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Favorite indulgent literary genre: Science Fiction or Fantasy - I've been a member of an SF & F reading group at the local Barnes & Marmoset for going on what? eight years? Maybe closer to nine or ten now - I know John and I were in it for a couple of years before Angus was born - all of the kids went to meeting while still in their car seats. The occasional non-fiction - either science, biography or correspondence - l love books of letters
Favorite utensil: I like using chopsticks (hashi?) in the right context - but not for everything. A large non-stick spatula, and wooden spoons. Sporks to be used on others?
Favorite outfit: Something like I'm wearing now - I'm sure I would give the ladies on "What Not to Wear" nightmares...
Favorite salad: Any salad - depends on my mood. Dressings - ranch, bleu cheese, honey mustard or rice vinegar and sesame oil. And for the record - anything made with potatoes, pasta, jello or *shudder* peas counts as a side dish, not a salad. It has to be green and crunchy. Also, for some weird reason, I don't care for croutons in my salad, although I'm perfectly fine eating them separately. Two different kinds of crunch don't mesh well together for me - one of my few texture issues, I suppose.
Favorite basic shape to doodle: circular scribbles, tribbles, unicorns, fish, the Enterprise... I tend to start concentrating too much when I doodle, and not pay attention to what I'm supposed to. Doodling is supposed to be a subconscious thing, according to the little supermarket mini-book I had years ago, entitled "What Your Doodles Mean."
Favorite mixed drink: As I get older, less and less sweet things. Gin and tonic is more my speed these days, when it used to be fuzzy navels or something with Midori in it. More usually, red wine. More likely, ice tea or diet soda.
Favorite fruit: mangoes
Favorite piece of furniture in my house: My bed? Then the antique dresser with tiger maple drawers from my grandmother's house.
Favorite X-Man: Need you ask? Who can resist a surly Canadian with adamantium claws? Actually, Gambit and the Beast are close seconds.
Favorite energy drink: Plain old everyday coffee, preferably with half&half but I'll make do with non-dairy; but it has to be strong and it has to be fresh. No gas station stuff. Nasty.
Favorite email provider: Gmail.
Favorite musical(s): Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Who else but Stephen Sondheim could make a musical about a serial whose lover turns his victims into pies? I prefer the original cast recording over the DVD cast - the actor playing Todd screams instead of singing, and Johanna is airheadedly screechy. Haven't heard the new revival version yet.
Favorite kitchen appliance: Coffeemaker. Coffeegrinder - mmm, the smell of fresh ground coffee....I loved the smell long before I ever started drinking it.
Favorite fish to eat: Lots. Smoked barracuda and tuna comes to mind. I like my fish to taste like fish, dammit!
Favorite short story: Only one? I know there are lots but this is only one coming to mind right now - "The Christmas Present" by Gordon R. Dickson - in the anthology Christmas on Ganymede. Little boy in extraterrestrial colony tries to teach alien about Christmas with unexpected results. Rather poignant, but not in the usual religious sense.
Current mousepad: There are four on my work desk, none actually being used for that purpose - my mouse sits on a specially designed extension of my keyboard tray with no room for a pad (although many in my office hate it and just remove it). One from the training center and one listing search engines from PCWorld are in a stack and serve as my mug/water bottle coaster; another one from the Aquarium of the Pacific is too pretty to use, being full of liquid, sparkles, sharks and jellies that move when you poke it. And one from NOAA Fisheries with a Ray Troll design on it - up on my shelf pretending to be artwork.
Current hair color: My brother told me once (as he was braiding my hair) that it was all different colors: gold, red, light brown, dark brown. Now there are also streaks of gray (colorless, actually) from my widow's peak and the corners of my forehead. I had some before, but I'm also told they gained prominence when I had kids.
Current outfit: Jeans, a purple Hawaiian shirt with gold dolphins and blue-green circles, flip-flops.
Current desktop: At work: Neil and Tim Finn being pelted by coffee beans - four pics from the Make Trade Fair website that I stuck together as one image.
At home: What Makes You Happy - "Hermit crabs collect scenery on their vacations because cameras are too difficult to work with claws."
Current socks: None - It's hot and as seen above, footwear don't allow it. Unless I had tabi, but they'd look funny.
Favorite/overused exclamation: "Did I tell this before? I can't remember..."