Ooh you've got some new ones on your list! Let's see ...
So I added a few to spice things up. :-)
You can't say yes to 259 because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
LOL. And you certainly wouldn't want to italicize it.
Never paid for 260 but did it gratis for friends
Same here. I did get paid for doing astrological charts a few times but only for the personality jazz. No fortunetelling involved.
How did #83 turn out? Which movie? What was #166? And what book?
I did 83 twice--both times in England, oddly enough. I'm not sure I'd have the nerve over here, but rules don't seem to apply as much when you travel. Haha. The first time was great, struck up a great conversation. I'd been traveling alone for 5 days and had a real backlog of chat. No lasting friendship, alas, but a real fun dinner. The other time was pretty much because there was nowhere else to sit and he vehemently read his book so I assiduously read mine.
The movie was a student film and I was strictly background filler.
My ancestors...helped found Germantown PA. Oh, and one of them died with the plague which I thought was pretty interesting, even if not historically significant. Probably significant to him and his family, though.
What book changed my life? Well, I can't say I've ever read a book that changed the externals much, but I've read several that changed the way I look at life. Peter Beagle's books let me know it was okay for me to constantly be wanting to set my magical stories in contemporary America; Casteneda made me question the nature of reality (even though he may have been a fraud); lots of psychological types. But I guess the book that I can most readily point to as having a direct effect was Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. I had a long, horrible writers block for about 4-5 years and had just about decided that I'd never write again and was channeling my energies into visual arts--but, you know, writing's my first love and I always felt like there was a hole in my heart. Cameron's book helped me dig my way out of that morass. By the end of her 12 week course I was writing again, and had learned not to try to cram my creativity into prelabeled boxes, to just accept it for what it was. I haven't stopped writing since. I leave it to others to decide if that's a good thing or a bad. ;-)
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Date: 2004-08-11 05:18 pm (UTC)So I added a few to spice things up. :-)
You can't say yes to 259 because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
LOL. And you certainly wouldn't want to italicize it.
Never paid for 260 but did it gratis for friends
Same here. I did get paid for doing astrological charts a few times but only for the personality jazz. No fortunetelling involved.
How did #83 turn out? Which movie? What was #166? And what book?
I did 83 twice--both times in England, oddly enough. I'm not sure I'd have the nerve over here, but rules don't seem to apply as much when you travel. Haha. The first time was great, struck up a great conversation. I'd been traveling alone for 5 days and had a real backlog of chat. No lasting friendship, alas, but a real fun dinner. The other time was pretty much because there was nowhere else to sit and he vehemently read his book so I assiduously read mine.
The movie was a student film and I was strictly background filler.
My ancestors...helped found Germantown PA. Oh, and one of them died with the plague which I thought was pretty interesting, even if not historically significant. Probably significant to him and his family, though.
What book changed my life? Well, I can't say I've ever read a book that changed the externals much, but I've read several that changed the way I look at life. Peter Beagle's books let me know it was okay for me to constantly be wanting to set my magical stories in contemporary America; Casteneda made me question the nature of reality (even though he may have been a fraud); lots of psychological types. But I guess the book that I can most readily point to as having a direct effect was Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. I had a long, horrible writers block for about 4-5 years and had just about decided that I'd never write again and was channeling my energies into visual arts--but, you know, writing's my first love and I always felt like there was a hole in my heart. Cameron's book helped me dig my way out of that morass. By the end of her 12 week course I was writing again, and had learned not to try to cram my creativity into prelabeled boxes, to just accept it for what it was. I haven't stopped writing since. I leave it to others to decide if that's a good thing or a bad. ;-)