the faithful five
Jan. 29th, 2013 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireComment with "Today is for cake" and I'll give you five questions. No better way to procrastinate than our beloved, five questions meme.
1. What authors (or author)has had the most influence on your writing? This can be commercially published authors or fic; it's up to you.
Josef Skvorecky and Ivan Klima have given me a love of carefully wrought sentences around very big thoughts. Racheline Maltese made me love big, grand sentences interspersed with fragments and complex constructions. Dostoevsky showed me that sentences were layers. My high school journalism teacher taught me to worship at the altars of brevity and succinctness. So a lot of them, from Eastern Europe and journalism and the pure beautiful world of stories.
2. Dogs or cats?
Cats I think. More contained. Though sometimes I miss having a big, serious dog around. I can't abide little dogs. Cats are cuter, in general.
3. Favorite Starbuck's drink?
Probably a winter time peppermint mocha, because it feels like dessert. Usually I'm a rather plain latte/cappucino drinker.
4. Do you wear perfume? If no, why not? If so, favorite scent?
I own a ridiculous amount of perfume. Most of it comes from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, though I have a collection of men's cologne in tiny bottles. I think my all time favorite thing is Tombstone - it's sassafras and cedar and a tiny bit of vanilla.
5. Where do fall in your family? Oldest? Youngest? Only?
I am the oldest of two. Quite often I have wished to be an only child. Partly because I think I might have been more temperamentally suited for it and partly because my sister and I were never remotely close.
1. What authors (or author)has had the most influence on your writing? This can be commercially published authors or fic; it's up to you.
Josef Skvorecky and Ivan Klima have given me a love of carefully wrought sentences around very big thoughts. Racheline Maltese made me love big, grand sentences interspersed with fragments and complex constructions. Dostoevsky showed me that sentences were layers. My high school journalism teacher taught me to worship at the altars of brevity and succinctness. So a lot of them, from Eastern Europe and journalism and the pure beautiful world of stories.
2. Dogs or cats?
Cats I think. More contained. Though sometimes I miss having a big, serious dog around. I can't abide little dogs. Cats are cuter, in general.
3. Favorite Starbuck's drink?
Probably a winter time peppermint mocha, because it feels like dessert. Usually I'm a rather plain latte/cappucino drinker.
4. Do you wear perfume? If no, why not? If so, favorite scent?
I own a ridiculous amount of perfume. Most of it comes from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, though I have a collection of men's cologne in tiny bottles. I think my all time favorite thing is Tombstone - it's sassafras and cedar and a tiny bit of vanilla.
5. Where do fall in your family? Oldest? Youngest? Only?
I am the oldest of two. Quite often I have wished to be an only child. Partly because I think I might have been more temperamentally suited for it and partly because my sister and I were never remotely close.
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Date: 2013-01-29 08:09 pm (UTC)I love these, and want to play along!
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Date: 2013-01-30 02:50 pm (UTC)2. What's your favorite kind of cake?
3. Last thing you read that was really good?
4. How long have you lived in your current place? Do you ever think about moving or do you want to stay put?
5. Do you have any specific goals or resolutions for this year?
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Date: 2013-01-30 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-29 10:11 pm (UTC)http://ellende-generes.tumblr.com/post/41598997990/left-this-for-my-parents
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Date: 2013-01-30 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-30 09:52 pm (UTC)But you saw it here first. ;-)
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Date: 2013-01-30 02:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-30 09:32 pm (UTC)1. What's your favorite fruit?
2. Tell me about your next house project. I know you have one.
3. When was the first time you felt like a grown up?
4. If you had to do it over again, would you still go to law school?
5. Paul Newman or Robert Redford? (Do you remember how many of these we asked each other while driving through Arkansas and towards Dallas?)
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Date: 2013-01-30 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-30 09:41 pm (UTC)1. Where would you like to go?
2. Do you believe in ghosts?
3. What's your favorite beverage?
4. What things are essential to your every day life?
5. Tell me the wisest thing anyone ever said to you.
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Date: 2013-01-30 11:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-31 01:28 am (UTC)Pecan caramel
Red Velvet
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Date: 2013-01-31 01:34 am (UTC)Those. Look. Amazing.
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Date: 2013-01-31 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-31 10:23 pm (UTC)2. If you weren't living here, where might you want to live?
3. When you were ten, did you think about what your life at thirty would look like? Does it come close to matching?
4. Who are your heroes/inspirations?
5. Obligatory cake question - please describe your ideal cake.