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May. 24th, 2012 08:41 pm1. How did you and Nala come together?
Nala waited for me in an animal shelter in Espanola, New Mexico in 1998. I went there with my not-serious boyfriend Dave, and I wore a green velvet tank top -- quite low-cut, the kind with an almost straight-across neckline and spaghetti straps. They would only let one cageful of kittens out at a time. When I walked into the kitten room, some other batch of kittens was out, but I looked and saw two tabby kittens in one of the compartments I was charmed. "Can I look at the stripey ones?"
Both were female. I thought one was definitively cuter than the other -- she had more distinct markings -- but she also seemed more psycho and less personable. I was delighted when the calmer, less cute one of the two made a huge leap up to the compartment she came from. I went and picked that kitten up and held her to me. She looked up and put her paw down my green velvet cleavage... and that was Nala.
The tip of Nala's tail is black, and in that black tip one can feel a crookedness where two bones are fused together. I always assumed she had been hurt before I ever got her, although it never seemed to cause her pain. One day years later I realized she was probably just born with those bones fused, and had never been hurt at all, and my whole body flushed with relief.
2. Are you a movie person? If so, what kind of films do you go for?
Well... I like some movies. Movies have such incredible power to transport, to portray and to evoke that most movies I watch fill me with a sense of wasted potential.
I like my movies smart. Action scenes generally bore me, and I don't find slapstick humor to be funny. I have a high capacity for dark humor, but can't handle a lot of violence (and I'm okay with that -- people shouldn't be numb to the sight of other people in pain). I don't like movies about infidelity, and man, there are a ton of those. And to top off all this, I sometimes just don't follow movies as well as some people since I didn't start watching them often until I was an adult.
I notice that animated films are often more thoughtfully made, maybe because they're so labor-intensive that the makers have time to think about every fraction of a second.
I very much liked The Crow, Pleasantville, Waking Life, Spirited Away.
Dislike: A Fish Called Wanda (couldn't follow it), Face-Off (way too brutal), Pushing Tin (cheating).
I feel neutral about most of the big blockbuster movies. I see them and enjoy them, then forget them.
3. What is your opinion on bow ties?
They look best on tall, skinny people.
4. Do you want Boston to be home forever or is there another place you want to try out?
I am in love with Boston and have no urge to explore living in other places -- I've had enough of living in places I don't belong, and I want to stay here where I do. The only other place that ever calls is Manhattan, and it's easy enough to visit Manhattan.
Under no circumstance do I want to live outside a major city ever again.
5. How did you get into yoga? What method do you prefer to practice?
I first did yoga from a book when I was 13 years old. I had always wanted to be more flexible and more relaxed. Then I did other things for a long long time, but in my early 20s I bought a lot of copies of Yoga Journal, and some of my best pencil drawings were of people doing yoga. In some part of my mind I was saving yoga for last, and I was also afraid that maybe it wouldn't be all I hoped, and then I'd be disappointed. I wanted to be a martial artist first, and I tried that. But when I was 27, I became tired of my tae kwon do school, and I started yoga at a local studio... right about then I stopped buying the Yoga Journal magazines.
I like vinyasa and ashtanga yoga, both of which are sometimes called "power yoga". I don't like them because they're more athletic (although they are), I like that one does the transitions between poses in a graceful and mindful manner. There's less ungainly scrambling between postures, no collective losing and gaining focus. It's much more meditative than a hatha class where you do poses statically with scrambled little breaks in between. The word vinyasa means "flow".
If you would like me to ask you questions, reply with "Too much of a good thing is wonderful".
Nala waited for me in an animal shelter in Espanola, New Mexico in 1998. I went there with my not-serious boyfriend Dave, and I wore a green velvet tank top -- quite low-cut, the kind with an almost straight-across neckline and spaghetti straps. They would only let one cageful of kittens out at a time. When I walked into the kitten room, some other batch of kittens was out, but I looked and saw two tabby kittens in one of the compartments I was charmed. "Can I look at the stripey ones?"
Both were female. I thought one was definitively cuter than the other -- she had more distinct markings -- but she also seemed more psycho and less personable. I was delighted when the calmer, less cute one of the two made a huge leap up to the compartment she came from. I went and picked that kitten up and held her to me. She looked up and put her paw down my green velvet cleavage... and that was Nala.
The tip of Nala's tail is black, and in that black tip one can feel a crookedness where two bones are fused together. I always assumed she had been hurt before I ever got her, although it never seemed to cause her pain. One day years later I realized she was probably just born with those bones fused, and had never been hurt at all, and my whole body flushed with relief.
2. Are you a movie person? If so, what kind of films do you go for?
Well... I like some movies. Movies have such incredible power to transport, to portray and to evoke that most movies I watch fill me with a sense of wasted potential.
I like my movies smart. Action scenes generally bore me, and I don't find slapstick humor to be funny. I have a high capacity for dark humor, but can't handle a lot of violence (and I'm okay with that -- people shouldn't be numb to the sight of other people in pain). I don't like movies about infidelity, and man, there are a ton of those. And to top off all this, I sometimes just don't follow movies as well as some people since I didn't start watching them often until I was an adult.
I notice that animated films are often more thoughtfully made, maybe because they're so labor-intensive that the makers have time to think about every fraction of a second.
I very much liked The Crow, Pleasantville, Waking Life, Spirited Away.
Dislike: A Fish Called Wanda (couldn't follow it), Face-Off (way too brutal), Pushing Tin (cheating).
I feel neutral about most of the big blockbuster movies. I see them and enjoy them, then forget them.
3. What is your opinion on bow ties?
They look best on tall, skinny people.
4. Do you want Boston to be home forever or is there another place you want to try out?
I am in love with Boston and have no urge to explore living in other places -- I've had enough of living in places I don't belong, and I want to stay here where I do. The only other place that ever calls is Manhattan, and it's easy enough to visit Manhattan.
Under no circumstance do I want to live outside a major city ever again.
5. How did you get into yoga? What method do you prefer to practice?
I first did yoga from a book when I was 13 years old. I had always wanted to be more flexible and more relaxed. Then I did other things for a long long time, but in my early 20s I bought a lot of copies of Yoga Journal, and some of my best pencil drawings were of people doing yoga. In some part of my mind I was saving yoga for last, and I was also afraid that maybe it wouldn't be all I hoped, and then I'd be disappointed. I wanted to be a martial artist first, and I tried that. But when I was 27, I became tired of my tae kwon do school, and I started yoga at a local studio... right about then I stopped buying the Yoga Journal magazines.
I like vinyasa and ashtanga yoga, both of which are sometimes called "power yoga". I don't like them because they're more athletic (although they are), I like that one does the transitions between poses in a graceful and mindful manner. There's less ungainly scrambling between postures, no collective losing and gaining focus. It's much more meditative than a hatha class where you do poses statically with scrambled little breaks in between. The word vinyasa means "flow".
If you would like me to ask you questions, reply with "Too much of a good thing is wonderful".
