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5 questions meme, finally
And here we have, FINALLY, my 5 questions meme answers. They got et by depression for a while there.
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yhlee!
1. How did you learn about BJDs?
Someone on my dumb Pern game got a Super Dollfie in 2001 and showed it off; my young doll-loving self was enthralled. My doll-hating mother was very unimpressed. I ended up getting really deep into all the websites and watching my friend do all her customizations, and it took me many years to consider owning one because I am the least crafty persn on the planet and would just outright ruin a doll -- then I married someone who is craft-talented and now he is my doll assistant.
2. What is the neatest thing about your job that most people wouldn't guess/know?
Considering my job description confuses most people and says exactly nothing about what I do (except for the obvious 'integrating primary and behavioral health care'), the answer could be technically 'everything,' but really I think that the people who are in our program don't even know how much I do toward cost controls. They don't see me gaming the system and using creative diagnostic and CPT coding in order to make things cheaper for them while trying to increase revenue to our organization (because we ... really need it since we have to keep the lights on and I've seen the recent fiscal reports and they're frightening). The combination of what we're doing overall to improve health and decrease hospitalizations plus my creative use of data is lowering health costs for everyone in my program and also therefore helping out NYS Medicaid and that makes me feel good about myself even if it's something that most people can't see or aren't aware of (or in the case of some of my patients, really do not care about).
3. What's the last book you read for fun?
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas. I absolutely loved every moment of it, though it is definitely not for everyone. There's some content that might bother people who don't like gory things about brains or reading about Nigerian politics.
4. Favorite fencing move (to watch, or one that you used to do)?
My favorite to do was always feint and then a foot attack, because I fenced epee and am also a) short, b) an asshole. XD Though I lost my blade half the time because my feints weren't, uh, feint-y enough. Watching a counter-parry riposte in foil is also very entertaining!
5. Favorite month of the year?
June! It is warm and sun-like but not oppressively sunny, and not too warm, and people are in Summery Moods and yet it's also early enough that it's not the emotional baggage of August. Once upon a time, August was my favorite month, but now it is June. Sorry, August, you have too many memories. (Though dad was actually admitted to hospice in June, my brain doesn't start having its subconscious anxiety-fests until mid-July sometime.)
And frommisbegotten!
1) What's your dream job?
Something with the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare, which MITRE explains more about, even if they made 'healthcare' one word and I hate that. >_> I hd a chance to apply for a position but it just took so long and was so slow that I took the job I have (which also didn't require relocation, though we did end up moving it was a very short move, ~13 miles), though I still hope that there might be a CAMH role for me sometime in the future!
2) Do you have any pets? Have you had any in the past? What about the future?
I currently have a dog! His name is Trip, he's a 1 yr old Labrador Retriever/Cretan Hound mix we rescued from Little Cayman and Hurricane Irma. He's training to be my assistance dog but is also the most anxious, moody dog I've ever encountered in my entire life -- so I mean, the dog could also use an assistance dog.
In the past I have owned: a cat, a horse, three birds (one was technically my dad's), another dog, and a tortoise. All have passed on except the cat (though he's getting on in years); my allergies got so bad that he had to go live with friends long enough ago that he has been their cat much longer than he was ours, and he's happier in a multi-cat home, so he's doing quite well. In the future I would like to have more dogs, and if we live someplace that is compatible I would like to bring another horse into my life but I'm never going to have the kind of money where I could board one off-site. I adore birds, but am not sure I could do parrot + needy dog at the same time, I'd go insane from being needed by animals!
3) If you could turn one piece of fanon into canon, what would you pick?
I went back ad forth a bit on this one and then decided that I would assume a missing scene kind of fanfic would count and that this entire Queen's Thief fic (NSFW) being What Actually Happened on the wedding night we never see. Funny that this is my first thought because I overall do not like YA and I rarely read fantasy, but this ship is close to my heart
4) If you could live anywhere without the climate affecting you adversely, where would you live?
Haha considering the asker it's funny, but I'd absolutely go back to Michigan and probably settle near Ann Arbor for good. I am happier there than most anywhere else, but also usually ... very cold. Virginia Beach is in second place.
5) What's your favorite game? What's the appeal?
The board game "Plague, Inc" - it's got both competitive and collaborative aspects, and it's an epidemiology game that is largely scientifically accurate! Who could say no? Probably lots of people, but definitely not me.
(It's also playable with only 2 people, which is the number of people I usually have available.)
Everyone knows the drill: if you want 5 questions, feel free to comment (they might be very weird since I'm still having some Brain Issues), and if you want to ASK me five questions more feel free to just throw them in here. I know I owe a few people questions, I promise I haven't forgotten you. ♥
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yhlee!1. How did you learn about BJDs?
Someone on my dumb Pern game got a Super Dollfie in 2001 and showed it off; my young doll-loving self was enthralled. My doll-hating mother was very unimpressed. I ended up getting really deep into all the websites and watching my friend do all her customizations, and it took me many years to consider owning one because I am the least crafty persn on the planet and would just outright ruin a doll -- then I married someone who is craft-talented and now he is my doll assistant.
