It's a meme-ish day, it seems

[ratherastory]

I stole this from elsewhere_kels, same way I stole the previous meme.

On LiveJournal, we often think we're close, but really, we know less about each other than we like to think. So I want you to ask me something you would like to know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about, or something you've always been curious about but have never asked, or something completely silly that you'd like me to answer for kicks. No limits on the range of questions, either: ask me anything you want to know about, whether it's a fannish opinion or trivia about my real life or my thoughts on events in the offline world.

Comments

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

I have a very serious question.

... what's the offline world?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I don't know what this strange beast is of which you speak.

I suspect it's similar to that thing my cats call the People Closet™. The People open the door and go into the People Closet™ and stay there all day, so it must be pretty exciting!

[embroiderama]

LOL, I love that, the People Closet! Sometimes whole new people come out of that closet. :D

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. I have heard of this from my cats. My dog, on the other hand, thinks it is the 'go potty.'

*giggle*

[running-hot.livejournal.com]

What is your favorite movie? I generally like asking people this question, I don't quite know why.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, Lord. I don't have a favourite. There are so many movies I've loved over the years, which have made me laugh and cry and cringe and hide behind my hands in horror.

If I had to pick only one movie to watch for the rest of my life or something, I think it would be "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." It's a toss-up between that one and "Once Upon a Time in the West." They're both Sergio Leone films, both brilliantly scripted and solidly acted, directed with flair and panache. I love spaghetti westerns. :)

[running-hot.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen either, I'll have to watch them :D Never seen a real spaghetti western.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Start with Once Upon a Time in the West. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is the third of a trilogy, and the first two in the trilogy aren't as good.

You also have to give it a bit of leeway in terms of pacing, because of the time period in which it was made. I love it, but it might be slow for modern sensibilities. :)

[harrigan.livejournal.com]

I see CJ Cherryh in your interests. Tell me more!

(One or two of my all-time favorite characters in original fic are hers. I'm curious if our tastes overlap!)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, my. I am a huge, squeeing C.J. Cherryh fangirl. I love her main universe, read Cyteen two or three times in my twenties. I love her more obscure stuff (the "Nightmare" books and "Legions of Hell"), but I have to say that her Foreigner books own my soul. Her world-building skills are unequaled, as far as I'm concerned. :D

[harrigan.livejournal.com]

When I find time to read, I shall have to search your recs out. My faves are her more fantasy-oriented. I love Rusalka and the friendship between the two young men (not so much the sequels), and the Morgaine series kinda owns my soul.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, I *loved* Rusalka and have been trying without much success to get my hands on the sequels in order to read them. Haven't read the Morgaine series.

[bellatemple]

What music do you like to listen to? (I don't ask for favorite bands, because that's just cruel, yo.)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I have really eclectic tastes in music. I listen to everything from classic to country, a whole bunch of stuff from the sixties and seventies, rock and pop, celtic and bluegrass, French music and opera (I have a thing for Wagner), and I have a soft spot for musicals.

Does that answer your question? ;)

[bellatemple]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagner!

It does! Though now I'm curious as to a) what musicals, b) any particular groups from the sixties and seventies, and c) what's the most recent thing you listened to (approximately)?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Most recently I've been listening to Joan Baez. I am an unabashed Beatles fan, love Dire Straights, and lots of others I can't think of offhand.

As for musicals, the Phantom of the Opera is my first love, and Man of La Mancha. My Fair Lady (my parents and I know it by heart and sing it to each other), The Sound of Music... I could go on.

[bellatemple]

I feel a bit as though I should add "Weeeeeeeeeeeebbeeeeeeeeeeeeer" to my "Waaaaaaaaaaagneeeeeeeeeeeer". :D Faaaabulous.

What's your favorite type of music to experience live?

(FYI, I've now ganked this meme. In case you feel the need to pester me with questions in return.)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Live?

I love watching musicals: the singing, the dancing, the costumes, the choreography. :)

As for bands, I look for anyone with TONS of energy on stage. The happier they are to be there, the better for me.

[bellatemple]

Yeah, that was kind of a silly question, wasn't it? Ain't nothing that beats a live performance when you're there in person. Mmmmm.

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

What was the first erotic dream you ever had? (I'll show you mine if you show me yours)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I am embarrassed to say that I've never had one that I can remember. I dream all sorts of things, ranging from the weird to the mundane to the grandiose and spectacular, but no erotic ones. None that I can remember, anyway. Yeah, I'm weird, I know.

I *will* cop to fantasizing very vividly about Nancy Drew in my very early teens. :)

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

That would've been an unsatisfactory answer if you hadn't mentioned Nancy Drew. *giggles*

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

That's why I mentioned her. :D

So? You promised me yours! Let's hear it!

*waits*

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. LOL.

My first "erotic" dream involved Ryder Strong of Boy Meets World Fame, kissing me -- quite passionately, but probably quite inaccurately, since I was about 11 and had never smooched anyone before. Ah, Ryder.

Blech.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I remember he was very popular in the day. I wonder what happened to him?

