One for the road

[sigma7]

Because I wouldn't want to let erica_roo down.


Leave a comment and I will:
a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
g) In return, you must post this in your LJ.

Comments

[erica-roo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, my turn!

[nute.livejournal.com]

Sure thing.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Oh, me, please.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

a) Because it's a good way to keep tabs on your life. And you can always render it entertainingly into words.
b) Actually, it goes back to Buffy. It all starts there.
c) The way you tell stories. "Animated" doesn't do it enough credit.
d) Riding around in your brand new..."car" isn't quite right. "Driving machine" is more appropriate.
e) What's your dream job?
f) Must be this one. It's you, for one, and you've got hair action going on there that I don't think I've ever seen from you IRL.

[rainfletcher.livejournal.com]

Me, please.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

a) I think it was your heartened defense of Animal in the hypothetical match-up of Spider-Man vs. Animal. It made me say "Yes, this is a man who gets it." The KC locale was just a bonus.
b) Right now it's D&D because of the current 4e filter. But before that, it's a cornucopia of multimedia happiness.
c) You appreciate the finer things in life. You understand the appeal of everything I feel guilty about liking.
d) All I can say is it involves Blackwater. (Wow. Those are the type of enigmatic statements I usually have to make up.)
e) If money/moving were no object, where would you live?
f) Oh, God, they're all gold. But I have to fall back on this one for much the same reason as Roo's: it grounds my perception of you a bit better. If that makes sense.

[beeform]

Haha! Me! :-)

[silent-ic-river.livejournal.com]

Me, please.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

Me :)

[nute.livejournal.com]

And here I was just saying "Dammit, we need a new Bash Wars tournament."

[brightrosefox.livejournal.com]

Okay!

[missmiah.livejournal.com]

What the hey, me too.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

a) I was impressed by your writing style and discipline and distinct vision. You relate a very emphatic and empathetic sense of self in even the most ordinary of posts. It's something I've wondered about, but have no idea how to replicate it yet.
b) A colour? Even though it's in that part of the spectrum where I'm a bit useless, of course, indigo. Is that too much of a cop-out? Firefly/Serenity, then. And that still seems a bit cheap. You're not conducive to pigeonholing, though.
c) The best thing about your posting frequency is the size of the window that opens into you and your life. It's refreshing, especially when life gets a touch overwhelming, to know that my travails are neither unique nor insurmountable.
d) I remember a few moments with your sig.other that made you positively effervescent, and to see that relationship sparkle and crackle to life was a very good thing.
e) If you could fix just one thing about our world -- what would it be?
f) Probably this one, because it's so evocative and relevant. Impressive statement.

[erica-roo.livejournal.com]

My dream job? Oh lord... besides sitting at home and doing nothing since that's not actually a job, I would have to say filming videos. I mean that's totally limited to what I know. But I do so love the filming.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

A) Wow! Well, thank you very much. My empathy and emphasis are sometimes more trouble than they're worth. They bring me as much pain as they do joy.

B) Hee, it is a little bit of a cop-out, but I forgive you. Everybody does it. I'm happy to be a reminder of Firefly, and delighted to know I'm not conducive to pigeonholing.

C) Mainly I blog to keep myself honest and to see how far I've come on my own journey. Wow, I never thought my own tribulations would serve as a refreshing reminder to anyone. Thank you.

D) Effervescent? I think that's a delightful way to put it, thank you. And sparkling and crackling are also wonderful descriptive words. He'll be delighted to hear you think so.

E) Narrowing it to one? Ooh, so difficult. But honestly, I guess the one thing I'd most like to fix about the world is everybody having more empathy than I do for other people.

F) Thank you. It was partially inspired by Frank Miller's CBLDF T-shirt design.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

a) Because you knew me way the hell back before I was me. And we understood each other, even that long ago.
b) That would be the X-Men, of course, and all permutations thereof.
c) I don't think I was more honored than when I made a guest appearance in the Late Show.
d) "It's called the lambada, Mr. DeFalco...." I have never been able to get that line out of my head.
e) Back in those days -- back before we arrived on the Internets -- what's the most important thing you've taken from those days?
f) It's tough, but I'll have to say this one. Because times change and we find the things that really matter in life.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

a) You sent me fan-mail, as I recall....
b) Coffee. That one's pretty simple.
c) You are, without a doubt and by a wide wide margin, the best person I've ever known.
d) There's always Pizza Hut.
e) Okay, I'm stealing this from above, but what is your dream job?
f) There are too, too many that're just fantastic. You could pick one at random and make a very compelling case. But I think it's this one because that's just a perfect picture.

[beeform]

My dream job?

