Answers to the Six Things

[fenchurch]

I found it a bit funny that people seemed more likely to guess the lies as being the truths!

1. I've gone on vacations to the islands of Saipan, Tinian, Truk and Yap.

False! I've only ever gone to Saipan and Tinian. They're both great places to visit if you're into WWII history (as my mom is), plus they're just simply beautiful islands. If we'd lived on Guam any longer, my parents were seriously thinking of going to Truk and/or Yap.

2. When I was four years old I wanted to be a geologist when I grew up.

True! My great-grandfather had been a prospector back in the 1920s, and both he and my great-grandmother were heavily into rock and fossil hunting when I was little. I desperately wanted to be a geologist, because I enjoyed the subject and because I thought they were geologists and I wanted to be like them. I got my first rock pick for Christmas that year.

3. I've lived through every type of major natural disaster known to man

True! This is what comes from moving around a lot... you get to experience a very wide variety of things. Our extended family had a sort of joke that they wouldn't come visit us in a new area until after the major natural disaster had hit. This is also one of the reasons I'm very into emergency preparedness -- sort of in the vein of "are you still paranoid if they're really out to get you?" If you know you're going to get hit at least every two years with something major, you darned well better have contingencies.

4. Rackham and I only dated for two weeks before we got engaged.

False. It was three weeks. ;-)

5. There are two episodes of BtVS that I have never seen.

True! No one guessed this! As much as I love all the many seasons of BtVS, I just couldn't bring myself to watch "The Body" (as I wrote at the time, I like a little escapism with my escapist entertainment) and once it became obvious from advanced reports that "As You Were" *wasn't* intended to be parody (as many of us had assumed after reading snippets from the script), I really saw no point in watching it.

6. I've seen Star Wars (as in Episode IV: A New Hope) 142 times in the theater.

False. The correct answer is 147 times in the theater. What can I say? I was eight by the time it made it to the Base theatre and was already enamored of it after a few viewings at the big theater in Agaña. I could catch a matinee at the Base theater for 35 cents. So I did. Every day after school (I thought it was a very good use of my birthday money that year).

Comments

[aeolianafay.livejournal.com]

The whole you and Rackham only dated three weeks before getting engaged made me lol. My parents also only dated three weeks before they got engaged. :-D That's cool.

re: answers

[spacebumby.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have gotten these right if you hadn't said how many were true. As it was, I didn't remember you and Rackham were engaged after three weeks instead of two. Freaks. :) *I* was the one engaged after two weeks....

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

Totally didn't know any of these. But even though it's not terribly escapist, "The Body" is a powerfully well-written episode. I would recommend it.

Thanks for sharing!

[shadowlass.livejournal.com]

Two episodes of BtVS unwatched after all this time? I admire your self-restraint--I would have given in by now due to BtVS withdrawal.

[allthatjazmyne.livejournal.com]

I would definitely watch The Body, if I were you. It's incredibly powerful. I also recommend tissues be nearby.

Brent and I were engaged after three weeks, too, although we knew we were getting married very soon- less than an hour for me, about a day for him. You've gotta love those promptings.

I once had a student who was thrilled that I knew where Yap was, because his family had moved from there, and he was tired of explaining that it was a real place.

[rahirah]

Darn. I always wanted to know someone who's been to Yap. *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/opalescence_/]

You've been through a tsunami?????

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Yep! Though, technically, we were on high enough ground to not be affected too much, but one side of the island was evacuated and it washed away all of the buildings at the main beach on base.

[http://users.livejournal.com/opalescence_/]

Eegads, woman! I'm impressed!

As You Were?

[(Anonymous)]

What made you assume this episode was a parody, and why didn't you want to watch it afterwords?

I kinda liked it. It was better than many of the episodes of that season, IIRC. Seemed to be something of a turning point for Buffy in her funk.

[corranterrik.livejournal.com]

If you only watch one scene in "As You Were," you should check out the end. I am still impressed with how Buffy broke up with Spike. I found the scene touching and thought both "It's about TIME she did this!" and "I feel sorry for him, but it's hard to be mad at her when she does it this way." As for the Riley scenes, I'm sure one could turn it into parody if one tried hard enough. 8)

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're sneaky. :-) I knew I liked you for some reason.

You know, sillymagpie has never watched "The Body" for the same reason.