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sorcyressOnce every year or two, I get all caught up in the interview meme, which often lasts forever in my crowd, as questions go back and fourth. I probably still owe people questions that I'm forgetting about, but whatever.
So, the deal is you ask for questions in the comments, and I give you some. I got questions from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
petrona and then woefully ignored by badmagic1, but then got more questions from jazzfish so YAY QUESTIONS!
petrona From Petrona:
1) Since I'm kind of new to your blog, please explain the LJ name?
The username is kdsorceress because that's what it's always been. KD are my initials, Sorceress is an identity I started using back in 2001-or-2 (which is not all that impressive compared to the friends who've had their handles a decade longer, but give me a break, I'm young). My current handle is "Sorcyress", which I thought to be a suitable misspelling.
The journal name is MOOP! with a subtitle of "The Rantings of a Terminal Optimist". MOOP! is my word, and has nothing to do with the burner crowd, Terminal Optimist is one of my favourite phrases to describe myself. It was meant to be a stopgap after I could no longer use "A Most Unusual Teenager's Views on the World at Large", but I've had it for close to two years now, soo...
2) What are you studying in college?
Secondary Education and Math! I'ma gonna be a high school math teacher, because I am insane!!
3) What is the strangest thing (by your own standards) that you have ever done?
.....ever?
Um
Er
Hum.
Wandered around NYC dressed in all black pretending to be a part of a gang and enjoying the hell out of a scavenger hunt?
Swiped a sign that Randall Munroe wrote at a multi-cartoonist event to indicate you could go past him if you didn't know who he was, just because it had his handwriting?
Spent much of third grade throwing myself down a hill trying to fly?
Man, I've done a lot of strange stuff. Possibly inventing the Rod of Kimchee --it is a piece of PVC pipe about two feet long that says "Rod of Kimchee" on it. It gets hidden around our house. You are not permitted to say the word "kimchee" (or, more accurately, "kimchi") unless you are the one who knows where it is hidden. This game worked quite well with my siblings and I for some time, though I've basically had possession since I hastily hid it in a temporary spot before leaving for college three years ago.
4)On a scale of 1 through 10, where do you put yourself in the ability to relate to people in general?
Both two and eight. I am decent at interacting with people so long as I know where I stand (and "stranger" is a very valid relationship in this case) and I like drawing out information about people I care about, because people are fascinating, but I'm hellish at actually letting people have information about *me*.
5)What puts you at ease?
...huh. Things and situations and people that make me feel safe. Being in tight, enclosed spaces --under desks especially. The roof of my favourite school building. People I am able to cry around. Libraries, personal and public. People with whom I know exactly where I stand. Collaborative, human-driven, creative spaces, to live or work. Doing math problems. The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage. Cons. Playing Are You a Werewolf (though it's a somewhat vibrant "at ease"). Other things, I'm sure.
jazzfish From Tucker:
1) What's the best thing about living in Boston?
The single best thing? Urk. Um.
Okay, the single best thing is any moment when it all hits me and I have this incredible knowledge of the fact that yes, I am Home, and this is exactly where I belong in the world. But since that's not consistent...
Eating ice cream from JP Licks while sitting in the middle of Davis Square and watching Morris Dancers before going off to Scottish Country Dancing on our ducking *excellent* public transit snuggled up against a good friend?
(For less specific, it's a toss-up between "public transit!" and the science museum. Home is the city in which you've a membership to the science museum, and a library card, amIright?
2) Who do you wish you could get back in touch with?
Discounting people who are dead...I miss Tho a lot. We talk still, and keep trying the e-mail thing, but our relationship has never been as intense as it was from about June-November of 2006, and I miss that intensity.
I miss Drummer_Dude, off the sluggy.net boards, and maybe could kinda get back in touch with him, but it'd be hard. We're Facebook buddies. but I refuse to use that as a means of communication, and there's so little other means of communication.
(Facebook makes this question strange and difficult).
I would like to know what would happen if 15!me and I actually got to hang out a bunch. I think I would like her, and also laugh at her a lot. And I think she'd like me, and be disappointed in me.
Oh! My first set of friends who were twins, Lily and Zoe. And not just because I've been crazy reading Knights of the Dinner Table this past week, and so really want to game again. They were good people, I should say hi again.
3) What is it that makes you you?
My DNA, paired with my unique pattern of experiences that have shaped my outlook on the world at large.
...Sorry, that was rather pragmatic, wasn't it?
4) Where do you want to end up?
Hard question.
