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[benlehman]

I'm doing this because I keep promises. However, it has been modified to be a meme vaccine.

1. I'll respond with something random I like about you.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.
3. I'll name something we should do together.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me (or just me).
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I'll leave you a quote that is somehow appropriate to you.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
8. If you do this, you must only pass along these livejournal quiz things if you feel like passing them on, never because the text requires you to pass them on.

Comments

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

1) I like that you are finishing your novels. I wish I could.
2) That song -- the Hamburg traditional song.
3) Actually meet. GenCon?
4) At the heart of it, it is about our shame.
5) I have no distinct memory of you.
6) hrm.
7) How hard was it to decide to live in a foreign country for the rest of your life?

[chgriffen.livejournal.com]

Nice ones :) Regarding the novel, I'll finally send out my first three chapters and synopsis on Monday, and I'm quite excited! I only managed to really get here because of using the NaNo experience to write out a complete first draft, realizing how shitty it was, and then spending a huge amount of time editing it. But if I had tried to make it good to start with, I still would only have a couple of chapters. Writing crap first and then turning it into good stuff turns out to be the way to go, for me.

Wish I could go to GenCon... unless I get a huge advance, however, I don't think that's in the cards (and I don't expect that). Maybe next year, if things change. I definitely plan to go eventually and meet all of the crazy indie monkeys.

Hamburg song... Hamburg song... Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins? :)

As to 7), good question. At the time, not that hard. Looking back, harder than I thought. I thought of myself as an individual, self-sufficient and independent. Now I recognize my roots much more, and I miss having my family and friends around. I miss Hamburg, the best city in the world.

Knowing what I know now, the decision would be a lot harder. But it would still be the same, because of tamyranev. If that's what it took, I'd live in the worst place in the world to be with her.