another chat-with-your-friends meme

[cellio]

I saw this in several people's journals and was curious, so now it's here, in slightly modified form.

If you comment, and I can...

1. I'll respond with something I like about you.
2. I'll name something we should do together.
3. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
4. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
5. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
6. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you, if I have such a thought.

If I do this for you, please post this in your journal so you can do the same for other people.

Comments

[ariannawyn.livejournal.com]

Go ahead, make my day. Oh, and the flat tire was one of those "annoying while it happens but makes a good story later" things...

[cellio]

1. Your diverse range of skills (artistic and practical). Most people are lucky to be competent at half the things you do well.

2. Sing, particularly something challenging or otherwise interesting.

3. Competent women and organized men... or is it the other way around?

4. I met you at an event, probably in Debatable Lands and I'm pretty sure in the late 80s, when I'd been a local chronicler for a couple years and you'd recently stepped down from the kingdom office, and we talked about what it's like to do the kingdom job.

5. "That's three." :-)

6. You've been doing group music for a long time; I'm curious about what else you've done. Solo? Theatre? Other types of performance?

[ariannawyn.livejournal.com]

3. It is the other way round.

6. Nope. None of it. I stink at solo performance; I get stage fright and forget the lyrics. I sang solos in college because they were required for graduation, and the tape of my senior recital is stunningly awful. In high school I did a couple of nervous recitals and had some short solos riffs within choral pieces, but that was it. I used to occasionally do bardic circles but gave them up after it became clean that they didn't work for me. I still have occasional dreams of musical theater, but I doubt it will ever happen.

[cellio]

I still have occasional dreams of musical theater, but I doubt it will ever happen.

There are the Savoyards locally, if you ever wanted to try that out.

In non-musical theatre, it seems like you would be really good at commedia del'arte.

Oh, and a bonus 3 because I lost my mental note about it (and as an apology for being unable to come up with something good for 5):

"empty bunnies"

[ariannawyn.livejournal.com]

Savoyards - Nah, like I said, I get stage fright and forget lyrics and lines.

But I would LOVE to do the Commedia stuff, since improv means never having to say you forgot your line. Of course I don't have the time now, with the kids. For years I've been telling I Genisii that if Katerina ever gets tired of the "Merry Widow" role I'd be happy to take it someday, but that might hit a little too close to home now.

[cellio]

There's a Pennsic-specific commedia troupe (sort of analogous to the known world choir). Some year when you're not busy running the choir that might be a fun opportunity for you.

"Merry widow": on the one hand, too close to home -- on the other, so obviously different from reality that it might work well for you. Impossible to say in advance, I suspect.