#cloverywands

62. do you like musicals?

- Yes!! Spring Awakening/DWSA and Hadestown are my faves rn, I even did a Spring Awakening themed grad cap my senior year and i watched literally every version I could find. Newsies and RENT are my og’s tho

49. favourite lyric from a song

- Omg this is so hard djdhd. I could literally list my favorite lyrics for decades. Since we’re already talking about musicals I’ll give you one of my favorite Hadestown lyrics:

“I believe that we are many,

I believe that they are few;

And it isn't for the few

Answer 25 questions about yourself then tag 20 people.

I was tagged by the loverly @cloverywands ! Thank you! ^_^

1. Name: Nikki, short for Nichole. I don’t like or go by my full name much, but I do greatly appreciate the “h” in the middle.

2. Nickname: *silently points up to previous answer* Also, Nik for people who think two syllables are too much work, Nikki-Nik from my Dad, Sweetie-Girl or Wicked-Child from my mom, and- my personal favorite- THE NIKIPEDIA, bestowed upon me by my two youngest siblings. 

3. Zodiac: Western is Taurus, Eastern is the Boar. No matter the zodiac, I am delicious at a BBQ.

4. Height: 5’4-5′3″ (Morning and evening, respectively.)

5. Languages: English. I took four semesters of Spanish, but have only retained enough to converse poorly with a three year old kid. I also know how to say “I am a bear” in French. This, as you might imagine, has not been particularly helpful to me

6. Nationality: American, with ancestors from *kracks knuckles* Germany, France, Scicily, Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland at the very least. 

7. Favorite season: AUTUMN.

8. Favorite flower: Lotuses/water lilies. 

9. Favorite scent: Honestly, petrichor, creeks, swimming pools, sea water, the wind right before a summer storm...any water smell.

10. Favorite color: Blood red. Crimson. That depth of red where your eyes sort of get lost in it.

11. Favorite animal: Wolves and hawks/falcons. (Which I recently learned are not even the taxonomic order!???? WHAT EVEN!) Also I have a soft spot for crows and ravens.

12. Favorite fictional character: *sigh* One? Well, I’d probably say Mara Jade, but seriously anyone who’s followed me or met me knows I got infinite+1 feels for a variety of fictional peeps.

13. Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: TEA. Earl Grey with vanilla is my favorite, with vanilla chai and tropical green tea as runners up.

14. Average sleep: *nervous laughter* *escapes out the nearest window* I dunno, man, I guess on average maybe 7 hours? 6?

15. Dog or cat person: Neither. Not a pet or animal person. Currently live with a very sweet, very old and incontinent cat.

16. Number of blankets: One sheet, three comforters, and FOUR FREAKING PILLOWS. AND I’D HAPPILY TAKE MOAR...

17. Dream trip: I have rather severe control-freak/OCD issues, so it’s hard for me to travel, especially internationally. Domestically, I do love to visit Chicago. Internationally, I would like to go to London, Iceland, and the Faeroe Islands one day.

18. Blog established: Hell if I know. Is there a way to check that or something? Hold on. According to my archive, September 2013. Huh. 

19. Followers: 234, according to the thingy-thing on the side.

20. Random fact about me: I do mean (as in surprisingly good) impressions of Louis Armstrong and Disney’s Snow White, and well as mean (as in cruelly mocking) impressions of operatic sopranos and tenors.

• AND NOW FOR THE EXTRA FIVE!

1. Gender: Female

2. Sexuality: Heterosexual but largely unbothered and VERY bitter.

3. Hogwarts House: HUFFLEPUFF ALL THE WAY, BABY! BADGER PRIDE!!! WHOO-HOO!!!

4. Where are you from: N’awlins.

5. Why I started this blog: BECAUSE OF FREAKING HOTELSONG’S AMAZING MEASURE FOR MEASURE POSTS!!! I lurked the “majestic thorin” tag for a while, but I actually got an account on this blue hellsite due to screamingly good Shakespeare meta.

Okay, so there’s no way I’m tagging 20 people in this. First of all, I’m not sure I *know* 20 people here. Second, some of the questions are very revealing (as in you could conceivably track someone down, not OH TUMBLR HERE IS MY INNERMOST SOUL revealing) and I don’t want anyone to feel pressured! 

18.) A song from the year that you were born.

- Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet

30.) A song that reminds you of yourself.

If you listen to music or ambient sounds,maybe making different sound environments could help to switch between Job and Art modes? Maybe scent with candles/diffuser/whatnot could help too?

Noise is a good thought! I watch let’s plays and things while doing art and was sorta doing the same while grading which deff wasn’t helping the separation. I’m putting on one of the ambient sounds I use at work to drown out coworkers so we’ll see if that helps!

karadin replied to your post“FUCK. I was wondering why I was having such a hard time getting out...”

i think that the lighting idea is good for a start!

Pencil lamp moved and set to green LOL green for GO FUCKIN WORK

parliamentrook replied to your post “FUCK. I was wondering why I was having such a hard time getting out...”

It helps me to have different stations in my studio, like “serious work desk” and “garbage art playtime table”

thepivanquisher replied to your post“FUCK. I was wondering why I was having such a hard time getting out...”

Man that sucks. Maybe it could help to rearrange the room so it's got a separate "art corner" and "work corner"?

My computer is off in the corner, but it’s right next to me main work top and really, I’m using eeeevery inch of this space already LOL. Also the cheapo tv that is my second monitor sits on my worktop :/ A+ ideas but with the reality of it if I feel I need to move this whole set up it has to be out of the room. Which I CAN do, but it’s just a pain and leaves me with nothing on while I work.

introvertia replied to your post  “FUCK. I was wondering why I was having such a hard time getting out...” Oh man, my deepest sympathy. I don’t have a solution, but I understand. �� 

Thank you~

I mean I know I CAN work and live in the same space, I survived college after all, but even then I had the benefit of lab space to go and work in or that I was forced to go and work in. The best thing I ever did in gradschool was move my bedroom stuff into the living room and my computer and art stuff into the bedroom when I was doing my thesis. I know having separate spaces really help me compartmentalize things otherwise I’ll stress out over having work to do.

clover!! good to hear from you, friend; hope you're doing well! thanks for the ask!

12. if you could make a candle that smelt like anything, what would you pick?

hmmm... a tough one. i suppose it'd be a mixture of a couple of things?

i like smelling anything coming from the kitchen, honestly. which is hilarious because i SUCK at cooking. (tho i have been baking a bit more these past few months!) so... call me basic, but i think my go-to scent in that context would be vanilla. it's a classic, it covers a lot of ground, and it smells heavenly! plus, i used to beg my mom to just get a small sniff of the vanilla extract when i was little?? so that's a fun memory.

next would probably be the forest, like a woodsy kinda smell! i'm not necessarily what you would consider an outdoorsy person, but i always remember loving being in the forest. i don't know why, i just know that it's one of the few places i can go alone, be in total quiet, and not automatically feel uneasy/afraid; there's just something calming about it to me! i'd love to go more often... tho i definitely need to get better at climbing trees, haha.

finally, and i don't know how better to describe this, but... a sort of warm scent? like, think those cheesy candles that are called "campfire blaze" or something like that. just something that makes you feel cozy, that gives you the feeling of road-tripping with your friends and making s'mores or something.

so... i guess that's all the scents i would put together!! i'd probably call it something dumb, like "log cabin in the woods" or something. i like the idea of it all put together tho! there's probably something out there like that, but... i might be too lazy to look it up, haha.

thanks again for the ask!!