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I have 5 more questions. I love this meme. It's like being Jeremy Paxman crossed with Jonathan Ross. I'm always seeking The One True Question, that will reveal the essence of the person answering. Sometimes it works that way, but not necessarily with the question you expect. Mwahahaha.

First, from [livejournal.com profile] patsyrant

1. What's your favourite genre of film?

Comedy-drama, I think. I like clever comedy that reveals something fresh about people and relationships. I’d put Annie Hall and Little Miss Sunshine down as good examples of the genre. I loathe gritty northern realism. I can’t watch the films of Ken Loach or Lars von Trier without suppressing a visceral urge to run from the cinema.

2. What's the most memorably delicious meal you've ever had?

Ooh, I can’t narrow it down. Here are five:

Fresh scallops with lime and coriander butter, Isle of Skye
Masala dosa, Trivandrum bus station in Kerala
Mexican food and Margaritas in Springdale, Utah
Breakfast omelettes at the Hollywood & Highland, LA
My garlic and cumin roast loin of lamb

3. Which actor or actress can you simply not bear to watch?

Does Ricky Gervais count?

4. Money's no object. Where in the world would you most want to live?

I would rather like to live in Melbourne, where I stayed for 4 weeks once. However, I’d have a second home on the far west coast of Scotland, probably somewhere in Wester Ross near Plockton or Gairloch.

5. What's your philosophy for living?

Um. I think my philosophy is evolving. It used to have two main elements. One is a slight fatalism which can best be summed up as ‘Physics Happens’. I use this one to defend the brain against horrible random happenings to innocent people, through forces of nature.

The second element is a rather more Victorian Calvinist approach, best summed up as ‘Life: It’s not necessarily meant to be fun’. While I think this still suits my doomy Presbyterianism and generally robust attitude to life (it worked supremely well as a mantra for getting through childbirth, for example) it is not always very helpful. It is slowly being replaced by something a bit closer to the old Scottish toast (Here’s to us; wha’s like us?). Perhaps something along the lines of ‘Life: this is not a test.’

Second, from [livejournal.com profile] ravurian. They interweave pleasingly.


1. Whose Mac were you on in the middle of the night, you ho?

[livejournal.com profile] unblinkered’s. She saw me looking at her using the laptop and generously suggested I have a go. Something about my hangdog puppy expression...

2. What's the next thing you'd dearly love to do?

You know, I don’t know. I usually have a plan for these things, but I don’t at the moment. I’d really like to try out dancing, because it’s sociable and roughly counts as exercise, and also it’s dancing, but that’s quite tricky to fit in to the current family week.

3. You get to say exactly what you think to one person without consequence. What do you say, and who to?

This is one I can’t really do, because I’m quite a believer in consequences and even writing these things down has a consequence. So you can take it as read that there are blistering arguments that never happened and declarations of love that have remained hanging in the air unspoken. I could lecture famous people, but they’ve heard it all before. I think I’ll twist it slightly, into a wish, which is that I wish I could have had some sort of conversation with my mother. I know almost nothing about her, apart from a few photos and a small stack of popular classical music LPs.

4. You've changed quite considerably in the time I've known you (or perhaps it's that you've always been this way, and I'm only gradually getting to see it). What changes would you like to make to your life?

Heh. That’s interesting (and I think it’s a bit of both). I’d like to write more, not necessarily fiction, although I think I may have to be made to do it; I’d like to make my home prettier and more comfortable; I’d like to work with other people more. I think I’m coming to a crossroads in my job where I need to decide whether to carry on freelancing or find a job with like-minded people. As a high-performing introvert, too much isolation isn’t that good. As an allied thought, I’d like to stop being cripplingly shy in certain company (mostly work-related) because it’s not me and I’m sometimes not aware I even do it. Meh.

5. Which famous person would you like to have a conversation with?

Hmm, let’s see. Certain authors come to mind, such as George Eliot and Jane Austen; lots of beautiful actors, so that if the conversation faded, I could still look at them. Honestly? I’d rather like tea and a long conversation with JK Rowling.

You're welcome to skewer question me further in comments.

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