azurelunatic | Interview, interview.

From

elance:

1. What's your favorite thing to cook?
2. Which store would you like to own, if you could own any one store?
3. What is your favorite restaurant to eat at, if price isn't a factor?
4. What do you see yourself doing in ten years?
5. What is your favorite song?

1. What's your favorite thing to cook?: Oh, crud. That forces me to choose between things that I like to eat after they're done, and thus enjoy the cooking process, and the cooking process itself. When I'm in the mood, I like to cook anything that's not too horribly fussy, especially if I don't have to clean up afterwards.

One of my favorite foods after it's done is my mother's beef stew. Crockpot: browned beef cubes, potatoes, carrots, Italian seasoning, onion, garlic, celery, and anything else I feel like adding, though those are the canon things. Leave until potatoes have made it all wonderfully gloopy. Salt and pepper to taste.

I like making chocolate-covered cherries, actually. All that messy chocolate! And I like making sugared flowers. The little lemon marigolds are the best.
2. Which store would you like to own, if you could own any one store?: Sheesh. Another tough one.

I'd really love to own the used book store back home. It's a lovely place, and there are lots of books, and people bring in their used books and trade them in for store credit, and go away usually having spent a fortune on good used books. They also sell coffee.
3. What is your favorite restaurant to eat at, if price isn't a factor?: The Golden Shanghai, back home. Good home-style cooking (it's amusing, what I think of as "home-style", given that I'm not Chinese...), friendly service... FatherSir scouted out the place when it was new by driving around back and seeing what kind of boxes they had out back to throw out. It was real food components, so he figured it would be OK to try out. And it was.
4. What do you see yourself doing in ten years?: More heavily into computers, more heavily into writing, either working on or done with my psychological training, perhaps still with my here-family or perhaps starting one of my own. Heck, I may have finished my book by then. My first book, that is.
5. What is your favorite song?: "Bizarre Love Triangle" is always a favorite. Not only is it CTY canon, but... "Every time I see you falling, I get down on my knees and pray, waiting for the final moment you say the words that I can't say..." ...yeah.

My ultimate comfort song has to be the Centennial Waltz, though. It's the tune I hum late at night, reminding me of long rides in the car back from Grandma A.'s house up in the hills between us and Nenana. It's the tune I hum while trying to calm down fussy little kids. It's home. It's safety. It's me.

Anybody wants me to interview them, you know the drill.

Interview, interview.

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