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mrsronweasley) wrote2003-08-25 08:27 pm
You've got questions - we've got answers.
So, way before she left on holiday, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
soupytwist asked questions. I, being me, forgot to answer them. So, here are the answers. Also, the answers to canis_m's questions.
1. Which do you cope with better, too hot or too cold?
Oh, God... I think, too cold. When you're too cold, you can put something on, make it better. When you're too hot, you can only take so much off without being arrested, or otherwise, just lie somewhere unmoving, sweating and feeling gross. Eugh.
2. Do you find you're using more Americanisms now you're back in the USA? (Like, gotten or cookies or whatever?)
Yes, I do. It's funny how these things come back to you. But, also, I find myself using British slang completely by accident every once in a while, and it makes me smile. Even though it might make me totally pretentious. Now if only I had a jar of marmite to my name, I'd be almost all set.
3. What's your favourite non-At Swim quote? Why?
Oh, crikey. Ok, here's one I know off the top of my head, because it's so beautiful:
'Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky,
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.'
That would be W. H. Auden.
It just says...so much, in that one sentence. Incredible. It's such a wonderful outlook, I just wish I could adapt it easily. *sigh*
4. If everyone owned and used a Pensieve, and you had the opportunity to get a look at one - but only ONE - then who's Pensieve would you choose? (For a bonus point, did this question make any grammatical sense at all? I'm thinking not.)
Well, considering how you spelled 'whose'... ;) (Bwahah! You're ripping your hair out now, I know it!) Oh, God, I don't know...maybe... oh, doi! J.K. Rowling. Heh.
5.When one of us wins the lottery or something, would you like to go randomly travelling around all the beautiful places in the world? :) (And can we go to New Zealand so I can go 'EEEE it's Middle Earth!'? :))
You need even ASK? Dude, of course! Sheesh.
Canis's -
1.)You've just inspired unknown people to fornicate. What are you going to do next!?
I will go around on my one-person bandwagon-like crusade and throw around random pieces of smut on unsuspecting passers-by. That way I can be single-handedly responsible for the increase in population, the amount of condoms and lube bought and sold, and world peace. But I really don’t aim high.
2.) If you could permanently outlaw a single HP slash or het pairing, would you? Which one and why?
I would love to outlaw slashed!Hagrid. For obvious reasons. I’m sorry, but no. Either that, or Dumbledore/Dobby. Again with the obvious.
3.) Leaving aside the obvious, are there any other book(s) you've gone bonkers over in the past?
Oh yes. There is this Russian trilogy by Frida Vigdorova, called ‘The Road to Life’, ‘This Is My Home’ and ‘Chernigovka’. It was loosely based on real people and events, and it pretty much took up a good portion of my life from the age of 10 to…well, 18-19?.. I still love it, though I haven’t reread it in a while. I might had a chance to meet the author’s daughter, who now lives in Louisiana and knows some friends of our family, but I haven’t had a chance to make it down to N-O since I found out… *sigh* I also started translating it. So far, with very poor results. But it really is an absolutely wonderful book. It’s sort of a continuation of A. Makarenko’s ‘Pedagogicheskaia Poema’, about what happens to one of its main ‘characters’. I think the reason I was so obsessed was because it was all based on real people. And it was set at a time that I was extremely interested in – 1930’s-1940’s Soviet Union. I still get shivers thinking about it all.
4.) What was the first album you ever bought for yourself, with your own money? Do you still listen to it?
Oh man, I have to remember this? Ummm… I’m pretty sure it was The Doors, though which album… No, wait, it was… Gah, I can’t remember. For all I know, it might have been Loreena McKennitt. Damn. Let’s go with the Doors, and I do listen to it now, but very rarely. I’ve listened to them too much and that tends to spoil the effect. Ummm… *changes to a different CD from The Pogues*
5.) At the end of HP 7, do you think Remus will be...alive? Dead? Mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore? Going to Disneyland with Tonks?
Oh, Tonks in Disneyland, of course! Right. I think that, if anything, he will be dead. He’s a goner, and now all bets are off. Nobody thought it would be Sirius because he’d had too much shit piled on him as it was. But oh, look! So, yeah. It’ll be a bloodbath, and the lonely pup won’t make it. Perhaps it’s better that way. I’m trying to stay unemotional, but, well. Yeah.
