5 questions from northawke

[kareina]

1. If you could recommend places for people to travel, what would top your list? (feel free to have as many or as few locations as you want here)

Well, I always mention Alaska to those who don't live there, because the mountains are so beautiful. Ditto Norway. The Alps and the Rockies come in reasonably close thereafter as places I've actually been to and can recommend. Basically, Mountains. Preferably ones which contain exposed rock and few people. These are the best places to visit, and I so wish I could live such a place, but how would I afford food to eat?

2. If you could continue as a student indefinitely, would you?

Hell yes! If someone would pay me to be a student, there are still 1000's of interesting topics to learn.

3. You've been in the SCA much longer than I have - what keeps you coming back and participating?

The sense of community. The dancing, the singing, and other group activities wherein people are encouraged to participate rather than sitting on the sidelines. The fact that it provides an excuse for "too many hobbies" to keep me busy and out of trouble. The continuity as I move hither and yon about the planet and the fact that wherever I go so far I've had friends I'd not yet met waiting for me.

4. Today was election day, so I'm in a politics frame of mind (sorry!) - having lived in various countries, how do you think US politics measure up as a system in comparison to other countries?

Well, I think that should the US ever switch to compulsory voting and a preferential system (like Australia) things would likely be *very* different. But I'm not certain I'd want them to--I think I'd rather see a system wherein voting was done by intelligent, thoughtful people, rather than "everyone", since there are a lot of stupid sheep amongst "everyone".

5. What is your favorite poem? (or song, if you don't have a favorite poem) - I've been on a poem kick, and this is the cheater question that I am asking everyone.

For me it would have to be a song--I don't like poems, I love songs. Put a poem to a tune, and suddenly I like it. Take the tune away from a song and I lose interest. Favorite? See--this is why I'm a poly sort of person--I don't have favorites in much of anything, but think in terms of lots of loved items in any given category. My favourite class of song are the ones that are fun/easy to sing, with a chorus that gets everyone singing. Performance pieces are all well and fine, but I'd 1000 times rather be singing with *everyone* participating than have some people sing and others listen, no matter how much more talented at singing the performers are. Same for dance. I don't want to watch others dance, I want to dance with them.

Comments

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

With all the Alaskan forests being decimated by the Pine Beetle and those forest fires you'll have more exposed rock than you'd ever want before long though :(

[kareina.livejournal.com]

It would be nice if the pine beetle would stop at decimation. Alas, those little critters like to munch on far, far more than one tree in 10 :-( They are even stupider than humans with their behavior of destroying their habitat--they are doing it much faster, and more completely than we do, and they are starting with a much narrower comfort zone than we've got.

[madryn-1960.livejournal.com]

Do the beetles have chainsaws, 1080 poison and bull-dozers, then?

[kareina.livejournal.com]

Nope, just their little mouths are enough to destroy the only tree type in which they are willing to live, or so I've been told. I haven't done any research on the topic myself. Humans are destructive, but it is taking us centuries to destroy our environment. Those beetles have a smaller environment, and are wiping it out in decades...