It's that meme. You know, with the things I don't blog about.

[tammaiya]

SIX DAYS UNTIL I FLY OUT. *hyperventilates*

Some things are going wrong, some other things are sorted out, mostly I'm sitting around playing Tales of the Abyss with interludes to buy things vital to my future survival in Japan or to socialise.

I can't be bothered finding the actual wording of that meme, but it's done the rounds, everyone's seen it-- feel free to ask me about anything I, for whatever reason, don't blog about. Chances are I haven't blogged about it because I haven't thought of it, so if anything springs to mind go for it.

ETA: Ah hah, I found the actual words.

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post comment about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

Comments

[fahye.livejournal.com]

HEY. Have you worked out details for your farewell thing yet?

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

Ahah! yes! sending out email, that is totally what I need to do. 8.30 until whenever, B Bar in Kingston. :D

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Okay! Um, I have been to Kingston maybe twice in my life. Will there be parking at 8:30 on a Saturday night?

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

That's... a good question. There's parking lots, but I don't know how busy they get. I'll have to ask my parents, they'd have a better idea.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

XDDDD I am indeed going to be in Tokyo! My university is in Fuchuushi, which is apparently half an hour west of Shinjuku by train. Nobody has heard of this district, so I assume it's kind of far out in Tokyo terms, but the trains are so regular that I'm not too bothered by that.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

Yay, awesome! \o/

What is especially useful is that my dorm is on campus, so I won't have to pay to commute on a daily basis.

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

Only six days! Good luck, and I hope you have fun over there.

Hmmmm. For the meme: You have been neglecting to talk about all the fun you're having over in Japa- oh wait, not there yet. All right. ^^ So, one very minor thing I'd like to hear about would be what your favourite book is, as I can't remember if you've mentioned that before in your journal.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

I know, it's crazy. @_@ I'm sure once I'm there and settled, though, it'll be awesome.

That's actually a very difficult question for me to answer, because I am a MASSIVELY indecisive person and I don't have a favourite anything. I can give you a handful of books that spring immediately to mind, though-- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, because it's just so sweet and charming and lovable. I love Discworld, obviously, but especially Jingo; Vimes tends to be my favourite, and I just love that he ARRESTS A WAR. Also, it has a lot of Vetinari and Leonard, and cross-dressing Nobby, and a Call Me Al joke. Hm, what else. The Anne of Green Gables books, particularly Anne of the Island. I was attached to those books as a kid, and I've read Anne of the Island a lot of times because I'm a romantic at heart and I just love the relationship between her and Gilbert so much. Then there's the Belgariad series by David Eddings. They're not the best written books ever, but there's something about them that earned them a special place for me. I don't know, I got very attached to the characters and again with me being a romantic, I really love all the relationships in it.

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

I approve of Howl's Moving Castle and Discworld! Haven't read the others, but I may look out for the David Eddings ones, since I'm always hungry for good books.

Vimes tends to be my favourite, and I just love that he ARRESTS A WAR

No-one can argue that Vimes is not a true policeman. On a large scale. ^^ I like Jingo a lot. My favourite Discworld novel is Small Gods (with Witches Abroad coming in second place), but the rest are great stuff too. (I suggest that Susan Sto Helit be nominated for the position of Ruler of the Earth.)

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn it, I just lost my comment halfway through.

David Eddings is fantasy, which you might already be aware of and is my favourite genre, probably obviously. Anne of Green Gables is a little different

All Discworld ARE great stuff. Susan is awesome-- it's hard to choose between the Death books and the Witches after the Guards, because they're all so awesome. Really, I love all of them. They're my happy books, I often read them to cheer myself up when I feel depressed.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

I got distracted halfway through talking about Anne of Green Gables. XD It's a series following the life of an orphan girl named Anne who gets adopted by an elderly pair of siblings living in the country on Prince Edward Island in Canada. She's 11 at the start of the first book, which is about her at school. The second book is her teaching to earn money etc to go to college, which she does in the third book. Fourth book is her life as a newlywed, fifth book is about her as a mother. They were written about the turn of last century, I think, and they're just really sweet. I've always loved them. Anne of the Island is the third book, about her at college.

[kurushi.livejournal.com]

random question, because it's cool to have an answer:

porn, fic or otherwise, and friends. Where is your line? Will you read porn written by childhood friends? Write porn on request for them? Watch friends in porn? Watch/read porn with friends?

Or are friends so friendlike that any associated porn is just un-arousing?

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

That's... an interesting question. It's never even occurred to me as an issue, for what it's worth. I have read porn written by and written porn for childhood friends before, so definitely no problem with that. I've read porn with friends and WRITTEN porn with friends. Reading it out loud is kind of awkward, but I think that's just the nature of porn rather than anything to do with friends. XD As for watching friends in porn... hm. I heavily favour written porn to visual porn anyway, so that'd probably cross a line for me but I don't know if it's just because I don't like visual porn very much. Then again, I'm not sure if I could read RPF porn about my friends, because I've never tried. I'm pretty sure I couldn't WRITE rpf porn about my friends, though.

So... make of that what you will. Then again, porn isn't always necessarily associated with arousal for me. I tend to be more fixated on the plot than anything-- often the porn or lack there of only matters because I get frustrated by a lack of proper closure. So maybe that's why it doesn't bother me.

