Peer pressure

[dr_whom]

Yes, I finally succumbed. Don't be disappointed if I never write anything interesting here, though; it's just for the friends list.

However, as a reward for anyone who notices that this is here, I'll try to do that meme where you comment and I reply by telling you (1) whatever randomly comes to mind about you, (4) something which doesn't make sense to many people other than you and me, (5) my first clear memory of you, and (7) something I wonder about you, as well as what (2) song, (3) flavor, and (6) vowel I associate with you. Well, I'll try, anyhow.

Yeah.

—AJD, finally back in Philadelphia

(Update: I suppose I've stopped doing this by now.)

Comments

[dr_whom]

1. Yay marathon singalongs!
2. "Please Hello", I rather think.
3. Coffee milkshake.
4. "Not, perhaps, a lot better. But better, anyhow."
5. So, I don't have any clear memories of you before when I was visiting Harvard in March, and hanging out with you and a bunch of people in the CLR, pretending to work. But I obviously knew you then—at the very least, I had met you by the Noteables concert the previous semester. But all that's coming to mind is the CLR.
6. You get a diphthong, I think. One halfway between [ow] and [@w], where @ represents schwa.
7. Do you perceive a connection among your various interests?—do international relations, SF, G&S, and so on form a natural class? Or are they all distinct things that you happen to be interested in independently and, so to speak, coincidentally?

[lord-codfish.livejournal.com]

4. Indeed it does. And it has. Again, not by a lot, but by enough for now.

7. To an extent. I'm pretty sure G&S is utterly random - that just comes from being around people (primarily my mother and Elisabeth) who like G&S, and going, ooh, that's funny! As for sci-fi and IR, those are probably connected on a basic level. As I may have mentioned, I've *always* been obsessed with geography; more strangely, that applies both to real and to imaginary geography. My two favorite things when I was five were poring over atlases and the Los Angeles Thomas Guide and drawing maps (both on a national and city scale) of imaginary places. The IR interest comes out of the interest in the real world; at least some of the sci-fi/fantasy interest comes out the interest in imaginary worlds. However, the first seems clearer to me than the second: while world-building is certainly one of the most important aspects to me in sf/f stories, I also just appreciate a good plot. So, the answer to your question is yes, but rather vaguely.