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junediamanti
Twenty one questions about yourself and Harry Potter answered.
1. If you could be a Harry Potter character for a day, who would you be? Why?
Hmmm...that's a really tough one...probably evenly matched between the squid or George Weasley.
2. How did you discover the world of Harry Potter?
I worked in a bookstore for several years. The last year I actively worked there the HP phenomenon really took off, and everyone was chattering. I really resisted at first, but then finally gave in when the first hit paperback. After reading all five I was thinking, "Good, but not completely satisfying; the writing is too simplistic." Then my lovely RL friendbookwench2096, who had been showing me Mummy fanfiction, showed me SS fanfiction...and that was it. I devoured a bunch shortly after I bought my computer in October of last year, and since then I've reread all five, and found so much more than I had originally seen.
3. Are you left or right handed?
Right handed.
4. What's your favourite colour?
Grey. Black. Blue. In that order.
5. Do you have any pets? What is/are their names?
Up until a few months ago I had two platies (fish) that were named Smacky and Smiley (from Get Fuzzy). They have since passed on.
6. When was the last time you stayed up all night to finish a book?
I don't think I've ever stayed up all night. Though I came close when Jennifer Roberson released the eighth Cheysuli book.
7. What was the name of the book?
I can't remember what it's called now.
8. Have you ever had any supernatural encounter(s)?
Over the years my skepticism has been slowly growing, and has completely overtaken my limited thoughts on paganism and my wacky fascination with the supernatural. I do have moments where I wonder, though, but mostly I am cynical.
I do have a few odd moments:
Years ago I was at a high school friend's cabin. We were playing cards. Someone came up to the door. I knew it was her brother and he was bleeding from the head but he was okay. Sure enough, it was her brother, who was staying in an adjacent cabin and who had hit his head and was bleeding, but he was okay.
Some time ago the telephone rang. By the first ring I knew it was my sister. By the second I knew she had been in a car accident. By the third ring I knew she was really angry but she was physically fine. My dad answered the phone, and it was my sister, and she had been in a car accident, was really angry, and was physically okay.
I had a very strange dream once. I was very thin, pale, and dressed only in a shirt which came to mid-thing and which was dirty and disheveled. I was standing in an open yard and wanted to go to the fence and crawl through, but I was frightened to death to try, and the other people I was with urged me against it. The fence was extremely odd. It was made of very tall rough hewn four sided posts that had two pieces of barbed wire in between them. It didn't seem like it would be very effective in stopping people from getting out. Anyway, I wanted to go to the fence so badly but couldn't bring myself to do it because I thought I would die. Then a month later in class we were studying the Holocaust, and we were watching footage of what the view from the train that brought the prisoners into...I think it was Auschwitz would look like, and imagine my shock when I saw the exact fence from my dream.
9. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
Venice/Murano/Burano/Torcello was the most amazing place I've ever been. I would like to go back and spend more time exploring and enjoying it. It was a business trip when I went and I didn't have enough time to look at everything.
10. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, or white?
Evenly matched between milk & white. Dark only in emergency situations.
11. Beach or mountain?
Neither. I'm not much of an outdoors person. Forest, I suppose, if pressed.
12. Do you like your given name?
Yes.
13. What was your favourite subject when you were in school?
Loved math classes and English classes. Tremendously. Loved History as well.
14. Least favourite subject?
I hated religion classes and nonsense classes like Health, though I understand their purpose. I hated chemistry & biology only because of the experiments. Why experiment? For goodness' sake, the effects of cooling air on warm water is already known. Just give me the formulas and some problems based on them. I hate doing experiments when the results have already been known for three hundred years.
15. What's the worst job you've ever had?
I worked at a video game rental store for about a year. It was on the edge of a economically depressed area.
