Well now I'm no hero, that's understood

--The Interview Meme--
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your LJ.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on....


angriestangel asked me:


1.) If you would be a teacher in high school, what would you teach?

Arghh. Being stuck with a bunch of teenagers would drive me postal in short order, you know that, don't you? Whatever subject I tried to teach, I'd certainly get sacked (or arrested, or both) in a matter of weeks, if not days. I'll be predictable and go for either art or sex education.

2.) What if Spike was a cat?

He'd have pointed ears and neat little paws and a killer death glare and tuck his tail round himself neatly when he sleeps, and get all embarrassed when he falls off the couch, and he'd hate taking a crap when anyone was looking ... wait a minute, he already does all that...

3.) If you had the chance to travel around the world for a year, all expenses paid and you would see everything you could, would you do it? Meaning you would only have 1 set of phone calls a month and a weekly set of emails at your disposal to keep in touch with those back home. Oh and for you, you could bring the dogs with you (without any hassle) .. otherwise you'd never leave lol

Of course I would. It's only the dogs and the money that's stopping me now.

4.) What part of the day do you like best and why?

I have a special fondness for the very early hours of the morning, between 3am and dawn. When you've been tired and come out of it the other side, and your brain's racing, and it's all quiet outside and you feel like you (and whoever you're with, if not alone) are the only one/s awake, anywhere. That's when I do all my best thinking.

5.) I know you've tried a lot, and are hardly freaked out by anything .. but would you skydive?

I've always wanted to. One of these days I'll find a charity deal that lets me do it for nothing. Hells, I'll even do it naked if you like...

Another edit, for the answers to grimprime's questions:

1. What do you find so intriguing about Gul Dukat?

He's like looking in a mirror. The good intentions so often undermined by thoughtlessness and selfishness, the reckless courage, the layers of self-loathing and self knowledge that I oh, so very carefully, never let myself look too hard at, the impulsive, radical life changes, the capacity to claw back from self-destruction and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat (and occasionally vice versa.) And I will dominate any conversation unless I remember to concentrate very hard on giving the other person equal air time, because I'm just as in love with my own voice as he is.

And we're both sexy as hell


2. Most embarrassing thing the dogs have ever done in public?

That would be the day Spike wiped out our Avon lady's mother at Throop Mill. He was off the lead, playing with two other dogs - they were chasing him, and he was looking back over his shoulder at them instead of where he was going. He struck her in the backs of her knees and she came down hard on her back. She was concussed and had to go to hospital, and he also ruptured a ligament in her knee. Nearly two years later, she's waiting for surgery on the knee and still can't walk properly. And until I moved away, I had to face the Avon lady every couple of weeks when she came to the door with my mother's Avon stuff, and I had to ask how she was doing. I've never been so grateful for third-party insurance in my whole life.

A close second - the time Spike and I met a man with a Border Collie bitch in season, also at Throop Mill. He told me she was in season, and the words "that's all right, he's fixed" were hardly out of my mouth when he was on top of her acting very un-fixed indeed. I never knew until that day that a neutered dog can apparently still do everything an unneutered one can, all except the actual puppies part...


3. If you could choose to live anywhere, where would it be and why?

Either North Wales or the Scottish Highlands, in an old croft in the middle of fucking nowhere. Even better would be one of those little islands off the Highlands. The climate would suit me better than the South and I'd be able to keep a hawk again. Ideally, it would be the kind of place where I could walk out of the front door with the hawk on my fist and hunt with her right there. And there would be NO NEIGHBOURS.


4. Last dvd/randomly downloaded thing you watched?

In a Mirror, Darkly...


5. What interests you so much about the type of music you listen to?

The energy and raw sexuality combined with the musicianship. And the words. I love words.

Well now I'm no hero, that's understood

--The Interview Meme--
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your LJ.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on....


angriestangel asked me:


1.) If you would be a teacher in high school, what would you teach?

Arghh. Being stuck with a bunch of teenagers would drive me postal in short order, you know that, don't you? Whatever subject I tried to teach, I'd certainly get sacked (or arrested, or both) in a matter of weeks, if not days. I'll be predictable and go for either art or sex education.

2.) What if Spike was a cat?

He'd have pointed ears and neat little paws and a killer death glare and tuck his tail round himself neatly when he sleeps, and get all embarrassed when he falls off the couch, and he'd hate taking a crap when anyone was looking ... wait a minute, he already does all that...

3.) If you had the chance to travel around the world for a year, all expenses paid and you would see everything you could, would you do it? Meaning you would only have 1 set of phone calls a month and a weekly set of emails at your disposal to keep in touch with those back home. Oh and for you, you could bring the dogs with you (without any hassle) .. otherwise you'd never leave lol

Of course I would. It's only the dogs and the money that's stopping me now.

4.) What part of the day do you like best and why?

I have a special fondness for the very early hours of the morning, between 3am and dawn. When you've been tired and come out of it the other side, and your brain's racing, and it's all quiet outside and you feel like you (and whoever you're with, if not alone) are the only one/s awake, anywhere. That's when I do all my best thinking.

5.) I know you've tried a lot, and are hardly freaked out by anything .. but would you skydive?

I've always wanted to. One of these days I'll find a charity deal that lets me do it for nothing. Hells, I'll even do it naked if you like...

Another edit, for the answers to grimprime's questions:

1. What do you find so intriguing about Gul Dukat?

He's like looking in a mirror. The good intentions so often undermined by thoughtlessness and selfishness, the reckless courage, the layers of self-loathing and self knowledge that I oh, so very carefully, never let myself look too hard at, the impulsive, radical life changes, the capacity to claw back from self-destruction and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat (and occasionally vice versa.) And I will dominate any conversation unless I remember to concentrate very hard on giving the other person equal air time, because I'm just as in love with my own voice as he is.

And we're both sexy as hell


2. Most embarrassing thing the dogs have ever done in public?

That would be the day Spike wiped out our Avon lady's mother at Throop Mill. He was off the lead, playing with two other dogs - they were chasing him, and he was looking back over his shoulder at them instead of where he was going. He struck her in the backs of her knees and she came down hard on her back. She was concussed and had to go to hospital, and he also ruptured a ligament in her knee. Nearly two years later, she's waiting for surgery on the knee and still can't walk properly. And until I moved away, I had to face the Avon lady every couple of weeks when she came to the door with my mother's Avon stuff, and I had to ask how she was doing. I've never been so grateful for third-party insurance in my whole life.

A close second - the time Spike and I met a man with a Border Collie bitch in season, also at Throop Mill. He told me she was in season, and the words "that's all right, he's fixed" were hardly out of my mouth when he was on top of her acting very un-fixed indeed. I never knew until that day that a neutered dog can apparently still do everything an unneutered one can, all except the actual puppies part...


3. If you could choose to live anywhere, where would it be and why?

Either North Wales or the Scottish Highlands, in an old croft in the middle of fucking nowhere. Even better would be one of those little islands off the Highlands. The climate would suit me better than the South and I'd be able to keep a hawk again. Ideally, it would be the kind of place where I could walk out of the front door with the hawk on my fist and hunt with her right there. And there would be NO NEIGHBOURS.


4. Last dvd/randomly downloaded thing you watched?

In a Mirror, Darkly...


5. What interests you so much about the type of music you listen to?

The energy and raw sexuality combined with the musicianship. And the words. I love words.