Meme!

[wojelah]

THE INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random--like your favorite kind of sandwich or something you remember from long ago or something you bet I didn't know. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. It will go on and on and on and that is what makes it a meme!

beeej asked me:

1.If you could live in the reality of any one TV show, movie or book, which would it be and how would you fit in there? This one is easy. :D I would be Hermione Granger. Period. The end.

2. You're throwing a dinner party and any living person will accept the invitation. Tell me the top 5 people on your guest list. Hmm. Madeline Albright. Elspeth Rostow (a former professor and amazing woman). Barak Obama. Salman Rushdie. Mel Brooks.

3.If you were going on a mission to Atlantis, and you could only take one personal item, what would you choose? That's really, really tough. Probably a scrapbook with pictures of friends and family and the stories that go with them.

4.What was your favorite tv show/cartoon when you were a kid? I... didn't watch a huge amount of TV as a kid, actually.  If I had to pick one, it's probably Sesame Street.

5.Would you rather travel in time, or space? Space. There's so much to see in the time I inhabit, and plane fare's expensive. :D

Ok, now you!i

Comments

[smittywing.livejournal.com]

I am collecting questions to answer - I might as well take on another set.

...you didn't ask me any yet, did you?

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I... don't think so?

Let's see.

1. Who are your role models? (Give me... three.)
2. If you suddenly had to live somewhere completely new, where would it be?
3. What do you -really- want for Christmas?
4. Which of the 50 states have you visited?
5. Where's your family from before they came to the US?

[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

I slept with Robinson Jeffers' grandson.

(Is that random enough?)

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahaha. Yes. That counts. Ok:

1. X-ray vision or telepathy?
2. If you could only have three books to read for the rest of your life, what would they be?
3. Red or blue? (The colors, not the politics.)
4. Coffee or tea?
5. If you could watch a debate or conversation between any two historical (aka, dead) people, whom would you choose?

[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

He was very nice, but it was odd - when I met him, he was this beautiful blond boy of maybe 22, and he liked to sail and... do other things. I was *baffled* as to why he was interested in me, since I rarely go outside unless lured there by the promise of drinks in the garden. We went out for a couple of weeks, but we had nothing in common, and I just couldn't figure out what he was interested in beyond sailing.

So that's really random, on several levels...

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

No kidding. :) But hey, a few weeks of beautiful blond boy = not a bad thing for a memory.

I'll swap you random for random. I am enough of a smartass that I have made 1) Lady Bird Johnson and 2) Andre Braugher laugh out loud.

[http://users.livejournal.com/tesserae_/]

Wow. They're both such hardasses, in such completely different ways. I was sad when Lady Bird died - I think she was sadly unappreciated.

What did you say to them?

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

Re: Lady Bird - I agree. I went to the LBJ School at UT, and the Johnson family still maintains close ties to the school, which means we got to learn a lot about -her-, not just her husband. I met her at a professor's house; she'd invited our class over for a dinner gathering and discussion, and Lady Bird was guest of honor. We'd done a role play exercise the week before and I'd been assigned Jesse Helms, and because I'm a smartass, I brought that accent along for the ride. Serves me right: as we went around with introductions, when the professor hit me, she said "and does a mean J.H. impression," at which point demonstration was required, and laughter (gracious, on her part) ensued.

Re: Andre Braugher - I grew up near Baltimore while Homicide was filming, and my senior year of HS, auditioned into a Shakespeare workshop he'd agreed to run. We were taking a break between sessions, and he was running through the list of scenes we still had to workshop: something like "3 Nurse/Juliets, 4 Mercutio/Romeos, 2 Romeo/Juliet" and, again, smartass in the back chimes in "and a partridge in a pear tree." Laughter ensues - funnier at the time because we were incredibly punch-drunk and possibly snowed-in by a freak storm.

I can't invent my life. *facepalm*

[ubiquitous-girl.livejournal.com]

Umm, I don't like bananas?

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

ME EITHER.

