Getting to know me...

[ceebee_eebee]

Ok. This is a definite first for me, but what the hell. It was fun! technosage quizzed me and here are my answers.

1. What's the name of one of your favorite restaurant and favorite meal there?

Ok. I'm gonna go snooty on this one. There is a restaurant called Picholine near Lincoln Center in Manhattan. I love it more than I can say. They have the single most amazing selection of cheeses in the universe. When you order a cheese course, the fromager brings over the cart and helps you choose a variety of different types, then pairs them with appropriate wines. They also bring fig cake, dates, red onion chutney, etc. as an accompaniment. I am never happier then when I am being pampered at a fine restaurant and I *never* get tired of that cheese and wine combo. Damn, but it's heaven on earth.

2. What was your favorite childhood toy?

I have a younger brother and he and I mostly had the same toys growing up. I think the ones we most enjoyed were the star wars action figures. We had EVERYONE. Even the ewoks in their ewok village and the band that played in Jabba's palace with their instruments. If we had only known how much that shit would be worth today we wouldn't have dumped it all when we got older. So sad.

And yes, I was a geek from way back...but a closet geek. No one ever guesses when they first meet me just how deep my geekiness runs. At least not until they see my collection of action figures still in their boxes and the picture of me with William Shatner. HA! Oh, how I love my scifi. ;-)

3. Chutes N' Ladders or Monopoly?

Chutes n' ladders. Absolutely. Monopoly always makes me so sad! I can't stand bankrupting my friends and loved ones. One of my best friends described me as having a hard candy shell but a gooey center, and she's so right. I'm a sarcastic bitch but a TOTAL softy. Monopoly is just too cut-throat for me.

4. Your favorite episode of Heroes, why?

EEEEEE! That is SUCH a hard question!!! I actually just spent the last few night rewatching some of my favorite moments from the series. It's amazing how different the early scenes with Bennet are when you watch them knowing who he really is. But my favorite episode? Hmmmm. I'd have to go with Distractions. It had some very weak aspects to it, but it also had these 2 scenes:

1) Claude throws Peter off a building. That might be my favorite bit in the entire season. I love Chris Eccleston with the heat of a thousand suns, and he rocked that part SO hard. The look on Peter's face when he realizes what happened, the casual glee when Claude sees that Peter managed not to die...I just ate that up. Not to mention the knock out punch and the "well, it's a start." JOY!

2) The Nathan is Claire's daddy reveal. I wanted that to be the case SOOOO badly, but then I thought it wasn't going to happen and they'd been playing us, and then BAM. I was screaming my head off when that ep ended.

So, I'd say it's probably my favorite.

5. One thing I would never think to ask, but would tell me a lot about you. :)

Ok. I'm actually gonna give you a hat trick. 3 random facts about me:

1) I volunteer at the Reptile House at the zoo because I think reptiles are just the most bad ass creatures ever and the zoo actually lets me play with snakes. It's crazy.

2) After college but before law school I traveled around most of Europe by myself. Met a lot of amazing people, saw lots of incredible shit. I doubt I will ever again be that free.

3) My first love was Princess Leia. I thought she was the most bad ass chick EVER. She was a leader, and knew how to use weapons, and was respected by everyone. I just couldn't get enough. I think she's always been the model of the perfect powerful woman for me. (The gold bikini debacle notwithstanding.) Yeah, Han Solo is a major hottie and I've come to appreciate his charms (and don't even get me started on Ewan's Obi-Wan), but as a kid? It was ALL about Leia.

So, that's me in a rather random nutshell. I'm not sure who reads this LJ, but if there is anyone out there interested in joining in the fun, here are...

THE RULES:

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. 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. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

Comments

[ink-stain.livejournal.com]

as if i could resist having you quiz me??? i demand questions! :)

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

But, but...you don't follow the rules! I needed something random!

Well, ok. I'll let it go, but just this once. Here are your five questions.

1) If you could go back in time and have sex with any historical figure you wanted, who would it be?

2) What is the best class you ever took in school and why?

3) If money was no object, where in the world would you want to go and what would you do when you got there?

4) Pink or Blue?

(I am totally stealing this one from technosage cause it was such a good question.)

5) One thing I would never think to ask, but would tell me a lot about you.

GO!

[ink-stain.livejournal.com]

rules, shmules! who needs 'em!

here is something random about me, though: according to family legend, the doors' "alabama song" was the first song i ever knew all the words to.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

You are adorable. Now answer the questions! I'm too curious.

[technosage.livejournal.com]

Fig cakes sound kind of awesome. I love red wine. Also, basically, you're far cooler than I had any clue to. I'm glad we did this!

