nozenfordaddy

THE RULES
1. Leave me a comment with "Ask me a question" in the subject line.
2. I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

1. Describe your perfect day, from the moment you wake up to bedtime?

I wake up late, 9:30 or 10 ish, and someone has left me a perfectly brewed still steaming caramel latte and a works bagel with cream cheese.

Without getting out of bed I discover that there is a Law and Order (any of them) or West Wing marathon on. I fluff my pillows and settle in to watch with my coffee and bagel.

Hours later I shower, clothe myself in my Yoga going best (aka stretching pants and a tank top) and go to the park.

It is miraculously a gorgeous, not to hot day and I find a shady-ish spot to read a book, have a picnic and drink lemonade until it starts to get dark at which point I go home and return to the marathon on TV and the steak dinner someone has prepared for me.

I go to bed early with a purring ball of kitty.

2. How did you get into RPing?

Once upon a time, way back when I sucked into a D&D game - table top - in the dorms in college. I played various tabletop games for years and I enjoyed them but I always liked learning the system, and creating the characters more than the actual mechanics of playing. At some point I started prompt writing with my first pup online. I was trawling the web one day and came across HnM, I stalked it for a few weeks... and I was hooked.

3. Favorite book and why?

Persuasion by Jane Austen. There are a few reasons, but the biggest is that there is a lesson in it about hope, and faithfulness and strength in the face of utter despair. This lesson may not have touched me as deeply except the first time I saw the movie persuasion (having never read the book) was 9-11. It was the only thing on TV other than the same horrifying clips, over and over and I was alone at home all day.

By the end of the day, I'd watched the movie twice and read the book on Project Gutenberg. I read the book probably twice a year now, whenever I need a reminder about how strong people are.

4. You're given control of the Haurvatat candy store. What would you want it stocked with?

Licorice. Red vines, and ropes and those little black licorice things covered in a candy shell.

5. First and/or biggest crush?

My first crush and the longest lived as it is alive and well is Richard Dean Anderson. AKA MacGyver, Jack O'Neill, and Jeff Webber.

My mom has told me that whenever he was on General Hospital I would sit glued to the TV or walk up to it and pat his face - I was 2.5 when he left the show. I was six when MacGyver started - and I wasn't allowed to watch it because it was not a kids show and it was on late (like 9 pm). But it has this catchy theme music and I'd force myself to stay awake in bed until I could hear it and then I'd sneak out and sit behind the couch and listen to it. As a teenager there was Stargate SG1.

I might stop adoring the man if he stopped being a smart ass. But this is unlikely.