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I was tagged by jmeelee  :)

Here's how it works:

Rule 1: always post the rules

Rule 2: always answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write your questions

Rule 3: tag 10 people

Rule 4: actually tell them you tagged them

My Answers to jmeelee's Tagged Questions:

What did you do on your 16th birthday? Mmm, I can't exactly recall, as the 16th is actually not that big here. That would be the 18th, but even then I just celebrated with my highschool friends - dinner out, if I recall correctly (we don't even have prom here, we are boring that way. Our only big end-of-school-year celebration was art day. Much less stress though, I guess. : P)

What’s something you wish everyone knew about you? I guess, more than knowing something about me, I wish people would more often take time to put themselves in my shoes (everyone's shoes) and think before demanding. I feel that way with my job sometimes - I wish some of my students would understand that preparing lectures, speaking in front of big classes, correcting papers etc. can be as stressful as attending courses, and that while you have every responsibility to do your job at your best you also can't be available at all times, beyond office hours, or even during national holidays, because you actually have a life beyond teaching. Obviously I don't give voice to that - role and everything - and I mostly love my job and interacting with students, but I get frustrated at that sometimes.

How do you like your steak cooked? Medium

What’s your favorite dessert? I love love love fruit pie! (also jam tart) 

Life is too short to tolerate __________? Asshats. If someone treats you poorly with no reason at all, that's someone you don't need in your life. Also possibly make them pay (I'm kidding... maybe. : P)

If you could have drinks with any 3 people, dead or alive, who would they be? My grandmother, because I miss her a lot (and I'm pretty sure now that I'm older she'd give me the chess match of my life). Jane Austen, because that would be so much fun. George R.R. Martin so I could go all "Misery" on him.

What is your favorite book? Oh my, I really can't answer that. I have too many that I love, and my favorite always changes. One thing I reread over and over, though, is not a "proper" book, but the comic books by Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes). I grew up with them and they never get old.

What’s one thing that if your mom new about you, she would freak out? Haha, I don't know, my mom's so chill I doubt she'd freak out at much about me. Possibly the amount of time I spend daydreaming (like, Scrubs' JD style) but probably she would just shake her head at me if she knew.

Where do you see yourself in five years? With the same job as now, but more stable and well-paid, hopefully. Not necessarily where I live now, but still at least emotionally close to my family and circle of friends. I'd also love to say "in a stable relationship", but I'm not really sure that's what I'm made for. I don't want kids, for one, which definitely can become a problem when you start a relationship at my age.

What fictional character do you have the biggest crush on? Right now? Brienne of Tarth. She is too fab for words.

Here Are My Ten Questions:

1. A song of Ice and Fire or Harry Potter (and why)?

2. What's you dream job?

3. How much time do you spend getting ready in the moring?

4. Do you play any musical instrument?

5. Name one person that inspires you.

6. Do you like any book/show/movie franchise that you feel is problematic?

7. Do you have any siblings?

8. Ever wanted to write a book?

9. Favorite movie you watched in 2013? 

10. Have you ever dropped a show because of its fandom?

Wear it, it’s very flattering! =) *is jealous as heck of your boobs*

Brienne winced as she spread the salve over the wound on her thigh. It was a nasty cut, but thankfully not too deep. She doubted they would see a village with a maester for another week. Daily cleaning, boiled wine, and the salve they’d swiped from one of the Brotherhood’s packs would have to do.

She tied her breeches and made her way back to the small camp they had set up behind a patch of trees. Podrick was busy rationing out their food.

Jaime and Hyle were nowhere in sight. She gave Pod a questioning look as she approached him.

The boy shrugged, informing her that Ser Hyle had asked Ser Jaime for a hand collecting firewood. Ser Jaime had said Ser Hyle couldn’t find wood if it were between his legs. They’d gone off in different directions, Pod went on with a confused look.

Brienne rolled her eyes, but made no comment as she tenderly bent down to help Pod with their meager meal.

It was ready upon their return, just as the sun went down and with it the temperature. Hyle set to work building the fire as Jaime eyed her wound warily. He went to speak, but Brienne stopped him with a look as she handed him his portion.

