Meme: interview yourself

[nonelvis]

ms_prue tagged me for this. I hate picking out people to tag, so grab this if you like.

Write your answers in your own journal and replace any question or instruction that you dislike with a new one. Tag eleven people if you feel like it, or if you think you know eleven people who haven't already done the meme and won't be (too) annoyed by being tagged. Don't tag who tagged you.

What fic got you started?
Reading fic? That would probably be some long-forgotten X-Files fic from an archive whose name I've also long since forgotten. To this day, The X-Files is the only other show I've fallen so hard for I went to the trouble of regularly searching out fic for it. (It should be obvious what the other show is.)

Writing fic? According to my records – and yes, I do have a record of this – somewhere towards the end of June 2007, I woke up at 4am with this in my head. Two days later, I wrote this. Considering Jack is a take-him-or-leave-him kind of character for me, that I have no significant emotional investment in Jack/Ianto, and that I had never written a word of pornography in my life, it's fair to say that these stories came as a bit of a shock to me.

By now I've written nearly 70,000 words of porn, so I guess I got over that shock.

What word/words/phrase do you constantly overuse?
In fic: "though," "now," and a whole host of adult-rated nouns and associated verbs, which to some extent is inevitable given how few non-laughable euphemisms there are for genitalia and related acts.

In everything else: "though," "actual," "well," and "really," and though (see?) neither the semicolon nor the en-dash are words, I rely on them pretty heavily as well. (See again?)

What's the latest movie you watched?
In the theater: Salt, which I loved despite its implausibility.

At home: SHARKTOPUS, BABY!

What is the one skill you wish you had?
I wish I had actual visual design training. I am a user interface and user experience designer, and can do some limited visual design, but my company could take on more work if I had real design skills.

What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?
Fandom: Duh. I also ♥ Mad Men quite a lot, but haven't bothered getting into the fandom at all.

Obsession: See above, re: fandom.

Addiction: Cheese, same addiction as always. I love chocolate, but I'll give it up before I give up cheese.

Are you better at writing questions or answers?
Depends on the situation. For an interview like this: answers.

What websites do you always visit when you go online?
Other than my flist and Twitter, The Consumerist, Daring Fireball, a non-fandom discussion forum, and my various webmail accounts.

How do you drink your tea?
Black: sometimes with sugar, sometimes without, unless it's Earl Grey, in which case it's milk and sugar. Green: sometimes with honey, sometimes without. Iced: you guessed it – sometimes with sugar, sometimes without. (Iced tea made at home always has a little bit of sugar, though, to satisfy my southern-bred husband.)

What was the last thing you bought?
A Boston Kreme doughnut from Dunkin' Donuts. I very rarely buy doughnuts because they're so terrible for me, but I couldn't take my post-dental surgery ibuprofen on an empty stomach, and it was a total rationalization soft food, okay?

If you win 10,000 bucks today, what would you do with it?
Use some to pay credit card debt, some on a fancy meal, and set the rest aside for taxes. Trust me, you start having to pay self-employment tax on a regular basis, you'll be this full of frivolity, too.

Last concert you went to?
Sadly, I don't remember, because it's hard to drag columbina to live shows, and I hate going by myself. The next concert we're going to is Nick Lowe, though, next Friday night.

Where did your username come from?
What's the last piece of interesting trivia you learned?
Interesting to me, anyway: my husband has just put on an episode of The Saint, and the credits named the writer as "Michael Pertwee" ... whom I'd never heard of, but who turns out to be Jon Pertwee's brother.

What gets you more het up: bad grammar or bad driving?
Can't I go with both? (Although I'll admit bad driving is far more serious.)

What's the last thing that made you happy?
The aforementioned Boston Kreme doughnut.

Do you speak more than one language?
I speak French reasonably well, though I lose a little of it every year, since I don't really need to speak it that often. I can also speak a little Spanish, and can read some German, Japanese, and a few Chinese characters; and up until my early teens, I could speak Hebrew quite well. (I can still read a little of it, but the French pushed almost all of it out of my brain.)

Can you think of any more questions?
Not at the moment. It's been a long day.

Comments

[stick-poker.livejournal.com]

By now I've written nearly 70,000 words of porn, so I guess I got over that shock.

I think I'm going to refrain from ever counting that number, myself.

[nonelvis]

Gotta admit, it's a weird feeling, realizing that you've written the novel-length equivalent of pornographic fan fiction.

[ms-prue.livejournal.com]

70,000 words! Oh my. I badly need to go through your back-catalogue. Very, very glad you got over that initial shock.

Mad Men is rather good but I'm with you, no desire to go into the fandom. After watching an episode my brain takes a while to reset back to present-day mores, which is more than a little disturbing.

Cheese before chocolate... ok, I can understand that. But if someone told me I had to choose it would not be pretty.

[nonelvis]

Most of the 70,000 words is kinkmeme stuff. I still can't believe I've written more than 40 stories for that!

As for Mad Men fandom -- I think one of the reasons I'm afraid to go look is that then I'll run into people who believe Pete Campbell is just a misunderstood woobie, and then I'll be filled with CAPSLOCK RAEG.

[ms-prue.livejournal.com]

YAY KINKMEME.

Pete Campbell is a very good reason to avoid it. NGL, I love an asshole in a suit just as much as the next person (the bigger the sense of entitlement, the better!), but the idea of someone defending his character or actions... argh.