We were tagged by crimsonelf (http://crimsonelf.tumblr.com/).
Answer the questions of the person who tagged you and write 11 new ones.
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The questions we were asked:
1. What is your name and where are you from?
Élan and Abigail, and we're from Alaska.
3. Do you sing in the shower?
E: If I did I'd break my eardrums. Opera. Y'know.
4. What is your favorite holiday memory?
E: I can remember a Christmas from when I was around five years old or so, and I had stayed up late with my family, later than I ever had before. We were sitting on the couch in the living room, and I could see our reflections in the smooth, cold surface of the window which faced me. I was very serene and happy, and besides the natural yuletide feelings of goodwill and cheer, the historically late bedtime weighed me down with a sense of momentousness and awe. I was drinking eggnog, and at some point my father got the great idea of thawing out some of my mom's old, preserved breast milk so that we (the kids) could try it, to see if we were still as fond of it as we now were cow's milk, I suppose. I did. And it was disgusting.
A: The first Thanksgiving when I helped out the whole day in the kitchen and just hung around.
5: What's your favorite sports team?
E: The ones at the Olympics are good. And, uh, ooh! My youngest sister's basketball team.
A: We don't follow sports, so we don't really have a favorite sports team.
6: What is your favorite saying or quote?
E: KHAAAAAAAN! And anything from Shakespeare or the Godfather.
A: What Churchill said when an editor changed his sentence so it wouldn't end in a preposition: "This is the kind of impertinence up with which I shall not put."
7. What's something you're scared of?
E: Burning alive, and making a fool of myself during social interactions.
A: Wendigos, and any social interaction.
8: Do you have any lucky items or traditions?
E: As far as traditions go, I always eat the crust off of my toast and sandwiches before the rest.
A: No. And eating the crust of toast and sandwiches before the rest isn't much of a tradition. It's more of a habit.
9: What's your earliest memory?
E: I have so many. One is when I first learned to really sprint. Another is when I lied to my parents and told them that I'd created them by taping their body parts together.
A: I was looking for my baby sister (our youngest sister) and I asked my mom where she was. She said that she (baby sis) was napping. I couldn't find her anywhere in the house, so I asked our mom again where she was. She said she wouldn't tell me because I would just go and wake her up. I said that I wouldn't, and that I was just worried about her. So Mommy told me that she was in the car, in the garage. So I went down to the garage, opened up the car door, and woke her up by yelling quietly and shaking her car seat, and then I ran away. After that I went to Mommy and told her that my sister had woken up. She asked me if I woke her up, and I said no.
E: Abby was an evil child. She once pushed me off the end of a dock when I was admiring a dead minnow I was holding in my palm. I nearly DROWNED.
10: Do you like long or short hair?
E: Short hair, personally. All of the characters which I make up tend to have it shorter.
A: Medium hair, long enough that it can be put in a ponytail.
11: Have you ever danced in the rain?
E: Not danced so much as ungainly galloped, splashed, pirouetted, and tripped during the heaviest downpour I'd ever seen. That was another time I nearly drowned.
A: No, but I sure like SINGING in the rain, just SINGING in the rain!
E: What a glooorious FEEEEELING, she's HAAAAPY again!
Do you live in the city, a neighborhood, or the middle of nowhere?
What's your favorite television series?
If you use toilet paper, do you fold it or crumple it into a ball?
What's your favorite activity?
Do you have any hope for the future of the natural environment given the rapid expansion and industrialization of humanity, or do you believe that, given the widespread slowness of bureaucracy, lack of international agreement, and outright disbelief and denial of global warming and pollution, that any currently pristine part of the world is destined to become chemically contaminated, deforested, its customary ecosystem disrupted, or one of the expanding, human-caused desert areas? Or do you think that it matters at all?
Do you play any musical instruments?
What's you favorite word in the English language?
Have you ever traveled outside your country, and if so, where did you go?
How often do you see people other than your family in person?
