Five questions!
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ursula. (If you want five questions from me, just say so in the comments!)
1. What about you--do you have a scar with a good story?
Not really. I have some scars, like, burn scars on my shoulders from when my hair caught fire (pretty much invisible now after all those years, the area just feels different), and a knife scar on my leg from (unsurprisingly) an inexpert knife attack, but none of that has any kind of interesting story attached - just freak accidents (I'm very prone to those) and, in the knife case, a typical schoolyard conflict, but nothing out of the ordinary. My probably most interesting freak accident (falling into a pond of cyanobacteria in the wadden sea) was gross (and led to washing salon workers being very upset with me and getting me banned from that place) but did not leave a physical scar.
2. What's your favorite bog plant?
Sundew! I mean, is there any question? Standing in a carpet of sparkly carnivorous weeds is fun and SO PRETTY!!!
3. Any interesting memories involving zoos?
Also, not really. My parents didn't like to take me to the zoo because the idea of wild animals in captivity upsets them, so my interesting memories involving animals typically involve animals in the wild. (Plus, of course, the wolves from the wolfcenter in Lower Saxony, which is technically not a zoo because it's a home for native wolves who can't survive in the wild. Interacting with wolves is always interesting.) I mostly went to the zoo when the parents of other kids went as a family or as a birthday celebration and brought me along. My memory is... looking at foreign animals from a distance?!? I mean, I suppose it's good I got to see them, from an educational standpoint, but it was never particularly interesting though I liked to feed the elephants (who took apples, bread, and raw pasta from visitors and were enthusiastic about kid visitors; I suppose the elephants thought we were cute?!?) when that still was allowed.
4. Favorite style of jewelry?
Tenntrad. I mean, I don't wear much jewelry (beyond my portable sundials because I collect any and all sundials including shitty nonfunctional sundials), but when I do, it's tenntrad bracelets. That's leather (typically reindeer though there are some exceptions) with embroidered patterns from tin wire (hence the name LOL), as well as sometimes leather bands, silver beads, or other materials (like, say, fabric bands - it's rare but it happens when an artisan decides it should happen). The button is usually reindeer antler (again, with some exceptions).
They're very comfortable to wear - reindeer leather is one of the most comfortable materials imaginable, and as a result, these are the only bracelets I will tolerate - and also, I have a deep appreciation for interesting geometrical patterns. (A scientist friend of mine called them my "math bracelets" and I suppose she wasn't wrong.) As a result, I have these bracelets in any and all possible and impossible colors, including but not limited to my favorite color combination, pink-and-yellow. Or (decidedly nontraditional) rainbow flag tenntrad. (They just accumulate!) Which reminds me, I should probably make a separate tenntrad post at some point, because it's such a lovely technique.
5. Is there an age of child you find particularly entertaining?
Entertaining? When it comes down to it, children are just... people who happen to be younger than I am. The age that's most interesting to interact with is probably from 8-12 because they're old enough to be reasonable and think for themselves (and not need supervision for stupid stuff) but still young enough to profit the most from conversation with adults with more knowledge and life experience, but I find that neither cute nor entertaining nor anything else of the sort. They're just people.
ursula. (If you want five questions from me, just say so in the comments!)1. What about you--do you have a scar with a good story?
Not really. I have some scars, like, burn scars on my shoulders from when my hair caught fire (pretty much invisible now after all those years, the area just feels different), and a knife scar on my leg from (unsurprisingly) an inexpert knife attack, but none of that has any kind of interesting story attached - just freak accidents (I'm very prone to those) and, in the knife case, a typical schoolyard conflict, but nothing out of the ordinary. My probably most interesting freak accident (falling into a pond of cyanobacteria in the wadden sea) was gross (and led to washing salon workers being very upset with me and getting me banned from that place) but did not leave a physical scar.
2. What's your favorite bog plant?
Sundew! I mean, is there any question? Standing in a carpet of sparkly carnivorous weeds is fun and SO PRETTY!!!
3. Any interesting memories involving zoos?
Also, not really. My parents didn't like to take me to the zoo because the idea of wild animals in captivity upsets them, so my interesting memories involving animals typically involve animals in the wild. (Plus, of course, the wolves from the wolfcenter in Lower Saxony, which is technically not a zoo because it's a home for native wolves who can't survive in the wild. Interacting with wolves is always interesting.) I mostly went to the zoo when the parents of other kids went as a family or as a birthday celebration and brought me along. My memory is... looking at foreign animals from a distance?!? I mean, I suppose it's good I got to see them, from an educational standpoint, but it was never particularly interesting though I liked to feed the elephants (who took apples, bread, and raw pasta from visitors and were enthusiastic about kid visitors; I suppose the elephants thought we were cute?!?) when that still was allowed.
4. Favorite style of jewelry?
Tenntrad. I mean, I don't wear much jewelry (beyond my portable sundials because I collect any and all sundials including shitty nonfunctional sundials), but when I do, it's tenntrad bracelets. That's leather (typically reindeer though there are some exceptions) with embroidered patterns from tin wire (hence the name LOL), as well as sometimes leather bands, silver beads, or other materials (like, say, fabric bands - it's rare but it happens when an artisan decides it should happen). The button is usually reindeer antler (again, with some exceptions).
They're very comfortable to wear - reindeer leather is one of the most comfortable materials imaginable, and as a result, these are the only bracelets I will tolerate - and also, I have a deep appreciation for interesting geometrical patterns. (A scientist friend of mine called them my "math bracelets" and I suppose she wasn't wrong.) As a result, I have these bracelets in any and all possible and impossible colors, including but not limited to my favorite color combination, pink-and-yellow. Or (decidedly nontraditional) rainbow flag tenntrad. (They just accumulate!) Which reminds me, I should probably make a separate tenntrad post at some point, because it's such a lovely technique.
5. Is there an age of child you find particularly entertaining?
Entertaining? When it comes down to it, children are just... people who happen to be younger than I am. The age that's most interesting to interact with is probably from 8-12 because they're old enough to be reasonable and think for themselves (and not need supervision for stupid stuff) but still young enough to profit the most from conversation with adults with more knowledge and life experience, but I find that neither cute nor entertaining nor anything else of the sort. They're just people.
