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1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

1. How did you get into learning German? What is it that fascinates you about the language? Aren't the cases driving you crazy? :)

A) When I started high school, the two languages offered were French and German (because that was what the one language teacher there taught). I knew I wanted to take a language, and having taken a bit of French in middle school and hating it, German it was!
B) I don't know if it's anything about German in particular. Language in general is fascinating to me. I like the idea of being able to speak to someone in their native tongue. Or, alternatively, speaking a foreign language with someone else who does, and having everyone else around you scratching their heads. :) I've taken classes in German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Polish. German is fun because of all the throaty sounds it uses.
C) YES

2. When did you first start thinking of going to law school? Was there a specific event? Do you want to do it because you want to help people, or because it's good money ;), or something else?

Like, September. Haha. It was kind of sudden. I'd been thinking about it vaguely before, but I didn't really decide on it until September. So my applying has been kind of...hurried. It's going okay though.
Something else. I work in a law office, so I see the process in action on a daily basis. I find it fascinating. I also really really want a job where I can use my brain. That's been my main goal for quite some time, and I see the legal field as a place where I can use my skills that are currently lying dormant. I sure as hell don't want to be making copies for the rest of my life.

3. How did you end up on LJ? Did the habits of what you write posts about change over time?
I came to LJ when the rest of an *Nsync board called FTR migrated over here. *waves to my FTR peeps* Decided to stick around.
Go back to my 2003 entries, and you'll definitely see a change. I post more often, and my entries then were either quizzes or really short, like no more than a paragraph. When I went to Germany, LJ became the means for me to keep in touch with my friends. LJ was seriously my sanity over there- my best friend stopped talking to me for no reason at all, and a number of my other RL were insanely slow on answering emails (if they ever did), but the people on LJ kept me together. I joined the ranks of fic writing fandom in 2007. It's been a big mish mash ever since.

4. What were you doing in Washington anyway? :)
School sponsored trip in 8th grade. I think I was only there for 3 days, but it was fun.

5. Tell me something about fanfic that you really like reading. Genres or plot twists or whatever. Do you prefer fluff over angst? Do you like crossovers?
Crackfic is a favorite of mine.
I enjoy fics that explore relationships between two people or a group of people. My fic tastes in the popslash fandom really differ from the stuff I like in the BSG fandom, so I don't know if I can speak generally.
I'm a sucker for fluff. I'll totally admit that.
I like crossovers if I know who the hell the other characters are. Or if the writer gives a really good idea of said other characters' personalities. Otherwise, it requires this background knowledge I don't have and I'm sure I'm missing out on a lot of nuances of the story. I'm not very multi-fannish, and I think I'm about the only popslasher into BSG, so it's not like I'll be seeing a crossover there anytime soon. Although I started a story a while back where Justin Timberlake was a cylon and that illusion in the Rock Your Body video of multiple Justins wasn't an illusion at all.