1. Tell me about a sense memory (e.g., baking bread smell reminds me of winter vacation in elementary school with my mom in the kitchen).
2. What's your favorite season and why?
3. Apples or oranges? (B/c clearly, NOT BANANAS.)
4. Tell me about a piece of music/artist/composer to whom you respond strongly.
5. What was your first foray into fandom?

[lilac-way.livejournal.com]

My earliest memory is from age 2 -- I was sitting on our apartment fire escape playing with a Little People Airplane with the girl next door.

Random enough?

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yup. One of my earliest memories is my parents yelling out the back door for me because I'd wandered next door to play Fisher Price with a cousin. :D

Questions:

1) Because I'm enjoying your GoodReads updates: what does it take to really suck you into a book? Plot? Imagery? Characters? Style? Some combination?

2) What one thing would you really like to accomplish in the next year?

3) Are you the same person you used to be? (How far back you go = up to you. :D)

4) Did you go to middle school or junior high (or neither/some other version)?

5) Cake or death? (If cake, what kind?)

[trobadora]

True fact about me: I'm lousy at answering questions like this. So I may have to bail out if I can't think of anything... ;-)

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

Hee. No worries. Hmmm.

1. What -is- it about Jack/Ten?

2. What one talent -isn't- yours, but you wish it was?

3. What's your favorite way to de-stress?

4. If there was one food you HAD to eat every day for the rest of your life (you could eat other things, but you had to eat this one thing every day), what would it be?

5. The visual arts (painting, sculpture, literature) or the performance arts (dance, theater, music)? (The categories are wholly mine with no other basis in reality....)

[trobadora]

Hmmm. Will have to think about those...

Re 1: If I knew that, I'd probably know the answer to all the mysteries of the universe! ;-)

Re 5: Literature as a visual art? Srsly? *g* Not that I can think of a better term right now...

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

Heh.

1) True. *Goes off to stare at that icon of yours I love so much.*

2) Well - visual's not the right word so much as... non-kinetic. Dance/Music/Theater are communicated by the people themselves, the other category isn't. Does that make sense?

[trobadora]

Oh yes, that makes perfect sense! I hadn't thought of it in terms of who is communicating it - I was thinking more in terms of temporal/non-temporal - or maybe linear/non-linear... literature and painting and such can be experienced on your own time, in your own fashion, whereas performances have a start and an ending, and they progress at a speed you have no influence over - you're locked into the linear temporal progression when you experience them. Does that make any sense to you?

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

Completely. Although for me, I think, literature sort of falls on the line in that divide, because in "my" time, yes, I can pick up/put down the book whenever, but I'm locked into the -book's- temporal progression as the author set it down. You know?

[trobadora]

I know what you mean, but I'm an obsessive rereader - in fact, I prefer rereading to reading, and I rarely read in a linear fashion. I often start somewhere in the middle, then go back to the first part, then skip to a later one... so the reading experinence isn't necessarily linear. (Even when I read something the first time, I usually read the ending first.) And what's more, even if you do read it all straight through from start to finish, it's at your own speed. One of the reasons I can't listen to podfic at all is because I can't adjust to the speed (or rather the lack of speed) - my mind just starts drifting.

[omglawdork.livejournal.com]

Oh geez. Are there any random things about me at this point that you *don't* know?

Ooh, I have one:

I saw Peter Graves (Jim Phelps on the original Mission: Impossible) on the tube once. I thought I was going to die of excitement. I was also the only non-professor in my group who knew who he was.

[wojelah.livejournal.com]

Hahahahahahaha. Awesome.

Okay, questions:

1) Kids: if you had to pick: only one, all boys, or all girls?

2) The Invisible Woman, or Elizabeth Weir?

3) Shag/marry/kill: David Hewlett/Radek Zelenka/Rodney McKay

4) Who are your role models?

5) Molly Ivins or Anne Richards?

[omglawdork.livejournal.com]

Re: #3 - OMG HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PICK?! AHHHHHHHH