University president. I would possibly settle for assistant director/registrar or something... but why not aim big? I want to help students in some way. Obviously, higher administration is not the most effective way to do that (and I'd probably hate all the politics involved), but it seems like a fun dream. Being an advisor someday will probably be very satisfying.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

a) I recall a few posts in the neighborhood of the '06 election being very familiar-sounding to me (and not all about politics). There are some people I add because they're a lot like me, there are some I add because they're disparate. And then there are some who're both but just more interesting about it. I think you fall into the last category.
b) Do I even need to say it? Do I even need to use the initials (say, beginning my sentences with them)?
c) You've got a ton of different and occasionally conflicting roles in your life and you work with profound patience to balance them, always erring on the side of sacrifice. I don't know how you do it.
d) Your fingers-in-the-dashboard description of...let's just call it a transportation near-mishap. And here I was thinking I had my cardiac problems all sorted out before I read that.
e) If you could tell yourself one thing at age 17, what would it be?
f) This one, quite easily. One of my favorite characters, one of my favorite writers, one of my favorite books.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

a) Because I knew how cool you were. We had something like a fifteen-minute talk and you came out of the experience unscathed and that told me you were very resilient and that you bore further observations. I was not incorrect.
b) Pigskin, gridiron, American football, yes, occasionally to your own risk.
c) You don't do anything halfheartedly. For better or worse you throw yourself into what you're passionate about. I...I guess I admire that, even if I'm occasionally watching from behind bulletproof glass.
d) There was about a six-month period where we'd cross each other's path on campus with statistically-improbably frequency and I'd fall into my default of not saying anything because I didn't think you remembered who I was and honestly there was no way to say "hi" without being totally weird.
e) What are you going to do if/when print journalism collapses on itself?
f) Gotta go with this one. Oh, what a hell of a day that was.

[silent-ic-river.livejournal.com]

Lurve the icon!
b) It's that obvious, eh?
c) Aw, shucks, it ain't no big thing. Thanks.
d) Um...was this the emergency landing of my plane? Or something else. I forget.
e) MOVE OUT NOW! Seriously, get out of that house as fast as you can. There are people who will take you in and help you get started.

Thanks for doing this. It really brighten my day.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

a) Because you make me think about things in a way that exercises my mind -- because you understand a few aspects of life that I'm still getting a handle on, specifially writing, pain and the intersection therein.
b) Has to be the written word -- I know you exist in other fandomic dimensions, but you're most assertive in the world where your word is God.
c) You don't acknowledge limits -- I think you're aware they exist, but the disdain you show them is inspirational. You write without fear. That's where I need to be.
d) Oh, we have those threads where we're spinning from the concrete conversations about writing into the hypothetical and far-flung reaches of possibility and absolutely everything is ludicrous and unbound by any semblance of linear perception and everything that can be just...is. Reality unfolds. And I think my favorite part is that I can't narrow that down to one moment or one discussion. This happens enough that it's almost less glorious. Almost.
e) What's the worst that your characters have rebelled on you? I'm sure they've thrown your plot into the blender from time to time, but when was the deviation the most profound?
f) They're all good, and I like the familiarity of your default, but I'll have to say this one. It's good to see you smile.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

was this the emergency landing of my plane?

That's the one. Because I haven't flown since Sept. 11, and I'm in no hurry to, either. That may have cemented me to the ground.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

a) Didn't I fire you?
b) Two words and they rhyme with "Balan Lickman."
c) You're a prairie fire of creativity across media and genre into fields and areas I've never even heard of. And you're remarkably patient.
d) I think it was the time I was confonted by a Furby and I actually think I might've had a psychotic break for a moment because it was wobbling around making the most insane noises and my brain was saying "I see it, I hear it, but none of this can actually be happening."
e) You can rectify one major aspect of any of your fandoms. What is it? (Or should I wait until Saturday to ask that?)
f) So very, very many to choose from. But this one is just miles above the others, if only because I remember staring at the paper and trying to parse that sentence out loud and failing for at least an hour to break it into digestible syntactic chunks.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

c) You don't do anything halfheartedly. For better or worse you throw yourself into what you're passionate about. I...I guess I admire that, even if I'm occasionally watching from behind bulletproof glass.

Yeah, that's pretty much me. Going half-assed about things has never been my style. And it has definitely paid off.

e) What are you going to do if/when print journalism collapses on itself?

I've been entertaining a few ideas: going into sports PR (basically, being an SID for a university. They definitely have a lot more job security than we do). There's also an idea I've been kicking around in my head if I ever get fed-up and I might take the LSAT and try to go into journalism law (I mean, I did pass Simon's law class with an A). One thing I know I won't be doing any time soon is going into broadcasting. There's a can of worms that I'd really like to avoid.

Oh, what a hell of a day that was.

Indeed. :D