I don't feel I have that much to say, or at least not that I care to commit to the page.

5. Meatloaf. I make it using my mother's recipe, which I understand is slightly unusual for its lack of tomato and use of oatmeal as a filler. It always reminds me of her.

[ceitfianna]

I'll be in Lewes from the fourth of August to the fifteenth, which is a Saturday.

I'd love to figure something out.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request ~something~ of any pairing/character* of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal. If you absolutely can't write, you can offer drawings or icons or something instead (meta? picspams? reasons why that character/pairing rocks/doesn't rock?).

Okay, here's a tricky one - take the two of your characters LEAST likely to pair off and think of a scenario where they might. Just an explanation will do.

[ceitfianna]

Okay, I'm sorry for taking a while on this, its just hard. I think my two least likely pups are Tumnus and Will.

I could see them together if it was a situation like a Bacchanal where someone ramps libidos up to 11 and you let loose. They wouldn't do much, but I could maybe see something.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

LOL, yes, I could see that. I can also see the avoidance of the days after and a final mutual agreement that the situation would NEVER be referred to again. Well done for coming up with something plausible.

[ceitfianna]

Yes, it was tricky since most of my pups are willing to try things once or twice. Tumnus, I just have trouble thinking of having any kind of sex life and Will, because he's rather more conservative due to his time period.

Bacchanals and the like are wonderful things and I'm so amused that Lewis kind of mentioned them in Narnia but as if, oh just a party, la, la.