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This afternoon I checked out Aunt Maria from the library and went to go read it in a tree. I wrote a bit too, sitting in the tree on the island in the pond. I really like sitting there because I can pretend the city isn't all around me. It seems to be whatever will grow there grows on the outskirts though there is grass in the middle of it.

After that, my parents and I went to eat. Outside where we ate, we saw a tandem bike. But not just any tandem. Our tandem. Growing up, my dad had bought a tandem bike and for years I rode it with my father. It had come with a dinosaur shaped horn. This bike had the same dinosaur horn, was the same color, and had the same color handle bars. The people who bought it from us must've been eating at the same place! I was glad to see it again for one last time (unless we run into it again).

sovay has asked me these questions. If you would like questions of your own, ask and I will give you some.


1. Who's the first fictional character you can remember liking?

All sorts of likely answers to this one are flashing through my mind. I rather liked Harriet the Spy. I used to keep notebooks modeled off hers for a while, both composition books (which I remember her using) and a notebook where I wrote down observations (which is what she used it for).

Another group of characters that were important to me early on were all the ones in John Bellairs' books, particularly Rose Rita and Mrs. Zimmerman. My favorite of those remains the one where they travel to Pennsylvania together.

2. Which poet do you have the most problems with?

I do not know if this counts as having the most problems with, but a poet whose poetry didn't quite click into my brain is Lawrence Ferlinghetti. This is only a problem, really, because I had to analyze one of his poems in ninth grade and I'm afraid I didn't understand it. Perhaps if I went back and looked at again. I'm sure there is a poet I have more problems with, but I cannot think of one right now.

3. What landscape scares you the most?

What is coming to mind is desert, though this is only a half truth. Deserts make me lonely eventually if they are utterly tree-less and plantless. So perhaps what I really mean is a landscape without plants whatsoever.

4. What book do you love that no one else has read?

I don't know if there are any books that I like that absolutely no one has read and indeed, the one I'm going to mention has been read by at least one person on my flist, but there you go. In fifth grade, my parents gave me The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzenberger as a present. I loved it. It told me all sorts of neat things about numbers and math (such as Pascal's Triangle) through stories about the main character's dreams.

5. What museum would you choose to live in?

I'm tempted to say the MMoA, due to The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, but I've only been to it once. The MIA serves that purpose to me. When I was a kid, I always thought of the bed in one of the period rooms to be the one that they ran away to. The Peabody, from what pictures I've seen of it, is lovely and has interesting artifacts. The Field or the British Museum would be wonderful to spend time exploring, though I've actually seen the behind the scenes of the Field. If I lived in the Logan, I could go visit BSFFA.

I am uncertain, but I'm leaning towards the MIA or the Field.

ETA: cucumberseed has asked me the following.

1) If you had to describe a creeping, subtle evil, what would it look like? Sound? Smell?

It would smell vaguely like something you missed but not quite exactly. Something that you couldn't place would be off about the smell.

Evil comes in many forms, so I dunno about looks.

It would sound either eerily quiet or perfectly ordinary.

2) Have you ever dreamed about a particular kind of plant or tree?

Not that I can recall, no.

3) What space-going vessel would you most like to be captain of?

Perhaps a white star from Babylon 5.

4) You are a shape-shifter, what other form do you take?

I want to say Mystique, just to be silly but hmm. I would like to be a cat, perhaps. Or maybe something with wings.

5) What is the fictional location you would most fear going to?

England in Jo Walton's Small Change books. Or perhaps Cylon occupied Caprica. Or maybe Mordor?

So yes. Do comment if you would like questions and feel free to answer any of the ones I have answered.