ask me, tell me.

[threeplusfire]

The problem with Livejournal is that it fosters an artificial sense of intimacy even when we know so little. I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Or something not so obvious, maybe something you just wonder about. Then post this in your LJ (if you want to) and find out what people don’t know about you.

I had to reword that meme just a bit, but the message is the same.

TCM is showing all kinds of fabulous early 1940s spooky movies, like Leopard Man and Cat People. Black and white movies on summer afternoons with cold water.

I tried to combat my horrid laziness by cleaning the bedroom. I picked up everything on the floor on my side of the room, and even vacuumed. One of the things I miss is having the bed against the wall. It prevents me from acquiring a pile of things, and I like to put my feet up on the wall while reading in bed.

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[halfacork.livejournal.com]

Which book made you fall in love with reading? Or writing. Or, fall in love with something.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Guy Gavriel Kay's trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry I think. It was one of the earliest complete multi-book stories I ever read, and I've read it at least a dozen times over. I love the bits of Arthurian legend, the nods to Tolkien and world mythology, the idea of a myriad number of worlds, the magic, the strangeness.

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

You seem very much a food-lover and occasionally your descriptions and discussions of food (especially kolach and baked goods) are joyfully hedonistic. Given this, are you allergic to any foods or have sensitivity to foods that would otherwise prevent even more gastro-adoration? I ask because, after nearly two years, I can cook with onions again and won't have someone allergic to them around.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I like to joke that have a stomach lining made of lead and iron, and it fears no food. Food allergies - I'm fairly sure I don't have any. I do tend to feel burbling and a bit pained if I have too much unfettered dairy. But my biggest concern these days is making sure I don't cram a whole lump of sticky, melty toffee or fresh marshmallow in my mouth where it might pull out my dental work.

Having lived with onion phobic friends, I salute you and your friend down to have onions. Put them in everything!

[litos.livejournal.com]

What kind of work do you do? How do you feel about it?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Currently I work part time, from home. I have a comfortable armchair that serves as my office. I work for a second generation dot-com, which has a lot of the fun and easy going aspects the initial generation did but now with more fiscal responsibility. Still lots of the same free snacks though. The company culture is friendly, open, engaging and it is all such a relief after nearly three years at a state job.

The actual work itself involves moderating user created content for various retail websites. Essentially, I get to observe in real time the peculiar habits of the online shopper. I see what hideous, hideous article of clothing from the home shopping networks is popular, learn eleventy million things about hotels I didn't want to know, and generally baffle over the consumer's tastes, spelling and absurdly high or low standards. Honestly I love this job. It's fascinating. After three years of intense, intense social work that was nothing but constant crisis management, having a job that deals so little in death and violence is a relief.

[litos.livejournal.com]

It does sound like fun!

[eroticcakejob.livejournal.com]

How are you at making friends? Why aren't we better friends?

(This is an honest question, not a whiny passive-aggressive way of complaining that we do not hang out. I would think since we're both such good friends with Sarah, we would get on a bit more - but you know, life gets in the way sometimes... what are your thoughts?)

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

While I'm great at everything in theory, actually being great in practice hasn't quite happened yet. I have a streak of terrible shyness. I went through a couple years of college barely speaking to anyone. (Melynda could tell you how when we first met, she talked for four hours straight and I must have said four words.) I'm not especially good at exerting myself in social situations, then or now. I think in the two years, since Sarah moved and then Tyler and Melynda, I've stepped backwards and hibernated socially.

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Would you want to be social?

I would enjoy meeting and getting to know you in person. Perhaps something from The Big Bang Theory's friendship diagram: http://3bits.org/drupal/sites/default/files/begin_friendship_3.png

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

That is a great diagram.

I waffle on socializing - at times I like it and need it and want it. And the rest of the time I want to be alone. But I suspect that a lot of it has to go with my crisis of the flesh.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

What about Russian/Slavic culture and literature particularly speaks to you?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Russian is an incredible language, with these intense vowel sounds. I think one of the things that fascinates me is that the culture has over a thousand years of incredible artistic history. Contrast that with the extremely rapid cultural and political change over the past two hundred years. Slavic culture and art doesn't do anything by half, for sure.I think it has a very distinct, intensely emotional quality from icon paintings to film to literature.