2. What is the neatest thing about your job that most people wouldn't guess/know?
Considering my job description confuses most people and says exactly nothing about what I do (except for the obvious 'integrating primary and behavioral health care'), the answer could be technically 'everything,' but really I think that the people who are in our program don't even know how much I do toward cost controls. They don't see me gaming the system and using creative diagnostic and CPT coding in order to make things cheaper for them while trying to increase revenue to our organization (because we ... really need it since we have to keep the lights on and I've seen the recent fiscal reports and they're frightening). The combination of what we're doing overall to improve health and decrease hospitalizations plus my creative use of data is lowering health costs for everyone in my program and also therefore helping out NYS Medicaid and that makes me feel good about myself even if it's something that most people can't see or aren't aware of (or in the case of some of my patients, really do not care about).
3. What's the last book you read for fun?
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas. I absolutely loved every moment of it, though it is definitely not for everyone. There's some content that might bother people who don't like gory things about brains or reading about Nigerian politics.
4. Favorite fencing move (to watch, or one that you used to do)?
My favorite to do was always feint and then a foot attack, because I fenced epee and am also a) short, b) an asshole. XD Though I lost my blade half the time because my feints weren't, uh, feint-y enough. Watching a counter-parry riposte in foil is also very entertaining!
5. Favorite month of the year?
June! It is warm and sun-like but not oppressively sunny, and not too warm, and people are in Summery Moods and yet it's also early enough that it's not the emotional baggage of August. Once upon a time, August was my favorite month, but now it is June. Sorry, August, you have too many memories. (Though dad was actually admitted to hospice in June, my brain doesn't start having its subconscious anxiety-fests until mid-July sometime.)
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misbegotten!1) What's your dream job?
Something with the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare, which MITRE explains more about, even if they made 'healthcare' one word and I hate that. >_> I hd a chance to apply for a position but it just took so long and was so slow that I took the job I have (which also didn't require relocation, though we did end up moving it was a very short move, ~13 miles), though I still hope that there might be a CAMH role for me sometime in the future!
2) Do you have any pets? Have you had any in the past? What about the future?
I currently have a dog! His name is Trip, he's a 1 yr old Labrador Retriever/Cretan Hound mix we rescued from Little Cayman and Hurricane Irma. He's training to be my assistance dog but is also the most anxious, moody dog I've ever encountered in my entire life -- so I mean, the dog could also use an assistance dog.
In the past I have owned: a cat, a horse, three birds (one was technically my dad's), another dog, and a tortoise. All have passed on except the cat (though he's getting on in years); my allergies got so bad that he had to go live with friends long enough ago that he has been their cat much longer than he was ours, and he's happier in a multi-cat home, so he's doing quite well. In the future I would like to have more dogs, and if we live someplace that is compatible I would like to bring another horse into my life but I'm never going to have the kind of money where I could board one off-site. I adore birds, but am not sure I could do parrot + needy dog at the same time, I'd go insane from being needed by animals!
3) If you could turn one piece of fanon into canon, what would you pick?
I went back ad forth a bit on this one and then decided that I would assume a missing scene kind of fanfic would count and that this entire Queen's Thief fic (NSFW) being What Actually Happened on the wedding night we never see. Funny that this is my first thought because I overall do not like YA and I rarely read fantasy, but this ship is close to my heart
4) If you could live anywhere without the climate affecting you adversely, where would you live?
Haha considering the asker it's funny, but I'd absolutely go back to Michigan and probably settle near Ann Arbor for good. I am happier there than most anywhere else, but also usually ... very cold. Virginia Beach is in second place.
5) What's your favorite game? What's the appeal?
The board game "Plague, Inc" - it's got both competitive and collaborative aspects, and it's an epidemiology game that is largely scientifically accurate! Who could say no? Probably lots of people, but definitely not me.
(It's also playable with only 2 people, which is the number of people I usually have available.)
Everyone knows the drill: if you want 5 questions, feel free to comment (they might be very weird since I'm still having some Brain Issues), and if you want to ASK me five questions more feel free to just throw them in here. I know I owe a few people questions, I promise I haven't forgotten you. ♥
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I KNOW THIS QUESTION IS DANGEROUS, SORRY2. What kind of work are you hoping to do when you finish school?
3. If you could have another pet, what kind of animal would you want - fantastically/with no limits, and/or realistically?
4. Which Tarot deck is your favorite?
5. What book would you recommend everyone who follows you read, or at least an overwhelming majority if not everyone?
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2. Are you interested in trying other weapons in fencing or are you pretty confident you're going to stick with foil?
3. Assuming you could pick up the interferometer and move it with you (pretend this is plausible), where would you want to live?
4. What are your top five fountain pen inks?
5. Are there stories behind Ara's child-nickname of 'Lizard,' and then how it came to become 'Dragon,' and if so, share them if you're willing?
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All things considered, I would have been happy to stick around here for much longer. Just not in this house as it currently exists. And, obviously, with a job. :\
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I also owe you questions, so here are questions:
1. What is the right number of cats? (Feel free to interpret 'for what' however you like.)
2. Are there things (besides Mr. G's job) that actually excite you about moving to TX?
3. What's Bruce's favorite toy?
4. What WAS the impact watching Dark Shadows had on your horror trope preferences?
5. You have a really interesting recipe post on the top of your journal; can you remember which of these was the most enjoyable to make and/or eat of those you've tried?
career/job stuff
Feel free to email me -- sh [at] changeset.nyc.
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1. What are the best things about owning Siberians?
2. What's a road trip and/or crazy adventure you'd like to take that you haven't yet?
3. If someone were only ever to read ONE McGuire/Grant book, which one would you recommend?
4. Do you and
5. What was your favorite manga to work on?
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Query me