interviews, interviews

[ursula]

Five questions from house_elf. As always, if you comment I'll ask you five questions of your very own.

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1. What was it like to publish your first names article?

I'm afraid it wasn't terribly eventful-- but that's partly because my first names article was very far from being the first article I posted online. I had a job for a while working for the Math Forum, and one of the things I did for them was write FAQs and web articles. (You might be interested in the Roman Numerals FAQ, since it talks about some period methods of doing simple arithmetic.)

2. What are your other SCAdian interests?

I knit medieval and non-medieval items; I embroider occasionally; I hang out with my friends, get drunk, and talk about science fiction novels. To be honest my SCA and non-SCA lives tend to blend together.

I'm competing in Baronial Arts & Sciences this weekend, and I've been carving linoleum blocks to make prints as one of my entries. I'll post more examples after the fact, probably, once I have time to article-ify my documentation.

3. What is your favorite L. M. Bujold book, and why?

I like the Miles series; though there are books in it I like less (such as Civil Campaign, which I like much less) I tend not to break it up into individual books in my head.

If I had to pick, I'd probably pick the Brothers in Arms - Mirror Dance arc, which I think has the most interesting balance between wild comedy and not actually being comic at all.

4. Do you listen to filk, and if so, who?

Not really. The lyrics to An Tir's song I know best go "Fill your cups with ale or wine or beer/ 'Cause there's too much water around here" and Sixty-Nine Love Songs seems spiritually akin to filk, but I don't have any true connection to the filk scene.

I can give you a link to some nifty music though:

Real Gothic Death Metal!
http://www.sospiro.org/

This is the medieval music trio that some friends of mine started about a year ago. They have sound files up now. I painted the poster.

5. What is your favorite non-SCA hobby?

I spend an awful lot of time knitting, some of it SCA-related, some not. I've seen people list things like "reading" and "cooking" as hobbies, and of course I do these things as well, but I don't think of them as hobbies. I spend an awful lot of time breathing oxygen too, after all, but it has somehow never seemed optional ; )

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[alsoelsewhere.livejournal.com]

Interviews, is it? Color me game.

[ursula]

1. Are you one in soul with lucretiabathory?

2. Did you have piano lessons as a little kid?

3. Did any of your elementary school teachers hate you?

4. What's your favorite dinosaur?

5. How junky do you like your fiction?

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

1. Are you one in soul with lucretiabathory?
Probably not.

2. Did you have piano lessons as a little kid?
Yes.

3. Did any of your elementary school teachers hate you?
Yes.

4. What's your favorite dinosaur?
Um, Bob from Dilbert. :-)

5. How junky do you like your fiction?

ah ha! The excuse to comment directly! (Instead of hijacking a corner of greythistle's LJ.)

Apparently, considering my dislike for depressing stuff, very.

Everyone knows there are only two kinds of "literature" Shakespearean comedies and tragedies. Doesn't matter who writes them.

If there's a happy ending, it's worthless tripe, not literature.

If everyone suffers until they wish they were dead (or ought to want that) then it could possibly be "real literature". It's enough to put people off reading entirely.

[ursula]

Well, with poetry one can usually pick between sex & death ;)

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

Poetry is a write-only format. It's pleasing for the poet, but most people's eyes just glaze past verse.

[ursula]

But don't most people's eyes glaze past Literature, too?

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

Probably so, but those people are hopeless.

I can read poetry, but I have to physically participate some way. I look like a three-year-old trying to figure out The Cat In The Hat, finger pointing, lips moving, sounding out words. But that's OK. Poetry is better experienced than read anyway.

[ursula]

Maybe that's true of my poetry, but shouldn't someone like Donne have caused more happiness in others than happiness for himself by now?

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Breathing is entirely optional, it's just that not breathing is really hard and not really all that fun.

[ursula]

Picky, picky :P

[nobu.livejournal.com]

reading is entirely optional, it's just that not reading is really hard and not really all that fun.
Not breathing is only hard if people drag your ass to the hospital.

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Or in my case, you wake up.

[ursula]

See if I ever make a joke in my journal again!

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

In other news, the link to nifty music is Good Stuff. :)

[ursula]

Yeah, isn't it cool? They have some bawdy rounds of Purcell's which seemed more filk-ish, but I suppose those haven't made it into the concert repertoire yet.

[ursula]

But then, even skipping class rarely seems like an option to me. I may just lack imagination ;)

I hope you read this in time

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

I was hoping you will read this before the event. Do you need me to bring my black linen for A&S for you to use as display? I will bring it just in case

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[ursula]

That would be great! (Time to make some posters . . .)

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[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

we can cut it to the size you need at the event. Is that the only colour you need? I have some red & Grey raw silk. Let me know

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[ursula]

Black is perfect (everything I have is red, black, or white, go figure.)

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[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

great. You will do great. Don't forget to have Brian feed & water you tomorrow. see you in the morning

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[ursula]

whee!

I think that was an outcome calculated to produce the maximum number of happy contestants :)