Q & A

[annundriel]

If anyone's interested, comment and I'll ask you 5 questions.

regenvogel asked me these:

01. When did you start writing and with what?
I think I've always been writing. Or at least I've always been making up stories. I remember being in elementary school and making stories when I finished with my assignments in computer lab. In fourth grade (so when I was about 8) I won first place in my age group for a Veterans of Foreign Wars essay contest. My teacher put me up to entering.

The first really big thing I finished (that wasn't an assignment to write something creative) was my short, one-act play Tempests & Tea Leaves. It was my senior project in high school (everyone had to do one and everyone had to then do a presentation to graduate. My presentation was longer than the play at over an hour. I didn't know I could talk that long about anything!) The drama teacher trusted and believed in me enough to let me write the spring performance and then co-direct it. It was amazing. Occasionally I worry that I'm never going to get that again.

02. Are you a spring-, summer-, autumn-, or winter-person?
Autumn, definitely. Then spring. I prefer the transitional seasons.

03. Do you believe in astrology?
This is a great question because I don't really know. On the one hand, not really. But on the other hand...described and attributed personality traits are bizarrely similar. And sometimes my horoscope is weirdly close.

So I guess my answer is...I don't know. I don't put much stock in it, but I find it interesting all the same.

04. What's your living-situation?
I live at home on a farm with my parents. It used to be just the three of us, but my younger brother has recently moved back. He was living in another house on our property, but then our cousin started living there again and my brother couldn't deal with it. There were four years there where I was living in Seattle going to school for the majority of the year.

I like living at home because it's close to all my various jobs and it's free. (Because my parents are awesome.) And, really, my parents are awesome. We all get along really well. Mom and I do a lot together. And when I'm not working, I keep the place in order, which keeps her from going crazy.

05. What author inspired you?
I'm sure most authors that I read inspire me in some way. (Took a whole class on intertextuality.) But Jane Austen is a big one for me. Oh, and Agatha Christie. (Tempests & Tea Leaves was heavily influenced by my love of mysteries, particularly Agatha Christie. Also the movie Clue.) Also Anne Perry, mystery-wise. And then there's John Donne.

Comments

[shetiger.livejournal.com]

Your play experience sounds very cool. :)

And I'll bite on being questioned!

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

The play was so much fun. One of my favorite parts is still when one of the teachers came up after the performance to say, "That was good! And funny! I wasn't sure coming in, but I really enjoyed that." Which might sound a little, dunno, backhanded. But was really great to hear.

Coming up with 5 not completely boring/dumb questions is hard:
1. Are you a morning or a night person?
2. Do you have a favorite word? If so, what is it?
3. How many cats do you own?
4. Do you prefer reading fiction or non-fiction?
5. Something fannish: Merlin or Arthur? Colin or Bradley?

[michelerz.livejournal.com]

ask away!

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

1. What made you choose SU?
2. What does the "rz" in your username mean?
3. Who's your favorite character on The Office?
4. If you developed your own television series, what genre would it be?
5. You work at Starbucks, but do you also purchase from them?


(your icon makes me laaaugh)

[michelerz.livejournal.com]

i'm finally going to get to answering this...


ANSWERING, HO!

[juliarchy.livejournal.com]

I, too, love the transitional seasons. But never thought of it that way! Good way to put it.

I wish I got to see you more often! We should get together sometime in between me and you. Although I've never been out there so I don't know if there's anything.

[juliarchy.livejournal.com]

And I'll bite on the 5 q's :)

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

1. Why pugs?
2. Washington or California?
3. What was your favorite book as a child?
4. What author, living or dead, would you like get drunk with?
5. If you were a student at Hogwarts, which house would you really be sorted into? Is it the same house you would want to be sorted into?


(For some reason I was just reminded of our juggling, ballet-dancing math professor. I love telling kids about him.)

[juliarchy.livejournal.com]

Ah! I had forgotten about this. And the juggling math teacher! He was scary...

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I love watching things change: the leaves in the fall and, well, everything in the spring. But summer and winter just kind of sit there being too hot or too cold.

I wish I got to see you more, too! What's it been, a couple of years now? There are several places along Snoqualmie and Stevens Pass. We've done stop-and-drop kinda things at North Bend. Have you ever been to Leavenworth? It's fun and touristy and nestled in the mountains.

I do plan on being in Seattle the first couple weeks of July. Sara and I have talked about meeting up. Maybe getting Natasha there, too. It would be nice to see you!

[juliarchy.livejournal.com]

Keep me posted on July trip. I have been to Leavenworth...during xmas. Awful. We could meet up in between sometime too, if we can't get together in July.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Will do. :)

omg Leavenworth during xmas is the worst idea ever. I love going there, but only in the off-season. And the drive up around Lake Wenatchee's really pretty.

[sdrohc-ratiug.livejournal.com]

Spring, Fall & living with the Folks FTW. :D

(I will also go for the 5 Q's :) )

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

1. What's your favorite Neil Gaiman?
2. What's your favorite thing about living in the country? The city?
3. If your life were a TV show, on what network would it air?
4. Favorite time of day?
5. What do you like the most about your job?

If I wanted to be evil I'd ask, "Christopher Eccleston or David Tennant?" ;)

[sdrohc-ratiug.livejournal.com]

1. I think Neverwhere will always be my favorite, because it was my first Gaiman read & I was completely enchanted from the get go. :D American Gods is really a close second, though!

2. I love the wide open spaces, big skies, the scenery, the wildlife & the pace & isolation of living in the country. I did like some things about the city; There was always something to do, you could get bubble tea down the block, yanno. But I think i will always choose & prefer living in the country. It seems richer. It's closer to my heart. :)

3. I would be kind of really happy if it was on BBC/Channel 4.

4. My favorite time of day is the period encompassing the gloaming, sunset, and twilight. Also any time a full moon is out. :D

5. I like that I can help people in pain not be in pain any more. The changes in people are really interesting when they don't have to carry that around physically or emotionally.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

I just have to nod along with all of your answers. :)

One of my favorite things to do is going out on a night with a full moon when the sky is clear and just...look up and take it all in. I love that feeling.

And, okay, moon doesn't even have to be full. Give me a clear night sky in the country and I am happy.