EDITED TO SAY: Forgot this part! If you'd like to be interviewed, simply ask. :)
I'm tired. I am going to bed early today. I have to do a lot of things tomorrow. Bed. Early. Sleep.
My mom told me something rather upsetting today, just thought I'd share:
There was this incident somewhere - Boston, the surroundings? I'm not really sure - where a road was closed down because of an accident. This young woman, 28-30, was driving down it and she was late to work. She had to stop because the road was blocked off and she started yelling about how she was more important than the accident, she was late to work, they simply HAD to let through, blah blah blah, bullshit. Turns out, she was Russian - she moved here with her family when she was 9. Well, this was reported in a newspaper, and she was described as yelling in her 'broken English'. The headline read 'That's Russia for you!'
Now, just a minute. Excuse me. If she's been in this country since she was 9 and is now 28-29, her English cannot be broken. That's simply untrue. Kids learn faster - that was my advantage, for instance, and I hardly have any accent left. And I've been here for a shorter time. So, annoying thing number 1.
As for the headline, mistake #2. If she came to the States when she was 9, most of her education would have taken place here. And if she'd had a Russian education, she would never have yelled: 'I am more important!' because the famous motto that little kids are taught in Russia - and is pounded into them day after day, as I should know - is the complete opposite of that message. You see, the word 'I' in Russian is 'ya', and it's one letter. In fact, it's the last letter of the alphabet. So what we're taught is "'I' is the last letter of the alphabet', meaning 'you are not important, everybody else is.' (And my friends wonder what my problem is...)
So, that just upset me. Russia has never really been respected as a country, and sometimes it really shows. I find that to be so unfair. Russians are the drunkards, the loud assholes, the Commies, the barbarians. Oh, and they write really tediously long novels. And for some reason people can get away with making fun of it all. With making judgements about Russia without knowing anything about it. I may not want to live there now, but that's for my own personal reasons, and I still love it. And I respect it.
Oh, well. Life sucks sometimes.
Anyway, for a nice change of mood, here is something absolutely hysterical. If you've ever worked at a bookstore, or any sort of service like it, you have got to read this. If you merely sympathize, you have to read this. And if you just want a good laugh at human stupidity, read this.
This guy is hysterical. I want to have, like, 10,000 of his babies. (Theoretically speaking, of course.)
Go laugh. I promise you won't regret it. Many thanks tocroupier for this. Made my night.
soupytwist asked questions. I, being me, forgot to answer them. So, here are the answers. Also, the answers to canis_m's questions.1. Which do you cope with better, too hot or too cold?
Oh, God... I think, too cold. When you're too cold, you can put something on, make it better. When you're too hot, you can only take so much off without being arrested, or otherwise, just lie somewhere unmoving, sweating and feeling gross. Eugh.
2. Do you find you're using more Americanisms now you're back in the USA? (Like, gotten or cookies or whatever?)
Yes, I do. It's funny how these things come back to you. But, also, I find myself using British slang completely by accident every once in a while, and it makes me smile. Even though it might make me totally pretentious. Now if only I had a jar of marmite to my name, I'd be almost all set.
3. What's your favourite non-At Swim quote? Why?
Oh, crikey. Ok, here's one I know off the top of my head, because it's so beautiful:
'Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky,
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.'
That would be W. H. Auden.
It just says...so much, in that one sentence. Incredible. It's such a wonderful outlook, I just wish I could adapt it easily. *sigh*
4. If everyone owned and used a Pensieve, and you had the opportunity to get a look at one - but only ONE - then who's Pensieve would you choose? (For a bonus point, did this question make any grammatical sense at all? I'm thinking not.)
Well, considering how you spelled 'whose'... ;) (Bwahah! You're ripping your hair out now, I know it!) Oh, God, I don't know...maybe... oh, doi! J.K. Rowling. Heh.
5.When one of us wins the lottery or something, would you like to go randomly travelling around all the beautiful places in the world? :) (And can we go to New Zealand so I can go 'EEEE it's Middle Earth!'? :))
You need even ASK? Dude, of course! Sheesh.
Canis's -
1.)You've just inspired unknown people to fornicate. What are you going to do next!?
