#erraticblue

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I love visiting friends, they say things like, "There's a dozen clowns out there and THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE THEIR FOOD IS"

Friendship truly makes life an adventure. 

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194, 195!

194: What's something you could see yourself going to jail for? Assault (as distinct from 'battery'). I still occasionally get unreasonably mad and lose total control  of my actions. I think this is probably less true recently, though.

195: If you could be any character from any literary work, who? Sometimes  I aspire to be Uncle Enzo. But really, any (male) protagonist from a Neal Stephenson book would be solid. Orolo, Randy Waterhouse in Cryptonomicon, Hiro Protagonist, Lord Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw (okay maybe just for the name). 

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I was playing with medieval dollmaker but now that I'm done this definitely looks more like Rachel.  like an evil Rachel.

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Elevenses

The meme is to pick 11 people (tag and message them) and ask them 11 questions. They are supposed to do the same.

Old questions:

1. Tea or coffee?

Neither, generally. I usually roll 5 Hour Energy or uncaffeinated. or Bad Decisions (Jagermeister, liquid caffeine, and tonic water), but that's for special-occasion stupid.

2. What book most influenced your childhood?

The Number Devil, by Hans Magnus Enzenberger. 

3. Do you prefer sharing a bed or sleeping alone?

Sadly, I have no basis for comparison.

4. If you could live anywhere, at any time in history, when and where would it be?

The future. About 100 years or so. Long enough that I wouldn't ever have to die.

5. If you could live in any fictional universe, which would it be?

Girl Genius, if I could be a Spark. If not, The Diamond Age.

6. Do you think you have the great American novel in you?

No.

7. What would you do with your life if money was no object?

Run a really huge game store and buy an extra copy of everything for myself.

8. Do you read comics or graphic novels? What is your favourite?

Not any continuing works, though I do Elseworlds binges and other mini-continuities that include familiar characters without the 70 years of backstory.

10. Do you still sleep with a stuffed animal? (No shame, I’m 22 and I still have my beloved teddy bear, Sherbet!)

Not really, though I have a few stuffed animals scattered around.

11. Describe your dream home.

Oh man, I have put lots of thought into this. I got a book called "Houses architects design for themselves" and let my imagination run pretty wild. Prepare yourself.

Embedded into the side of a hill, cantilevered out so that there is a big concrete flat fire practice space under the bottom of the second-lowest story. Also goes pretty far back into the hill with another practice space (with a roughly two-story ceiling, like the one outside) that's enclosed and can be heated in winter.

Bottom floor of the cantilever; Gamers gonna game: A big gaming space with one of those fancy grandmother's-furniture-quality roleplaying tables (the name was maybe The Sultan?) and a bunch of space to store games, including big ones that stay in-progress for forever. Also space for a gaming rig (PC) and a movie/gaming console room.

Above that; Private living: Bedrooms set back into the hill, kitchen and sitting-around room out at the edge with nice windows. A home office and maybe another sitting-around room further back because I like the dark.

Top floor; Social things: Nice big room with big picture windows that I would be proud to show off and have parties in. Dining room. Basically, anyone who wasn't a good friend would never see anything below this floor (unless they were fire people); if it was architected really cleverly, it wouldn't be obvious there was anything else in the house.

And if I'm going all Magical Christmasland on this, a helipad on top and a private subway stop :-). Or else a garage in there somewhere and a green roof (basically a garden on top).

New questions: 

1. Would you really want to know? Even if it would hurt?

2. Favorite meal?

3. Least favorite thing about your favorite show/series/thing you're a fan of.

4. The most important advice you've ever been given.

5.  If you could live in any fictional universe, which would it be?

6. Would you rather live forever or have a guarantee you'd never have any great tragedy for the rest of your life? (This is a benevolent wish-granter, so that doesn't mean an abrupt death before you can have any new tragedy, which would, of course, be the easiest way.)

7. You have one word to describe your most intense memory. But you can't name an emotion.

8. Lawful or Chaotic?

9. You must pick novels, movies or video games. The rest are off-limits to you forever. Which and why?

10. What's the opposite of a table?

11. Describe your dream home.

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☄ miao?

Miao!

Okay, you're really really cool, but I'm only going to do one thing, okay?  THAT IS TO EVERYBODY BTW

I find your work ethic incredibly stunning.  You're super-smart, but you're also super-committed, and driven, and that's a fantastic combination.  You care about lots of things and find time to do all sorts of cool stuff (fire things, dance-y things, social work things, Icelandic things...) and do them all well.  That's really really cool

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erraticblue replied to your post: erraticblue replied to your post: Have I mentioned...

Here’s a second independent corroboration on that count. It brings back the frenetic edge to my manic states that I’m trying to avoid in the first place. Different choline sources - bad, how so? I’ve been using bitartrate just fine… I’d buy!

I've only tried bitartrate and citrate a couple times each, so I don't have any evidence on their efficacy as choline sources, and I'm not sure about these effects, but bitartrate gave me a noticeably unpleasant body odor and citrate made me really agitated and neurotic. Lecithin just didn't provide enough choline, even when I was taking ten grams of it a day. (Though admittedly that was with a lot of piracetam.) 

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The rope for my dart just snapped for the second time. (Not while I was burning, thank the gods.) Without any warning or previous signs of weakness either time. Wh—

I think it might be time for a new rope! @erraticblue, any recommendations?