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Name: Jess
How did you find out about the community? If it's through an LJ user, please tell us who it is: I can't remember, it was through another LJ comm though.
Age: 20
Location: Tasi, Australia
Occupation:Apprentice Chef




All About You

1. Describe your ideal house/home. Please go into as much detail as possible, and be sure to include your ideal geographical location in the description!.
Hmmm, lets see...
For starters it would have to be somewhere predominantly cold. I can't stand heat, my whole body just becomes sluggish and lethargic. There is nothing better then stepping outside in the morning to a blast of cold air. I'd love to live on the outskirts of a large town, surrounded by green fields and mountains, where I could raise horses and have a big dog to go walking with. I'd have a vegie and herb garden.

I've always wanted a nice old house with lots of timber and timber paneling on the inside. High ceilings, wrap around balconies and big windows. No carpet on the floor, so I can cover it with rugs, and a biiig kitchen, so I can cook away to my hearts content. I'd have a big, rustic, rectangle wooden table, lots of squishy chairs & couches and lots of bookcases full of books. In the bathroom there would be one of those old cast iron tubs with fancy little feet on them. A rocking chair on the balcony where I can drink tea and a beautiful weeping willow standing near the house.

2. Name three things you are afraid of. Explain.
1. Losing my family. I've been separated from my whole family but my mother since I was nine years old, and I care more deeply for them then I think even they realize, and will be devastated when they are gone.
2. Burning. Allow me to explain. I've had more burns as a child than I can count, the worst being on my hands from falling on a roaring wood heater and touching a burning hotplate. However I've also had painful burns from irons, ovens, steam, hot milk and boiling water... I'm hoping that in time I just won't feel it anymore... >(
3. I'm claustrophobic. Not severely, but I find confined spaces very unsettling, and the worst is not generally small rooms, but more when I'm surrounded by people. If I'm at some kind of party or gathering, and am surrounded by people, I get anxious, uncomfortable and often anti-social. As a child, I'd run off and lock myself in an empty room, or go out onto the street.

3. Imagine you’re given the classic opportunity: a genie granting you three wishes. What would you wish for? Please be as elaborate as you can. Wishing for more wishes is not permitted!
It's very cliche, but I would first wish for money. I could give my parents comfortable, happy retirements, help my brothers and sister, and basically give my family anything they needed, while enjoying financial freedom myself.

Next, I would wish good health for my family and myself. God knows we've had enough problems over the years, never having to worry about it again would be such a blessing!

For my last wish, It'd have to be time travel. I would only go into the past though, I'm not at all interested in seeing the future, but going back in time to any event I fancy would just be.... indescribable.

4. In your life so far, what accomplishment are you the most proud of? Why? You can list more than one if you have trouble deciding. ;)
It would have to be moving back to Tasmania and getting my life on track. In Queensland I had no family, no support or roots of any kind and was just drifting aimlessly. Then one year ago, when I was visiting in December, I decided to come back down. Two months later I was driving down the east coast of Australia with my step mum. It may sound weird, but the experience gave me so much confidence in myself.

5. Which of the following is most important to you: Love, Money, Knowledge, Family, Friendship, Adventure, or Pleasure? Which is the least important to you? Please explain why for each choice.
Well... I'd be lying if I didn't say adventure. Despite the fact that I'm so inward, I crave it constantly, be it disappearing into an amazing book, exploring the rocky eastern shore of the Derwent at 4:30 in the morning or fantasizing about world travel the minute my mind wanders.
Next to that would be family of course, for obvious reasons.

The least important is hard to choose... maybe love. Only in a romantic sense though. I've never yet sought it out and it has rarely come to me, and I am perfectly content with that at this point in my life, I enjoy solitude to much.

6. What's one quote (or passage, song lyric, etc.) that effectively describes you and your values? Explain.

"A Morning-Glory on my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."~ Leaves of Grass
"Be curious, not judgmental."
Both lines were written by Walt Whitman, my favourite poet. I don't think they need explaining.

7. How do you manage your money? On that note, how important is money/financial security to you? Go into as much detail as you can.
I'm not terrible at managing my money, though sometimes I can be a bit reckless. Financial security is important to me, I would like to be able to live a comfortable life, though I see no need for great wealth of any sort. I will be satisfied if I can simply do the things I want to.

