far and away
May. 6th, 2004 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigersonI’m in Hilton Head right now, soon to return…so my access to LJ is pretty limited. When I return, expect a full entry involving:
--Moonrise on the beach
--Poking things with a stick
--Squashy jellyfish (see above re: stick)
--Japanese steakhouses
--Why I still don’t get American Idol
--Why I will never get The Swan
--Familial traits
--Language skills
--Sixties-tv-couple sleeping arrangements and the ensuing cramps
--Why Dance Dance Revolution is the awesomest thing in the arcade
In the meantime, I amused myself one early morning by completing some questions that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ppaladin sent me. It’s the standard Five Questions meme, but I lost the rules, so I think I’m actually breaking them by not posting them verbatim. Foo.
WHAT I CAN REMEMBER OF THE RULES:
1. Post in my comments section if you want to be ‘interviewed’ by me.
2. Answer the questions, then
3. Post your answers, and the real rules, in your journal, and
4. Ask questions of anyone who wants them.
1) You (yourself) are a character in a role playing campaign. What are your stats? What skills do you have? What are you working to 'level' in?
Hmm.
In D&D, I guess my stats are largely substandard. Low con, strength, moderate dex; probably wis 13, int 15, and cha 13 (I like to think that when I bend my mind to it, I can maintain a presence in a room). And I am definitely currently a Craftsman class (it’s an NPC moniker), and am attempting to go up a level in Cleric.
GURPS, slightly different. No real levels, but I could give a vague approximation of stats…um…ST 8, IQ 12, DX 9, HT 11. I think. Advantages? Is there an ‘advantage: college education’? Disadvantages? It’s either advantage: faith or disadvantage: delusion, but that covers my paganism. Heavy Sleeper. Low Pain Threshold. Poor Confrontation Skills.
2) If you had to lose a limb, but could replace it with a super-robotic replacement limb for one week a month, which limb would you sacrifice and how would you deal with:
a) Not having that limb for 3/4 of every month
b) Having and using your super-robotic replacement limb?
Not an arm. I can’t deal with not being able to hug or hold; not to mention not being able to manipulate stuff. So a leg. I keep bruising my right one, so off it goes. From mid-thigh down, I guess, so I can still get…um…traction? Anyway.
I’d deal with its loss by becoming a badass on crutches. Major upper-body strength. No wheelchair for me, if I can help it. I want to learn to balance, which is one of my greater worries, and be able to stand and fall and stand again.
Having a super-robotic limb? First, I want to be able to keep a pearl-handled revolver in it, like the prosthetic leg in House on the Rock. I’d go running all-over-town, to keep the other leg in shape and just to go “Whee, look at me, look at my robotic leg, I’m running faster than the MassPike!” Last, I think I’d…um…want lasers in it. Because laser robotic limbs are even cooler. No, I don’t know why.
3) If you could colonize any planet in our solar system, which planet would you colonize and how would you govern it?
I’d choose Titan, moon of Jupiter, for its distance from Earth (lack of easy conflict), and for its proximity to other worlds, in case my own governmental experiment doesn’t work out, there are other places to go.
In all honesty, I would install a republic modeled on the Constitution. There’s a few things I would change—making the Bill of Rights a formal part, rather than a bunch of amendments…not that that really changes anything…strengthening checks and balances, removing certain of the “in case of war, suspend these bits” provision. But in all honesty, I do believe it’s the way to start. Churchill, I think, said “Democracy is the worst form of government. Except for all the others.”
4) If you had the choice of taking a horrible job which would eat your life for five years, then emerging rich, would you take it and why? We are talking 16 hour shifts counting cars that pass by in a busy tunnel, then sleeping off your working quarters, or something equally wasteful.
Nope.
Why? Because I could not be absolutely certain that the day after the five years are up, with billions in hand, about to live the good life…I would not get hit by a semi. Death is the constant risk, and the reason to live well now, even as I plan for what’s next.
It would make grad school, raising a possible family, and so on MUCH easier with money. But it also means that I would have ulcers, a shorter lifespan from stress, probably destroyed relationships with love, friends, and family, and a brain that’s rot from not being able to think about anything but work. Not worth it.
5) If you could play dress up with all your friends, with an infinite budget and time, what would you dress them up as? Describe as many or few friends as you'd like.
Ooooooo.
Mr.TheMan gets four outfits:
An Erik Satie velvet frockcoat, starched collar, cravat…Built well this time.
A royal purple zoot suit. With huge watch chain, hat, and sweeet two-tone shoes.
Formal Japanese samurai wear. Big shoulders and all.
A fantasy-inspired look, making him into a wizard. A high-level wealthy one. Ermine trim. Black, silver, white. Maybe deep blue here and there. Intricate silver embroidery.
Stealthmuffin, my genetic duplicate, gets three.
Victoriana. Corset, for undergarment. I think two outfits for over top:
one ‘everyday’: thinwale corduroy, in dark green and rust, for the bodice, and simple greens in the skirt.
one ‘formal’: silk taffeta skirt that rustles, in cream, grey, and blue, and the bodice is lace over duchess satin. Lots of detailing.
