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the_cheese_lady
(As played by others; if you want me to ask you some, comment with a smile.)
1) What is your favourite memory from your childhood?
Favourite? Now that is a difficult task no matter what the category—how to pick only one? I have some very fond memories of making tundra forts with my cousins. They lived on an Alaskan homestead about half way between Anchorage and Fairbanks, and had no near neighbours, so we kids were free to run wild were we would, so long as we were home for meals. Needless to say, it was always a joy to visit them! To make the fort we’d find down sticks/logs and lean them against a tree like a tepee, then roll up large mats of tundra to cover it. We made one by our uncle’s house (one mile up the road—he had no kids of his own) and he later reported that a fox moved into it for a season. He was a trapper, and complained that the fox moved on elsewhere just a few days before fox season opened up. Smart fox.
2) If you had unlimited time and money what would you do?
Find a suitable location to build my castle—someplace north enough to have real winter, mountainous enough to suit me, and not in a city. Build a modest tower keep to call home base, and then alternate between enjoying being at home and travelling, filling my free time with some research, some SCA participation, and working on projects for fun.
3) Now that you have completed your PhD what do you see yourself doing 10 years from today?
Ten years? Well, that would be three vastly different moves from now, if my past pattern is anything to go on. Doing research at a uni somewhere +/- teaching?
4) With all of your travels do you have one particular place that you call home?
I call Alaska home, and have lived there more than any one other place. However, my travels in Norway spoke to me and said “home”, too, and I’ve never lived there. But the vegetation is “right”, as are the mountains.
5) You always seem to be working on some textile or fiber activity as you travel or when you visit with people. What is your inspiration for your projects?
I normally find inspiration at SCA events, or on SCA e-mail lists. I see something someone else made (or otherwise acquired) for themselves and think I’d like one of those”. The list of projects I’d like to do is way longer than I have time to accomplish, of course.
1) What is your favourite memory from your childhood?
Favourite? Now that is a difficult task no matter what the category—how to pick only one? I have some very fond memories of making tundra forts with my cousins. They lived on an Alaskan homestead about half way between Anchorage and Fairbanks, and had no near neighbours, so we kids were free to run wild were we would, so long as we were home for meals. Needless to say, it was always a joy to visit them! To make the fort we’d find down sticks/logs and lean them against a tree like a tepee, then roll up large mats of tundra to cover it. We made one by our uncle’s house (one mile up the road—he had no kids of his own) and he later reported that a fox moved into it for a season. He was a trapper, and complained that the fox moved on elsewhere just a few days before fox season opened up. Smart fox.
2) If you had unlimited time and money what would you do?
Find a suitable location to build my castle—someplace north enough to have real winter, mountainous enough to suit me, and not in a city. Build a modest tower keep to call home base, and then alternate between enjoying being at home and travelling, filling my free time with some research, some SCA participation, and working on projects for fun.
3) Now that you have completed your PhD what do you see yourself doing 10 years from today?
Ten years? Well, that would be three vastly different moves from now, if my past pattern is anything to go on. Doing research at a uni somewhere +/- teaching?
4) With all of your travels do you have one particular place that you call home?
I call Alaska home, and have lived there more than any one other place. However, my travels in Norway spoke to me and said “home”, too, and I’ve never lived there. But the vegetation is “right”, as are the mountains.
5) You always seem to be working on some textile or fiber activity as you travel or when you visit with people. What is your inspiration for your projects?
I normally find inspiration at SCA events, or on SCA e-mail lists. I see something someone else made (or otherwise acquired) for themselves and think I’d like one of those”. The list of projects I’d like to do is way longer than I have time to accomplish, of course.