I'll take two questions, if you want. I can't do five from everyone or I'll go nuts. ;)

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

Thanks! You're not so bad yourself. ;-)

Ok. Here are your two questions:

1) If were shown two doors, behind (A) was a neanderthal and behind (B) was an alien, which door would you choose and why?

2) If you had Candice's power for a day, who would you pretend to be? (Not necessarily an actual person, just an appearance.)

[technosage.livejournal.com]

Oooh, good questions! *adds them to the list to be answered*

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

I have to also comment on your excellent taste in food. My god, that sounds like heaven. I might have to go there the next time I'm in the city. I am a serious cheese fanatic (and also a drunk) this sounds like heaven. As a sidenote, a couple years ago on vaycay I had the most amazing cheese plate probably of my life and I actually almost cried at one point I was so happy. This might be more than you wanted to know about me.

Does that count as a random fact?

I am watching Torchwood right now and my computer keeps fucking up. That's another.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

That is absolutely a random fact. And don't worry, I've shed a tear or two in my time over a glorious meal. I'm sure the wine has something to do with it, but nevermind that. Fine food is a treasure. And I really do recommend Picholine HIGHLY.

Here are your five questions:

1) If you could sit down with George Clooney and Brad Pitt over a bottle of wine, what would you want to discuss with them?

2) Would you embrace lycanthropy or consider it a curse?

3) If you could learn one skill from a master (any time period), what skill and what master?

4) You need to survive for 5 days alone in the wilderness with only a knife and a flint. Would you rather be left in a desert, a jungle, or in the frozen mountains?

5) Federalist or Anti-Federalist?

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

Do you mind if I answer here? I am more private than may seem at times on my journal. You seem aces, and I'd like to get to know you, but the weirdos...*laughs*

1. This depends on when we're talking about. Now, I would talk to George about politics and ignore Brad for the most part. A couple years ago, I would have made bad sex jokes with Brad and...talked to George about politics. George and I are pretty close to the same page politically, so I think we'd have a lot of bitching to accomplish. Not very interesting, but scratch the surface of any bullshit intellectual and you'll get more bullshit.

2. I would HATE to be a were. It's the lamest power ever. I would complain constantly and make sure that I was locked up during the full moon so I couldn't hurt anymore and be all "woe is me" and stupid. I would also be pissed off that I ended up in the alpha-bdsm power group since I hate bdsm and power issues and I'd much rather be a vampire, please.

3. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. This is HARD. Either painting from one of the Dutch masters or violin from Itzhak Perlman (I love him).

4. A jungle by far! I hate the desert. It absolutely SUCKS. I adore Tahoe, but being there is even too dry. I don't know why people live in the Southwest. Egads. Mountains are dangerous. In the jungle I could probably find some fruit and make a little fort from vines or something. I'm from Florida, so all the complaints about humidity and the heat people have are sort of lost on me. Put me in a steam room and lock the door, I'm pleased.

5. This is amusing. I'm staunchly Federalist even though I'm from the South. I think that States' rights are destroying America. More like, the use of the claim to States' rights to totally eroding what made us great in our hayday. The right uses decentralization as an excuse to kill any sort of movement they dislike. I think that education, for example, should be a federal issue, with the Ed. Dept actually settling up guidelines for all states on what curicula should be. I hate charter schools and all funding to private education by tax money. Historically, being American and all, I understand the impetus towards decentralized government, but in my opinion, state legislatures tend to be full of idiots, inbreds, and legacies. Not the group I want deciding abortion rights or legitimizing gay marriage. On a larger scale, I do understand that republican government upsets many people, having the transfer of power to such a few when we are so many, which was something that the Founders couldn’t have reckoned on during the Constitutional Congress. We have grown too large for the current system, however, none of us trust each other to make a new way. That will be our downfall.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

I am totally in love with your answer to #5. I could not possibly agree more. I can understand where the anti-federalists were coming from back at the nation's inception, but now? It just doesn't work. Very well said.

And if you don't mine me asking, I've been very curious about your change of heart re:Brad. What was it that turned you off him?

[ethrosdemon.livejournal.com]

Marrying Angie to start with, but it's not so much me who decided to go off him as my friend Zahra who influences my thinking by never shutting up about topics of interest to her. I find myself often mentally towing the line without meaning to. I sort of decided to like Matt Damon more a while back. Fickle.

I've thought that we needed a governmental overhaul since I was too young to really understand what that meant, but now I fear it's impossible since we have no leaders and the country is falling apart.