Because. Just because.

[reynardo]

Ask me four questions.
Any four, no matter how personal, private or random.
I have to answer them honestly. I have to answer them all.
In turn, post this message in your own journal and
you have to answer the questions that are asked of you

Rider - I may answer them privately, but they will be as honest as I can.

Comments

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

Hey -- sent you e-mails, apologies!

[emu-bitter-babe.livejournal.com]

1. You seem to have a keen interest in my adoption. Where exactly do you fit in the whole family situation? Explain the circumstances.
2. Have you ever used your hair as a sex aid (ie tied someone/yourself up)?
3. Have you ever contemplated suicide?
4. What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

1) I am birth mother to the lovely quatranoctal, and I was 19 at the time and I know I did the right thing, even if it took me 18 years to find out.

I am mother to da_norvegicus, I was 28 at the time, and thought I could cope. Sometimes I even pretend that I do!

So as a birth mother, I'm curious as to the pros and cons, and the feelings from someone on the other side. The last thing I want to do is usurp quatranoctal's real mother (she who did all the work), but it's been an utter joy to discover the wonderful man who is also my son.

2) Er... um .... *blush* Don't know what you're talking about.

3) Oh yes. Post natal depression does that to you. I felt the world would be better without me, and was going to do it. Couldn't quite work out how to do it without leaving my son alone but not alerting people of what I was about to do.

4) Foolishly, driving through an intersection without looking (the other traffic had right of way) - how I missed being hit was a miracle.

Otherwise, probably confronting a burgular in my flat way back in 1987 when I walked in on him. Told him to drop everything and get the hell out of my place - then spent the next few years unable to get to sleep after midnight if I was by myself.

[emu-bitter-babe.livejournal.com]

2 = HOLY GUACAMOLE!

Curse you for not sharing sooner...

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Not that I'd admit anything, but searching by the writer Mary Westbourne may turn up some interesting tales...

[djfiggy.livejournal.com]

1. The blasted hold music at work: is it something syrupy by Kenny G, or Hall & Oates?
2. Do you like The Guess Who all that much?
3. If you moved to Toronto, would you become a Torontogoth?
4. If a train departs from Toronto at 8:00 AM EST, and a train departs from Chicago at 8:00 AM PST, and they're on separate tracks so they won't crash into one another, do you really care at what geographic point the trains will pass one another, and at what time in Greenwich Mean Time?

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

1) Worse - it's the work-created "Just say the word" middle of the road R&B that Kenny G would sound good in comparison to.

2) Some of their stuff. Usual "Sounds ok but then you realise what the words are" music. But then not a lot of their work is played here.

3) Silly question - I'd be a Toronto Not-a-Goth.

4) Nah. But if Art Black and the Dunwich Squirrels were to rearrange the tracks to say "Happy Valentine's Day Henbane", then the impact would be heard within a radius of about 20km, and the smoke cloud seen from a great distance more.

[waitingman.livejournal.com]

1. Regrets... Have a few?
2. Percentage time... The Real You vs Public Persona??
3. Do you have any belief in Astrology? Why?? (sorry, that's 2 questions, I cheated.)
4. Your favourite piece of music... ever, not just right now.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

1) Quite a few. Biggest one is mainly not having the nerve and self confidence in my life to say "no hang on - I'm worth more than this - I'm Outta Here!" a few more times than I did. Second one is not making a move a few more times - finding out several years later that the interest was shared is so annoying!

2) Hmmm - phone time at work is Public Persona, as is in a large crowd (although with close friends I'm me.) Not counting Gronk Monster sleep time, probably 50/50. You have the real me by now, by the way.

3) I don't believe that the stars themselves have an influence in our lives. I do think there's a correlation between the time of year one is born and some personality traits, but that certain constellations are supposed to be active at those times is mere co-incidence.

4) Bohemian Rhapsody. It was big at a major time in my life, it was on the first ever album I owned (the single was sold out so Mum bought me the record), and I've always felt that "Day at the Races" was the beginning of a commercial slide from their glam-prog-rock start that they never recovered from. While my taste for the other songs on their first five albums has changed over the years (I never used to like "Sweet Lady", I once adored "Leroy Brown" but now I hate it) and while it took about 5 years to get over the sheer over-played value of a song that in my life was Number 1 in the country I lived in for 20 smegging weeks, Bohemian Rhapsody is still special.