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[eurydicebound]

No time yet to post about the D&D game, so...

"The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you."

Stolen from the proliferation of this meme on my friends page. So there.

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[jasonlblair.livejournal.com]

How much do you love me?

Of my friends, I think you've been involved in the hobbindustry the longest, so: how did you get into the game industry? (This is something I really shoulda knowed by now.)

[anaka.livejournal.com]

I love you more than the waves of the ocean love the shore, which is to say less than I love my kiddos, but more than I love pizza from Papa Murphy's -- which is to say I love you enough to let you drink all of my share of the scotch (or insert other drink of choice here).

I started out back in 1999, technically, before my son, William was 6 months old. That was when I put in a resume with FASA for freelance editing -- with no decent experience or credits to speak of, I might add, just a 3/4 finished English degree, some creative reinterpretation of job training and a short story to pave the way. By April of 2000, I'd been hired by FASA as a full-time assistant editor in house and relocated to Chicago, which was great since my former employer had gone bankrupt as of January of 2000. I worked there for 10 months or so until the company closed in January of 2001. I then went freelance in the game industry, given that I couldn't handle the idea of jumping back into a call center and that I had neither enough experience nor a degree to facilitate editing work in the mainstream publishing industry.

Prior to getting hired by FASA, the extent of my industry insider contact had been being in the same LARP group with one of he authors of Comme il Faut and with a guy who claimed to have been in on the development of Mind's Eye Theatre rules, including developing the hand signals for obfuscate and Crinos.

[jasonlblair.livejournal.com]

Aaah. You'd give me scotch. Now I have a tear. I am the happy.

Man, that's a pretty sweet tale though. That's the hobbindustry for ya, though.

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

What are your long-term dreams? Is the gaming industry a place you hope to spend the rest of your life in or would you like to move on someday?

[anaka.livejournal.com]

I want to finish my degree. I want to travel beyond the borders of my nation. And, of course, I want to find a someone I can share my life with who thinks I'm really, really cool.

As for professional goals? I'm not exactly a frustrated novelist, but I am interested in writing novels. I don't know that I'd ever exactly quit my day job to do it, though. I just enjoy editing too much.

As for industry involvement... I could be happy staying here my whole life. I really, really like games; I like the books we create, I like the material we talk about, I like the art we commission, and I love the people I meet and work with. I could edit now for other types of publishing, but short of commercial fiction, I don't know that I'd be that happy doing it. No matter what I did with the rest of my life, I can't see ever wholly giving up working on games. I think if I have a professional role model, it's Margaret Weis. If my career could mirror hers to any great extent, I would be a very happy camper.

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

How are you and the kids doing?

[anaka.livejournal.com]

Pretty well. David and I sat down last night and talked about a plan for him moving out. I feel a lot better about that now. The kids seem to be doing okay, though Will's still having a little problem adjusting. He misses his grandparents an awful lot -- I didn't realize how much it would affect him. Given that I just found out I'm not getting my expected freelancer check before Christmas, so our trip home likely will not happen, it will defintely not make him happy, poor baby. I haven't told him yet, as I'm still trying to find a way to make it happen. Having an expected couple of grand just disappear from the forecast, though, makes it hard to find a good substitute

Basically, the last few days have been a bit tough. There's signs of David starting a 6 month contract at the beginning of December, though, so maybe things will yet move forward in our lives. You never know, it could happen.

[sad-genius.livejournal.com]

If I opened up your CD player right now, what would I find in it?

[anaka.livejournal.com]

A soundtrack mix CD created by Bruce for out Adventure D20 game. It's pretty cool, and makes really good writing music.

[metallian.livejournal.com]

(I am catching up on memes because I am currently tips..err, relaxed enough to think of questions...)

Were employment not an issue, where would you most like to live?

[anaka.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I may very well be here right now. Were employment not an issue, I'd probably like to move up to Ballard or Wallingford (two neighborhoods in Seattle), maybe the University District. There's a lot of cool stuff up there, and right now I'm basically on the opposite end of Seattle from it.

I loved Chicago, and if I could do Chicago while single, without kids, and with enough money to afford a place closer to downtown in the midst of stores and restaurants and cool stuff, I'd adore living there. Given all the qualifiers, though, I think Seattle works best for me. I can't say what any cities abroad would be like, as I've never gotten a great sense of what living there would entail. There's probably one or two as would suffice, but I don't have any picked right now. :)

[metallian.livejournal.com]

That's really cool that you're in (or at least close to) where you'd like to be. Glad to hear it! :)