How did you meet leo_ascendant? How's Vermont? How and why did you join the Camarilla? And after you left, why did you come back? (Don't get me wrong; it's a better club for it.)
Technically that's four questions, but the more the merrier. ;)
1. According to her we met at a summer community theatre performance of Grease in which I was playing Kenicke. Sadly, I don't remember seeing her at the cast party after the show, and she was too intimidated (ha!) to approach me. Later we ended up going to one anothers' high school plays, and then attended the same college (WWU), which is when we actually started dating. That would be...let's see...summer of 1995. We married in August of 1998
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1. Most of my characters draw from some combination of characteristics in myself, usually exaggerated, that I want to examine more closely in - well - a "safe" way, through play. I usually imbed them in backgrounds that encourage me to learn about topics that interest me, giving me a reason, in addition to curiosity, to educate myself. My characters also tend to be broken in some way, and their intended story arc (which may never be realized) is to find a way to fix themselves
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Writing - between Tristan, part-time teaching and supporting Arwyn's full-time teaching, I can't seem to find the time to do even pedestrian housekeeping duties, let alone any real writing. I plug away at smaller projects and admire the work of others, but to get any writing done I have to stay up late at night - a practice that has its own inherent limitations. I have found that this practice has lent itself to writing in a reactive frame, that is, in response to others. While that can be fun and productive and helpful in practicing the craft, it would be nice to have the opportunity to throw down some heavy prose of my own.
I could list others, certainly - travel, brewing, running a TT game, reading, having fun with my lovely wife - but you did say just one. ;)
Unexpected? The ease at which we've settled in, I think, and the sense of comfortableness we have here already. Definately Nicole asking to come live with us (and bring her fiancee). The snow doesn't melt off here. I've never lived somewhere that snow wasn't a "one day-two day" thing, at most. Finding out that the nearest Cam game is an hour and a half away in any direction. Finding out that I don't really need a cam game. Finding out I love to walk, love to do pilates, etc.
1. My goal in life is to make certain that there is Life in my life. In other words - when I die, I want to feel that I have lived a life worthy of rest. As Chaim Potok once wrote, "To live, merely to exist...of what value is that? A fly also lives."
2. We missed our friends. Two people in particular begged us to come back, but they were symbolic of of everyone who had fallen out of touch after we left.
2) I understand. And I'm glad you came back, also. It does help with staying in touch. And there are a lot of people who are worth staying in touch with.
Re: Rock & Bullwinkle flashback here...secret_fireJanuary 12 2006, 13:19:44 UTC
If things go well, either Arwyn or I will get a job offer somewhere in the NW for Fall 2006. (Ideally, both of us!) If that happens, we'll be headed back west some time this summer. If we don't get any reasonable offers, we stay here for another year and try again for Fall 2007. And that's pretty much as far ahead as we've planned at the moment.
Vermont is growing on me, but all our family is in the NW. That's hard to match, especially with little ones who need to grow up knowing their grandparents.
Re: Rock & Bullwinkle flashback here...secret_fireJanuary 12 2006, 13:23:23 UTC
Your turn: you have always seemed to me to have a wonderfully carefree, low-stress way of looking at life, able to take bumps and lumps with humor and grace. Does that just come naturally for you, or did you cultivate it? Or am I totally missing the Mindless Psychorage Mike part of you?
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I'm simply me. For what that's worth.
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How's Vermont?
How and why did you join the Camarilla?
And after you left, why did you come back? (Don't get me wrong; it's a better club for it.)
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1. According to her we met at a summer community theatre performance of Grease in which I was playing Kenicke. Sadly, I don't remember seeing her at the cast party after the show, and she was too intimidated (ha!) to approach me. Later we ended up going to one anothers' high school plays, and then attended the same college (WWU), which is when we actually started dating. That would be...let's see...summer of 1995. We married in August of 1998 ( ... )
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1. Is there is a common thread in your various roleplaying characters? If so, what is it?
2. What attracts you to someone?
3. What would you say is your best trait? (other than your unfailing humility, that is)
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What's one thing you're not doing now that you wish you were and why aren't you?
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Writing - between Tristan, part-time teaching and supporting Arwyn's full-time teaching, I can't seem to find the time to do even pedestrian housekeeping duties, let alone any real writing. I plug away at smaller projects and admire the work of others, but to get any writing done I have to stay up late at night - a practice that has its own inherent limitations. I have found that this practice has lent itself to writing in a reactive frame, that is, in response to others. While that can be fun and productive and helpful in practicing the craft, it would be nice to have the opportunity to throw down some heavy prose of my own.
I could list others, certainly - travel, brewing, running a TT game, reading, having fun with my lovely wife - but you did say just one. ;)
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Lots of changes. 99% of it good. :)
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2) What made you finally decide to come back to the Cam after the WW/NPC split?
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2. We missed our friends. Two people in particular begged us to come back, but they were symbolic of of everyone who had fallen out of touch after we left.
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2) I understand. And I'm glad you came back, also. It does help with staying in touch. And there are a lot of people who are worth staying in touch with.
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Do you like the New England area enough to stay?
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Vermont is growing on me, but all our family is in the NW. That's hard to match, especially with little ones who need to grow up knowing their grandparents.
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In the end, so long as y'all are doign what's right for your family, everyone will totally understand. We may not like it, but we'll understand... ;-)
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Also, what's your ethnic background?
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