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

*butts in*

OMG I HAD A DREAM ABOUT RYDER STRONG TOO. Back then. BUT OMG SAME. LOL.

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

He was just on an episode of ... aaaah, what was it ... Lie to Me? something I watch, lol.

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha! Ryder Ryder Ryder. What happened to him is... not as pretty. LOL. He's kinda greasy lookin' these days.

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

I can top that. My first actual erotic dream was about Ralph Macchio.

O.o

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHA.

Was there karate involve? *g* HAWT.

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

Dude. I was so in love with Daniel it was NOT even funny. I think he kept me from ever even thinking about having a *real* boyfriend for at least 2 years.

.... the level of my current obsessions suddenly does not seem so surprising ....

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

I know! looking back there were all these signs that I was meant to be a fangirl.

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

I tried to explain that to my husband ... (Who has known me since we were FOUR, BTW, and known me very well, not just like knew I existed knew me) ... and he STILL insists that there were no warnings.

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

waitwaitwait...

you've known your husband since you were FOUR?

I smell a reaaalllllyyy cute story.

*props head on hands*

humor me?

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

Oh, I suppose. But you are going to owe me comment fic, woman. ;)

Our families went to the same church back in the day. Our Moms probably met dropping us off for pre-school class or something, I do NOT remember that far back. He had one older brother then. (We were the same age so we had all the same classes.) We were both homeschooled, so our Moms joined the same homeschool group. There were like 100 families, but me, his family, and 3 other families were really tight and did EVERYTHING together. Eventually he had some younger brothers, too. (I remember changing their diapers, lolz. It's good blackmail now.) We all grew up together playing in the mud and running around the woods and climbing trees and stuff. When we were about 7 or so he figured out he loved me or something, and he started asking me out. I was in love with his older brother, so I kept saying no. When we were about 9 his next youngest brother realized HE was in love with me and started asking me out. I was still in love with his older brother so and I didn't like his younger brother like that although he was awful cute, so I started having to say no to them both on a regular basis.

When I was about 13 I FINALLY got over his older brother. Thank GOD. I love him, but if we had dated that would have been a disaster, LOL. Anyway, he asked me out once a year at least every year from when we were 7 until we graduated high school. I always said no, but we were always best friends. I'm the reason his first long-term girlfriend didn't work out. She told him she didn't like him calling me on the phone all the time, and he laughed in her face and dumped her. I headdesked b/c I REALLY wanted him to have a girlfriend, but eh. It was flattering.

Anyway, we were homeschooled the whole way through, all 5 of us. We lost track of the other families but we stuck together. Right after high school graduation, I realized, oh shit, I'm leaving for college and he's going to be like ok bai, and I'm going to come back and he's going to be like oh hai, come meet my fiance, and I realized ... that was not an ok possibility for me. So I asked him out. And he said yes. And we dated three agonizingly long pointless waste of time years so I could get my degree that I never use, and then we got married when we were 21 and we will be married 6 years this fall.

True story. Hope you were entertained. :)

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

OH my GAWD.

That is too much. Too much cute. *is suffering*

I love true happy stories.

[elsewhere-kels.livejournal.com]

Tell me about your childhood? One of your favourite memories and one of your least favourite memories?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, man.

I had an awesome childhood, actually. I grew up on a dead-end street with a bunch of kids my age. We lived in each other's pockets, spent all our time running around the street and the two alleys behind the houses (conveniently walled off). We climbed trees and went over fences, played cops and robbers and tag and soccer and street hockey, raced our bicycles and learned how to roller skate together.

My parents were thrilled beyond words to have me. They couldn't have kids, and it took years for them to be able to adopt. So they took me on adventures to the local park, read to me, played music with me (well, records, anyway: my mother is tone deaf), and encouraged me to be as creative as I wanted to be. I don't remember ever getting punished as a child, which my friends never understood: punishment for me consisted of my parents telling me they were "very disappointed" and then demanding I explain myself, which was worse than a knife to the gut.

In the summers when I was really small I had two different friends whose parents owned huge lake properties in the Laurentians (the whole lake, I'm talking), and so I often spent a good part of my summers there. When I was older I went to summer camp, first regular "sleep-away" camp, and one summer to music camp.

The only part of my childhood that was not as fun was my last few years of elementary school. Some new kids arrived in the small school where I was, and the whole atmosphere changed. Suddenly kids who'd been my friends (or at least neutral) turned on me, and I was badly bullied for three years. It started out mild, but by the time three years had gone by I was being physically beaten as well as verbally abused, by groups of kids. It was hard, but eventually we all left for different high schools, and things all worked out for me afterward. I'm just not keen on talking to these people ever again, especially when they message me on Facebook. ;)

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

What is your first name? (I know, that one's pretty personal, but it's always the one I want to know because we don't even share our names with these friends of ours! If you don't want to share, it's okay, or you can message it instead. I'll never tell :)

Julie

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's fine. :)

It's Daphné. I spell it with an accent, but all my English friends pronounce it 'Daphne' and in fact in English I mostly go by a nickname, which is 'Phnee.'