Date: 2007-01-17 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miz-hatbox.livejournal.com
Relax. You're doing fine, if somewhat ridiculous. (Though Miss Ista would probably say that you're worrying too much and not playing enough puppy games.)

Go take a walk around the block with Miss Ista.

Date: 2007-01-17 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
It is The Cold and getting dark, and she is tired and cuddly. But I will play with her some more today; this is not bad advice.

Date: 2007-01-17 08:47 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-01-17 09:47 pm (UTC)
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
From: [personal profile] redbird
Having no idea, I picked 17, because that's the default for multiple choice questions where there's no other basis for deciding.

Date: 2007-01-17 11:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Always pick the fifth one? Always pick the middle one? Or always pick 17?

Date: 2007-01-18 12:13 am (UTC)
brooksmoses: (Two)
From: [personal profile] brooksmoses
Always pick the answer that's "interesting"?

All the other numbers are ones that wouldn't seem oddly out-of-place to me for dividing the timeline up into natural chunks. But seventeen? Why seventeen?

Date: 2007-01-18 03:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Either because seventeen is the right answer or to tease [livejournal.com profile] skzbrust.

Date: 2007-01-18 12:33 am (UTC)
redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)
From: [personal profile] redbird
Always pick 17.

Date: 2007-01-17 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com
You're so cute.

Can I say that you're ridiculous and also admit that before I got out of my diss. meeting, I was already scheming to bring work books to China? (The Handmaid's Tale! I love that book! That's legit, right?)

Date: 2007-01-17 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
I'm not cute, I used to be a physicist!

Um. That works even less well than it used to when I still was a physicist.

Of course it's legit to bring The Handmaid's Tale to China. Definitely. Of course. No question. (Are you going to ask people who won't answer the way you want, too, or just me?)

Date: 2007-01-17 11:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com
Do you think I'm dumb enough to set myself up for the wrong answer? I used to be an engineer, you know. (It is so funny that I'm writing a dissertation on genetics now. I mean, in literature. My advisor just sent me follow-up email saying, "You should write about Octavia Butler!" Good times.)

Date: 2007-01-18 03:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
You can take the girl out of the lab, I always say. Usually I say it when it turns out that once again my fantasy novels are really about physics. (I mean thematically.)

Date: 2007-01-18 12:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marykaykare.livejournal.com
Hey! Physicists can be cute! Says the woman married to one. (Also with a major crush on Nils Bohr)

MKK

Date: 2007-01-18 03:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
That's "hey sexy thing" cute, not "awwww, aren't you just the cutest!" cute.

Date: 2007-01-18 03:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Err. To clarify, I have no particular opinion on your husband's attractiveness. I was just speculating on your own likely reaction to him and the Professor, neither of which seemed likely to have anything to do with bunnies and duckies.

Date: 2007-01-18 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marykaykare.livejournal.com
Heee. It's ok, you're more than allowed to have an opinion on my husband's attractiveness. We're considering coming to Minicon this year after having been away a couple of years so you can see for yourself, if you haven't already met him.

MKK

Date: 2007-01-19 01:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
Yah, it's not that I think I am barred from having an opinion because he's your husband, it's that I believe I met him once for a few minutes. Can picture him, but let's all sing a song about how non-visual the Mris is; we all know the words.

I have been doing my Minicon Evangelist Dance all over the internet and Austin this year. I'm just sayin'.

Date: 2007-01-18 08:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dichroic.livejournal.com
I sympathize. Engineers aren't cute either, not even when we're smaller than everyone else in the room. (Almost any room.)

Date: 2007-01-17 11:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottjames.livejournal.com
So... how long did it take you to panic about not having enough short stories in circulation? Unlike a great many polls, this one seems to have a correct answer. At least the first question.

Date: 2007-01-18 12:24 am (UTC)
brooksmoses: (anime-me)
From: [personal profile] brooksmoses
And the second question most certainly has an incorrect answer. "Less ticky" can never be a correct answer!

Date: 2007-01-18 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
I'll tell you sometime tomorrow morning, when people appear to be done answering.

Date: 2007-01-19 10:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozarque.livejournal.com
Congratulations! Way to go....

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