I hated it because of the customers. Urban kids and teens do not understand economics. We bought and sold used video games. They always expected us to pay top dollar for awful, old video games and then sell near brand-new video games for nothing. We had twenty copies of Duck Hunt and only one copy of Phantasy Star II, which was one of the most expensive games and came with a strategy guide. Yet they always expected twenty dollars for selling DH, and they expected to buy PSII for a dollar. It was a constant argument. One day a teen started yelling at me that we took advantage of them by reselling for higher than we bought. I lost it. I said "Come behind the counter for a moment" and showed him a huge shelving system filled with old games that we probably would never be able to sell. "Do you understand that we have thirty copies of Rad Racer? I don't want to buy another. No one is buying them. That's why we only pay $5. Yet you're able to turn that $5, with other games, into a good game, and then we're stuck with a bunch we can't sell." I paused for emphasis. "And if we're such evil scumbags that take adavantage of everyone, tell me why every month it's a struggle to keep the doors open?" He had no answers, of course.
The worst customers were the ones who purchased a game brand new, opened it, realized it was awful, and brought it back within the same day. They'd want their money back. How? It's been opened! Unless it's defective it's non-returnable. This always led to the worst altercations. They would never understand that we couldn't resell it for the same price. You could never make them understand that they themselves wouldn't pay top dollar for a game that was opened already. Never. Several times this led to threats. Twice I was threatened with rape. Many times they would say that they were going to break in later and steal everything. It was crazy. I had to threaten to call the cops.
A month after I quit a guy came in and robbed the store at gunpoint. The new clerk wasn't emptying the drawer fast enough and got pistol whipped right on the forehead.
16. I wanted to be a/an __________ when I grew up.
My parents tell me that I said I wanted to be a fire truck. Not a firefighter. A fire truck. But I always remember wanting to be a writer.
17. Describe the clothes you are wearing right now.
Heh...you would have to ask that. I am wearing my Day Off And Not Being Seen Except In The Grocery Store Clothes. A pair of Hanes tube socks, a pair of stretch boot cut jeans with a hole worn through in the crotch area (blushes with shame), and an extremely tacky tourist t-shirt from visiting the USS Constitution in Boston. For the second round (those jeans are gone now, btw)...really awesome dark colored stretch boot cut jeans with black & white socks and a plain black v-neck t-shirt with a teensy bit of stretch, and will be putting on black boots and dark denim jacket with missionary style color in just a moment or two.
18. Do you have any quirks that not many people are aware of?
I always eat my food one item at a time. Vegetables first, then starches, then main dish. Usually because of temperature concerns. I eat the things that cool off quickest first, and save the hottest food for last, as hopefully it will have cooled down by then. I hate getting my tongue scorched.
Honestly, I have too many quirks to list here. I'll just mention a few. Mail must be thrown out the moment it has been evaluated as "junk". It cannot sit anywhere and take up space. Nothing should be left sitting in the kitchen sink unless you have a divided sink. If the sink is divided, one side must be completely empty at all times. Rinse off plates and cups as soon as eating/drinking has been completed. I am fearful to order a meal containing pork unless I am at a "good" restaurant. I am completely obsessed with what goes in the trash...I often tear off my name and address from magazines and such, and save all such identifying text in a big "to be shredded" box.
19. Have you started your Christmas shopping yet?
I've purchased one or two things. The real shopping hasn't started yet.
20. Do you enjoy cooking? If so, do you have a favourite recipe to share?
Naw. I'm a terrible cook. It isn't logical, cooking. Some of it requires some sort of innate sense of cooking, I think. I get too frustrated when I follow recipes absolutely perfectly and it doesn't come out correctly. You have to experiment a little. Remember that biology/chemistry experiment aversion? It applies here too.
21. What is your favourite musical number and why? (Actually I sometimes ask friends this. I ask different things depending on mood. And I mean musical number from a musical of either stage or screen)
I saw Kismet when I was twelve or thirteen, and there was a number towards the very end, where a prospective bride shows up and dances. The number begins with a Z. A large woman was singing it, and I was completely transfixed.