If only I'd ever gotten around to making an icon saying "the internet is for porn!", it'd be so perfect right now.

[kurushi.livejournal.com]

Well, my dear, carpe diem!

Phonesex was highly appropriate, anyway. ^_~

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about it for at least 6 years. XD It's weird that it's finally arrived.

Um, okay, let's see. My mother is 58. Her hair is quite thin and when she was my age it was long and brown but for as long as I can remember it has been short and curly and dyed red. She's the oldest of 6 siblings, she grew up in Sydney, her mother was a Scottish immigrant. She's a personal injury lawyer for what used to be my father's firm. When I was in sixth grade she had breast cancer and had radiotherapy, chemotherapy and half a masectemy but it never came back. Maybe because of her changes in diet-- since then she doesn't drink alcohol, and she tries to have soy rather than dairy. She's very changable; she's a worry-wart to the point of paranoia, and because of the way her father raised her (her father was a successful engineer) she feels like she has to spend lots of money on her own children and often buys me clothes, pays for my uni fees and textbooks, etc. She loves me but she can be very controlling and finds it hard to understand someone like me, who is so different to her, so we fight a lot.

My father is 59, and my return ticket is booked so I'll be back for his 60th in November. From the photos I've seen he was ridiculously skinny in the 70s, but he's quite portly now, probably because of his hobby as a gourmand and wine-taster. He has VERY expensive tastes. He used to judge restaurants for this competition before he was diagnosed with high iron, but he generally can't eat red meat now so he laid off. Up until last year, he was the senior partner of a law firm, but one of the other partners was retiring and he didn't want to buy them out so they merged with the firm next door. He's now a consultant doing mostly conveyancing, and mostly he's relieved not to have to be the practice manager anymore. He was born in Melbourne but grew up in Canberra, and unlike mum, he grew up poor. His parents were strict Catholics. He's got an older brother who's a judge, and a younger sister who lives in Adelaide. He has a weird sense of humour and often says things that would maybe sound bigoted until you realise that a. he's joking and b. he says those kinds of things about EVERYONE. He argues against mum when she's actually being racist or whatever. He's a lawyer for the Australian Labor Party, the traditionally left wing but now centerist party, although government have they're own lawyers, so only when they're not in power. Which they currently are everywhere at both state and federal level. He's generally not that demonstrative about his affections but he lavishes them over our poodle, Ebony, who he calls his princess. The only time I've seen him cry aside from at a funeral is when my parents found out I was cutting myself in high school.

Mum loves family history and dad loves wine, so family holidays around the country when I was growing up inevitably involved trips to both graveyards and vineyards.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

I have two siblings: an older brother and an older sister. They both live in Sydney. My older sister is 30 and a successful architect/interior designer. Mostly interior designer these days. My parents considered calling her Ceilidh (Kay-lee) but named her Kylie because they didn't think she'd be able to spell Ceilidh, but when she was 18 she said that Kylie was too boring for an architect and legally changed it-- to Ceilidh. She owns an apartment with her boyfriend, who she's been dating for about 9 years and who I think she'll probably marry soon. I hope. She also has her own toy poodle which she got because she missed Ebony, but Jackson is pretty much the polar opposite. He's white where Ebony's black, skinny where she's fat, crazy in the head and kind of stupid. Ceilidh's boyfriend, who's a psychologist, says that Jackson has autism. She's kind of bossy and, like mum, doesn't understand me because I'm more like my brother than her and I'd rather play playstation than go clothes shopping. Sometimes she says hurtful things when she's only meaning to tease. I love her, but we were a lot closer when I was a child and she used to play dolls with me. Ceilidh is a little shorter than me, but she has a completely Irish complexion and has thick, dark, curly hair and pale skin that burns and freckles. She looks like my dad; my brother and I apparently look like our mother. (My voice frequently gets mistaken on the phone for her, too.)

My brother Rohan is 29 and last year, after five years working for a major law firm, he went to the bar to become a barrister, which is what he's always wanted to do. It suits him well; as he told me once, barristers are belligerent and argumentative, and so is he. He's very big-- both height-wise and bulk-wise. When I was little he used to pick on me a lot, but since he's moved out of home we've been really close. He still mocks me a lot, particularly about "bad gay porn" and my lack of knowledge about movies and music, but mostly it's just annoying. He plays video games, like me, but his real passions are CDs and movies. He owns over 1000 CDs, and you'd be hard pressed to find a movie he hasn't seen. They exist, just there aren't that many of them. His obsessiveness has also branched out into books in the last few years; he's building himself quite a library of all the classics. He has really thin hair, like mum, and is already balding, but he has glasses like dad. He's shaved his head before and it made him look like Chicken Little, but he maintains that's preferable to obviously going bald. He's pretty much a genius and always got very high marks; he topped a number of law courses and still had time for a social life. I've always had problems comparing myself to him, but I'm getting better about it, I think.

My brother is visiting me in Japan in January, and is much more excited about it than my parents are about their own trip. My mum doesn't want to go to Japan at all-- she'd rather go to America, but I'm in Japan, so to Japan she'll go. My sister and her boyfriend are doing two weeks in Japan after 2 months in Europe, but I'll have just been travelling with my parents and my holidays will be about over so I won't go with them. I think they're spending most of the time in Tokyo anyway.