who are you guys?

[ewein2412]

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 sdn, tell me 3 cool things about yourself. What drove you here?

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

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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 sdn said who you were and I like your books. Arthurian novels have joined vampire novels in the category of "kinds of book 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.

[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.