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silverflight8! She gave me 'S':
Something I hate: Spiders. Which is probably the answer for most people who get 's' in this game, so I'm not being very original, but c'mon. All those legs. All those eyes. And they wear their skeleton on the outside. How is that not creepy?
Something I love: Spaghetti. If I had to choose only one food to eat for the rest of my life (though that would be a tragedy to me)(I mean, it would be a tragedy to anyone, but I'm particularly addicted to trying new things), it would be spaghetti. It can be fancy, it can be easy, it's comfort food, it's filling, it's delicious; I just love it so much.
Somewhere I've been: Syria. I spent a few months working in the countryside east of Aleppo in the summer of 2008. That's... all I have to say about that at the moment, really.
Somewhere I'd like to go: Spain! Especially southern Spain, Andalusia. I'd love to see the Alhambra and Cádiz and Córdoba. Plus, Spanish food. Yum.
Someone I know: My mom, for one! She's named Sally. My best friend when I was in high school was named Shannon. There's a lot of S names around.
A film I like: Silence of the Lambs. It's just so horrifying and compelling. Oddly, I have not gotten into Hannibal fandom at all.
A book I like: OH MY GOD HOW DO I CHOOSE ONE? To prevent myself from waffling forever over which book to choose, I walked over to my nearest bookcase and just picked the first one I saw that started with a s: The System of the World by Neal Stephenson (hey, S for the author too!). It's actually the last of a trilogy, which I just loved. Stephenson seems to be one of those authors that people either love or hate; he has a tendency to go on long tangents that are barely related to the plot. I adore him, but I understand why he doesn't work for everyone. This trilogy is set (mostly) in Europe in the later 1600s and early 1700s. It deals with, among other things, the invention of calculus and the earliest stock markets, Isaac Newton's repressed homosexuality and obsession with alchemy, plague and fire in London, various wars, horrifying treatments of syphilis pre-modern medicine, horrifying treatments of kidney stones pre-modern medicine, counterfeiting and its prevention and the development of modern coinage, and the founding of Harvard. It's a great series. I really should reread these books; it's been too long since I did.
If you'd like to do the meme, comment and I'll give you a letter!
silverflight8! She gave me 'S':Something I hate: Spiders. Which is probably the answer for most people who get 's' in this game, so I'm not being very original, but c'mon. All those legs. All those eyes. And they wear their skeleton on the outside. How is that not creepy?
Something I love: Spaghetti. If I had to choose only one food to eat for the rest of my life (though that would be a tragedy to me)(I mean, it would be a tragedy to anyone, but I'm particularly addicted to trying new things), it would be spaghetti. It can be fancy, it can be easy, it's comfort food, it's filling, it's delicious; I just love it so much.
Somewhere I've been: Syria. I spent a few months working in the countryside east of Aleppo in the summer of 2008. That's... all I have to say about that at the moment, really.
Somewhere I'd like to go: Spain! Especially southern Spain, Andalusia. I'd love to see the Alhambra and Cádiz and Córdoba. Plus, Spanish food. Yum.
Someone I know: My mom, for one! She's named Sally. My best friend when I was in high school was named Shannon. There's a lot of S names around.
A film I like: Silence of the Lambs. It's just so horrifying and compelling. Oddly, I have not gotten into Hannibal fandom at all.
A book I like: OH MY GOD HOW DO I CHOOSE ONE? To prevent myself from waffling forever over which book to choose, I walked over to my nearest bookcase and just picked the first one I saw that started with a s: The System of the World by Neal Stephenson (hey, S for the author too!). It's actually the last of a trilogy, which I just loved. Stephenson seems to be one of those authors that people either love or hate; he has a tendency to go on long tangents that are barely related to the plot. I adore him, but I understand why he doesn't work for everyone. This trilogy is set (mostly) in Europe in the later 1600s and early 1700s. It deals with, among other things, the invention of calculus and the earliest stock markets, Isaac Newton's repressed homosexuality and obsession with alchemy, plague and fire in London, various wars, horrifying treatments of syphilis pre-modern medicine, horrifying treatments of kidney stones pre-modern medicine, counterfeiting and its prevention and the development of modern coinage, and the founding of Harvard. It's a great series. I really should reread these books; it's been too long since I did.
If you'd like to do the meme, comment and I'll give you a letter!
