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* Just leave me a comment saying "GOBBLEDIGOOK" if you want to play.
* I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
* Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
* Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions. Simples!

My questions from

celticwitch_0.

1) What is your favourite memory from your childhood.

Being in Oliver with Fareham Musical Society. I was eleven, and I was only supposed to be one of Fagin's Lads - but because my voice had broken, I got asked to join the chorus for the rest of the show. Applause is not the worst thing to be addicted to...

2) Money is no object what would be the first thing you would buy or do?

A house, big enough for me and my *cough* housemates, with two spare double bedrooms, hot and cold running internets and easy public transport links.

3) Favourite place to eat out and why?

I've recently been introduced to Panama Hatty's in Manchester - Mexican food that doesn't blow your head off. But it's more about the company than the restaurant - even KFC can be good if you're there with the right people.

4) If you could choose any job what would it be and why?

For the moment, journalist - probably trying to focus on LGBT and kink issues, but with a taste for covering minority sports. Bit of a pipe dream but it would be nice.

5) What do you do to relax?

Not as much as I should. Mostly I read science fiction and talk to my friends online.

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GOBBLEDIGOOK

1) What - and who - was your first motorcycle?
2) What's the big deal about Moleskine notebooks?
3) If you could only watch one anime series or film for the rest of your life, what would it be?
4) Who's your favourite actor?
5) What's involved in your ideal weekend?

Oh do I really have to say GOBBLEDEGOOK? Fine then. It's the name of a good Sigur Ros song, y'know. One of my favorites of last year but I don't know if I ever told you about it; I bet you'd like it.

I want to go to Panama Hatty's now. :)

Oh do I really have to say GOBBLEDEGOOK? Fine then. It's the name of a good Sigur Ros song, y'know.
I had exactly the same reaction. T'is one of my favourites on the album.

Mine too. :) Though I like the next song, "Inní Mér Wyngur Vitleysingur", almost as much.

1) What's your favourite linguistic coincidence or link?
2) What's the best thing about living in the UK, as opposed to Minnesota?
3) Who's your favourite major religious figure?
4) Where on earth would you never, ever go, under any circumstances?
5) How did you discover Discordianism?

GOBBLEDIGOOK

(Although I don't promise to put it in my journal.)

Panama Hatty's is v nice - I went there for my hen night.

1) What's your favourite interesting bit of maths? Please provide worked example. (5)
2) What's the worst piece of privileged bullshit you've heard about this year?
3) Which period of ancient history is your favourite?
4) Who's currently your favourite author?
5) What brought you to Manchester in the first place?

1. In engineering maths - the equations that prove that when you exceed Mach 1, all the controls on an plane work in the opposite direction. I can provide a worked example if I search out my old textbooks but I'm lazy.

2. Will need to think on that one.

3. They are all fascinating in different ways but I would say Rome, because we have so much more information about how they thought. I'm interested in the ways in which they are similar to us but also very different.

4. Tragically, I've not been reading many books recently. Online - Kate Harding and Sweet Machine of Shapely Prose are awesome. Actual papery books - probably still Salman Rushdie for The Moor's Last Sigh.

5. I had decided to study Chem Eng at university. I was planning to study in Scotland until I talked to a very lonely-looking rep from UMIST at a university recruitment fair. When I came for my student visit, it was clear that Manchester was a big scary place for a girl from a relatively quiet area but I knew it was a challenge I had to take. Also, I liked the course and the city so it became my first choice UCAS place.

gobbledigook

i'll have some of that :)

1) Is World of Warcraft the first MMO you've played?
2) What's the best thing about living in England, as opposed to Wales?
3) Who's your favourite artist?
4) What do you do to relax?
5) Where would you go on holiday, if money was no object?