My interview meme responses

Here are my answers to the interview questions posed by muffinkath

1) What is the best part of being a mother? What is the worst?
The best thing these days is realizing that I'm raising children that I honestly enjoy as people in their own right. That they're intelligent, kind, and funny and a pleasure to spend time with because of the inherent traits that they possess rather than simply because they're my children.

The worst thing hasn't changed over the entire time that I've been a mother. It's seeing your child in pain--whether that be physical, emotional, or both--and being unable to fix it. As mothers, we're hardwired to make things better and to see someone that you love hurting without being able to make it better is incredibly difficult.

2) What is your favorite memory from your Rosfandom days?
I think my favorite memory is of our trip to Canada. It was the first time that I'd really met anyone from online in person and so I was nervous about how online personalities would transfer to face-to-face interactions. I was particularly nervous about meeting you remember? Then we stayed up until 5am talking and we had that marvelously surreal visit to Niagara Falls. The UFO diner. The uniformly grim bridal party. The woman with the monkey. The garbage bag raincoats. The vanity plate in the parking lot with the name of the crazy one. You can't make stuff like that up.

3) A place you've never been that you'd love to visit?
This would be a tossup between Ireland, where my father is from originally, and Europe (France, England, Switzerland, Austria). I have a serious yen to see inhabited places that are truly old. We don't really have that here in the US because even the oldest cities are only in the relatively low hundreds of years of age. Plus, the allure of the museums is very high.

4) You have never written fanfic (much to the chagrin of your many online friends, who know you'd be great at it). If you were to do so, what show would you write about, and what would the fic be about (where would it pick up from, would it be Canon or AU, would it be a shipper fic, or something else?)
Very interesting question. This was definitely the hardest for me to answer mainly because I just don't see myself as a writer. As an editor? Now that's a much different story. I'm very good at that. As a reader? I'm world class there. But, not as writer.

The only time that I actually seriously considered writing was a Roswell fic that dealt with what life was like in the timeline that FMax changed. I wanted to know the story of his and Liz's life together as it would have unfolded without interference from the future. So, I suppose that would qualify as an AU. In fact, I tried to persuade D. to write it for me. lol

In general, I like stories that depict characters some period of time in the future which then allows canon to be woven in and shows how it shaped who the characters became. Perhaps I'm drawn to that because a number of the shows that I've watched featured characters that were supposedly in their teens and I'm considerably older than that. I suspect that it would be at least nominally shipper fic in that there is generally a pairing that I find most interesting in any fandom that I've been involved in.

5) One memory from college that will make me laugh?
When I first arrived at Yale I felt very overwhelmed. I knew that there must have been some sort of processing error and that I'd been admitted erroneously. All freshman are required to attend the President's Freshman Address and so I went and was sitting among all my fellow new students who I *knew* were smarter and more accomplished than I was. Our President was Bart Giamatti who was renowned for his advocacy of a liberal education. During the course of his speech I heard him mention what I thought was the contributions of Jacques Cousteau to the idea of a liberal education. I started to mentally panic because while I knew that Cousteau was an important figure in oceanography, I had never heard of any contributions that he'd made to liberal education. Everyone around me looked like they knew exactly what Bart was talking about and I took it as further confirmation of the fact that an admission error had been made. I came to realize that he had actually said "Jean Jacques Rousseau" and things started to make more sense. So, my panic was for naught. lol

My interview meme responses

Here are my answers to the interview questions posed by muffinkath

1) What is the best part of being a mother? What is the worst?
The best thing these days is realizing that I'm raising children that I honestly enjoy as people in their own right. That they're intelligent, kind, and funny and a pleasure to spend time with because of the inherent traits that they possess rather than simply because they're my children.

The worst thing hasn't changed over the entire time that I've been a mother. It's seeing your child in pain--whether that be physical, emotional, or both--and being unable to fix it. As mothers, we're hardwired to make things better and to see someone that you love hurting without being able to make it better is incredibly difficult.

2) What is your favorite memory from your Rosfandom days?
I think my favorite memory is of our trip to Canada. It was the first time that I'd really met anyone from online in person and so I was nervous about how online personalities would transfer to face-to-face interactions. I was particularly nervous about meeting you remember? Then we stayed up until 5am talking and we had that marvelously surreal visit to Niagara Falls. The UFO diner. The uniformly grim bridal party. The woman with the monkey. The garbage bag raincoats. The vanity plate in the parking lot with the name of the crazy one. You can't make stuff like that up.

3) A place you've never been that you'd love to visit?
This would be a tossup between Ireland, where my father is from originally, and Europe (France, England, Switzerland, Austria). I have a serious yen to see inhabited places that are truly old. We don't really have that here in the US because even the oldest cities are only in the relatively low hundreds of years of age. Plus, the allure of the museums is very high.

4) You have never written fanfic (much to the chagrin of your many online friends, who know you'd be great at it). If you were to do so, what show would you write about, and what would the fic be about (where would it pick up from, would it be Canon or AU, would it be a shipper fic, or something else?)
Very interesting question. This was definitely the hardest for me to answer mainly because I just don't see myself as a writer. As an editor? Now that's a much different story. I'm very good at that. As a reader? I'm world class there. But, not as writer.

The only time that I actually seriously considered writing was a Roswell fic that dealt with what life was like in the timeline that FMax changed. I wanted to know the story of his and Liz's life together as it would have unfolded without interference from the future. So, I suppose that would qualify as an AU. In fact, I tried to persuade D. to write it for me. lol

In general, I like stories that depict characters some period of time in the future which then allows canon to be woven in and shows how it shaped who the characters became. Perhaps I'm drawn to that because a number of the shows that I've watched featured characters that were supposedly in their teens and I'm considerably older than that. I suspect that it would be at least nominally shipper fic in that there is generally a pairing that I find most interesting in any fandom that I've been involved in.

5) One memory from college that will make me laugh?
When I first arrived at Yale I felt very overwhelmed. I knew that there must have been some sort of processing error and that I'd been admitted erroneously. All freshman are required to attend the President's Freshman Address and so I went and was sitting among all my fellow new students who I *knew* were smarter and more accomplished than I was. Our President was Bart Giamatti who was renowned for his advocacy of a liberal education. During the course of his speech I heard him mention what I thought was the contributions of Jacques Cousteau to the idea of a liberal education. I started to mentally panic because while I knew that Cousteau was an important figure in oceanography, I had never heard of any contributions that he'd made to liberal education. Everyone around me looked like they knew exactly what Bart was talking about and I took it as further confirmation of the fact that an admission error had been made. I came to realize that he had actually said "Jean Jacques Rousseau" and things started to make more sense. So, my panic was for naught. lol