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Newest club drug: Preparation H. I can not stop laughing over this news story, especially at the woman who used it on her face for so long and then woke up with a rash on the morning of her wedding. I am mean, I know. But it's wonderful to see karma at work sometimes.

Note to self: you are not always very zen.

Extreme Sand Sculpting. OMG. The dragons, especially, are just phenomenal.

dear child: NOTHING is cute at 4AM. EVER. 4AM is for sleeping and you should not even know of its existence. GODDAMNIT BOY, STOP WAKING UP SO DAMN EARLY.

five questions, from spoggly

1. What color is your toothbrush?
It's green and white. One of those battery powered electric ones, but the bottom bit is missing because apparently it's like, perfectly stimmie-sized or something like.

2. If you could live anywhere you wanted, where would it be?
Hmmmmm.
I really like it here, to be honest. I'd probably still live in Seattle and maybe even in my current neighborhood, but I'd be living in a little house instead of an apartment. The weather is usually more agreeable with my temperament here (although I am SO OVER THIS COLD AND RAIN IN JUNE THING) and okay, yes, hills, but this neighborhood's not so bad. But I'd also have a second house somewhere; maybe on a beach in North Carolina or the Oregon coast, someplace where I could go and write, or an apartment in New York City.

3. Have you ever been to Japan? I feel like maybe you have, but this is based on zero factual knowledge.
I have not! I'm just kind of obsessed with it, and I'm obsessed with details. *laugh* I'd like to go someday.

4. What's your favorite House ship, if you have one?
Hard question. I'm a House/Wilson girl from way back but I'm not totally set on that. I like House/13 and Kutner/13 and Cuddy/13 (okay, I'm kind of obsessed with 13, but in my defense, Olivia Wilde is hot and should be brought to my tent immediately after I assume the role of world despot). My dream guilty pleasure 'ship is actually House/Cate Milton (the south pole chick from 'Frozen'). House/Cuddy is interesting. I like unorthodox 'ships because I like to see how people can make them work and still have the characters be in character. I'll believe anything if the writer can make it plausible.

5. How did you become so awesome? Perhaps you were born that way?
Setting aside my usual modesty, I'm actually a case of late-onset awesome. I used to be seriously neurotic and socially anxious and basically a huge mess; I used to avoid human contact pretty much entirely. What you see before you is the result of thirty-one years of evolution and huge doses of anti-anxiety meds. Better living through chemistry. <3

(want some questions? ask me for some)

questions from the most glorious miintikwa

1. What is your current work in progress? (You can be as detailed or as vague as you like here-- but do tell genre, at least?)

I'm doing a semi-near-future cop drama/time travel/mystery/pulp fiction/film noir/cyberpunk kind of thing. It makes sense, really, if you read it. (I really need to pick that up again. It's a bit stalled at the moment because I have to do some research on forensics.)

2. What's your favorite genre to read?

I read a lot of nonfiction (research material, and because I just love learning stuff, seriously - I'm a bit of a nerd that way) but I'd have to say that right now it's short stories, because I'm trying to learn how to do something longer than a ficbit and shorter than an epic. *laugh* I'm reading Fragile Things (Gaiman) right now (I'm nearly done that), and a book of science essays. I don't know what I'm going to read next though. For genre fiction I think I like cyberpunk or magical realism more than anything else, but I usually get on kicks where I'll read a lot by a particular author. I did that with Haruki Murakami, who I love, and Gaiman, and the most recent was Aimee Bender, who is just marvelous (she wrote 'The Girl with the Flammable Skirt'. Excellent, so worth a read.)

3. Do you like to listen to music when you write, and if so, what kind?

I go through phases. I will listen to nearly anything - I'm not a huge fan of country (although I love old-school country like Johnny Cash, less so the new stuff, but always in moderation) or much hip-hop/rap. The three disks in heavy rotation right now are the soundtrack to 'The Piano', Yael Naim's new album and the soundtrack to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. I love the SOMA-FM 'Lush' station; I love show tunes (seriously) and I love good trance. And there's always Radiohead to come back to, of course.

4. Do you write fanfic other than House, or have you considered it?

True confession time: I was paranoid about writing fanfic for years. And I still am to a certain extent, largely because I don't really watch TV much - I watch a lot of movies or TV on DVDs (I'm going on a big Golden Girls thing right now) but new TV - I just forget about it, or I don't know what's good. So I'm still kind of paranoid about branching out because I don't know that I can get inside the characters very well and my brain locks up. Seriously, neurotic. I'd do it if I found more characters I could get inside, but I haven't yet, or at least I don't have a lot of confidence.

5. Do you watch sports, and if so, what kinds? (Olympic sports count!)

We watch the Olympics here at OMG APARTMENT, and have pretend arguments over the US/Canada divide. Chris roots for the American teams despite the fact that he's half Canadian just to spite me, and I root for Canada and get homesick and start searching out Canadian internet streaming media feeds again. I also like hockey in that I can actually follow it? But I don't watch hockey games much (it's that TV thing). I used to watch billiards with my mother a lot, actually, when I lived at home. And I love your posts about horse racing because they remind me of my grandmother who was very into that.

(if you want questions, you can ask me.) <3

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