I’m occasionally shocked by my own stupidity.

Just a note for you all:

Genius here (taps head) left her power cord at home this morning, so of course her laptop has no power until she goes home for the weekend (today is… Monday! Alas!). Borrowing someone else’s isn’t really an option, I’m living with some newly arrived vegetarian Buddhists who don’t speak English, and even if they had computers I doubt it’d be the one I need.

So most likely I will not be online in the evenings at all this week. No loss for my RP-buddies, of course, but a big one for those of you who usually catch me after work.

The best I can do is lug my computer to work every day and charge it using a spare before I leave, but that’ll still only get me 3-4 hours. I suppose that will depend on how much I like you all.

an interview meme

Kristen posted this meme on her journal, and I thought what the hell, let’s see what happens.

The rules are:

1. Leave me a comment asking me to interview you.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You will update your lj with the answers to the questions and repost this.

Her questions were so thoughtful I couldn’t help but carried away in answering them, please excuse the length:

1. If you could be any fictional character (from any media form), who would it be?

This one took a long time to answer. Do I choose a fictional character I most resemble, a fictional character whose life I would most like to have, or a fictional character I admire? After some consideration, I’ve settled on Amelie—she’s quirky, adorable, introspective, and there’s something about her that doesn’t quite fit with the people around her. Yet, she appreciates simple pleasures and finds time to skip stones and sink her fingers in sacks of grain, noticing the little details of the idyllic Parisian life she’s living. While her life is simple, it’s by no means meaningless, especially after Amelie decides to bring happiness to others via random acts of kindness, often acting as a guardian angel, a matchmaker, and a distributor of justice with her elaborate schemes.

What I adore about her character is that she does not have a prophecy to fulfill or a quest to complete. She’s just a shy girl, quietly and surreptitiously affecting the lives around her, proving that a banal life can be celebrated just by living it the way she wants to. She later overcomes her shyness, especially about Nino, and dares to take the plunge in approaching him. Amelie Poulain, I salute you, and I aspire to live my life the way you do.

2. What does your personal future look like right now? Do you marry, have children, adopt, travel the world solo, have 80 cats?

Travelling the world is definitely a goal, I have terrible wanderlust constantly at odds with my bank account. But not solo—the world is vast and I am dwarfed by it—the experience would be much better shared with someone else. Not necessarily a romantic someone else, good friends will fit the bill just fine, though I should like to have a child to love unconditionally someday.

Besides that, I should like to get a cat. I want him to have fine whiskers and have already picked out a name for him: Harry Paget Flashman. Harry on some days, Flashy for others, and his full name when he’s been very, very bad. A pity I’ll have to neuter him, he’d hate that.

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