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Finishing off the interviews

I think either I am missing some, or else I just didn't get asked as many as I was hoping :/



1. What is your favorite type of stone and what is its signifigance or appeal for you?

My favourite type of stone is probably the garnet. I can't really explain why. I like the range of colours, and the fact that it is undervalued, since it is only a 'semi-precious' stone. In fact most of my other favourite stones (moonstones and labradorite) are also 'only' semi-precious.

2. If you had to choose between losing all sense of feeling and losing all feeling emotionally what would it be?

As long as I was able to communicate, I would go with physical feeling. But otherwise. If not, I would go with emotional. I think that not being able to communicate, I would go insane without emotional release of some sort. I think that it would be easier for me to handle having no emotions, but harder for everyone else around me.

3. You find your dream dig site, but for some reason you don't have the proper tools. If you tell anyone evil pirating archeologists will steal it and you will never be able to work on it but eventually things will go to museums and such. Do you work on it at the risk of damaging the site from lack of tools or do you tell and never see your dream site again?

Well, assuming that by 'evil pirating archaeologists' you mean 'evil archaeologists who work on pirates', then I would probably report it, and let someone else work on it. Because even if I don't dig the site, I can still contribute by critiquing their material and working with the collection they recover (once it gets to a museum). If by 'pirating archaeologists' you mean *really* evil archaeologist who steal artifacts and sell them on the black market, I would be more likely to not tell anyone, or maybe just make some notes about the site and collect surface finds, or something.

4. You die and are reincarnated. The Big Guy Upstairs, or whoever lets you come back as anything you like except for a person. What is it and why?

It depends on whether ot not I would have any memory of my previous life. Because if I didn't, I really don't thknk I would care. If I did... I don't know. Maybe a tree, one of the long lived ones, somewhere protected, where I could at least observe the continued devellopment of humanity. or something.

5. Someone offers you big bucks to pose in a sexually explicit way for an internationally distributed magazine. We're not talking playboy here. The money would set you up for life though. Do you do it?

Sure. I really dont' care what most people think of me, and most of the people I *do* care about are going to be understanding enough about it. My decision might be altered if there was some kind of negative message associated with the, ah, 'spread', though like 'All Canadian girls are great big whores' or what have you.



1. Armed with your degrees, what are your current plans for your career?

I need more degrees -_- I need fieldwork experience, and more knowledge and contact with the artifacts from the period I am interested in. Once I get that stuff, i am hoping to get an academic job somewhere, professorship type of thing, because I think (and have been told) that I could be a good proff, and I would enjoy that and being able to continue my research.


2. Name and describe the last story you wrote. What motivated the writing?

The last story I *finished* writing was the one for Shan and Dave's as yet un-posted '3-day' novel contest. But the last one I started writing, and in my mind is finished, is called 'Happiness Man', and it is about a guy who is disillusioned with his life and created a fake god to worship, and then when he tells someone about this, and they question the direction his life has taken since, it starts to fall apart. the irony is that after he loses his faith in the god he created (the god of happiness) he finds out that he is real after all, but then it is too late.

The motivation for the story was that, well, I was feeling inspired to explore some philsophical concepts and extremes and this seemed to be a good outlet. There are some parallels to stuff in my own life in the story, though, definitely. i really need to finish that one. I know how it goes, but I haven't looked at in it months.

3. If you could change one thing about yourself that would make your life easier to live or deal with, what would that be, and why?

I really don't know :o I don't think my life is particularly difficult to deal with as is, though. Maybe, I would make myself not be astmatic, or not have kind of crap kness and short hamstrings so I could be more physically capable and flexible.

4. What is your favorite movie quote?

I can think of a couple off the top of my head, but I am notoriously indecisive so I can pick just one and am bound to think of others later.

1. Salieri in Amadeus "I am the patron saint of mediocraty" and the associated rant.

2. Kelsey in Tank Girl "Eight, eight, the burning hate, between sunday, Monday hangs a day so dark it will devastate" (I have never been able to track down if that is a quote from anything else, and it is cool sounding and very suggestive of grandeur)

3. Valmont in Dangerous Liasons: "It is beyond my control." That whole scene really, and associated bit. I say that a lot, too, I think.

5. (even though I said I wouldn't do it) If you could have consequence free sex with any one person, real or imagined, from any time period, who would it be and why?

I have answered this before, somewhere/when else. I think I said Jesus, then, which I think is a pretty clever answer ;) But if I am going to be fucking divinities, I may have to sub in Hermes or Thoth. I like the smart magic-y ones ;)



1) I gave you a kind of lame answer to your first question, because I am tired and headachey... So why do *you* think we are so close now?

I think it happened when we stopped fighting over our friends, and started sharing them instead. Then we became friends, and once that happened, the closeness was more inevitable.

2) When are you and Joel going to get married?!

I really don't know. We need to talk about it more. Part of the problem is that we are both so unsettled, and there is no once place we could both go at the moment to work on our academic/career interests together.

3) Here's an evil question: Would you rather be the pretty one, or the smart one?

I woud rather be the smart one. I am not so worried about being judged by people physically but I fear that I am not smart enough to do what I want to do. Also, being the smart one, I could help lookout for other people around me better.

4) Here's an even more evil question: Which do you think I am?

You have always been the smart one. Always always... Pretty much any time that you apply yourself to the same thinking sorts of things, you wind up doing better than I do when I apply myself. As for being the pretty one, you are also that, but you also put a lot more effort and concern into your appearance, so I don't know how we would stack up if I was trying harder ^-^

5) Do you think a polyamorous relationship can ever really work out in the long term?

I think yes, it can, but that usually it wouldn't. The best basis for a polyamourous relationship is going to be a pre-existing strong friendship, because that is going to promote good communication, and probably sut down on jealousy issues as well. Sex can't be the most important thing in such a relationship, either... It has to be the emotional bonds.

I think I am goign to nap this afternoon. I am so wiped. I have not felt realy awake since... well, since *Joel* left Waterloo. Maybe before that. Right now, I think it might be the allergy medication I am on. Terry is coming up to visit tonight, and I don't know what is going on, but I will hopefully be more alert after a nap.