One suit of armor. Not full plate. Banded, or lighter. Meg the knight.
And at least one outfit for each of my friends. All of them. Which is why I’m curtailing this entry; if you want to know what you’d get, you’ll have to ask specifically.
--Moonrise on the beach
--Poking things with a stick
--Squashy jellyfish (see above re: stick)
--Japanese steakhouses
--Why I still don’t get American Idol
--Why I will never get The Swan
--Familial traits
--Language skills
--Sixties-tv-couple sleeping arrangements and the ensuing cramps
--Why Dance Dance Revolution is the awesomest thing in the arcade
In the meantime, I amused myself one early morning by completing some questions that
ppaladin sent me. It’s the standard Five Questions meme, but I lost the rules, so I think I’m actually breaking them by not posting them verbatim. Foo.WHAT I CAN REMEMBER OF THE RULES:
1. Post in my comments section if you want to be ‘interviewed’ by me.
2. Answer the questions, then
3. Post your answers, and the real rules, in your journal, and
4. Ask questions of anyone who wants them.
1) You (yourself) are a character in a role playing campaign. What are your stats? What skills do you have? What are you working to 'level' in?
Hmm.
In D&D, I guess my stats are largely substandard. Low con, strength, moderate dex; probably wis 13, int 15, and cha 13 (I like to think that when I bend my mind to it, I can maintain a presence in a room). And I am definitely currently a Craftsman class (it’s an NPC moniker), and am attempting to go up a level in Cleric.
GURPS, slightly different. No real levels, but I could give a vague approximation of stats…um…ST 8, IQ 12, DX 9, HT 11. I think. Advantages? Is there an ‘advantage: college education’? Disadvantages? It’s either advantage: faith or disadvantage: delusion, but that covers my paganism. Heavy Sleeper. Low Pain Threshold. Poor Confrontation Skills.
2) If you had to lose a limb, but could replace it with a super-robotic replacement limb for one week a month, which limb would you sacrifice and how would you deal with:
a) Not having that limb for 3/4 of every month
b) Having and using your super-robotic replacement limb?
Not an arm. I can’t deal with not being able to hug or hold; not to mention not being able to manipulate stuff. So a leg. I keep bruising my right one, so off it goes. From mid-thigh down, I guess, so I can still get…um…traction? Anyway.
I’d deal with its loss by becoming a badass on crutches. Major upper-body strength. No wheelchair for me, if I can help it. I want to learn to balance, which is one of my greater worries, and be able to stand and fall and stand again.
Having a super-robotic limb? First, I want to be able to keep a pearl-handled revolver in it, like the prosthetic leg in House on the Rock. I’d go running all-over-town, to keep the other leg in shape and just to go “Whee, look at me, look at my robotic leg, I’m running faster than the MassPike!” Last, I think I’d…um…want lasers in it. Because laser robotic limbs are even cooler. No, I don’t know why.
3) If you could colonize any planet in our solar system, which planet would you colonize and how would you govern it?
I’d choose Titan, moon of Jupiter, for its distance from Earth (lack of easy conflict), and for its proximity to other worlds, in case my own governmental experiment doesn’t work out, there are other places to go.
In all honesty, I would install a republic modeled on the Constitution. There’s a few things I would change—making the Bill of Rights a formal part, rather than a bunch of amendments…not that that really changes anything…strengthening checks and balances, removing certain of the “in case of war, suspend these bits” provision. But in all honesty, I do believe it’s the way to start. Churchill, I think, said “Democracy is the worst form of government. Except for all the others.”
4) If you had the choice of taking a horrible job which would eat your life for five years, then emerging rich, would you take it and why? We are talking 16 hour shifts counting cars that pass by in a busy tunnel, then sleeping off your working quarters, or something equally wasteful.
Nope.
Why? Because I could not be absolutely certain that the day after the five years are up, with billions in hand, about to live the good life…I would not get hit by a semi. Death is the constant risk, and the reason to live well now, even as I plan for what’s next.
It would make grad school, raising a possible family, and so on MUCH easier with money. But it also means that I would have ulcers, a shorter lifespan from stress, probably destroyed relationships with love, friends, and family, and a brain that’s rot from not being able to think about anything but work. Not worth it.
5) If you could play dress up with all your friends, with an infinite budget and time, what would you dress them up as? Describe as many or few friends as you'd like.
Ooooooo.
Mr.TheMan gets four outfits:
An Erik Satie velvet frockcoat, starched collar, cravat…Built well this time.
A royal purple zoot suit. With huge watch chain, hat, and sweeet two-tone shoes.
Formal Japanese samurai wear. Big shoulders and all.
A fantasy-inspired look, making him into a wizard. A high-level wealthy one. Ermine trim. Black, silver, white. Maybe deep blue here and there. Intricate silver embroidery.
Stealthmuffin, my genetic duplicate, gets three.
