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Interview, part two.

This interview is from Xenobia at livejournal, who also has a blog.

Anyone else want an interview? Reply here, or on LJ!

1) Beading. How did it capture your attention, and when?

Crafting has always been something that has interested me, though I first started out with just counted cross-stitch. I tried to get into crocheting, but I couldn't ever get the hang of anything more complex than just the basic stitch. Then, I found Michael's, and here was heaven. :) At first, it was just the soap and candles, but then I bought a book on beaded bobby pins (a Klutz book), and another Klutz book just on beading in general, after wandering up and down the bead aisles of Michael's and drooling. They've started to get some higher quality beads in (though not as nice as some places), and when I saw that they were offering a class earlier this year, I took the opportunity. So, it really wasn't until about January or February of this year until my interest was really caught.

I guess what it comes down to is that I like to create. I put a piece of myself into everything I make, I like seeing how the things I visualize actually turn out once I finally get them made.

2) When not forced to be up before the sun because of work, are you by nature/choice a morning person or a night person?

A night person, generally. I've been a morning person for so long, though, that I've almost forgotten what that's like. I still get a taste of it once in awhile on the weekends...I miss the staying up late at night, and getting up late in the morning, because I associate it most closely with time spent with close friends, sitting together on the couch and just talking...or sitting up a canyon in a topless land cruiser in the mountains at the beginning of May, with the snow still heavy on the ground, looking at the stars and singing.

3) Are more of your closest friends male or female, or is the distrubution evenly split?

Most of my closest friends are male. In fact, I don't have a lot of female friends in general, and the very closest of my friends are all men--several of them gay men. :) That's generally been true throughout my life, except for two specific times, and unfortunately, those three women (Libby, Allie, and Lynette) aren't really a part of my life anymore, not in that way.

I'm not really sure why that is. I guess I could say that I'm more comfortable around men, but I'm not sure how true that statement is--I'm not very comfortable around a lot of people. I tend to be very private and prickly, quiet in larger groups of people (unless I know them welll--or have had too much to drink). I wonder, sometimes, if that drives people away.

4) What's one food (or dish) that you love, but don't get to have very often?

The chicken fettucini alfredo that I make. Brett doesn't like white sauces, but this is, for me, the ultimate in comfort food.

5) I'm sure this has been asked before, but why do you blog/LJ/keep a journal?

Purely for selfish reasons. :) I like to write, sometimes I *have* to write, to get whatever demons are in my head out. Sometimes I write just to babble, other times I write to remember, or to forget...the online LJ/blog gives me a way to write, but also to *share*, which is hard for me--most of my writing (especially the essay type things) is very personal, so it's just easier for me to know that it's there and it's up, so that other people can read, but I don't have to *watch* them while they do it. Does that make sense at all?

Posted by Liz at June 7, 2003 07:17 PM