So, I got tagged by @goonlalagoon a while back, and am currently procrastinating hard enough to have unburied it from my extreme back-log of likes, so here goes!
1. What is the favourite item of clothing you own?
Most of my favourite clothing is more sentimental than functionality related. So, like, my PE jumper from highschool, or Year 12 rugby jumper? Or I love getting to wear my U/11s netball shirt. I do really like the Gryffindor top I bought last year also, and the op-shop skirt I bought for my recent trip is so much fun to wear because it’s so swishy - it’s not exactly ~stylish~ but it makes me happy.
2. Tell me about the first time you watched your favourite movie?
This is mean because it assumes I know what my favourite movie is... My default response is The Sound of Music, but I don’t know when I first watched it, my earliest memory is from when I was like, 2 or 3 and by then The Sound of Music was already just an interwoven piece of my life so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
Alternatively, I went to see Moana with my sister just after New Years at the local cinema.
3. What was the last book you finished?
Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne, which I pulled off the shelves at a friend’s place in Darwin. It was.... interesting and upsetting for primarily contextual reasons, but a worthwhile read. If she’d had the sequel, I’d have read it too, because it was uncomfortable place to leave the characters.
(And just now I’ve noticed that goodreads suggests Juggling with Mandarins as a ‘readers also enjoyed’ which... spot on, my algorithmic friend).
4. What is the next book you want to read?
I actually have a real longing to go back and reread Tortall - it’s been too long. Unusually, it’s the Trickster books that are haunting my mind at the moment, so I might mix things up and start there. Plus! New books I have consumed yet :DD (Spy’s Guide and Tempest and Slaughter both) just gotta write another 4 assignments first. one more week.
5. When is your birthday, and what do you want for it this year? (If your birthday has already happened this year, did you get what you had your heart set on?)
Feb 6. Um, I don’t even remember what I did, let alone what I got tbh. I’m not foolish enough to set my heart on anything that’s actually achievable so (: Books are good, and will be enjoyed when I get as far as reading them. I think I was pretty disappointed not to receive any chocolate?
6. If you were given one month and $10,000, where would you travel to?
Right now? Straight back to where I was living this past 5 weeks. I’d feel bad squatting there for a month though, so I’d probably stretch out, bring a friend or two along, and swing by like Uluru or the Kimberley or something too. There’s still so much of Australia I want to see.
Cake is tasty, but just not as filling or satisfying as a really good apple pie. More easily accessible though, which is perhaps why.
8. Name 3 things you think you’re really good at.
1) I’m going with loving, because that’s why I’m finding life so hard atm. I really don’t seem to have favourites, because I just love them all.
2) I’m actually pretty good at netball? Like, I’ll never play for Australia, but I’m pretty confident I could make the German team :P
3) Improvising, and faking confidence and competence while I’m at it. It’s a useful skill, if a frustrating one.
9. Name 3 things you’d like to be better at.
2) Keeping in touch with people
10. Name 3 far-fetched dreams you’d like to do someday.
I’m scared of far-fetched dreams. Like, I totally hear the ‘if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true’ thing, but having far-fetched dreams, let alone articulating them makes me feel incredibly vulnerable: “here is what I want most in the world, let me give you an instruction manual on how to destroy me”.
11. If you had to dye your hair, what colour would you dye it?
I’d love to do like that dip-dye thing that was cool a decade ago? Pink would be fun. Or blue, purple, green, whatever. I’ve been idly meaning to for a few summers now, but... spoons and courage, yknow?
If you’d like to participate, feel free! I’m tagging @theowlisthelimit @tienriu and @jackironsides if you’d like to, but also anyone who was hoping their name would be in that list. It’s you too.
