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I tend to downplay the friendslist thing, but I am really massively curious. Especially to those who have friended me this year... (if I don't obviously know who you are), a la [livejournal.com profile] sdn, tell me 3 cool things about yourself. What drove you here?

[livejournal.com profile] handworn, I am drawn to the ubiquitous nature of Philadelphia in your journal. It is always a good thing to have Friends in Philadelphia.

Date: 2006-05-14 04:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hedgerose.livejournal.com
I'm Sarah. I'm here because I'm a *huge* fan of your work-- you e-mailed me when I posted a review a few months ago.

So, three things about me...

1. I knit far more than a person who doesn't actually live in a place where people wear scarves should.

2. I'm the kind of insane that drives one to learn Old Irish, and then try and re-write the textbook halfway through the year.

3. I've been living in Ireland since September. I leave in just over a week, and I will dreadfully miss Toffee Crisps, Barry's Tea, and not having to worry about earthquakes.

Date: 2006-05-15 04:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hedgerose.livejournal.com
Hehe! Most of us in Old Irish are Americans doing it for a Cert in Irish Studies who would not otherwise be taking the class. Our exam is on Wednesday, and most of us are freaking out.

"Ireland Before the Normans" sounds really cool-- I'm currently taking an Irish Archaeology class which started with the mesolithic and made it to the 1400s. Neolithic tombs and early medieval ecclesiastical settlement are what it's all about. ^_^

I'm going back to California to do my senion year of college; it's not so much that I *worry* about earthquakes, but it means I can't do things like store my suitcase on top of my closet, because it might fall off.

Date: 2006-05-15 05:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hedgerose.livejournal.com
When I first got here, I was trying to find a place to put it, and my German flatmate suggested the top of the closet-- my first thought was, indeed what if there's an earthquake? There *are* things here that I'm not used to-- we got frost in the winter, which looks so *amazing.* I mean, I'd seen frost before, but it had never been in a place where I was living.

On the other hand, I'm used to the rain. ^_^

Date: 2006-05-15 11:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hedgerose.livejournal.com
It's okay, so am I. I blame my father. I currently have two weather pages that I check daily. ^_^

Date: 2006-05-16 06:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handworn.livejournal.com
I'd love to visit Ireland.

One of the weirdest things, though, is that I've been able to find just about nothing published on early modern Irish life-- say, 1600 to 1900-- or the material culture of that era. The Cries of Dublin has been about it, for that era.

Date: 2006-05-16 07:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hedgerose.livejournal.com
If you're looking for nonfiction, there's one called Irish Folk Ways, by E. Estyn Evans, that's pretty good-- it was a textbook for my folklore course.

Date: 2006-05-16 10:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handworn.livejournal.com
Thank you! I'll certainly look that up.

Date: 2006-05-14 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shati.livejournal.com
I read The Winter Prince a few years back, and loved it to tiny snowy bits. It was a huge influence on my style at the time; especially the sense of momentum, and the clarity of the writing. Sharpness. (I also wondered if you read a lot of manga, because some of the story elements reminded me more of manga/anime than your average Western Arthurian fantasy.) I've since read the demi-sequels, which were lovely.

So when I heard you'd got a livejournal -- I don't remember who from -- I friended it. (And I'm not sure if that was this year or not, because I have the sense of time of a stoned or maybe dead turtle.)

* I have a very many small, stupid, incestuous, orange, and cannibalistic fish. Whenever I worry about the fate of humanity I can look at those fish and know that there is a species worse off.

* I am 19, living in (well, right by) Boston, and running low on adjectives.

* I am not very good at listing 3 cool things about myself.

Date: 2006-05-15 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meener.livejournal.com
you know who i am (hopefully!), and i can't think of 3 cool things about myself. so here are some 3 random bits of information:

1. one thing i believe very strongly, to the point of egotism even, is that i have excellent taste in books and authors. when people ask me what i mean by "good taste," i say that it's of course whatever i'm reading. (that is where the egotism comes in, maybe.)

2. i get inordinately excited about anything connected to the norman invasion. i positively explode whenever anyone mentions the norman invasion in connection with language.

3. you are one of my favorite authors.

Date: 2006-05-15 07:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handworn.livejournal.com
I was reading recently that the Bayeux Tapestry has actually been reworked several times over the years. Someone recently compared the two engravings made in the early 18th century and early 19th century, with the late 19th century photographs of it, with what it looks like today, and it would seem that the famous arrow or bolt in King Harold's eye didn't start out there. In the early 18th century engraving, it's a lot more like a lance he's hurling, and not touching his head at all.

Damn, now where'd I read all that...?

Date: 2006-05-15 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handworn.livejournal.com
Well, as you know if you read my last post, TrustFlow pulled your LJ in as one which is "near my FL but not on it." (If you don't see yours on the results of that link, I expect it's because you now are on it.)

Hmm. 3 cool things.

I have an 1830s rowhome which I'm restoring for my family and I to live in. Saw it, discovered it was vacant and tax-delinquent, forced it into sheriff's sale, and bought it there. Restoring it is like having a baby-- hideous amounts of work, with amazing learning and personal growth. I'm doing both at once, so I can compare.

I used to own a caboose. I'm one of those "collecting" types, you might say, and back when I was railroad-crazy my parents indulged me enough to lend me $3500 to buy a 50-year-old, 25-ton railroad car. Eventually, life shifted, and I had to sell it, but I still think fondly of it.

