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stonepicnicking_okapiFollowing Mafief's example.
Nickname: Okapi
Zodiac: Taurus
Height: 5′2″
Time: 9:55 pm
Favourite band/artist: I don’t listen to a lot of music. Classical and/or instrumental for ficcing purposes (For example, I was listening to Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre today thinking of possible Hallowe’en fics). That said, I’m never not in the mood for Prince.
Last movie I saw: I don’t watch a lot of films. The last one I saw in a theatre was Wonder Woman last summer. When I was writing Jeeves & the Blue Train, I watched the 1974 Murder on the Orient Express on video from the library. Hearing Albert Finney ask if Michael York is as English as his tweeds always makes me smile, and there’s a villanelle waiting to be written called “If I had but the pen of a Balzac.”
Last thing I googled: Anais to get the umlaut. But these days I’m always googling ‘the labors of Hercules’ to remember what the next one is.
Why did I choose this username: It’s the nickname for my current mode of transportation, a beat-up fifteen-year-old minivan, which gets its nickname from an African bus company, no longer in business but once notorious for dangerous speed and accidents.
Average amount of sleep: With a pill, about 7; relying on my own woefully inadequate Circadian rhythms, less than 4.
Lucky number: 8
What am I wearing: A faded green summer nightgown that resembles the Shroud of Turin in thread count and stylishness. The good summer pyjamas are in the wash.
Dream job: Any job at all seems like a dream at the moment. I honestly can’t imagine anyone paying me to do anything. It’s a delicate subject.
Dream trip: If the leash ever snaps, I’m heading for the horizon and never looking back. 221 Baker Street would be first, followed by Spain, Portugal, northern Africa, back to Zanzibar and then just try to catch me!
Fave foods: Gummy bears. Smoked almonds. White rice.
Play any instruments: I played the trombone from age 11 to 18. Not a time I often revisit, but I can still read music.
Eye colour: Blue
Hair colour: Blonde
Describe yourself as aesthetic things: Oh, this is what the children have, no? An aesthetic. Ceylon tea. Eucalyptus oil. One string of fairy lights. Two feet of iamb repeated three times. Am I doing this right?
Languages you speak: English, Spanish, basic French and Kinyarwanda.
Most iconic song: somewhere between Schubert's Ave Maria and the Allman Brother's Midnight Rider, which is, of course, part of the problem.
Favorite books: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I also like The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black. My copy of Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus has survived more moves than my copy of the Bible. My favourite Agatha Christie is The Body in the Library. And my favourite Sherlock Holmes novel is The Hound of the Baskervilles, and my favourite stories are “The Illustrious Client” and “The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax” because they are the Turkish bath stories!
Random fact: Only armadillos and humans can carry leprosy.
Nickname: Okapi
Zodiac: Taurus
Height: 5′2″
Time: 9:55 pm
Favourite band/artist: I don’t listen to a lot of music. Classical and/or instrumental for ficcing purposes (For example, I was listening to Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre today thinking of possible Hallowe’en fics). That said, I’m never not in the mood for Prince.
Last movie I saw: I don’t watch a lot of films. The last one I saw in a theatre was Wonder Woman last summer. When I was writing Jeeves & the Blue Train, I watched the 1974 Murder on the Orient Express on video from the library. Hearing Albert Finney ask if Michael York is as English as his tweeds always makes me smile, and there’s a villanelle waiting to be written called “If I had but the pen of a Balzac.”
Last thing I googled: Anais to get the umlaut. But these days I’m always googling ‘the labors of Hercules’ to remember what the next one is.
Why did I choose this username: It’s the nickname for my current mode of transportation, a beat-up fifteen-year-old minivan, which gets its nickname from an African bus company, no longer in business but once notorious for dangerous speed and accidents.
Average amount of sleep: With a pill, about 7; relying on my own woefully inadequate Circadian rhythms, less than 4.
Lucky number: 8
What am I wearing: A faded green summer nightgown that resembles the Shroud of Turin in thread count and stylishness. The good summer pyjamas are in the wash.
Dream job: Any job at all seems like a dream at the moment. I honestly can’t imagine anyone paying me to do anything. It’s a delicate subject.
Dream trip: If the leash ever snaps, I’m heading for the horizon and never looking back. 221 Baker Street would be first, followed by Spain, Portugal, northern Africa, back to Zanzibar and then just try to catch me!
Fave foods: Gummy bears. Smoked almonds. White rice.
Play any instruments: I played the trombone from age 11 to 18. Not a time I often revisit, but I can still read music.
Eye colour: Blue
Hair colour: Blonde
Describe yourself as aesthetic things: Oh, this is what the children have, no? An aesthetic. Ceylon tea. Eucalyptus oil. One string of fairy lights. Two feet of iamb repeated three times. Am I doing this right?
Languages you speak: English, Spanish, basic French and Kinyarwanda.
Most iconic song: somewhere between Schubert's Ave Maria and the Allman Brother's Midnight Rider, which is, of course, part of the problem.
Favorite books: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I also like The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black. My copy of Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus has survived more moves than my copy of the Bible. My favourite Agatha Christie is The Body in the Library. And my favourite Sherlock Holmes novel is The Hound of the Baskervilles, and my favourite stories are “The Illustrious Client” and “The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax” because they are the Turkish bath stories!
Random fact: Only armadillos and humans can carry leprosy.
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Date: 2018-08-02 04:53 pm (UTC)That's an impressive amount of languages. Yah, you can totally go on your trip around the world and communicate.
I totally get the white rice part. I love sticky white rice from a sushi place.
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Date: 2018-08-02 07:30 pm (UTC)Thanks. It's just a smattering of French and Kinyarwanda. If the boys could take care of themselves, if I had some money of my own, if I had a means to make money...that's a lot of ifs.
Yeah, I can eat white rice with just about anything and be satisfied.
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Date: 2018-08-03 11:07 pm (UTC)I don't think you've mentioned the French and Kinyarwanda before - even a 'smattering' is rather impressive ^^" And I don't think you've mentioned the trombone before either, though I realise it's now quite a while since you played it. But I found it rather surprising - you don't really think of the average 11 year old wanting to learn trombone. My late uncle (my father's oldest sibling) played trombone too ^__^
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Date: 2018-08-03 11:39 pm (UTC)Well, the French and Kinyarwanda go together, so when I remember one, I remember the other. They were learnt together and used together. I've never been to France.
Band in school started in 6th grade. My older sister played guitar, clarinet, and baritone. I was expected to chose an instrument. I think it was just spite. I didn't want something with a lot of buttons so I chose the thing with no buttons. It was definitely a middle school-high school phenomenon. Not something I carried on with. It does make a lovely sound, though. WAAA-WAA!