getting-to-know-you meme

[smells_corrupt]

There are a lot of people on my flist that I don't know so well (and even those of you I do know pretty well should do this *g*), and this seemed like a good way to get to know everyone a little bit better. Meme stolen fro snickfic.

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here's a thought:

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[snickfic]

I got purple extensions in my hair last summer! They looked really cool! Alas, I never got around to putting pictures up, and it feels like a little late now. :P

What's a thing that surprised you when you came to Washington?

[smells_corrupt]

Oooh, fun colors in hair, are awesome! I used to have blue in mine.

Something that surprised me about WA, hmmm....

I was surprised by how many days it was actually sunny/not raining, tbh. I was prepared for much worse weather. The rain surprised me too, because at home when it rains it RAINS, and it doesn't rain like that here very often.

[snickfic]

Ha ha, yes. I lived in SC for a while for school, and when it rained there, it rained. Torrential downpours, for hours. Which is nothing like rain I've seen anywhere out west.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Running out of interesting facts about myself... um...

Okay. I have a PhD (yeah, yeah, this is not about that), and while researching for it I spent a whole three months or more reading up on 1920s moral panics and banned literature. Which included having to sit at the special Dirty Books desk at the British Library to read the last copy of a pulped novel, and also reading (at 9.30 am, which made it weirder) a pornographic letter sent to an Eton schoolboy in 1927 by an Argentine diplomat. This was by far the best phase of the whole doctoral thing.

You... Is there an opportunity that you've turned down that you think in retrospect you should have taken up? Or alternatively, something you reluctantly turned down and are now so pleased you did?

[smells_corrupt]

That research sounds like fun! And really amused that there's a Dirty Books desk :D

I had an opportunity to do a summer program at Cambridge a few years ago, and I ended up turning it down, because of a different academic summer program, that was much closer to home and much cheaper. So I don't regret making that choice from a fiscal standpoint, I do regret that I wasn't able to attend the Cambridge program though, because it seemed really interesting and more in line with my interests.

[spuffy_noelle]

I love watching old series that I haven't seen yet. Last year I caught up on Brothers and Sisters and Veronica Mars. Right now I'm in the middle of Lost. Are there any shows you've watched for the first time after they were over or that you want to?

[smells_corrupt]

Veronica Mars is so wonderful!

I've watched a lot of shows after they were over! Buffy, Angel, Twin Peaks, and Arrested Development, off the top of my head.

[gryfndor_godess]

I think the scariest fictional villain ever created are the Borg from Star Trek because they have no personality or individuality, so you can't argue with them (you couldn't even beg for mercy because they wouldn't understand the concept) and they will stop at nothing to turn you into one of them.

If you could visit the set of any currently airing TV show and meet the actors and watch them film an episode, which set would you visit and why?

[smells_corrupt]

I haven't watched enough Star Trek to be familiar with the Borgs, but that sounds awful. The scariest villains are always the ones that are completely and totally removed from humanity. *shudders*

I'd probably visit the set of Psych. I love the show, and everybody seems to be really friendly, and getting along really well, and having a blast with the show. They film in Vancouver, so I might swing by the SPN set too ;).

[nvrbnkisst]

PSYCH!!!

Let's road trip there, I'll even let you introduce me as your associate "sabrinakin pumpernickle"

:)

[smells_corrupt]

Deal. But only because you said I could introduce you as Sabrinakin pumpernickle. *G*

[knifeedgefic]

I really like skulls. Aesthetically, I mean. I have skull prints on my make up bag, pencil case, a backpack I carry sometimes, several shirts and some jewelry. I have a medical quality replica of a human skull that sits on my desk, a real bobcat skull, and a real cow skull (that is currently wearing a broken pair of headphones). I'm not really a goth or a vampire or a pirate or a serial killer or anything. I just think they're neat.

You: what is something you do that you personally think is fun/cool/interesting, but which other people might think is freakishly weird? :)

[smells_corrupt]

Skulls are very cool!

This might be a somewhat lame answer, but all the time and energy I devote towards fandom activities (writing fic, making graphics, participating in discussions) is something that probably would seem freakishly weird to other people. It isn't something I think of as being weird, but that's because I'm in a fandom community where it's not weird. To people who haven't had that experience, I'm sure it seems weird to be so invested in fictional characters and worlds.