Another Five for your amusement...

[magnetic_pole]

Catching up on some older Friday Fives this week to keep the posting habit going:



1. Where did you grow up and do you miss it? Suburban Los Angeles, and yes. More so as I get older. The aspects of the area that bothered me so much growing up bother me less, and the aspects I liked at the time now have a stronger pull.

2. Which are your three favorite words in the dictionary and why? Hmm! This is surprisingly difficult. Here's a bit of a dodge: "magnetic pole." When I was first creating this journal, I wanted to use it as a complement to a personal journal whose name began with "magical" (long story), and, finding myself unable to think of something on the spot, I looked in the dictionary for a word or phrase that also began with m-a-g. "Magnetic pole" caught my eye. "Magical etc." is long defunct, but "magnetic_pole" lives on.

3. What is a vegetarian dish that you really like? I love vegetarian dishes! I don't even know where to start here. Anything with tofu. (Tofu as a vehicle for spices and flavors, not as a slab of "protein" in a salad. Ugh. I don't know where we got that idea.) Anything with lots of spices and root vegetables. Bean soups. Salads with berries in them. Cake and croissants. (What? Do those not count?)

4. What do you do when you have a misunderstanding with your friend? Ugh. I'm bad at this. So you know the better half and I have been together for more than twenty years, right? And she's very outgoing, so I tend to outsource a lot of the day-to-day (well, weekly, or semi-monthly) socializing to her. I tend to make friends very slowly and hold onto them forever. The couple times I've screwed up with people, I've really screwed up, and I haven't been able or willing to go back and set things right.

5. What do you daydream about? Fictional characters in interesting situations. Sometimes that "interesting" is a euphemism for something else, but mostly not. I tend to ruminate over emotionally intense moments that reveal something about the character or the world. I've been daydreaming with characters from books and tv since I was little, and finding fic (evidence that I'm not the only one who does this!) was such a revelation. I think this is one of the reasons fandom never feels very far away, even though I haven't been writing or even reading much lately.

Anyone else want to play along? Text box below, and you can link back to the comm, thefridayfive, and see other replies, if you'd like.

<b>1. Where did you grow up and do you miss it?</b> <b>2. Which are your three favorite words in the dictionary and why? <b>3. What is a vegetarian dish that you really like?</b> <b>4. What do you do when you have a misunderstanding with your friend?</b> <b>5. What do you daydream about?</b>

Comments

[spikesgirl58]

Actually, I think your answers are great! I have similar 'daydreams' and I agree with you on tofu. There is so much more to it that just a bland slab of nothingness.

[magnetic_pole]

What's up with tofu in salads? I've seen that in several salad bars over the years. It's like the restaurants got a space shipment of tofu and didn't know what to do with it. (No offense to folks who like their tofu au naturel, by the way.)

Thanks for stopping by to read and comment! M.

[spikesgirl58]

I like tofu well enough and I suspect it's their way of offering a protein to those folks who feel that they need more in their lives. Trying to think of it from a restaurant standpoint, you want to better serve your customer and this is just one more option for vegetarians and vegans. the fact that so many restaurants do this means that it is a viable option for them. Believe me, restaurants cut costs every way they can and if the tofu wasn't going, they'd stop carrying it. Can you tell I've spent time in the culinary industry. :D

No worries! I'm glad you are having fun with the questions!

[magnetic_pole]

Ah, true, true! Good point. Someone must like it. I'm certainly glad that restaurants have more options for vegetarians these days--even though I'm not a vegetarian myself, I love being able to get that option. Which wasn't the case twenty years ago or so, really, at least where I was living. M.

[spikesgirl58]

I know what you mean. I came from a little Podunk town in Vermont. The produce aisle in one of our two grocery stores offered one type of lettuce, carrots, celery, potatoes and onions. You wanted other stuff, you had to grow it yourself. It's good to have options! :D

[magnetic_pole]

Options are *excellent.* :) M.

[spikesgirl58]

Back then it didn't seem so awful, but now, yes, the more options, the better.