I created the first website laying out a city of the past block by block and house by house, ever created.

Do you have a Philadelphia connection?

It's also a good thing to have Friends in Scotland. My ancestors came from the little Borders town of Hawick, and while there on our honeymoon we went to the farm where they were laborers. The present owners were interested and invited us in for tea! Then the husband drove us all around the countryside showing where the laborers' cottages were, the early houses in those rolling hills, a marvelous, spooky old abandoned church in the woods high on a hill, and then drove us back into town to the bus station!

So we have fond memories of Scottish hospitality.

Date: 2006-05-16 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handworn.livejournal.com
Our house is in Fishtown, the last of the really early neighborhoods to be discovered. If you remember where Old City is, Northern Liberties is the neighborhood just above that, and, following the curve of the river toward the northeast, Fishtown is the next. Some truly amazing houses here, but we're losing some now due to gentrification and the eyepopping money they're getting for condos. They're redeveloping the waterfront, finally, and everyone's pushing to get in.

Once I get my camera working again, I see I'm going to have to do a post about the place.

Date: 2006-05-16 05:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] handworn.livejournal.com
Thanks. I remember Dick Tyler very well; he's quite a character.

Date: 2006-05-18 04:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
I was off meeting my new baby niece when you posted this and could think of very little besides niece. Now I recall that I friended you because [livejournal.com profile] sdn said who you were and I like your books. Arthurian novels have joined vampire novels in the category of "kinds of book [livejournal.com profile] mrissa is wary of," but these slipped past that guard, to good effect. (I particularly like books and series that don't end in traditional spots.)

My standard party-trick fact about myself is that I can sing the theme songs to "The Brady Bunch" and "Gilligan's Island" in French.

Two more random cool things...um. At Christmas, someone sent me marbles in the shape of the Earth and Mars, and no one has confessed to it yet. If it was parents or partners, they'd have said so by now. So I have no idea, but they're really lovely marbles and make me happy.

I make a killer Guinness gingerbread. This is a rather more practical fact than the others, a useful thing for people to know about me.

Date: 2006-05-19 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Stout gingerbread (http://www.marissalingen.com/stoutginger.html), for your delectation. It really is good, dark and bitter, and the molasses and stout are black and bubbly at the beginning, and it makes me feel witchy and strange as the bitterness wafts through the house.

The marbles are pretty cheap on Amazon (the US version, at least), too--only a few dollars each, for something that really made my Christmas.

Date: 2006-05-24 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com
Actually, this is the first time I've posted on here....Let's see, I found your blog through a posting on Sartorias via Martha Wells, and said...hey, I know eegatland! So i just added you to my friends today.

We met last year in Scotland, and I am about half-way through the Sunbird.
That gives you an idea how slowly I read (I read about a novel a month). I waited until January as you suggested and bought the paperback, put it onto my stack where I just started it last week. (OK, I admit I've skimmed ahead to the end, but I haven't READ it all yet.) I gave my paperbacks to my brother-in-law to purt in his library, so now your books are available at another Mesquite, TX high school. I'm going to go ahead and buy the hardbacks, although I'm beginning to think finding the Winter Prince in hardback might be difficult!

3 interesting things.....hmmm

1) Been on a camel trek through the Outback in the Australian winter. Froze my butt off, slept on the ground, ate flies, smelled like camel dung, learned a lot. Recognized 2 constellations, and discovered that if I ever go to a new planet, all the constellations will be named Triangle One, Triangle Two, Triange Three.... Seriously, you ever want to know about camels, I can help.

2) I fence saber and foil, although right now I'm on haitus from that because my physical therapist says no more getting hit over the head.

3) I believe Calculus is one of the greatest art forms ever developed.

Date: 2006-05-25 04:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com
I was actually told once at a witers' workshop (by a critiquer) that they were surprised that I was a woman. They thought I wrote like a man, which nearly made me die laughing (because my husband characterizes my work as being a little girly). The POV character in this instance was male, though, and I'd had to do a lot of thinking about how to think like he would....

For many reasons, more men end up doing math than women, but that doesn't mean they're any better at it. Society just reinforces them more in certain intellectual fields. That is slowly changing. I always encourage girls to take Calculus.

Fencing is particularly good cardio exercize. The camels? I'd prefer horses any day.

You may not recall, but we met in the lunch room at InterCon where you were sharing a table with a girl from Isreal in a cape. You kindly let me share the table and we discussed, among other things, your banner-flying ambitions. I hope you've had sometime to fly lately!

I haven't gotten to the camels yet. Anyway, just wanted to say hi.

Camels

Date: 2006-05-31 01:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com
I finished The Sunbird yesterday! I loved it. I'm glad to see Medraut's talking again...there's only so much pennance one can do, and you were right in that it hurt Telemakos more than it helped Lleu.

The camels were perfectly correct. You were right in that they have to be hobbled. We kept them hobbled even while lettng them graze. A hobbled camel can still make pretty good time, though, so you actually have to watch them while they graze, and then tie them down for the night.

I'm hoping to hear about a new book sometime soon.

Re: Camels

Date: 2006-05-31 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com
Cool.

Yes, the camels carried our supplies for us, including our water. Not that we had much in they was of supplies. I had two ziplock bags to live out of for a week. Most of the space was dedicated to water, food and swags (the Australian pup-tent/sleeping bag hybrid))

A couple of the camels were quite beautiful and over all, they were pleasant individuals.

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