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Furvey 1 - Yourself

1. What is your name?

Loganberry. However, I also use "Logan", which has the advantage of being useable in the "outside world" too. =;) My Lapine name is "Brekytennion", which is a direct translation of "Loganberry" - it literally means "fruit of the nearly-bramble", and I have been known to shorten it to "Brek".

2. What is your email address?

If you're paying attention to this site, you'll know how to contact me. =:)

3. Are you male or female?

Male.

4. How old are you? / What is your date of birth?

28 / 20th March 1975.

5. Where do you live?

Worcestershire, UK.

6. What are your interests/hobbies?

I wrote out a great long list in last year's Furvey, which is easily found on Google Groups, so this time I'll concentrate on a few of the most important and go into a little more detail about them:

More or less anything to do with rabbits, especially "rabbiteering", which is the practice of going out to watch/be with wild rabbits, often before dawn. It's an extraordinary, magical experience to be at a warren as the sun rises early on a summer's morning, and to have the rabbits calmly go about their daily business, knowing I'm there, but accepting me as a friend.
Writing. I love writing in most of its forms, the longer and more rambly the better. Indeed, I have even been known to write an email to a friend that broke the 100k barrier - in plain text! I also write the odd bit of Watership Down fanfic, and quite a few poems, mostly on a rabbity/furry theme.
I'm also a voracious reader, and will give almost anything a go if it's well written.
Computing. I dabble a bit in many things - Delphi, HTML, PHP - but my real love is in retrocomputing, particularly anything to do with the BBC Micro.
Languages. I'm no qualified linguist, but I do enjoy the subject. My two main areas of interest are Welsh, which I really want to learn this year, and Lapine. (See Q14 for more details on the latter.)

7. What do you do for a living?

Well, my heart pumps blood around the body, and air is breathed into my lungs. Also, food is broken down into various nutrients. That all seems to do quite nicely. =:P)

8. How would you describe your personality?

I wouldn't, if I had any sense. Happily, though... =;)

I guess "shy" would sum it up nicely. The thing is, though, I don't necessarily want that to change too much. I hate big, loud, noisy parties - but I don't want to like them! I can actually yatter away quite easily in terms of small talk, so long as I don't know the person I'm talking to - so people at bus stops are fine, for example - and I'm quite happy when I get to know someone very well. It's the people in the middle I'm awkward with.

The net has been hugely important for me in this regard, as quite apart from giving me an outlet for my appalling jokes, on a more serious note I've made friends over the last year or so who are among the best anyone could ever hope for, and who I can't now imagine ever having not known. Certainly, the old argument about not being able to make true friends online has been comprehensively blown out of the water. =:D

9. Do you believe in ESP? Do you consider yourself to be psychic?

Don't you know already? =;) Seriously, no and no. There are certainly things that can't be explained by current scientific knowledge - but that doesn't mean they're not within the bounds of Nature.

10. Are you a meat eater?

Yes. I'll eat most meats, other than obvious products of cruelty like foie gras. I very much doubt I could eat rabbit, either. See the thread I started a few weeks ago on alt.lifestyle.furry, "Your phenotype in the butcher?", for more of my thoughts on this subject.