Friday Five: How do you count it?

1. What is your most irrational fear or dislike (i.e. something most people are fine with, or something that brings back bad memories)? Hm. Well, lots of people have arachnaphobia, so I'm not sure that quite counts. I hate pink, but only in my own clothing, so that's pretty rational too. And my "brings back bad memories" thing with a handful of specific songs is... yeah, that's really very rational also. I don't have many irrational fears, except the spiders.


2. Describe your last (or only) encounter with the police. Um, my next door neighbor? But as far as in the course of their duties... I think that would be the time last year that three cops came to fetch one of my students out of my classroom for having missed his underage-drinking court date. Yeah.


3. What's the biggest secret about yourself that you've ever revealed, accidentally or on purpose? Well, the biggest by whose standards? I mean, I've generally been fairly up front about being a survivor, except with my actual family. And I tend to wave my multiplicity under people's noses now and then just because. I'm not sure those count as secrets. Similarly, I'm out about being bi and about being a fanwriter (though I don't exactly tell workfellows my handle). None of those are things I bring up in casual conversation, because there are a lot of assholes in the world, but they're not exactly close held.


4. When is the last time you were really, really angry? Did you do anything drastic because you were so angry? ...that's not a question that has a lot of meaning to me. My scale for anger is, um. Skewed from what "most" people think is normal. There's always a fuck of a lot of rage just, you know, hanging around. I live with it. Once or twice my coping has broken and... well, yes, that's when I tend to grab people by the throat or get out of my car in a traffic jam to stand in front of the semi creeping down the margin.


5. If you could raise someone from the dead, who would it be, why, and do you think he or she would be happy to be alive again? No one. That would fuck with everyone incredibly. And what condition would the raise-ee be in? Still terminally ill or with a body falling apart? Yeah, I'm thinking not much with the happy.