Posted by KVTaylor in Memes and awards abound, and somehow I even got me some!
You Are My Sunshine!
The adorable, but still scary (or is that scarily adorable?) Cate Gardner said that I am her sunshine. I’ve never had that said to me except with a very heavy dose of irony, but I’m going to pretend she meant it. This is one that you give to people who stop by your net home and encourage you through your dark times– oh, and the good ones.
If I’m giving that out, man– I could go on for hours. I think I’ll give it to Mike Stone, because he’s a class act. Always there with an encouraging word. But anyone who’s ever commented deserves it, truly. We’re all isolated on one side of the computer screen, pecking it out word by word. Company is divine.
Honest Scrap!
And this beauty comes from Alan Davidson, who gave us some excellent awards night entertainment, and Natalie Sin, who gives us entertainment in the form of half-naked Korean boy bands. Which is, of course, awesome.
So I am an honest scrapper! Or they think I ought to be. The jury’s out. With this award comes the need for 10 honest things. If I were clever I would make things up (Cate did, and it was awesome), but I think I’m blowing what little clever I have on this book right now. So here are actually honest things:
1. I have four tattoos. That includes a tramp stamp– possibly the nerdiest tramp stamp in existence, since it’s in Quenya. (Yeah. Elvish. Just when you think I can’t get nerdier.)
2. I like True Blood because it’s about blood and sex, of course, but I also like it because I change my mind with every episode as to whether Sookie or Bill is hotter. (The answer: Eric!)
3. If I could only take five movies to a desert island, they would be A Clockwork Orange, This is Spinal Tap, Amadeus, Pride and Prejudice, and The Return of the King. (Have I mentioned yet that I love Tolkien? Right.) I bring this up because my husband paused the movie the other night to ask me, so it’s on the brain just now.
4. I was a competitive swimmer from the ages of 7-17, but I wasn’t any good until I was 16. That’s why I made my MC in Scripped a swimmer, though. My sport!
5. I know all of two phrases in my husband’s native Tamil, and my accent muddles them hopelessly. These phrases are: “Why are you like this?”– which is sort of like saying “What the hell is wrong with you?”– and “What happened?”– which is equivalent to “What’s the matter?” Useful shit.
6. My favorite drink is a Bombay Sapphire and tonic. I will drink it all night, and well into the morning, given the chance.
7. I have a “when I’m finally good enough” project. I will someday write a sort of epic fantasy version of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, or die trying. Sounds like I’m trying to be funny, doesn’t it? No, I’m serious. It’s one of my favorite books ever, and I think Parzival and Gawain two of the best characters ever. It’d be more funny than dark, but I’m okay with that.
8. I’ve played MMORPGs for almost a decade now. Killing orcs is therapeutic.
9. I get excited when I see people on TV/in Real Life who look like I imagine my characters would. Like I was watching reruns of The Office the other day and decided that Cami from the current project looks like Rashida Jones. Weird but true.
10. My first concert without parental supervision was Kula Shaker at the Metropol (which I think is called something else now) in Pittsburgh in 1996. That’s why I love this panel from Gillon and McKelvie’s Phonogram:
Had enough of me yet? Okay, how about if I give the award over to Corinne Duyvis. This is a woman who writes about mad fae in Amsterdam. Imagine what weird honesty we can get from her.
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Now playing: MGMT – Electric Feel
via FoxyTunes
Tell him to teach you something dirty in Tamil. Those are much more fun : )
I meant it, I meant it.
You know I am $! years old (ahem!) and I still can’t swim. How bad is that?
That’s funny, I’ve never thought of the concept of “nerdy tramp stamps” before. I bet that would go over well in the dance clubs. I have a “when I’m good enough” project set aside as well…perhaps after I retire…
You know, Nat, I do know the words for “fuck” and an incredibly weird insult that translates to “pubic hair”. Gross, but true.
Cate, I taught my husband how to swim on our honeymoon, and he grew up on the ocean– so it can’t be that rare! But I’m glad you meant it. Sunshine abounds!
Alan, I’m committed to making everything as nerdy as possible, as you might’ve noticed. I’ve never worn anything to a club that allowed it to be seen, but it does elicit comment on the beach sometimes.
Mmm yeah, gotta have those far off projects lined up. Keeps us motivated!
Scrappy, shiny, and you can swim? Nice trio of skills to have in the bucket. I wish I had a far off project. That sounds awesome, like Graveyard Book awesome.
Oh, yeah. To add to your #10 item…my first concert without parental supervision was, sadly, the Bay City Rollers in 1976 when they were touring North America. A friend of mine had won a pair of tickets. Sad but true…
Aaron, ha! I wish it would be Graveyard Book awesome, or even 1/10th of that awesome! Well, there’s something to shoot for.
Alan, that’s so cool! Mine isn’t much less shameful, don’t feel sad. (It’s okay though, I still KS, and have a lingering fangirl thing for the keyboardist– who now plays with Oasis, but whatever.)
Tattoos aren’t nerdy
I have the Sookie Stackhouse books in my to be read pile. Am getting mixed comments from other people about the books.