Interviewed by Emmett....

[cyan_blue]

emmett_the_sane asked me these...

What's your favourite colour?

I have an affinity for the color blue... it's what stands out for me at clothing stores and the like. Bright sky blue is especially wonderful to me. I like the peacock spectrum as well... brilliant purples, greens, blues and golds all together. Gemstone hues in general do it for me... I like colors that are found in nature. Primary colors ain't my thing.

Since you're Jewish and didn't grow up with Xmas, were you always tempted to tell all your Xian schoolmates that Santa wasn't real?

My few Xian schoolmates were jaded New Yorkers, who knew such things all ready ;-)

"Few," you ask? Well, funny you should mention Xian, which is also a rather interesting town in China - remind me to tell you about it sometime. Since I went to elementary school in Chinatown NY, my classmates were much more likely to be of Xian-China descent than Xian-Christian descent. So more of them were Confucians, Buddhists, Taoists or atheists than Christians. Santa Claus got outranked by impressive room-long dragons, and firecrackers.

Paper is sold in a variety of colours. Do you think that white-out sold for various papers should rightfully be renamed to the colour of the paper... ie "purple-out", "mauve-out", or even "black-out"?

That would be very neat...

When was the last time you had sushi, since we don't eat it together?

I had it on May 23rd with sfthewanderer (Jonathan) in celebration of his birthday. We went on an expedition in search of San Jose's Japantown, eventually found it, and sated ourselves on avocado maki, vegetable tempura, and lots of soup.

What's your favourite decorating style, indoors and out?

I like to decorate using interestingly-hued fabrics and comfy textures, among various bits of nature - leaves, shells, stones ... (your typical hippie co-op thing). Oh, and lots of my own photos of friends and nature on the wall.

If you could go just one place for a weekend, where would it be?

Touring scenic back roads does it for me... :-) We should see the Catalina Islands sometime soon as well.

How many sofas is "enough" sofas? :)

*pout* Ya tryin' ta make a point, cher?

Enough sofas so that all of our gaming gathering friends have a comfy place to sit; not quite so many sofas that our friends refuse to participate in the shlepping process when helping us with moves.

Comments

[geminigirl]

The Santa thing is always interesting to me...having grown up Jewish as well, I never believed in Santa Claus...the hard part was learning not to tell the other kids that he wasn't real...

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting and wonderful thing. I never really stopped believing in Santa. Except that eventually I learned Santa wasn't a single person, but my Mother and Father, and lots of people. Including me.

[merde.livejournal.com]

Since I went to elementary school in Chinatown NY, my classmates were much more likely to be of Xian-China descent than Xian-Christian descent. So more of them were Confucians, Buddhists, Taoists or atheists than Christians. Santa Claus got outranked by impressive room-long dragons, and firecrackers.

i am so wildly envious of this. i bet that was really neat. (although when i was a kid, i doubt i'd have appreciated it properly if i'd gone to school in such an interesting environment.)

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

It was fun. Chinese New Year was a major holiday, which the Chinese kids got to leave school for. The non-Chinese kids didn't, but that would mean that only 15% of us were there, so the teachers didn't bother trying to teach us a real class on those days; we got to sit by the windows and watch the impressive firecracker displays that our classmates would put on for us; and the next day the street would be a river of red bits of paper.

We got to learn a little of Chinese language, and some Chinese culture. Some of it rubbed off... for instance, the Chinese girls never wore white bows or barrettes or bands in their hair, because white is the Chinese color for death; so I got the habit of never doing so either.

[cougarpants.livejournal.com]

Paper is sold in a variety of colours. Do you think that white-out sold for various papers should rightfully be renamed to the colour of the paper... ie "purple-out", "mauve-out", or even "black-out"?

Actually you can get that stuff in various colors. Since the invention of forms with layers of colored paper you can find correction fluid in almost every color they use for those forms.