Victoriana. Corset, for undergarment. I think two outfits for over top:
one ‘everyday’: thinwale corduroy, in dark green and rust, for the bodice, and simple greens in the skirt.
one ‘formal’: silk taffeta skirt that rustles, in cream, grey, and blue, and the bodice is lace over duchess satin. Lots of detailing.
One suit of armor. Not full plate. Banded, or lighter. Meg the knight.
And at least one outfit for each of my friends. All of them. Which is why I’m curtailing this entry; if you want to know what you’d get, you’ll have to ask specifically.
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Date: 2004-05-06 08:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-11 06:02 pm (UTC)1. You're a woman of deep and abiding faith. Can you choose three words to give a quick summary of your particular Christian outlook--faith, hope, charity? life, teaching, resurrection? love, joy, respect? liberty, equality, fraternity?
2. You have won Powerball! It won't make you fantabulously rich, but you'll be able to live reasonably comfortably for the rest of your life without working if you so choose. Do you work? Doing what, if so?
3. What's your GenCon dream scenario? That is, you get there, and then the most awesome thing happens...you meet X, or you play in Y game, or you find that chainmail bikini outlet...
4. What's the roleplaying moment that you're proudest of? (Fertility clinic to the dwarves, perhaps?)
5. You're having dinner and drinks with a fictional character tonight. Who is it? What do you ask them?
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Date: 2004-05-12 07:08 am (UTC)For me, the holy trinity is hope, love and kindness. Faith is definitely good but not something I struggle with. Kindness is.
2. You have won Powerball! It won't make you fantabulously rich, but you'll be able to live reasonably comfortably for the rest of your life without working if you so choose. Do you work? Doing what, if so? I immediately go back to school to get my Masters and Ph.D in Medieval Studies. Having obtained such, I go about making the period realistically accessible to others in a way that illuminates our own culture. I also form a brass quintet.
3. What's your GenCon dream scenario? That is, you get there, and then the most awesome thing happens...you meet X, or you play in Y game, or you find that chainmail bikini outlet... Since I doubt he's reading it... my goal for Gencon is for Skarppsey to have a very good time. And since he won't unless I am, I'll find things I enjoy to do. I'm still rather bemused that I'm going.
4. What's the roleplaying moment that you're proudest of? (Fertility clinic to the dwarves, perhaps?) I'm still proud of the Toon moment when I managed to shock my husband by eating a small child. I never get to surprise him any more. The fertility clinic was actually in some ways a role-playing failure. I cared, but I'm not sure why Terwilliger would have.
5. You're having dinner and drinks with a fictional character tonight. Who is it? What do you ask them? Bilbo Baggins sets a great table and tells great stories. I'll have dinner with him and Gandalf, and just listen to them bs back and forth. And I'll ask Gandalf about where he came from before he came to Middle Earth.
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Date: 2004-05-06 08:58 am (UTC)Hey, what costume do I get??
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Date: 2004-05-06 09:03 am (UTC)-j
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Date: 2004-05-06 09:20 am (UTC)I hope Hilton Head (is it totally lame that despite Mike warning me he was going there for, like, 2 months, I still don't know where it is?) is treating you well!
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Date: 2004-05-11 05:55 pm (UTC)1. Your memoirs! You are eighty, and have just completed them. What is the title? Who will be angered or delighted by them?
2. What was the most stressful part about biking cross-country?
3. What other martial arts would you like to learn?
4. Tell me about your favorite Saturday morning or weekday afternoon cartoon. Either from the present or from your childhood.
5. You have the power to give someone a terrifying, horrific nightmare that will not cause lasting psychological damage but will scare the bejeezus out of them. Do you use it? Do you use it on Dubya, or on the *composer* *from* *hell*? Do you use it for good, for awesome, for evil, or not at all?
Yah, what would *I* get?
Date: 2004-05-06 10:18 am (UTC)-A
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Date: 2004-05-06 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-11 05:49 pm (UTC)2. You have won Powerball! It won't make you fantabulously rich, but you'll be able to live reasonably comfortably for the rest of your life without working if you so choose. Do you work? Doing what, if so?
3. Tell me about your favorite Saturday morning or weekday afternoon cartoon. Either from the present or from your childhood.
4. Explain "middle child" to a twin?
5. What's the most rewarding experience you've had while being a nanny?
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Date: 2004-05-12 08:10 am (UTC)questions
Date: 2004-05-06 12:29 pm (UTC)Re: questions
Date: 2004-05-11 05:42 pm (UTC)2. You have full funding and support for directing a play to be staged at the Wang Theater. What do you choose? How do you stage it?
3. What's the most memorable performance you've ever witnessed?
4. What do you use Livejournal for? Why?
5. You have the ability to determine mandatory homepages for a)all Williams students b)all citizens of the US c)all your friends. What would they be?
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Date: 2004-05-07 09:37 am (UTC)To economize, we could combine the outfits! Is there such a thing as a banded mail corset?
-- stealthmuffin
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Date: 2004-05-08 10:54 am (UTC)