Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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  • Music: Christian Kane, "The House Rules."

Five things you may or may not know about me.

5. I love country music. Mostly modern country, Christian Kane and Little Big Town and Taylor Swift, but I also love that sappy old dead dogs and pickup trucks country that you find on AM radio at six in the morning. I inherited my love of the genre from my grandmother, who was respectable and stoic and could bellow along with "Fancy" like nobody's business.

4. When I'm having a bad day and want comfort food, I go home and curl up with a big bowl of frozen peas that have been heated in the microwave. All I put on them is a) salt, and b) pepper. This stems from a childhood misinterpretation of what chickpeas were, when the characters in a book I loved ate "fresh hot buttered chickpeas."

3. My family was very, very poor when I was younger. As a consequence, I think that butter tastes horrible, because we always got a brick of government butter in our "please don't starve to death" box. Margarine, on the other hand, is the taste of luxury. I had a bad margarine habit for a while after getting my first job, and bought a tub every time I went to the store.

2. I am very superstitious, and very picky about my superstitions. I count crows, pick up pennies, and occasionally look for auguries in bags of M&Ms. I do not, however, freak out when I see a funeral procession, or insist on touching my collar and asking magpies how their wives are. This helps me strike a good balance. Just never get between me and a street penny.

1. I have a paralyzing phobia of pudding, which extends to all "pudding-type" substances, including custard and overly-warm milkshakes. Suddenly biting into an unexpected cream filling has been known to make me throw up on the spot. Luckily, this does not extend to the unnatural white goo inside Twinkies.

So that's five things you may or may not know about me. What do you think I may or may not know about you?
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antigoneschase

December 28 2010, 01:31:18 UTC 6 years ago

1. I have a number of physical and emotional issues. (PTSD, MPD/DID, OCD, Obsessive Personality (slightly different than OCD, and means I focus on things like OMG COMPUTER for easily up to 18 hours a day), Fear of sleeping in the dark, Insomnia, Social Anxiety, Phone Phobia, Arthritis in my spine, Major Depression, Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Generalized Anxiety, etc, etc, etc. I'M OFFICIALLY A MESS!) Sometimes when I'm having to list them off for someone, I start laughing. Hysterically. Because if I don't, I'll cry.

2. I have a mom that worked three jobs trying to raise me. We were still dirt poor. I wore the same pair of broken glasses for 3 years. I got new ones for passing senior year and getting into college.

3. "all of my siblings are half-siblings, or step-siblings". I said that once to a girlfriend and she got confused. Mom was married before dad, had two kids. Dad was married before mom, had twins, but one died. They married and had me. Then they got divorced. Dad remarried and I got step-siblings. Later, mom remarried and I got more. I have no idea why this was hard for her to understand.

4. I have had the same idea for a series of novels in my head for about 7 years now. I'm afraid to write them. I'm more afraid I will write them and they'll SUCCEED! I've always been horribly terrified of success.

5. I'm obsessed with facebook clicky games. Dammit.

seanan_mcguire

December 28 2010, 15:50:16 UTC 6 years ago

Good facts. Thank you.