capri0mni | The five questions meme (Snagged, this time, from gordon_r

1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song or some movie/TV quote (or example of your favorite figure of speach) or something.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

gordon_r_d asked me

1. Which Doctor would you choose to travel with and why?

That's easy. Two. Because even though he had, at several moments, dark and manipulative turns, he's also the one who most clearly treated his companions as family. And the characters of Two's era are really the only ones I can imagine easily having an existance outside or beyond the one we see on-screen. I can imagine them playing Scrabble, or washing the dishes. I attribute this to the Troughton/Hines chemistry.

2. You're holding a dinner party with any five people dead or alive, from any point in history, who would you invite?

Only 5? So there will be 6 people around the table, right? Okay that's what I'll assume. Hm. I think this one will be an all-women's dinner:

My Grandmother, Josie, so I can ask her about the life I never knew she'd led until after she died: what was it like to be one of the first women in America to teach athletics to women students (She was a college basketball coach in 1905)? What was it like to work in the women's suffrage movement, and where did she think her job as a communtiy organizer have gone if she hadn't married and given birth to eight children (seven of whom survived beyond childhood)?
Susanah Shakespeare Hall (without famous father and moderately less famous husband), because, apparently, she was a remarkably intelligent woman who never got a chance to speak for herself, through history (if I were allowed 12 guests, I'd invite her mother and sister, and grandmother, too)

E. Nesbit, another agitator in the suffrage movement (In Britain), who, instead of throwing rocks and going to riots, wrote children's novels with strong, funny, intelligent girls, and thereby planted subversive ideas in the heads of eleven-year-olds (she also played hostess to some pretty wild parties).

My mother. Because.

Murasaki Shikibu, who many have said, wrote the first ever psychological novel in human history, pretty damn close to 1,000 years ago (I'm assuming we'll have a TARDIS-like Translation Engine running, along with the heater, yes?).

3. Which song have you really been singing along to a lot recently?

Actually, when I've been listening to music, it's been the classical radio station, these days. So not many lyrics (When I first sat down to answer these, it was Beethoven's 4th Symphony for Piano and Orchastra (which my cousin, Martin Andrews, gave me on cassette tape for my 16th birthday, iirc).

4. Have you ever solved a RUbik's Cube without switching the stickers or taking it apart and putting it together again?

Yes. Maybe. Probably (trying to remember if I ever solved it, once upon a time). Actually, the idea of dismantling it never occurred to me (am not mechanically inclined).

5. Favourite pizza?

When I'm in a nostalgic mood (and want a taste of being < 7 years old, and going to the pizza parlor in our neighborhood with my parents): Sausage, pepper, onion, mushroom. When I want to be original: crispy eggplant cutlets, garlic, onion.