6-Question meme: S
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jesse_the_kThanks, pauraque for giving me S for this six-question meme.
Something I hate
scented shampoo, soap, or similar substances. Fragrances like these trigger coughing fits and sometimes migraines. Weirdly, I developed this sensitivity after I quit smoking 10-15 cigarettes/day.
Something I love
sencha green tea, in particular Telsaan Sencha Spring Shizuoka, tragically out of stock
Somewhere I have been
Skópun, Sandoy, Føroyar (Faroe Islands). more about that trip
In 1971, I visited my sister & her husband for two weeks. He was studying Skópun and its people for his PhD in anthropology. She was studying everything in sight. My sister wrote a novel about it and my former-brother-in-law wrote several scholarly books. I took many wild ferry rides, snacked on skerpikjøt (fermented lamb) and turranfisk (fermented fish), and admired the beauty and strangeness of these tiny islands in the middle of the Atlantic. This was decades before the first undersea roundabout connected most of the Faroe Islands with roads.
Somewhere I would like to go
Shetland Islands, Scotland or Svalbard, Norway, especially during midnight sun season.
Someone I know
sasha_feather! I introduced her to a disability rights framework at WisCon. She enthusiastically joined in and succeeded me as WisCon Access Chair. She introduced me to Stargate Atlantis thence LJ thence DW fandom. We’ve had weekly lunches almost continuously for more than a decade.
Favorite movie
I'm drawing a complete blank. I loved Miyazaki's Spirited Away when it first came out--I should rewatch and see if still shines.
Want to play? Raise your hand for a letter.
It was memorable!
Date: 2025-01-28 10:26 pm (UTC)I was 14, traveling solo. The US ticket agent wrote down the wrong time, so I had to wait three days in Copenhagen for the other flight that week. A kind Danish woman, maybe 5 years older than me, overheard my dismay at the ticket counter, and put me up in her commune.
I tried to travel light, so I had one book to read: Ulysses. I didn't finish it :,)
Re: It was memorable!
Date: 2025-01-30 03:45 am (UTC)Re: It was memorable!
Date: 2025-01-30 11:27 pm (UTC)Traveling on my own was exciting. I did have experience. My birth was induced so I would be old enough to fly (no babies younger than 6 weeks Back Then) and our family traveled a lot. I'd already done quite a few solo train trips when I was 8, and was comfortable on DC trolleys and MTA. Come to think of it, when I went to the Faroes they didn't do the "unaccompanied minor" handoff with the airlines. My parents entered university age 16, so they had a different outlook on the boundaries of adolescence.
I did finish ULYSSES! And then I reread it in my 20s. And now that it's available via the public domain and I have an ereader, it's conceivable I'll read it again. It's pretty fucking great: lots of humor and snark and hey! it's Greek pantheon fanfic. Last chapter is told via an orgasm.
Re: It was memorable!
Date: 2025-01-30 05:04 pm (UTC)Re: It was memorable!
Date: 2025-01-30 11:27 pm (UTC)Ahhhhhh, yes.