It's going around again...

[badstar]

The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Comments

[erl-queen.livejournal.com]

Before G, did you ever have another serious, long-term relationship? I don't think I've ever heard you mention anyone.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

No.

I avoided dating until I was in college. I had some anti-dependency issues- to the point where I flunked classes in school rather than ask for help(still do to some degree) and I had gotten it into my head that dating posed far too much possibility for getting into a serious relationship and therefore, depending on someone.

Even after I started dating, it was a long time before I managed to convince myself to go more than three dates without breaking it off- that was just after I moved to Baltimore, and when I did I dated one guy casually for a couple of months, and after that had a couple of years of either just not meeting anyone I was interested in dating, or when I would meet someone and something would happen, there would be a couple of dates and then they would just vanish, never to be heard from again. (Oh, and then there was the last date I went on before Gavin...that ended rather short when she spent an hour trying to convince me of the whole ancient Great Mother goddess thing- yeah, that was going nowhere fast. That was about a month or two before Gavin moved down here. And then I spent quite a while trying to figure out what the hell I was looking for and figuring I'd probably not find anyone that I wanted to be with long term- certainly not anytime soon.)

On top of that, only a little less than a year ago, I realized that there was another reason that I had avoided relationships for so long- http://fuego.livejournal.com/763284.html (it's a friend-locked entry, so you have to be logged in to view it.)

So...no, Gavin is the one and only.

[erl-queen.livejournal.com]

Gavin is the one and only.

Wow, that is so sweet. :)

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Every so often? Heheeh...actually, I had technicolor hair (usually pink) for about three solid years there but I think that streak ended before you met me.

I like it. I think it looks good on me (and I've run into very few people who, if they had a comment, didn't agree, even my mother who was after me for a long time to dye my hair a normal color, has grudgingly admitted that it suited me.)

I tried blue once...but that was a mistake. It was a nice bright royal blue that looked really good for about five minutes and then started fading to a nasty greyish shade within a few days.

What I really want to try is teal- that was the first crazy color I ever actually wanted to dye my hair, but never could because I couldn't find the color. I found it a while ago but because of how the blue turned, I've been reluctant to try. But I have a plan for it...and alas, at the moment I am job searching and have to wait and see if I can find a job where they're not going to have a cow if I have crazy hair.

People are so uptight... :-P

[ursus-of-unrv.livejournal.com]

If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be and why?

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...


Damn. Okay, thinking way too much into what would just be a silly, fun question but my initial answer probably would have been a cypress tree because of its connections to Apollo, and it's the most obvious one to come to mind for me. But no, that's not the right answer.

I love red maple and mimosa trees, but no. Not those either.

I think I would have to say a Live Oak because I ask you, what's not to love about Live Oaks (http://www.louisianagardenclubs.org/live_oak_society/photos_files/sevensiss-patburk.jpg)???

Seriously, they're just amazing trees.

[sunvenus.livejournal.com]

What do you think are the most admirable qualities in a friend? And what character flaws are "deal-breakers"?

[bluedolfyn.livejournal.com]

Why aren't you in Eugene already?

Er, wait, no, not that.

Simple and obvious . . . Too many things I want to ask. *lol* Like, what would your life be like without Apollo, and what is one thing you'd want people to understand the most about Him, and where did you grow up, and I like that tree question too, and . . . I don't really know a whole lot about you. :) So, pick one. Or all of them. Or none.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Like, what would your life be like without Apollo

Hmm...I don't know. Very different, I have to assume. How- I don't know. Far fewer scary dreams? Maybe I would have eventually become a devotee of Artemis? Possibly a lot less self awareness? I really don't know. I have a hard time thinking about it and trying to separate him out of everything to imagine how it would be different.

and what is one thing you'd want people to understand the most about Him

Apollo=/= pretty blonde frat boy/surfer dude prototype (Pretty, yes. Blonde, sometimes. Frat boy/surfer dude, never.) It's extremely simple and basic, but I think that it would be a good start.

That and that he's not the "gay" god. And next we can move onto the fact that he wasn't some evil patricarchal bastard trying to oppress Daphne. (Okay, I'm seeing less and less of that one anymore but it still bugs me when I do see it.)

and where did you grow up

Lancaster, PA

[bluedolfyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, but don't you know? All the gods are evil patricarchal oppressing bastards. Seriously for sure. All the goddesses are really The Great Goddess, and the evil gods are horrible and evil.

Silly silly woman. ;)