Meme sheepage

1. Do you like your given name?
Eh, it’s all right. It’s unique, which I appreciate.
2. If you could change your name, would you? To what?
No, not really. I haven’t found anything that is actually, well, more me than my given name.
3. If you had children, what would you name them? If you already have children, how
did you choose their names?
No kids, but if I did… well, I like the name Melissa for a girl, and I like the name Jonah for a boy. But this will probably never happen sooo…
4. While we're on the subject of names, what's the story behind your LJ user ID?
I’m not sure what the process was behind me picking bardsong, although I do like folk music, and I think of myself as a storyteller. I think that’s about it.
5. Will you be reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?
Heh. Yes. But not for a while, probably, because as I said in my last post, the audio version is too pricey even for me, but someone I know is going to send me the copy that makes it onto Bookshare, so I’ll probably get it soon.
6. Do you think Harry will survive?
I would be surprised if he didn’t.
7. What about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? Will you watch it?
Maybe. I haven’t been keeping up with the movies.
8. What was the last book you read?
The last book I finished, although I haven’t reviewed it, was Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway. At the moment I am trying to conquer the pile of books I’ve left half-finished, and may yet succeed as I’m nearly done with another.
9. What is your favorite book?
That changes on a daily, sometimes minutely, basis.
10. What is your favorite movie?
I don’t watch enough of them to ever be able to answer this well.
11. Do you have an all-time favorite character from either a book or a movie?
This changes with my whims, too. Brienne of Tarth and Miles Vorkosigan are fighting for that honor now.
12. What draws you to a particular book or movie character?
When I can identify with how they’re feeling. I mean, I know I am not the world’s ugliest woman trying to compete in a man’s world, but I identify with Brienne’s struggle for acceptance. And Miles has to overcome disabilities as well, and does so admirably.
13. All right, let’s switch to music. What is your favorite style?
I like folky stuff. The lines blur as to what I like within that broad category.
14. What is your favorite band/group/ensemble?
Lately it’s been Allison Krauss and Union Station.
15. What is your favorite CD?
No. Don’t think I have an all-time favorite CD. I have tons that I love and that get heavy rotation when I’m in the mood.
16. Do you have an all-time favorite song?
No.
17. Do you eat your fruits and vegetables?
Yes.
18. What is your favorite food?
Anything that is bad for me.
19. What is your native language?
English.
20. What other languages have you studied or do you speak?
Spanish and French. Though not for a long time. In fact, the Spanish phrase I tend to use more often than not, and then only for the laughs, is “Donde estan las revistas pornografias?”

21. Do you like to travel?
Yes, absolutely!
22. Have you traveled outside the country of your birth?
No, sadly.
23. Have you ever traveled somewhere you thought you'd love and hated it?
Yes.
24. Please share your worst travel story.
A Greyhound trip from Kansas to New York state. I think we were between Columbus and Cleveland, and the bus was full, and I was sitting next to a young mother and baby and her obnoxious husband, who made his wife sit next to me because he didn't want to.
25. Are you having a good day?
Yes.