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junediamantiTwenty one questions about yourself and Harry Potter answered.
1. If you could be a Harry Potter character for a day, who would you be? Why?
Hmmm...that's a really tough one...probably evenly matched between the squid or George Weasley.
2. How did you discover the world of Harry Potter?
I worked in a bookstore for several years. The last year I actively worked there the HP phenomenon really took off, and everyone was chattering. I really resisted at first, but then finally gave in when the first hit paperback. After reading all five I was thinking, "Good, but not completely satisfying; the writing is too simplistic." Then my lovely RL friend
bookwench2096, who had been showing me Mummy fanfiction, showed me SS fanfiction...and that was it. I devoured a bunch shortly after I bought my computer in October of last year, and since then I've reread all five, and found so much more than I had originally seen.3. Are you left or right handed?
Right handed.
4. What's your favourite colour?
Grey. Black. Blue. In that order.
5. Do you have any pets? What is/are their names?
Up until a few months ago I had two platies (fish) that were named Smacky and Smiley (from Get Fuzzy). They have since passed on.
6. When was the last time you stayed up all night to finish a book?
I don't think I've ever stayed up all night. Though I came close when Jennifer Roberson released the eighth Cheysuli book.
7. What was the name of the book?
I can't remember what it's called now.
8. Have you ever had any supernatural encounter(s)?
Over the years my skepticism has been slowly growing, and has completely overtaken my limited thoughts on paganism and my wacky fascination with the supernatural. I do have moments where I wonder, though, but mostly I am cynical.
I do have a few odd moments:
Years ago I was at a high school friend's cabin. We were playing cards. Someone came up to the door. I knew it was her brother and he was bleeding from the head but he was okay. Sure enough, it was her brother, who was staying in an adjacent cabin and who had hit his head and was bleeding, but he was okay.
Some time ago the telephone rang. By the first ring I knew it was my sister. By the second I knew she had been in a car accident. By the third ring I knew she was really angry but she was physically fine. My dad answered the phone, and it was my sister, and she had been in a car accident, was really angry, and was physically okay.
I had a very strange dream once. I was very thin, pale, and dressed only in a shirt which came to mid-thing and which was dirty and disheveled. I was standing in an open yard and wanted to go to the fence and crawl through, but I was frightened to death to try, and the other people I was with urged me against it. The fence was extremely odd. It was made of very tall rough hewn four sided posts that had two pieces of barbed wire in between them. It didn't seem like it would be very effective in stopping people from getting out. Anyway, I wanted to go to the fence so badly but couldn't bring myself to do it because I thought I would die. Then a month later in class we were studying the Holocaust, and we were watching footage of what the view from the train that brought the prisoners into...I think it was Auschwitz would look like, and imagine my shock when I saw the exact fence from my dream.
9. Where is your favourite holiday destination?
Venice/Murano/Burano/Torcello was the most amazing place I've ever been. I would like to go back and spend more time exploring and enjoying it. It was a business trip when I went and I didn't have enough time to look at everything.
10. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, or white?
Evenly matched between milk & white. Dark only in emergency situations.
11. Beach or mountain?
Neither. I'm not much of an outdoors person. Forest, I suppose, if pressed.
12. Do you like your given name?
Yes.
13. What was your favourite subject when you were in school?
Loved math classes and English classes. Tremendously. Loved History as well.
14. Least favourite subject?
I hated religion classes and nonsense classes like Health, though I understand their purpose. I hated chemistry & biology only because of the experiments. Why experiment? For goodness' sake, the effects of cooling air on warm water is already known. Just give me the formulas and some problems based on them. I hate doing experiments when the results have already been known for three hundred years.
15. What's the worst job you've ever had?
I worked at a video game rental store for about a year. It was on the edge of a economically depressed area.
