New Brainwashed Follower!

[mishalak]

I've seen where other do a five questions thing as people friend them here on livejournal, so I thought I would try that. Welcome snippy and here are the five questions she asked and my Weird Answers. So this is a new thing and if anyone else wants to have five questions answered (anything and you could save a question for later if you want) just send them over to me via email or comment.

1. What's your philosophy of life?
Philosophy? I'm a geek, I'm lucky to just have a life, I'm not going to question the miracle lest it get annoyed and go away. More seriously I believe in enjoying life. Everything else springs from my desire to have fun. Things like being nice to other people because if I want to have fun other people ought to be as well. So humanism.

2. Who is your inspiration?
Books mostly. Though in Denver there used to be BNF named Don Thompson. He, from everything I've heard of him, was very cool and helped out fandom a lot. I work all the time on trying to get closer to his level of fannish goodness.

3. How do you handle change?
Not very well. I like things to operate within accepted norms, so change for me can be hard. That's one of the reasons I was studying to be an accountant, very reliable work. There is a variety in what happens, but generally the sky doesn't fall in on one. Add the numbers, subtract the numbers, give the numbers to other people. So I'm sympathetic when people don't want to change when I do. So I take things slow. I'm conservative in that sense, though not so much in the weird political definition.

4. Where is home, and why?
My home is still in Elbert County. True I've got this apartment and everything, but until I have a place I really want to stay (somewhere with more closet space) where I live isn't home. So home defaults back to Elbert County where I grew up. It's not a bad place, though I don't ever want to live there again. Boring as all heck.

5. Why don't you come to Orycon in November?
Money mainly. Well also distance. And my evil stupid job. Even if I don't have much money I can make it to all the local conventions by twisting arms until I have roommates or driving partners or just get money out of people to support poor me. But the thing is I'm running out of days off this year <sigh> and November is right after I go to blow huge amounts of money (for me) on a party at MileHiCon. I really wanted to go to Westercon this year with my friends Rose Beetem, Jane Campbell, and Dave Gibbons. But I couldn't because of not enough money. Hate job, hate, hate, hate.

Oh and I found a way out of my moral quandary over buying an unlicensed prop item for Farscape. I'll buy the cheap one and then I'll track down the name of the prop designer who did the work on the thing. Then I'll send him a check for $15. He probably doesn't even get a cut of the profits off the official collectable ones, and I figure he deserves to get something more than just his pay for such nifty cool work.

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Don Thompson is an excellent inspiration. He wrote from the heart, and he wrote well. I'm glad I had the pleasure of meeting him at a worldcon a couple of years before he died.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I wish I had gotten into fandom a few years earlier so I could have met him. I once had the complement paid to me two years of being Director of the club of someone saying, "You seem a bit like Don Thompson the way you're out trying to get people into fandom." It was a very cool moment for me.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I hereby encourage you, and you do seem to be heading in that direction.

[snippy]

Elbert County *where*? Colorado?

Sorry you can't come to Orycon; it's really the only con I (we, sinanju and I and my two kids, boys ages 17 and 13) go to and I would enjoy spending face time with you! You seem like a lot of fun.

Where On Earth

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm a Colorado boy. Well technically I was born in Montana, but I've live here since age one. My mother lived here most of her life (all but college, the few years in montana, and the year she was born in California), as did both her parents, and their parents. Four generations, though given that my sister is moving away and I'm unlikely to have children it will probably end with me.

So I grew up in unincorporated Elbert County Colorado outside the town of Elizabeth. Population 2,000 when we moved there. It's over 10,000 now I think. I lived on the same street, in the same house, for 19 years of my life. I've choped wood to heat the house in winter, I've fed horses, helped clean deer, and I'm never, never going to be a country boy again.