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[AmericanCacophony]

Hey there. Ask me some questions. Please? It will be fun.

 

[AmericanCacophony]

Oh, perhaps I should bump this. Do you like ice cream? Yes, but without nuts.

 

[kittysbecute]

What is your favorite food?

 

[AmericanCacophony]

Mashed potatoes with gravy. Fruity Pebbles are up there too. And Saint Louis-Style ribs.

 

[kittysbecute]

Have you ever mixed the three together? Would you?

 

[AmericanCacophony]

No, oh dear. I don't know how fruity pebbles in mashed potatoes would taste together. I might try it in the near future just to see. It sounds alienating.

 

[kittysbecute]

I hope you do try it. Not because I believe it will be any good though....

What is your favorite movie?

 

[chuck77]

fruity pebbles and mashed potatoes...good stuff.

Last time you went to a pro sporting event?

 

[AmericanCacophony]

I hope you do try it. Not because I believe it will be any good though....

What is your favorite movie?

I will. I don't know when, but I will.

Let's see. That would probably have to be Joe Versus the Volcano or Freddy Got Fingered. I think most people here would not like FGF (it's a little crude and not afraid to be), but they would like JVTV. Both are bildungsromans, like Terminator 2 and About A Boy and The Empire Strikes Back, some other favorites.

fruity pebbles and mashed potatoes...good stuff.

Last time you went to a pro sporting event?

I think that might have been a Minnesota Twins/New York Yankees game in May or April 2010, because I got free tickets. Before that, I think it was a game between the Geelong Cats and the Essendon Bombers in 2009. I don't go to many sporting events.

 

[kittysbecute]

If you could live anywhere in the world where would you live?
When you were 5 years old what did you want to be when you grew up?

 

[AmericanCacophony]

Right now, I want to go back to Melbourne. However, I'm open to anywhere at the moment. Wellington, Edmonton, Palo Alto, Cincinnati, Buenas Aires, London, Paris, Vienna, Chengdu, Harbin, Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh, Rome, Cairo, Jerusalem, Bucharest, etc. all seem like cool places.

I think I wanted to be an Astronaut.

 

[kittysbecute]

How many countries have you visited?
Which Edmonton is that?

 

[AmericanCacophony]

USA, Canada, China, Australia.

Alberta.

 

[kittysbecute]

Ooh, China!

What part of China did you go to?

Alberta is what I think of when I heard it, but I just wasn't sure.

Do you know any languages other than English?

 

[AmericanCacophony]

Mostly Chengdu and Harbin, but also Shanghai, Xi'an, Beijing, the Three Gorges, Jiuzhaigou, among others.

I know VERY basic Mandarin Chinese, and VERY basic French. Right now I think I want to become competent in Spanish.

 

[kittysbecute]

Did you just do history as undergrad? Did you have any minors or concentrations?

I know a bit of Spanish too... I want to become conversationally better with it though, and I think the only way I can really do that is if I live in a Spanish speaking country.

Did you take a foreign language in highschool? Which one?

What was the main culture shock you got for each of the countries you visited?

 

[AmericanCacophony]

Just as an undergrad. I was a double major in English, particularly the fin de siecle.

I took Mandarin Chinese.

China: The dog-eat-dog achievement mentality. Canada: A nicer, realist version of the USA. Australia: The secularism is even more obvious than it is in Minneapolis, the racism, and the loosened morals of a mainstream culture not even attempting to disguise itself. There is a scandal involving a footy player or his wife every month, and stuff of that nature.

Of all the countries I've been to, Australia's the most like us, and it's a second home. I wish I had the means to go back. They have most of their priorities straight, unlike us.

 

[kittysbecute]

Do you like writing?

 

[AmericanCacophony]

Yes, but I don't practice that much. I would like to practice more.

 

[kittysbecute]

I need to do that too.

What sort of things do you like to write?