![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minoanmissI found this via misbegotten and dine.
tea, coffee, or soda?
Iced tea or soda. I used to drunk hot tea with sweetened condensed milk as a child, but don't care for it anymore.
dogs or cats?
Cats, because I am a dog: loving, loyal, and vaguely smelly/inescapeably biological.
can you play an instrument?
My answer is both no and yes.
No. When I was a kid I asked my parents for piano lessons. After 6 months I told them I was done, having learned what I wanted to. They informed me I was not done. After three more years of piano lessons I escaped to boarding school and never touched a piano again.
Yes. I can sing. Not that anyone would buy a record of me, but I took voice lessons and still remember some of what I learned about using volume and tone to convey the music.
what’s your sun sign?
Capricorn. [scientific rant redacted] [archaological rant also redacted]
first song lyrics that pop into your head?
I'm listening to instrumental versions of songs right now, so I've got "how can I be an octopus about this?" the famous malapropism from Pompeii by Bastille in my head.
do you have any tattoos?
"The difference between true love and a tattoo is that tattoos last forever." Like babies and advanced degrees, I am fascinated by other people's tattoos and have none of my own.
favourite place you’ve travelled?
Jamaica as it was when I was a child.
what’s the last movie you watched?
Glass Onion, which lived up to the hype. All hail Janelle Monae!
what languages do you speak?
Soy un monoglota triste. Despite growing up in NYC I only speak American English. It's very sad I studied Latin in high school because I was afraid of having to pronounce a language, and wish I had kept it up, because it's all gone now.
do you have any hobbies?
They're all on evidence here. I draw, write, and cook. I used to sing with various groups and might again in the future.
you can hang out with one fictional character for an hour, who do you choose?
Nikeratos of Athens from _The Mask of Apollo_. Like Johnny Weir but Ancient Greek.
compliment yourself
I enjoy making people's days better. I have recently been reminded of my limitations, that I can't make most lives better, but I can go through my days improving other people's days and I try to do so as often as I can manage to.
misbegotten and dine. tea, coffee, or soda?
Iced tea or soda. I used to drunk hot tea with sweetened condensed milk as a child, but don't care for it anymore.
dogs or cats?
Cats, because I am a dog: loving, loyal, and vaguely smelly/inescapeably biological.
can you play an instrument?
My answer is both no and yes.
No. When I was a kid I asked my parents for piano lessons. After 6 months I told them I was done, having learned what I wanted to. They informed me I was not done. After three more years of piano lessons I escaped to boarding school and never touched a piano again.
Yes. I can sing. Not that anyone would buy a record of me, but I took voice lessons and still remember some of what I learned about using volume and tone to convey the music.
what’s your sun sign?
Capricorn. [scientific rant redacted] [archaological rant also redacted]
first song lyrics that pop into your head?
I'm listening to instrumental versions of songs right now, so I've got "how can I be an octopus about this?" the famous malapropism from Pompeii by Bastille in my head.
do you have any tattoos?
"The difference between true love and a tattoo is that tattoos last forever." Like babies and advanced degrees, I am fascinated by other people's tattoos and have none of my own.
favourite place you’ve travelled?
Jamaica as it was when I was a child.
what’s the last movie you watched?
Glass Onion, which lived up to the hype. All hail Janelle Monae!
what languages do you speak?
Soy un monoglota triste. Despite growing up in NYC I only speak American English. It's very sad I studied Latin in high school because I was afraid of having to pronounce a language, and wish I had kept it up, because it's all gone now.
do you have any hobbies?
They're all on evidence here. I draw, write, and cook. I used to sing with various groups and might again in the future.
you can hang out with one fictional character for an hour, who do you choose?
Nikeratos of Athens from _The Mask of Apollo_. Like Johnny Weir but Ancient Greek.
compliment yourself
I enjoy making people's days better. I have recently been reminded of my limitations, that I can't make most lives better, but I can go through my days improving other people's days and I try to do so as often as I can manage to.
no subject
Date: 2023-01-29 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-29 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-29 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-31 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-31 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-29 04:24 pm (UTC)Hahahahaha, SAME.
I enjoyed reading this! You succeeded in making my day better. :)
no subject
Date: 2023-01-29 07:49 pm (UTC)Just going to point out—from experience—that cats are not exempt from rocketing into the living room in a wave of mephitic odor, requiring the inescapably biological chore of immediately cleaning the box.
(Yay, Nikeratos.)
no subject
Date: 2023-01-29 08:37 pm (UTC)So I switched to iced tea, which I don't put lemon or sugar in - if I want to drink something that taste like lemon and sugar, I'll get a glass of lemonade. So I drink iced tea all the time. I mean, people drink cold juice or cold soda or cold milk even in the winter. And I find the faint bitterness of strong brewed iced tea relieves a dry mouth better than plain water.
I speak American English, and I took Spanish in high school and college. I picked up a bit of French while working at the UN, and I'm moderately adept in Klingon.
I have three tattoos. The first one was my ace-and-lightning-bolt logo, which is tattooed between my breasts. The second is a Crone crescent (points down to indicate waning moon) on my lef bicep. The third is a complex bind rune for safe and pleasant travel, on my right inner thigh, which I got before my second trip to Australia.
My zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and my Chinese zodiac sign is Rabbit (this is a Rabbit year). I don't have a lot of time for hobbies, because a lot of my "hobbies" are things that need doing around the house - cooking, fixing stuff, and general "women's work".
I'm a cat. My baby nickname was "Kitten" - probably because I was good at getting into mischief.
If I could hang out with one fictional character, it would be "old" Spock, from TNG. I had the hots for the character when I was a teenage fangirl. Yes, I go for intellectual men :-)
I have also learned the bitter lesson that I can't fix everything that needs fixing - I can't stop global warming, I can't cure COVID, I can't stop the war in Ukraine, I can't figure out how to keep ridiculously powerful weapons out of the hands of frustrated teenagers. I can't even make you, my friend, feel better. I can't even make *myself* feel better, except by putting hot peppers in what I make for dinner.
compliment myself:
I'm not good at complimenting myself. I know my own flaws and failing far too well.
no subject
Date: 2023-01-29 11:09 pm (UTC)I can cast a horoscope according to Babylonian, Alexandrian, or Renaissance methods (though not the modern ones), but that's for academic reasons, and most people who ask about one's sign at parties are purely incapable of handling that either.
no subject
Date: 2023-01-30 11:51 am (UTC)An Alexandrian horoscope sounds relly cool.
no subject
Date: 2023-01-30 06:10 am (UTC)Delightfully so on all four counts.
YKIOK,IJNMK, but I'm GGG....
*sniffs at your butt*
no subject
Date: 2023-09-14 07:28 am (UTC)