Boston is the short answer, though I'm not even positive about that anymore. Some days I wish I could settle down, have a partner (or two?) that I live with, have kids --ye gods do I want children of my own someday some days. Other days, I am quite positive that I am quite content with the life I am slated to lead, with all the freedom of being childless and living --well, if not alone, at least with roommates who are of the "just friends" variety. There is a lot of loneliness to having a series of long distance relationships, but there's also a lot of freedom.
So, I'm not sure yet. I think that's okay when you're twenty and immortal.
5) Are you happy with your life?
Gods yes.
There are things that I am unhappy about, but I am incredibly happy that I am still alive and lucky and getting to run around this incredible world and take pictures of bugs and make friends with girl scouts and such. I love my life, a lot.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: meh, so are several other people, I am sure has has just been too busy for question-giving, as I myself often am. No actual negative feelings. :)
So, the deal is you ask for questions in the comments, and I give you some. I got questions from
petrona and then woefully ignored by badmagic1, but then got more questions from jazzfish so YAY QUESTIONS!petrona From Petrona: 1) Since I'm kind of new to your blog, please explain the LJ name?
The username is kdsorceress because that's what it's always been. KD are my initials, Sorceress is an identity I started using back in 2001-or-2 (which is not all that impressive compared to the friends who've had their handles a decade longer, but give me a break, I'm young). My current handle is "Sorcyress", which I thought to be a suitable misspelling.
The journal name is MOOP! with a subtitle of "The Rantings of a Terminal Optimist". MOOP! is my word, and has nothing to do with the burner crowd, Terminal Optimist is one of my favourite phrases to describe myself. It was meant to be a stopgap after I could no longer use "A Most Unusual Teenager's Views on the World at Large", but I've had it for close to two years now, soo...
2) What are you studying in college?
Secondary Education and Math! I'ma gonna be a high school math teacher, because I am insane!!
3) What is the strangest thing (by your own standards) that you have ever done?
.....ever?
Um
Er
Hum.
Wandered around NYC dressed in all black pretending to be a part of a gang and enjoying the hell out of a scavenger hunt?
Swiped a sign that Randall Munroe wrote at a multi-cartoonist event to indicate you could go past him if you didn't know who he was, just because it had his handwriting?
Spent much of third grade throwing myself down a hill trying to fly?
Man, I've done a lot of strange stuff. Possibly inventing the Rod of Kimchee --it is a piece of PVC pipe about two feet long that says "Rod of Kimchee" on it. It gets hidden around our house. You are not permitted to say the word "kimchee" (or, more accurately, "kimchi") unless you are the one who knows where it is hidden. This game worked quite well with my siblings and I for some time, though I've basically had possession since I hastily hid it in a temporary spot before leaving for college three years ago.
4)On a scale of 1 through 10, where do you put yourself in the ability to relate to people in general?
Both two and eight. I am decent at interacting with people so long as I know where I stand (and "stranger" is a very valid relationship in this case) and I like drawing out information about people I care about, because people are fascinating, but I'm hellish at actually letting people have information about *me*.
5)What puts you at ease?
...huh. Things and situations and people that make me feel safe. Being in tight, enclosed spaces --under desks especially. The roof of my favourite school building. People I am able to cry around. Libraries, personal and public. People with whom I know exactly where I stand. Collaborative, human-driven, creative spaces, to live or work. Doing math problems. The Pirate's Mixed Up Voyage. Cons. Playing Are You a Werewolf (though it's a somewhat vibrant "at ease"). Other things, I'm sure.
jazzfish From Tucker:1) What's the best thing about living in Boston?
The single best thing? Urk. Um.
Okay, the single best thing is any moment when it all hits me and I have this incredible knowledge of the fact that yes, I am Home, and this is exactly where I belong in the world. But since that's not consistent...
Eating ice cream from JP Licks while sitting in the middle of Davis Square and watching Morris Dancers before going off to Scottish Country Dancing on our ducking *excellent* public transit snuggled up against a good friend?
(For less specific, it's a toss-up between "public transit!" and the science museum. Home is the city in which you've a membership to the science museum, and a library card, amIright?
2) Who do you wish you could get back in touch with?
Discounting people who are dead...I miss Tho a lot. We talk still, and keep trying the e-mail thing, but our relationship has never been as intense as it was from about June-November of 2006, and I miss that intensity.
I miss Drummer_Dude, off the sluggy.net boards, and maybe could kinda get back in touch with him, but it'd be hard. We're Facebook buddies. but I refuse to use that as a means of communication, and there's so little other means of communication.
(Facebook makes this question strange and difficult).
