First meme in a while, swunked from aphoenix2007

[fpb]

Comment on this entry and I will...

1) Tell you why I friended you
2) Associate you with a song/movie
3) Tell a random fact about you
4) Tell a first memory about you
5) Associate you with an animal/fruit
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you
7) Show you my favourite user pic of yours
8) In retort, you MUST spead this disease in your LJ

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

1) You are a very old friend as fandom friends go. I lost my records of our first meetings when *&($#!!!! Microsoft deleted my Hotmail account, but I remember that I was getting to know you just as Hijja and I were talking of a possible collaboration, and for a while it even looked as if it could become three-sided.
2) Anything classical, but for national motives, let us make it the Polonaise Heroique.
3) You and I share a degree subject - Social Anthropology - though you carried on with it and I turned back to my first love, history.
4) I still wish that story with Hijja had worked out. It would have been something, since you two are among the finest writers I know, and I don't suck myself, I think.
5) An owl - in the mythical, not the zoological sense. Wise, thoughtful, and a bit lugubrious.
6) How did you become interested in China, and how much freedom have you got when you work there?
7) Well, I guess my favourite over toad making a speech, toad happy, toad sad, toad cogitating, toad about to jump, is toad.

[bufo-viridis.livejournal.com]

Ad.1. I think we started to know each other when I unduly praised White Goddess in FAP thread :) The we discussed your story about great magical war of late 19th cent.
Ad. 5. I am not wise, but I'm certainly a night creature :)
Ad 6. How? Incidentally, in fact. I was in my first year uni and I saw a note stuck on the wall: "anybody interested in learnign Chinese please come..." so I decided it's just too surreal; I called my friend, who said he had seen it too, he also believed it was just too weird to pass. We went and we got sucked in. He works in Chinese-foreing law now.
Freedom? Nobody really interfered with my research, I'm sure the authorities knew I was in the village, but they preferred "not to know." Which is typical for China, namely one never knows what will happen and it's often down to luck. Basically, unless you start throwing sensitive questions around or distribute Bibles on the third day from your arrival, nobody usually bothers you or about you.