I hated it because of the customers. Urban kids and teens do not understand economics. We bought and sold used video games. They always expected us to pay top dollar for awful, old video games and then sell near brand-new video games for nothing. We had twenty copies of Duck Hunt and only one copy of Phantasy Star II, which was one of the most expensive games and came with a strategy guide. Yet they always expected twenty dollars for selling DH, and they expected to buy PSII for a dollar. It was a constant argument. One day a teen started yelling at me that we took advantage of them by reselling for higher than we bought. I lost it. I said "Come behind the counter for a moment" and showed him a huge shelving system filled with old games that we probably would never be able to sell. "Do you understand that we have thirty copies of Rad Racer? I don't want to buy another. No one is buying them. That's why we only pay $5. Yet you're able to turn that $5, with other games, into a good game, and then we're stuck with a bunch we can't sell." I paused for emphasis. "And if we're such evil scumbags that take adavantage of everyone, tell me why every month it's a struggle to keep the doors open?" He had no answers, of course.
The worst customers were the ones who purchased a game brand new, opened it, realized it was awful, and brought it back within the same day. They'd want their money back. How? It's been opened! Unless it's defective it's non-returnable. This always led to the worst altercations. They would never understand that we couldn't resell it for the same price. You could never make them understand that they themselves wouldn't pay top dollar for a game that was opened already. Never. Several times this led to threats. Twice I was threatened with rape. Many times they would say that they were going to break in later and steal everything. It was crazy. I had to threaten to call the cops.
A month after I quit a guy came in and robbed the store at gunpoint. The new clerk wasn't emptying the drawer fast enough and got pistol whipped right on the forehead.
16. I wanted to be a/an __________ when I grew up.
My parents tell me that I said I wanted to be a fire truck. Not a firefighter. A fire truck. But I always remember wanting to be a writer.
17. Describe the clothes you are wearing right now.
Heh...you would have to ask that. I am wearing my Day Off And Not Being Seen Except In The Grocery Store Clothes. A pair of Hanes tube socks, a pair of stretch boot cut jeans with a hole worn through in the crotch area (blushes with shame), and an extremely tacky tourist t-shirt from visiting the USS Constitution in Boston. For the second round (those jeans are gone now, btw)...really awesome dark colored stretch boot cut jeans with black & white socks and a plain black v-neck t-shirt with a teensy bit of stretch, and will be putting on black boots and dark denim jacket with missionary style color in just a moment or two.
18. Do you have any quirks that not many people are aware of?
I always eat my food one item at a time. Vegetables first, then starches, then main dish. Usually because of temperature concerns. I eat the things that cool off quickest first, and save the hottest food for last, as hopefully it will have cooled down by then. I hate getting my tongue scorched.
Honestly, I have too many quirks to list here. I'll just mention a few. Mail must be thrown out the moment it has been evaluated as "junk". It cannot sit anywhere and take up space. Nothing should be left sitting in the kitchen sink unless you have a divided sink. If the sink is divided, one side must be completely empty at all times. Rinse off plates and cups as soon as eating/drinking has been completed. I am fearful to order a meal containing pork unless I am at a "good" restaurant. I am completely obsessed with what goes in the trash...I often tear off my name and address from magazines and such, and save all such identifying text in a big "to be shredded" box.
19. Have you started your Christmas shopping yet?
I've purchased one or two things. The real shopping hasn't started yet.
20. Do you enjoy cooking? If so, do you have a favourite recipe to share?
Naw. I'm a terrible cook. It isn't logical, cooking. Some of it requires some sort of innate sense of cooking, I think. I get too frustrated when I follow recipes absolutely perfectly and it doesn't come out correctly. You have to experiment a little. Remember that biology/chemistry experiment aversion? It applies here too.
21. What is your favourite musical number and why? (Actually I sometimes ask friends this. I ask different things depending on mood. And I mean musical number from a musical of either stage or screen)
I saw Kismet when I was twelve or thirteen, and there was a number towards the very end, where a prospective bride shows up and dances. The number begins with a Z. A large woman was singing it, and I was completely transfixed.