8. Name (and elaborate on) some of your hobbies. What are your favorite things to do outside of school/the office?
Reading. I love reading, be it novels, non-fiction, poetry, magazines, comics/manga, etc. I've spent entire weekends doing nothing but read O.o
Cooking. The fact that I'm an apprentice chef may have given this away, but I LOOOVE cooking. And I think I may like eating even more. I spend far more money than is necessary on kitchen equipment and foodstuffs...
Walking/Hiking. I love walking, and hiking around Tasmania's beautiful nature preserves (Cradle Mountain!) leaves me feeling truly invigorated.
Diving. My Dad got my sister and I into this, and though it's impossible in winter, the summer is the time to dive!

9. Name (and elaborate on) your top three BEST and top three WORST qualities (personality-related, not physical). Please answer as fully as you can, as this is an important question.

the worst.
Passive. I am far to passive for my own good, something that I am trying very hard to change. I spent most of my teenage years living in great fear of conflict, so I let people walk all over me, and I still do, I have to be pushed quite hard before I'll stand up for myself, or others.

Lazy/Self-Indulgent. I can be sooooooo lazy, and not very ambitious either. I have trouble telling myself 'no' when I want something, and the niggling voice usually looses out, even if I'm being totally impractical.

Unforgiving. I am not a petty person to hold grudges over slights but if someone has truly wronged me I can be very unforgiving and hold on to anger, resentment and frustration for a long time after the fact, partly because as I've said before, I'm to passive and rarely stand up for myself, and I'm inarticulate at expressing emotions.

the best.
Loyalty. I am loyal to a fault, and consider betraying and lying to a person who trusts you truly despicable.

Empathy. I am capable of seeing situations and people's actions from their point of view, even if I don't agree or am even angered, I can still understand that nothing is black and white.

Listening. I am a great listener, got it down to a science. Comes with the territory of not being a very conversational person, I would much rather shut up and listen than open my own mouth.





A Song of Ice and Fire Related

1.Who are your favorite three characters in the series? Why?
Tyrion. He has remained my favourite throughout all the books. I share his dry and self-deprecating sense of humor, and often laugh out loud while reading his chapters. He can be a total jackass, but he has a conscience and wants to be a good man. He's admirable in that he tries to make the best of what he has, while falling to the utterly human fate of being unable to overcome it.

Bran. Although his chapters are not half as action packed or even as interesting as those of other characters, I really love Bran, and I think GRRM handles his character so well. I was almost in tears throughout the chapters that it was believed Theon killed him and Rickon, and practically fell out of my chair when I realized it was not so.

Jamie. He has gone from selfish asshole extraordinaire, to a man with something of a conscience, who is looking for redemption, how could I not love that? It annoys me that I see so many fans romanticizing and simplifying Jamie, it's his ambiguities that make him such an interesting character.

2.Who are your least favorite three characters in the series? Why?

Cersei. The woman is a delusional, spiteful, manipulative piece of work. Joffrey may have been a somewhat decent kid if someone had had the brains and balls to take him away from his mother while they had the chance. Oh yeah, and shes bat-shit nuts.

Gregor. He is the embodiment of mindless cruelty, that alone makes me hate him.

Stannis. He just frustrates me so much. He sits around whining and brooding about his rights to kinghood, while he refuses to heed council, get his hands dirty or even play the game. People who don't bend break buddy.

3.#1 Favorite moment in all of ASOIAF so far? Why?
Goddamn... there are so many...
Oberyn's duel with Gregor, "Drogon, Dracarys". They were two parts that I remember had me trembling with excitement, a hurricane could have blown by and I wouldn't have noticed.

4. In your dream-world, how would you like to see the series end, and why?
Ahh, I haven't done speculating on how I would like the books to end, the only thing I wish for is for the remaining Starks to be re-united, or even just one running into another y'know... at some point, that would be wonderful.

Comments

Stark

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I think you're a combination of Stark and Tully - but I think I'm leaning slightly more towards Stark because of the importance of your family and the love of adventure.

Also, your comment on how you felt when living alone and away from your family reminded me of the whole quote about the lone wolf dying while the pack survives in ASOIAF