Questions!

[orikes]

Not that I have all that many folks in my friends list, but what the heck. It's a neat meme.

Ask me five questions and I will answer them to the best of my ability.

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[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Just one question:

Catch me up on the last five years, in brief?! I feel like I missed a lot that went on in your life, and I hate it.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

I tend to be a pretty positive person, but when I start reciting what's happened over the last five years, I start to feel like I'm being a wangsty cry baby. While it's not been an easy few years, it's not like it's the end of the world.

Let's see. In 2000, my parents got a divorce which caused some ripples which are still being felt today. At the end of 2000 and beginning of 2001 (right around the last time I got to visit you, I think), I left my job as an Admin Asst. at a local college to take a job doing graphic design type work for Kinko's.

Also right around that time, I moved into the apartment I'm in now. It's not in a great neighborhood, but it's large and the owners are my friend's parents, so they've been amazingly kind with the financial troubles that have been besetting me since the beginning of 2002.

See, at the end of 2001 and beginning of 2002, I got laid off from Kinko's. Well, everyone that worked where I did got laid off. After 9/11, the company panicked and restructured massively. I wasn't too worried. I didn't think it would be that hard to find another job. After all, I had a year's worth of experience beneath me in the field I wanted to be in. I should have been worried.

It hasn't really been a pleasant few years on the job front. I've spent almost half the time between 2002 and now unemployed, and the jobs I've had have all been low paying temp jobs. On the plus side, -most- of them have been graphic design related, which has helped pad up the resume some more. Currently, I'm in a decently paying temp job doing technical support for digital camera owners. This should last until the end of June at the very least.

The other tough financial thing is that I no longer have a car. I had to take it off the road and get rid of it a couple of years back. So, that makes it even harder to find a job.

After I faded off of Aether and Nightscape, I started playing EQ. I pretty much became addicted to that and played pretty hardcore. I got into a hardcore raiding guild with some really good people, became one of the top rogues on the server, and helped do a lot of server firsts. It was a great deal of fun and some of the people were great, but it is a time sucker, even worse than MU*ing at times. I gave that up last April when finances became too tight to pay for it. I miss it sometimes, but I'm still in contact with some of the people I've met through there. I picked up MU*ing again after that, and am still doing that today.

One of the other side benefits of EQ was that I got into doing art again. I've had some fun expanding my photoshop abilities and getting to the point where I actually like some of the character artwork I've done. I'm slow, and I'm not great, but I enjoy it. All of my LJ icons were drawn by me.

Hmmm. What else. Two cats. No boyfriend. Still. Absolutely adore and dote on my friends' two daughters, ages four and almost two. Started up with a gaming group last year that I'm quite happy with, even if we don't always game when we get together. Since the divorce, my relationship with my dad has gotten stronger.

Uhm. You said 'in brief', didn't you? Imagine what would have happened if you'd actually asked four more questions!

[cori-chronicles.livejournal.com]

1. If you could go back in time and change something in your life, would you?

2. What is your favorite part of gaming?

3. What would your ideal mate be like?

4. What is your favorite movie?

5. What movie is the worst one you've ever seen?

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

1. If you could go back in time and change something in your life, would you?

The main thing I would try and change if I could go back would be to figure out why the hell I developed an eating disorder and what I could do to fix it. I think it occurred when we moved from Webster to Hilton, but honestly, I don’t know. There’s not too much I regret, but I do wish I had the ability to nip that particular problem in the bud before it got out of hand.

2. What is your favorite part of gaming?

Tough one. I love coming up with characters, but if I don’t get the chance to bring the character to life, it’s more disappointing than anything. There’s also a difference in expectations between online games and face-to-face ones. In online games, I want to be able to write for the character with other people and get into the character’s head. In face-to-face games, I’m more into the adventures and actions. I want stuff to happen. I want it to be relevant to the characters and make sense in the connotation of the setting, but there needs to be –something- happening. So, on one hand I love a good online scene where I get to have my character interact with dynamic people that brings out even more richness to the story, but on the other, I love tabletop for the chance to play out an adventure or combat with that whole sense of movie action.

3. What would your ideal mate be like?

Well, I’d like to hope he’s a gamer of some sort since I think it would be hard to be with someone who wasn’t into that particular hobby. I’d like to be able to share it with him. I’d like him to be someone I can enjoy movies and travel with, and he would be enthusiastic about both as much as me. Being good with kids and animals would be a bonus as well. It’s all speculation in the end, y’know. You can make up a shopping list all you want, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to get that at the store.

4. What is your favorite movie?

I don’t really have a favorite movie. I have movies that I’m particular fond of and can watch over and over again, but there’s no one movie I can point to and say, ‘Favorite!’. Honestly, I can’t do that with books or music either. I have favorites, but my tastes are too broad to pick just one.

5. What movie is the worst one you've ever seen?

Worst movie I ever paid for was this SF monstrosity called ‘Hardware’ or something like that. The plot was almost incomprehensible. Couldn’t tell if it was supposed to be a futuristic horror movie, a post apocalyptic flick, or what. Dave, Rudy and I actually walked out on it.