by Jackie Roe, TW Social Director
Evening, TWibe. Quick question: Who’s headed to Cincinnati next month? I hadn’t planned on going this year . . . then just a few days ago I realized I couldn’t not go to my favorite tournament (live, anyway) so I’m making arrangements to attend. If you’ll be in Cincy and are interested in meeting up, leave me a note in the comments and I’ll set up a gathering. Hope to see some of you there!
Now . . . another All About Me TWiber profile!
Who am I?
Name: I’m not telling, but it’s a palindrome
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Birthday: March 24
Zodiac sign: Aries
Hair color: Blondeish
Eye color: Blue
Shoe size: 7
Occupation: Wannabe journalist, freelance proofreader and copy-editor, general literary dogsbody
Siblings: Older brother, older sister
Last album you listened to: The Les Miserables soundtrack
Last film you saw: Hanna, Joe Wright’s latest, with Saoirse Ronan, Eric Banana and Cate Blanchett
Do you have a significant other?: Not unless you count the bodies in my freezer
Crushes: Nathan Fillion, David Mitchell, Sirius Black, Donald Glover a.k.a Childish Gambino
Favorite musician(s): Elliott Smith, Joni Mitchell, Childish Gambino, Will Sheff, John Darnielle
Favorite actress: Ruth Wilson
Favorite actor: Cary Grant
Favorite film: Couldn’t say, but a shortlist would have to include All About My Mother, His Girl Friday, Mulholland Drive, All About Eve, His Girl Friday, Some Like It Hot, Lord of the Rings, Hitchcock’s Rebecca and Aliens
Favorite TV show: Again, couldn’t say. All-time favorites include Buffy and Firefly, The West Wing, Futurama, Spaced, Doctor Who and Community
What you like to do on the weekend: Sleep in, watch films, talk to my friends over a bottle of wine or seven
Favorite food: Anything involving the combination of carbohydrates and melted cheese
Favorite sport: Tennis!
Most memorable experience: Finding a dead body on a bus
Pets: My cat, Scully
Favorite number: The fine structure constant (1/137)
Worst fear: Falling through a crack in reality, serial killers, sharks, spiders, death, madness
Best feeling in the world: That moment after you’ve finished a great book or seen a great film or play or piece of art (or tennis match), and you walk out into the world feeling all shaky and newborn and changed.
Worst feeling in the world: Waking up from a dream.
Love at first sight: No. Love at first conversation? Absolutely.
Death: Comes in all forms. We’re all dying, every day.
School: Yes, I went to one
Long distance relationships: Brilliant, they’re never around long enough to start to annoy you
Where do you want to live?: Rivendell
Allergies: Nuts, penicillin
Do you believe in heaven and hell?: The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a hell of heaven, a heaven of hell. Or, as both Faustus and Buffy have noted: living in this world is hell.
Do you believe in aliens?: I might be one
What do you do that makes your friends mad?: Disappear
Who is the closest person to you?: My three best friends
Bad habits: Smoking, drinking too much, naps, filler words in conversation (“Um, you know, er, well …”), attempting to compensate for shyness and social awkwardness with defensiveness and stand-offishness
Talents: I can touch my nose with my tongue and have never lost at Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit
Most prized possession: My signed copies of Life After God and Good Omens
Most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done: Everything I’ve ever done has been humiliating on some level
Hard liquor or beer?: Both. With some wine.
Chicken or turkey?: Chicken
Love or lust?: Both make you feel alive, neither last. Love is to some extent in your own hands, so I’d go for love.
Favorite love song: “A Miracle” by the Hidden Cameras
Favorite break-up song: “Metal Heart” by Cat Power
What are you thinking at this very moment?: How much I want a cigarette
Have you ever cried in public?: Not unless you count taxi drivers
Something you want to do before you die: Publish a novel
What do you hate: Bigotry, bananas, the use of “action” as a verb in business circles
What makes you angry: Most things
Who would you want to meet?: Amelie Mauresmo, Paul Auster, Terry Pratchett
The last person to make you smile: It’s a safe bet it was Grant
The last dream you remember: Trying to escape a zombie apocalypse on a bus with a drunk Delpo
Personal quote: Tough one. I’ve always liked Vonnegut on reading: “Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’” Or alternatively, from Battlestar Galactica’s Lieutenant Kara Thrace: “So life’s a bitch. What are you going to do, cry about it?”
What is the meaning of life?: “The world is an enigma, a harmless enigma made terrible by our attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” – Umberto Eco. Or, if you like: “To love another person is to see the face of God.” – Les Mis
If you could change one thing that happened in your life, what would it be?: Ha. Being born? Reading the Twilight saga in an attempt to discover what the fuss was about?
First time posting on TW: It was during the summer hard-court season in 2008, and I was dead nervous, that’s all I remember. I know one of my very first posts was a jinx-moment with Rachael when Murray was playing Karlovic, and had to do with the magnificent Jason and Robbie.
OK, TWibe, who do you think this is? (And can I say that these profiles never get old. Love learning about our posters. Remember, if you’d like to take the All About Me plunge, e-mail me here.)
Feel free to continue match calls here. Have a great weekend, and enjoy the tennis!