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[solarbird]

SIX NAMES YOU GO BY:

1. Solarbird
2. Dara
3. Phoenix, or Phee-bird (not in some time)
4. Trollkiller (not lately either; one of my more enduring RPG characters)
5. Crime (and the Forces of Evil)
6. Mary Kaye (and the Cosmetics)

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:

1. Leather-bottomed house slippers
2. Green print blouse, a tad worn around the neck, which is sad, because I like it.
3. Chainmail headband to hold back my hair

THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT

1. My throat to start behaving so I can put down some more vocal tracks goddammit
2. My own clone of Stinkybass
3. Certain venue managers to call me back

THREE THINGS YOU DID LAST NIGHT

1. Went out for sushi at I ♥ Sushi and ate way too much.
2. Watched How to Train Your Dragon (predictable but cute; why do so many Norsemen have Scottish accents? Also serves well as a Temeraire prequel!)
3. Practiced bass.

THREE PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO ON THE PHONE:

1. Receptionist at Urgent Care clinic.
2. Publications head, at Norwescon
3. Alec, also at Norwescon

THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW:

1. Laundry and housecleaning as I feel up to it; Monday is housecleaning day.
2. Personal day-job stuff; generally quite boring.
3. Contact a couple more venue managers who only have telephone contacts.

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE DRINKS:

1. C1000! Got hooked in Japan.
2. Hot loose-leaf black tea. I order it in half-kilo bags.
3. Diet Mountain Dew. YES I MEAN IT HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE ALCOHOLIC DRINKS:

1. Peppermint schnapps
2. Skyy kamikazis. (That's Skyy vodka or similar, with fresh lime juice and a muddled lime wedge. So good.)
3. That pomegranate vodka hsifyppah had at her New Year's party. (Why yes I do like me some vodka, thanks!)

THREE THINGS THAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY:

1. Vodka! Oh wait, today. Um, some Norwescon email I got and answered.
2. Watching spazzkat be all excited about buying a Mini.
3. Cake!

Comments

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

Cow got the pomegranate stuff from the US, I think it's three olives brand. Should be easy to find in Seattle!

[solarbird]

Yay! Moar vodkas!

[shadesofmauve]

I blame the norse/scots confusion on the fantasy genre in general, dwarves in particular. Somewhere in there the classic dwarves of norse myth where blessed/cursed with thick scottish accents, and now the two cultures are inexplicably linked. Through non-existant, dragon-fighting dwarves.

Almost but not quite relevent: I am currently RPing a dwarven cleric, but rather than a norse name and scots accent, she has a gaelic name and slightly down-home, occasionaly southern accent. Take that, fantasy stereotype!

[janne.livejournal.com]

I saw "How to Train Your Dragon" dubbed in Norwegian, which was also puzzling -- this single little village apparently in the middle of nowhere with nto much else to influence their speech -- and half of them spoke western norwegian and the other half eastern, except for one or two minor parts in northern. You'd think after a generation or two they'd have settled somewhere in the middle, linguistically! (At least they didn't have the mandatory south-western sexy lady voice. I have no idea who decided southwestern was sexy, but as of a few years ago all the movies are doing that stereotype even if it means a family where only the daughter speaks a totally different dialect from everybody else o.O)

[solarbird]

HA! That's funny! We had half-Scot, mostly-half-Californian, and a couple of others smattered in. Maybe they have a steady influx of immigrants. Why, I couldn't tell you, of course...

The other thing we kept thinking towards the end was, "...and then, the Norwegian Empire CONQUERED THE WORLD." ^_^