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Date: 2009-12-16 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 09:01 pm (UTC)Strange, foreign, fondant covered sugar treats.
Sharp pointy things make you giggle.
You gave me the 'heraldic no' expression.
How'd you decide on Microbiology as a profession?
I like this one:
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Date: 2009-12-16 09:12 pm (UTC)And my interests were wandering between immunology and genetics, and somebody told me I'd never be able to get the opening in the Lab studying anti-Chlamydia immunity. They were wrong. I even got the most immunology-oriented project there. So I'm only interested in microorganisms in their interaction with the host.
That is, unless it's related to cooking...
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Date: 2009-12-16 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 09:02 pm (UTC)You will always be "matt's mary" (thats a good thing).
You seem like a very straight forward person.
Eating food in NYc. Nom.
If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
I like this one:
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Date: 2009-12-16 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 09:02 pm (UTC)You remind me of yellow, it's a happy color.
You seem to be a calming influence for those around you.
Sitting under the tent at Roses, during the pouring down rain, telling stories of random stuff.
What in life inspires you?
I like this one:
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Date: 2009-12-17 05:09 pm (UTC)I love my Bugs icon. It's a nice oblique reference to my training, but also a reminder to not take it too seriously.
Inspiration's been a little thin on the ground for me for a few years, at least in a professional sense. I do get lots of juice from people with Mad Skilz at whatever, who also have the nack of teaching and making what they do feel accessible to anyone. Though if you take a broader view, love has been the big mover and shaker in my life recently, and that ain't bad. And then there's bacon.
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Date: 2009-12-16 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 09:03 pm (UTC)Knowledge. You know a boat load of random, cool things.
You tell it like it is.
There are several, but they usually start out with "let Auntie Alys tell you a story".
How did you get started as a herald?
Of your current ones?
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Date: 2009-12-16 11:42 pm (UTC)I am a research geek. There's nothing I enjoy quite so much as plowing through books to find lost treasures. And one day I found this book on the history of British surnames . . . And then I decided to fix my own name to be period and accurate . . . And the rest was history.
If I had stuck with Gaelic, my name would have been Ailis inghean mhic an Toisich, but that was *never* going to get pronounced right, and Scots is so much simpler.
As for court heraldry, it was a case of one too many inaudible courts and the realization that after teaching people how to argue to real world courts, multiple years of singing and multiple years of theater, I could do better than some guy randomly dragged up there to be the herald when no one else would do it.
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Date: 2009-12-16 09:04 pm (UTC)Monkeys!
You have a pretty easy going, what happens happens attitude.
Squeek, F'ing squeek squeek. I think you were playing with Duncan. If not... still that, cause you suggested the game in the first place.
what is your ideal vacation?
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Date: 2009-12-16 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 09:04 pm (UTC)Music. You can see the joy in your face when you play.
You understand the power of a small childs laugh.
Sewing for Mina the week before Pennsic and you getting her to hold out her arms like an airplane.
Which museum would you like to get a peak of the super seekrit archives?
I like this one:
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Date: 2009-12-26 01:41 am (UTC)Ooooh. I think I have to say the Musée de Cluny. I'd like to get another peek at their not-so-seekrit archives too!
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Date: 2009-12-16 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 09:05 pm (UTC)Glitter balls. Oooo shiney.
You have the energy to keep up with me. Most of the time.
At my first Pennsic, you asked Ian " can we keep her?"
If you could do/be anything what would it be?
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Date: 2009-12-16 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 09:05 pm (UTC)Head bands. You are on the eternal quest for the perfect head covering.
You aren't afraid to try something new.
40 year old port, aged stilton cheese, fine dark chocolate.
What turned you on to port?
I like this one:
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Date: 2009-12-16 09:18 pm (UTC)Oh, that was so fine...
"What turned you on to port?"
I drank some of
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Date: 2009-12-16 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 11:44 pm (UTC)When I'm healthy again (some day . . .) we need to have a massive girlie field trip with you and oaken_glen and math5 and alysten and as many other people as we can harangue to the British tea shop in Chester for afternoon tea and little finger sandwiches and sweets. And Stilton.
Mmmmmmm
Date: 2009-12-17 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-16 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-17 05:50 pm (UTC)Pistachios
You like swimming. So many people I know don't.
Road trip to/from Pennsic.
What do you wish for most of all?
like this one:
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Date: 2009-12-19 05:03 pm (UTC)To be more organized!
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Date: 2009-12-16 10:48 pm (UTC)(You could go make me some pudding....)
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Date: 2009-12-17 06:00 pm (UTC)You are supportive when you need to be and firm when you need to be as well.
Im sure when we meet in person (eventually some day) it will involve pudding.
What thing in the SCA is your true passion?
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Date: 2009-12-18 12:28 pm (UTC)I'd have to say that my passion is seeing how the puzzle pieces fit together. Much more so than any single discipline. It's the thrill of discovery. And sifting each little piece of information into the greater frame of reference.
If'n I get time, for example, I plan to make Sinterklaas speculaas cookies to give to my friends at 12th Night. And at some point, investigate why it is that the end product of my Great-grandmother's sugar cookies are so very similar to the "Finer Jumbles" from The English Housewife. RIght after I finish making my gown. ;-)
The one time I had cause to work with a professional psychologist who specialized in learning styles and and intelligence, he finally looked me up and down and told me I had "The Gift." It isn't purely intelligence as measured by an IQ score - though there's that element. It's more the ability to file away random bits of information and later drag them out and put them in the pattern. Synthesis, at an instinctive level.
This is why I prefer to continue to learn new things than to become the end-all-be-all expert on one extremely narrow subject. Once I learn something, I'm not that interested in repeating it - I'd rather move on to something new... look, a butterfly!!
I'll make multiple variations on a gown - but I'm unlikely to ever make precisely the same style twice.
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Date: 2009-12-18 08:19 pm (UTC)Squirrel!
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Date: 2009-12-17 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-17 06:04 pm (UTC)Swans. Yes I know your animal is the badger, but you got me connected to these swan things. I blame you!;-)
You are fiercely loyal to your family.
Road trip to Birka. And pick any 3 hour court in Alethea's reign.
Honey badger, the cutest and most dangerous animal on earth (so named by animal planet): http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/73203301/7879470
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Date: 2009-12-17 06:13 pm (UTC)Heh, I've heard that before.
No question eh?
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Date: 2009-12-17 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 01:31 am (UTC)Otherwise, the only way to avoid Vermont is to travel as a single Tad. Any time more than one Tad gets in a car and heads North, we run the risk of smacking right into Vermont.
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Date: 2009-12-21 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-22 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-17 06:07 pm (UTC)Chivalry.
You pursue what makes you happy, not what people force you to do.
Baronial fencing championships. Best duel evar!
Why the Italian style?
This one:
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Date: 2009-12-17 07:50 pm (UTC)Velvet (mmmmm velvet).
You understand the need to hermit, and that it is ok to ask questions.
"OMG, woman you pieced the stripes together. You are insane". That's when I knew you were my kind of crazy.
You own a ruff board, but you dont usually wear one? Why?