They settled in and Podrick drifted off almost immediately.  Brienne laid out her bed roll beside him, not noticing as both Jaime and Hyle approached her.

Hyle made a show of offering her any warmth he had to spare. She politely declined while taking the blanket Jaime offered her, missing the look that passed between the two men. She spread out on her back and tried to ignore the pain in her side. She listened to the crickets, and Podrck’s snoring, and finally caught snippets of Jaime and Hyle talking.

“She’ll be mine before we reach the capital, Kingslayer…”

There was a pause in which Brienne could almost feel Jaime’s eyes on her before he responded. His voice was a low murmur that brought a flutter to Brienne's stomach.

“I wouldn’t bet on it, Hunt.”

That was the last she heard before she drifted off.

Hours later, the two men were still awake.

They sat against adjacent trees, arms crossed and the fire crackling between them. Their eyes were locked as they dared one another to sleep, to give in…to give up.

Pod snored softly, blissfully unaware. His lady stirred beside him and finally the knights turned their gazes to her.

Brienne turned in her sleep, facing them as the firelight cast a glow upon the soft smile on her lips. She tucked the blanket up under her chin and sighed a name from her dreams.

Hyle scowled.

Answer 11, Tag 11, Ask 11

1. What do you count as your biggest achievement to date?  opening my own business at 23

2. Why is the internet important?    because it's pretty much my only social life.  MY LIFE

3. What is the best food?  Cheese. Anything with cheese, preferably melty cheese:  pizza, for one.

4. What TV show/book/film is absolutely indispensable and should be appreciated by everyone?  Hard to say but I'll rec the movie Shakespeare in Love

5. You are stranded on a desert island. The rum is gone. There is one palm tree, because there is always one palm tree. Your most treasured possession is on the sand, about to be washed away by the waves. However, a messenger parrot (go with it) is on the lowest branch of the tree and is your only link with the outside world. It starts to flap its wings, about to leave the island forever. You can rescue your treasured possession or capture the parrot for your only possible chance of escape… What do you do?    Rescue my item and roast the parrot for supper.  I like being alone, anyway.

6. You get to host An Evening In Conversation with any two historical figures. Who and why.   my queen Anne Boleyn and her daughter Elizabeth I.

7. Does aforementioned evening degenerate into a farce or a fight or is it a civilised affair? What is widely considered to be the highlight of the evening? We'd have an amazing time and drink lots of wine and then watch Game of Thrones.

8. Why purple?  Because blue + red

9. Favourite fictional food? Fictional food? Um, unicorn steaks with a side of GRRM's oft-mentioned mashed neeps.

10. What’s the first book you remember enjoying?   Goodnight Moon and Are You My Mother

11. You’re 75 and in a retirement home for people from tumblr. Describe it. Are there still people announcing that they’ve discovered something truly remarkable - Jaime Lannister looks like Prince Charming from Shrek! Do you hit them with a walking stick or do you resist?  Well it would be full of batshit crazy old folks in straight jackets, but we'd be having lots of fun. I'd be screaming "I dreamed of you!" and calling the nurses "wench".  Definitely hit anyone who mentions Prince Charming.

I tag the following, only if they want to do it:  twinsand, nimfeo, brienne-the-blue, iorwen, thisisgoldstrawcalling, rose-papillon, nitevisiongoggles, jaimedayne, mountainlaurel, driftinginandoutofinsanity, smallsoapdish

11 questions for you to answer:

1.  What time period would you like to spend a week in?

2. If you ran off with the circus, what would your ideal job be?

3. What food item would you like to lick off of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's body?

4. How would you personally threaten encourage GRRM to write faster?

5. What should the name of a Jaime/Brienne spin off on HBO be called?

6.  Are you a morning, mid-day, or night person?

7. Peanut butter: chunky or smooth?

8. Describe your computer wallpaper

9. Would you rather live til 110 while fairly poor, or live til 70 and be rich?

10.  Most embarrassing moment in high school?