ironymaiden | five in from the cold

five questions from

boldfeather. ask and you shall receive five from me, whereupon you post your answers with these instructions and perpetuate ad infinitem.

[Bad username or site: buhrger, Trek @ livejournal.com]
1. What book do you regret reading?
The Witching Hour. i actually read three of the gorram Anne Rice witches books, because i was so sure there was a good story in there, and it just never came, but i kept trying. those are hours i'll never get back.
any sequel where the world has been played out. the examples of stories that are worth more than a trilogy are few, and do not include Ender, Dune, Thomas Covenant, or Pern (although i have a soft spot for the Harper Hall stories). the extra Ender stuff has probably permanently damaged my opinion of Orson Scott Card.

2. Being a girl who has only gotten as far as Spokane, what one non-touristy thing in Seattle would you recommend an Auslaender should visit?
Big John's PFI, although this is a place notable for things from outside Seattle. more Seattle-centric, a walk across the Ballard bridge to Fishermen's Terminal and the fishermen's memorial.

3. We share a love of pomegranates. How do you prefer to eat them?
i start them with a knife and if i can be patient enough, empty the seeds into a bowl, from whence i eat the seeds in small groups.

4. How did you meet buhrger, and how has that changed your perspective on life?
hm. online or in person? i first encountered

buhrger online on

frabjousdave's lj, and we later met in person here during a month that started with A. having a pedant like

buhrger around keeps me honest; i find myself proofing what i write and (even though he's not the first or only Canadian on the f-list) thinking more carefully about assumptions i make as a resident of the US. while

frabjousdave and i aren't close anymore,

buhrger is one of the (numerous) nice things that came, and remain, from a dead friendship and i can feel good about that.

5. From all of the Trek goodness (series, movies, etc.), who is your favorite character?
hrm. i don't have an identity character in the Star Trek universe (although i'm most familiar with TOS and tNG), as in "this person is somehow like me." i think my favorite character overall is Khan Noonien Singh. he's beautifully written and has a great backstory both in "Space Seed" and in Star Trek II.