I would like to know what would happen if 15!me and I actually got to hang out a bunch. I think I would like her, and also laugh at her a lot. And I think she'd like me, and be disappointed in me.
Oh! My first set of friends who were twins, Lily and Zoe. And not just because I've been crazy reading Knights of the Dinner Table this past week, and so really want to game again. They were good people, I should say hi again.
3) What is it that makes you you?
My DNA, paired with my unique pattern of experiences that have shaped my outlook on the world at large.
...Sorry, that was rather pragmatic, wasn't it?
4) Where do you want to end up?
Hard question.
Boston is the short answer, though I'm not even positive about that anymore. Some days I wish I could settle down, have a partner (or two?) that I live with, have kids --ye gods do I want children of my own someday some days. Other days, I am quite positive that I am quite content with the life I am slated to lead, with all the freedom of being childless and living --well, if not alone, at least with roommates who are of the "just friends" variety. There is a lot of loneliness to having a series of long distance relationships, but there's also a lot of freedom.
So, I'm not sure yet. I think that's okay when you're twenty and immortal.
5) Are you happy with your life?
Gods yes.
There are things that I am unhappy about, but I am incredibly happy that I am still alive and lucky and getting to run around this incredible world and take pictures of bugs and make friends with girl scouts and such. I love my life, a lot.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: meh, so are several other people, I am sure has has just been too busy for question-giving, as I myself often am. No actual negative feelings. :)
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on 2010-07-17 10:17 am (UTC)no subject
on 2010-07-17 06:26 pm (UTC)Also, there might have been a spare rule that the people who didn't own it could say the word, but were risking being beaten with the stick. Which could serve as a strategy for getting the stick unhidden --if you couldn't find it in one hiding spot, you'd get it revealed, and hopefully chase them into another room or part of the house. (It wasn't allowed to go outside, or be hidden in any private rooms. Possibly not the basement, either.)
Also, would you like questions?
~Sor
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on 2010-07-17 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-07-23 05:46 pm (UTC)1) So, you seem to be at least familiar with kimchi --what sorts of delicious foods do you like besides it?
2) You mentioned getting trapped in the land of TV Tropes --do you have a favourite page? (Mine is Brian Blessed, warning, tvtropes will ruin your life, don't click that link)
3) I'm totally stealing a question from Racklesaurus above --what got you into the whole (for lack of a better term) social justice thing?
4) Are you a city person or a country person? Which cities? Which bits of country?
5) Did you ever go through a stage where you wanted a pony more than anything? What about a fire truck?
~Sor
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on 2010-07-23 08:10 pm (UTC)I love food.
2. I can't say I have a distinct favorite, but I do tend to fond over any and all of the index-type pages (I.E. The Index Is Watching You, This Trope Name References Itself) and I'm not especially fond of tropes pages that are about tropes pages (I.E. ociety To Prevent Overly Original Names, Friends Of Really Kool Sobriquet, Kalculated Naming Indifference Violent Enforcement Section, People Letting All Trope Titles Exist Relishably) I have been known to spend an entire 40 hour workweek immersed in tropes.
3. Getting into social justice...pretty much happened organically as I grew up. I'm poor, female, and NDN. Social injustice was never something I had the option of not noticing. I'm pretty sure the internet and contact with other actual social justice seekers helped me more than any of my 'social awareness' type classes in college, though. It certainly smacked me over the head with the algorithm of privileges I enjoy more than classes ever did, and taught me how to not be a douche and operate in an intersectionally aware manner.
4. I wouldn't classify myself as either of those things, because I'm from Rhode Island and we have both run through a blender into a chunky mix of city/country/city/country without large expanses of either. The cities with which I'm familiar and comfortable include Providence and its outlying areas, and Boston. Country that I'm familiar with is large chunks of northeastern coastal woodland (Re: many weeks over the course of my childhood spent in Miles Standish State Forest, greenspace areas near my childhood home, tiny local farms all over Southern New England that I visited sporadically through my youth) I'm pretty versatile about where I feel comfortable/where I can survive.
That said, I live on the Internet at this point in my life. Meat-space is tangential to that. When I cannot connect to the Internet, I feel unsettled and disconnected from most of my social support network and the important people in my life.
5. Not really. I had vague 'a horse might be nice' ideations through early childhood, firmly stamped down when I spent a week at an equestrian summer camp at age 11 (I have been firmly in the FUCK HORSES camp ever since). I never really cared about vehicles other than bikes.
What I wanted more than anything as a child was to not be a child. Took a while, but I eventually got that wish.