I will go around on my one-person bandwagon-like crusade and throw around random pieces of smut on unsuspecting passers-by. That way I can be single-handedly responsible for the increase in population, the amount of condoms and lube bought and sold, and world peace. But I really don’t aim high.
2.) If you could permanently outlaw a single HP slash or het pairing, would you? Which one and why?
I would love to outlaw slashed!Hagrid. For obvious reasons. I’m sorry, but no. Either that, or Dumbledore/Dobby. Again with the obvious.
3.) Leaving aside the obvious, are there any other book(s) you've gone bonkers over in the past?
Oh yes. There is this Russian trilogy by Frida Vigdorova, called ‘The Road to Life’, ‘This Is My Home’ and ‘Chernigovka’. It was loosely based on real people and events, and it pretty much took up a good portion of my life from the age of 10 to…well, 18-19?.. I still love it, though I haven’t reread it in a while. I might had a chance to meet the author’s daughter, who now lives in Louisiana and knows some friends of our family, but I haven’t had a chance to make it down to N-O since I found out… *sigh* I also started translating it. So far, with very poor results. But it really is an absolutely wonderful book. It’s sort of a continuation of A. Makarenko’s ‘Pedagogicheskaia Poema’, about what happens to one of its main ‘characters’. I think the reason I was so obsessed was because it was all based on real people. And it was set at a time that I was extremely interested in – 1930’s-1940’s Soviet Union. I still get shivers thinking about it all.
4.) What was the first album you ever bought for yourself, with your own money? Do you still listen to it?
Oh man, I have to remember this? Ummm… I’m pretty sure it was The Doors, though which album… No, wait, it was… Gah, I can’t remember. For all I know, it might have been Loreena McKennitt. Damn. Let’s go with the Doors, and I do listen to it now, but very rarely. I’ve listened to them too much and that tends to spoil the effect. Ummm… *changes to a different CD from The Pogues*
5.) At the end of HP 7, do you think Remus will be...alive? Dead? Mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore? Going to Disneyland with Tonks?
Oh, Tonks in Disneyland, of course! Right. I think that, if anything, he will be dead. He’s a goner, and now all bets are off. Nobody thought it would be Sirius because he’d had too much shit piled on him as it was. But oh, look! So, yeah. It’ll be a bloodbath, and the lonely pup won’t make it. Perhaps it’s better that way. I’m trying to stay unemotional, but, well. Yeah.
EDITED TO SAY: Forgot this part! If you'd like to be interviewed, simply ask. :)
I'm tired. I am going to bed early today. I have to do a lot of things tomorrow. Bed. Early. Sleep.
My mom told me something rather upsetting today, just thought I'd share:
There was this incident somewhere - Boston, the surroundings? I'm not really sure - where a road was closed down because of an accident. This young woman, 28-30, was driving down it and she was late to work. She had to stop because the road was blocked off and she started yelling about how she was more important than the accident, she was late to work, they simply HAD to let through, blah blah blah, bullshit. Turns out, she was Russian - she moved here with her family when she was 9. Well, this was reported in a newspaper, and she was described as yelling in her 'broken English'. The headline read 'That's Russia for you!'
Now, just a minute. Excuse me. If she's been in this country since she was 9 and is now 28-29, her English cannot be broken. That's simply untrue. Kids learn faster - that was my advantage, for instance, and I hardly have any accent left. And I've been here for a shorter time. So, annoying thing number 1.
As for the headline, mistake #2. If she came to the States when she was 9, most of her education would have taken place here. And if she'd had a Russian education, she would never have yelled: 'I am more important!' because the famous motto that little kids are taught in Russia - and is pounded into them day after day, as I should know - is the complete opposite of that message. You see, the word 'I' in Russian is 'ya', and it's one letter. In fact, it's the last letter of the alphabet. So what we're taught is "'I' is the last letter of the alphabet', meaning 'you are not important, everybody else is.' (And my friends wonder what my problem is...)
So, that just upset me. Russia has never really been respected as a country, and sometimes it really shows. I find that to be so unfair. Russians are the drunkards, the loud assholes, the Commies, the barbarians. Oh, and they write really tediously long novels. And for some reason people can get away with making fun of it all. With making judgements about Russia without knowing anything about it. I may not want to live there now, but that's for my own personal reasons, and I still love it. And I respect it.
Oh, well. Life sucks sometimes.
