All right, the payback meme

[hobgoblinn]

Yeah, you know the drill. I did this meme several months ago, but recently new friends sucked me in while I was diligently not working on my novel.

Reply to this entry and I will...

1. Tell you why I friended you (if I can remember, that is).
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4.Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ. (recent meme-ists are exempt)

If you have my response from a previous version of this, it might be entertaining to see if my recollections have changed. Old Age does that to one, or so I am told.

Comments

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't reply sooner, but I am doing a masterful job of procrastinating on my comprehensive. I should've done that for Nano even though it had better not be anywhere near 50,000 words, dissertation sure comp no.

In response to #6 first, I don't have many icons and I am absolutely horrible about searching for new ones. I like a lot of my friend's icons but I'd feel like a grade school copycat if all of my icons were the same as my friends!

#5 part 1: How did I come to LJ? One of my old roomates from university harrassed me to join LJ. She joined a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago, but I didn't follow. After I got fed up with MySpace, I migrated here because of my university friend and a lot of other RL friends who'd had LJ accounts and were also tired of MySpace. I believe they were quite relieved when I finally caved.

Part 2: Fanfic....oh how I love and hate you. Fanfic started out as a glorious procrastination tool for my roomate and I our last year of university. Both of us knew better than to bring books for pleasure reading with us to school because nothing would get done. As our school library didn't carry much of anything interesting (I'd already read the classics I wanted to read thank you), this worked quite well to keep us nice and studious...(*snort*). We were in major withdrawl because it was between GoF and OoTP when we came across FF.net. It exploded from there to SugarQuill, the Werewolf Registry, FanfictionAlley, etc. My roomie and I read eachother (yes, out loud) soooooo many Lupin (her) and Snape (me) fics.

Part 3: Other interests...I'm a sci-fi nut. I also enjoy fantasy novels other than HP. Vampires are most glorious though, suprisingly, I was never a Buffy fan and I HATE Anne Rice novels...don't get me started unless you want a rant. I enjoy music both playing and listening to it. I am particularly fascinated with the British Isles. Oh, and I like Chemistry (FIRE and making things go BOOM!) and Pharmacology/Toxicology. Sorry, I'm not being very coherent. I'm waiting very impatiently for my labmate to return and show me where he stashed something. Yeah...

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Vampires, huh? Have you read Barbara Hambly's "Those Who Hunt the Night?" and its sequel "Traveling with the Dead"? All her stuff is pretty amazing-- I've been a fan since stumbling across "Time of the Dark" back in high school. She's got some historical mysteries set in 1840's New Orleans that are amazing, for the social interactions alone, quite aside from interesting puzzles and historical detail.

I came to LJ because of Buffy fanfic writers, but it wasn't the vamps that drew me to the show-- it was the humor, quirky characters, family building, and Giles. Not nec. in that order. Up through Season 5 is really something. After that-- it has its moments. Most of them bad. But there's some great fanfic out there to make up for it.

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't read the Barbara Hambly vampire books, but I do have a rather humourous story involving a few of her Star Wars novels that I'm told do NOT live up to her other works and are really quite horrid. Granted, I haven't read those either, but I had no problem tormenting a friend with them. ;) Have you read any of the Michael Romkey books?

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

No, I'll have to look for those. BH has a couple of Star Trek books that were not at all bad. But her original stuff is better.

Getting paid to write fanfic-- must be nice.

You really should check her vamp books out, at least, though.