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dj_aida's. Fair warning though, in a lot of cases I totally can't remember exactly when and why I friended people! I have a lousy memory [g]

Leave a comment and I'll:

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (To which you must respond!)
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.

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1. Tell you why I friended you.
I don't remember specifically, but I do believe it through our shared love of Methos and whacky crossovers :) Yes?
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
Crossovers!
3. Tell you something I like about you.
You're eccentric and a little off, and I like that about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
The story you wrote me for my birthday with Jack and Tony!
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (To which you must respond!)
Your 'obsession with all things Japanese'. It isn't something that leaps out on your LJ, so how so? Examples please! (being slightly obsessed on the subject myself)
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
Stitch cute

Yeah, I guess it doesn't really show in my journal, certainly not as much as my Egypt obsession anyway. My obsession with Japan started when I was really little - one of my first real memories is of thinking how beautiful my mam's kimono was. I've loved katanas for a really long time (before Highlander I'd like to add) and I mean love - I own two and I'd own more if they weren't so expensive. I've read every book I can lay my hands on about samurai, geisha, noh theatre, kabuki, netske, zen buddhism, shinto and Japanese history, art, music and mythology. I've studied bushido, kendo, Okinawan karate (by this I mean home study - I can't afford classes) and I keep trying to learn the language, but keep failing. Sushi is my favourite kind of food, I have a poster of The Great Wave on my wall and even modern Japan obsesses me - harajuku girls, technology, manga and anime, Miyazki is one of my all time favourite auteurs, the list could go on but I'd run out of comment. I guess you could say I'm a fan of Japan. *grin*

Is your mum Japanese? Or did she just own a kimono? I have a jacket made from an antique kimono that I adore!

I adored amber jewelery long before Jurassic Park, so I know what you mean!

I love Japan. I call it my alternate culture. It may have come from how I grew up, meeting many Japanese businessmen via my father's work. I've taken Japanese ans was actually quite good at it.

Have you read the Sano Ichiro novels?

Mum's Welsh, as are all my family. I discovered later it wasn't even a real kimono, just one of those silk dressing gowns everyone bought in the seventies, but it always sticks in my head as a kimono. Sorry, should have clarified that before!

I've never actually met a Japanese person, at least not beyond a 'hello' when I worked in the museum. As I've said before, I do wonder if perhaps it was a previous life, it just all feels very right, and like it's my culture. *shrugs*

The failure to learn is laziness on my part, really, I start to learn with good intentions, but then I get distracted and forget stuff, and then I just give up again. I'm terrible for that. It's why I have so many hobbies, I get bored very easily and then I'm like 'ooh, shiny thing' and I'm off on the next thing *grin*

I have not read them, but having looked them up on Waterstones I shall be adding them to my reading list! :)