Anyway, for a nice change of mood, here is something absolutely hysterical. If you've ever worked at a bookstore, or any sort of service like it, you have got to read this. If you merely sympathize, you have to read this. And if you just want a good laugh at human stupidity, read this.
This guy is hysterical. I want to have, like, 10,000 of his babies. (Theoretically speaking, of course.)
Go laugh. I promise you won't regret it. Many thanks to
croupier for this. Made my night.
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Also? How can that newspaper even be allowed to print such bullshit?! I doubt they'd headline something about black people or something, because at the very least, they know how STUPID they'd look. This isn't any better just because it's a country that's not "our's". Fucktards.
I think you're awesome, by the way. ^.^
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Fucktards is right.
Ok, questions! :-D
1) This is a cliche, but bear with me. Where do you see yourself in ten years?
2) Your best memory ever. Go.
3) For some it's chocolate, for others it's icecream. What is your 'consolation' food?
4) Who was the first fictional character, literary or otherwise, that you had a crush on?
5) Describe your perfect mate.
:)
(Finally, right?!)
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http://www.famousjames.com/mutants.htm
It is also hysterical. Sad, but oh so true...
Grant me the patience to hold my tongue in the face of stupidity
Well, I suppose Russia deserves it. Such trivialities that never amounted to much - the Hermitage (rivalled only by the Louvre and Verasilles if combined), Pushkin (a Shakespeare and Lord Byron combined), vodka (rivalled by none)...to name but a few! that's Russia for you! (oh, and I just discovered, odd fact, that a Russian invented corn syrup!)
Erg, and I am not envying you your job. The article is terribly amusing - have people not heard of a library card? You can put all the books you want on hold, and you don't even have to pay for them! *thinks about marketing idea, slaps self on head, realising it's already been done*
Re: Grant me the patience to hold my tongue in the face of stupidity
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHH!!
A Russian invented corn syrup? Really? Huh. I never knew.
I think the concept of being able to read books and having to return them with virtually no money involved would implode brains. Maybe they SHOULD stick to bookstores. Somewhere in a faraway island.
Re: Grant me the patience to hold my tongue in the face of stupidity
*wanders off to go implode her brain in the library*
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He! He! That was fun.
If you'd like to be interviewed, simply ask.
I want to be interviewed!
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Gimme a bit of time...
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*teasing*
I love you. And, Yelizaveta, Russians have the prettiest names. So there.
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I love you, too. And thank you, Maille. (Hehe.) I think we do, indeed. (My family boasts of pretty name. My mother is still very proud of how she named me and my sister. Heh. It's very cute.)
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Gotta love America. Prohibition never ended and Communism never fell.
(of course, this comes two days after my father and I had to tell my mother that, yes, there is still a country called Russia, and no, it didn't go away when bits of it began to split off.)
That bookstore thing was absolutely hysterical and has made me think twice about wanting to work in a bookstore. Oh, and you can ask me questions if you want, but I won't hold you to it if lots of other people beg for the honour as well.
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Anyway.
of course, this comes two days after my father and I had to tell my mother that, yes, there is still a country called Russia, and no, it didn't go away when bits of it began to split off.
*smacks forehead*
It'll be ok, I promise. Someday, it'll be ok.
The bookstore thing: Ok, so I do like it, in a way, because I get to shelf cool books, and I get to walk around and see all the pretty books, and I get discounts and I can even borrow a book at a time (I am not kidding, bwahaahahaha!), but it's just soooo... just.... basically, you get books, but you lose most of your already shake faith in mankind. Because some people are REALLY STUPID. Or are REAL ASSHOLES. And they just LOVE BEING TO STUPID AND SUCH ASSHOLES. Because we, the workers, are nothing but shit underneath their boots that crawl out every once in a while for the honor of helping on them.
Anyway.
Interviewing: shall do. :)
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This, in a nutshell, is why I will never work retail again. NEVER. NEVER EVER. NOT IN A MILLION YEARS.
And eee! Thank you.
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"Hi"
Miss u
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Oh my god, I've been so worried about you! Yay!
I was going to reply to your LJ entry tonight - I was so relieeeeeeved you were still here! Yay!
I miss you too. HORRIBLY.
*loves*
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*loves you too*
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See, that happens so rarely - thank you for that. :)