Getting To Know You, Getting To Know All About You

[Dicentra spectabilis]

>Real name:

Bonnie May (no relation to the month or the helping verb)

>Also known as:

Dicentra spectabilis
Dicentra_spectabilis_alba (older account)

>Age/Sex:

39/Celibate, thank you

>Birthplace/Livingplace:

Born: Payson UT. Raised: Ogden UT. Living: Salt Lake City UT. Also
spent 10 years living in the Finger Lakes area of NY (5 as a child, 5
during grad school), 15 months in Colombia, and 2 months in Madrid.

>Family Life:

Single with a cat, one fish, and an obscene amount of foliage

>Personality:

INFJ, I think.  Reserved/reclusive until I get to know you, then I'm
silly.

>Words friends have used to describe you:

Friends?

>Words you have used to describe you:

Insecure, introverted, sarcastic, non-athletic, bookish, anal (only
with punctuation, spelling, and grammar), reliable, loyal,
clutter-monger, pessimist. Oh, and depressed. That's the MD's word.

>Anything else you'd like to reveal?:

Practicing Mormon, er, member of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. Didn't get tickets to Olympic games (too
expensive). Watched opening ceremonies from living room and subsequent
fireworks from front porch. 

>Things you do when not staring at the computer:

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question.

>Comfort foods:

Cookie dough, chocolate, peppermint patties, Cheetos, fresh bread

>Education/Work:

BA and MA in Spanish. PhD work in Spanish Lit but quit midway through
dissertation because I ran out of money (as did the university) and
because I finally found an antidepressant that worked but it made me
sleep 12-18 hours a day. YOU read Fray Francisco de Osuna's Third
Spiritual Alphabet when drowsy and see how far you get. Upon leaving
college, discovered that I had No Marketable Skills. Moved back in
with parents for a bit.

Currently a technical writer at a tech writing firm that does work for
Intel, Novell, and other companies. This is the only paying work you
can get with Useless Degrees like mine.

>Language skills:

English, Spanish, some Portuguese. 

>Technical know-how:

You'd think a tech writer would have lots, but actually I only know
just enough to really hose a system good. I can also create documents
to explain how to do things.

>Favourite HP book:

PoA. All others run a close second.

>Favourite HP character(s):

Actually, I like them all, but I'm partial to Harry, Sirius, Remus,
the Weasley Twins, and Snape.

>Favourite HP line:

"Harry would have pointed out that trouble didn't come much worse than
having slugs pouring out of your mouth, but he couldn't: Hagrid's
treacle fudge had cemented his jaws together."

>Watching/Avoiding the HP movie?

Saw each at the cinema four times: own both DVDs.  Really mad that
they cut so many important scenes out of CoS.  Found that when you
watch them over and over, they kinda grow on you.

>Into HP fanfiction?

No, but I might consider writing some.

>Books you'd recommend to just about anyone:

Any Newberry Award Book; "The Back Room" by Carmen Martin Gaite,
"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" by whassername

>Favourite TV:

CSI, and Law and Order (that makes five shows, in case you didn't
know). Occasional Buffy and Stargate: SG1. 

>Favourite cinema:

Sci-fi, political thriller (e.g., Red October), suspense (e.g. Sixth
Sense), anything with Alan Rickman in it. (His Rasputin is electrifying!)

>One thing about your life you'd change if you could – you may not
>say "lose weight."

Lose wei--D'oh!  Fine!  I would like to be independently wealthy so I
could putter around in my flowerbeds and do random creative things.

>One thing about your life you wouldn't change even for an advance
>copy of Book 7:

Having lived in foreign countries.  Nothing like it to give you
perspective.

>Philosophy for an easy life?:

See Amanda's answer

>How you found HPfGU:

Googled "Harry Potter" and found the Lexicon, which referenced HPfGU.

>Your most rock-solid OoP prediction:

Harry's gonna get kissed!  And *not* by Draco. :D

>Members of the fandom you have personally met:

Elkins
Cindy

>Add a question of your choosing and answer it:

<Something you'd do over if you had the chance:>

Once a guy invited me over for ice cream and "Casablanca," but I was
just starting something up with his raquetball buddy so I declined. 
Should have accepted the invite... :P

--Dicey, who *really* wishes she had accepted the invite: man was he cute!