This one's going around again, so what the hey.

[beetiger]

Ganked from all over my friends list, but hopefully you guys aren't bored of it yet...

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about each other.

I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Comments

[blither.livejournal.com]

Why food science? At what age did you start to be curious about this?

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I've always enjoyed weird food. I used to order things like frogs' legs off menus as a child just because they were there. But falling into it as a career was pretty random. After I quit graduate school in Neuroscience and moved to Ithaca to hang out with Bard, I signed up with a science temp agency, and they placed me at a consultant in the food industry. It was one of those 'aha' things --people do this for a living? It was fun, and I was surprisingly good at it. So I did it for something over a decade. Still dunno if I'll get backto it after the intense mommying phase of my life.

[blither.livejournal.com]

Isn't that odd? I've been seriously wondering if I want to go back to teaching...I wonder if a lot of women change careers after becoming a parent, for other than financial reasons, I mean.

Fascinating.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I think once you realize you *can* change tracks in your life, by virtue of having done it once, the desire to try something else can be very high.

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

What is your favorite lullybye or thing to sing Rhys?

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Whatever's stuck in my head at the moment; it cycles quite a bit. Lately, it's been either "Itsy Bitsy Spider", which he likes to do the finger movements for, or "The Ants Go Marching", since he seems to like that for tambourine playing.

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

This is surprisingly difficult, because I know far too little about you in general. Hrm. A simple one, I suppose: how did you and Julia meet?

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

At the T/D pools on FurryMUCK, having metaconversations with fake gossip about famous feminists and making fun of clueless people via over-their-heads irony.(Funny, 'cause neither she nor I MUCK much these days.) I met her in person at Anthrocon 2001; she was originally a bit cagey about promising me anything more than one dance before we arrived, but I made a good impression :). We were dating not too long after that.

[goodluckfox.livejournal.com]

What's the current situation with World Tree?

Loxley

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

The most active World Tree-ly thing going on with us right now is that Bard's deep in the writing of a World Tree novel, A Marriage of Insects. We're not running a campaign right now; our old crowd's gone here and there for various reasons, and we haven't had the focus to try and collect a new, baby-friendly one. On our hard drive are partially-finished drafts of the Bestiary and Aradruiea sourcebooks, which haven't really been touched since the baby was born. They're not seeming to be top priority for either of us, and there's not enough energy in the day to do stuff we're not actively inspired by. I'm running two small startup home businesses, raising a child, and trying to maintain a marriage and an LDR, which about covers it for my energy.

Out there in the big world, people are buying the book now and again, and playing, and sometimes they write us fan mail.

[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

Phrasing this is also hard for me. I don't even know if you identify as a Feminist, but I'm going to make an ass out of u and me and ask my original question anyway.

What school/camp/ideology/whatever you wanna call it of Feminism do you most closely identify with? Ack, my grammar sucks today.

Anyway, I'm a Postmodern Feminist with a heavy dose of bell hooks-style "it's about people of all genders, it has to do with rethinking everything that we do" tossed in. With an infusion of Shulamith Firestone-style pleasure at the current restructuring of "family" and "relationship" definitions/values. And a bit of Liberal and Radical Feminism for contradicting flavors.

But I realized I don't know anything about your Feminist leanings and, well, knowing your scholarliness, (and a bit about your girlfriend) I'd be surprised if you hadn't given the matter any thought at all.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a labels/ideology-type, overall, so I'm not sure what the right catchphrases and all are. Keep in mind my formal edumacation in this stuff is minimal and mostly a decade old. Julia could probably tell you more about the right labels for me than I could.

Some stuff about me and feminism, though: I tend to hang out a lot with Goddess Spirituality folks, when I'm looking for female empowerment and all like that.

Politically, I think it still makes sense to act like a minority --there are still "women's issues", and their still not being addressed right by the media nad the mainstream culture, and we still aren't there yet.

I'm philisophically in the school that says that feminism is ultimately about people's rights rather than some subset of people's rights, and I'm right out there with the postmodernist in being flexible about what defines a person as a woman. But on the other hand, I still see an incredible value in separatist -style womenspaces. I think we ultimately need to all come back together, but I don't think we're in a place culturally to do that yet.

Sorry if this is a bit incoherent. I've had a little monster all day today.

[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yep, I grok your meaning.

Speaking of monsters, when are we going to let him save the Mashuntucket Pequot Museum from Certain Doom? Or meet his amphibian foes that lurk in Mystic?

I'm not free Monday, Tuesday, or Thursday afternoons, or Saturday mornings. But Wednesdays and Fridays are all open. Fridays are better for car-borrowing. I have an errand to run in Western CT, so I'd love to go soon.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

This Friday might actually work great. Call me when you get a chance.

[eetmewithtoast.livejournal.com]

Ooh, will do. Probably tomorrow, I'm so wrecked tonight, I'm barely coherent.