11 Question Thing
The Rules
1. Always post the rules 2. Answer the questions the person who tagged you gave you and write 11 new questions 3. Tag 11 people and link them to the post 4. Let them know you’ve tagged them
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DelusionalAdventurer tagged me in this, and I'll be honest - until she did, I had no idea how this whole question/answer thing worked, because I never read the rules bit. Here goes.
1. If you were able to have a lovely sit-down-for-tea/coffee chat with anyone ever, who would it be and what would you want to talk about?
Anyone ever? Living or dead? My father. I would want to tell him about everything that has happened since November 6, 2006, when he died. I would want him to tell me everything that he was going to tell me when I was older and had more life experience. I would want to talk to him about all the experiences he's had and what he learned from them. I would want our sit-down to never end.
2. Do you think you’ve changed at all this year? How so? Are you happy with the change?
I think I've become a lot more able and willing to deal with social situations. I'm glad, because it makes my life easier. I'm also occasionally upset because I often feel like I've become less independent and more easily susceptible to peer pressure.
3. How do you want to die?
Instantaneously and painlessly (in other words, without knowing that it happened), or in my sleep (if that actually happens, which I've never been clear on - maybe people just wake up and go through horrible pain before they die and if no one is around to hear them then no one realizes it.)
4. What adventure do you want to go on?
I want to travel alone with lots of books and notebooks and limited internet connectivity someday.
5. If you were magically awesome at something, what would that something be? How would you use this awesome something in your daily life?
If I could be supremely awesome at something, I think I would choose to be a lot more musical. I would use the awesome something to make others and myself happy, hopefully. And to relax and feel more confident in the musical realm, I suppose.
6. If you could redo a moment in your life, would you?
Probably a million tiny moments that barely matter and that mostly involve feeling embarrassing or awkward. But big moments - crucial things - no. Regretting things is too painful, so I don't do it.
7. What is your favorite musical instrument and why?
I honestly have no idea. It depends on my mood. Piano, violin and cello are all pretty up there. And saxophone.
8. Where/what is your “happy place”?
Books, words, sentences. Thinking about those things helps. Also wherever my cats are.
9. If you could exist in any book/movie/television universe, which one would you choose? Who would be your friends?
Probably either Tamora Pierce's Tortall or Jacqueline Carey's Terre d'Ange. Though I'm not sure. I feel like I would be intruding. Harry Potter's world would really be my choice, most of all, of course, really, when you get right down to it, but it feels so naive, because I'm still sort of waiting for my letter...
10. What is one thing you hope to accomplish in your lifetime?
I hope to feel satisfied with what I have done with my writing.
11. What do you think about right before you fall asleep?
About how i have to turn the bedside light off because I'm falling asleep on my book.
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Okay, so now here are ELEVEN NEW QUESTIONS for the new tagged people, if they so wish to participate (no pressure!)
1. If someone told you today that you had the option of (and the talent for) running away and joining the circus - would you do it? Why?
2. Do you believe there are life forms equally as or more sophisticated than us somewhere in the universe and, if yes, will you find out about them in your lifetime?
3. What are the three top items on your bucket list?
4. Disneyland/world or Universal Studios? Why?
5. What is the last emotionally or physically evocative experience you went through?
6. Would you rather know when you're going to die or not?
7. What is the last thing you were terrified of?
8. If you could build a house entirely to your specifications - what would it look like?
9. How are you going to do that thing you really don't want to do next week but you have to do anyway?
10. What is the best thing that happened to you today?
11. Where do you think you'll be in exactly one year, to the minute?