aggienaut | Friendzy!

I thought I'd do something the lovely boxsofrain did a bit ago, and declare a Friendzy (Friending frenzy!). Actually I'm not sure she intended for it to work out quite like this but it did: (1) answer the following questions in a comment; (2) As Boxes says, "Also to make this more fun, feel free to read other peoples comments and reply to them with something nice about them. ... Make friends, add each other, mingle, just please be nice." (3) extra points if you mention the Friendzy in your own LJ and send people over to the party! (=

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Favourite LJ Community:
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't):
Favourite Historical Event: (/ one you just think is neat and overlooked)
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Other Known Friendzies

boxsofrain's original

agirlnamedluna's Friendzy

morning_stand's Friendzy

superhappytime's Friendzy (posted TODAY!)
EDIT: it just came to my attention that there's even a

frenziedfriends community!

PS: I'll answer my own questions in a comment a little bit later today.. so check back!

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Name: Kris
Age: 26
Location: Southern Orange County, California
Occupation: Beekeeper, Diplomat once I finagle my way into the State Department.
Story Behind Your LJ Name: Long story short it came from a prank, and more specifically, a corruption of "emosnail".
Favourite LJ Community:

30in30, though I think its future is more likely to be coordinated over at

arrrghonaut.
Oddest Pet you might like to have (but don't): I really want a skunk. Also a capybara. (=
Favourite Historical Event: Well by now you should know I love history and random stories from history and I've got a mighty bag of things I still want to talk about, but if I had to choose a favourite, I'd have to say the unauthorized and impromptu Christmas Truce of WWI. I don't know how to describe how neat it is that it happened.
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I am one of the two persons pictured above ;D

YES ABOUT THE TRUCE!
that's one of the most awesome things ever to happen. Where I lived it's actually common knowledge, but it is globally unknown or rather it isn't talked about. My grandpa used to tell me that story. Did you know there's a French movie about it? I'd have to look up the title, but when the film came out the story was apparently a shock to many people because you know, TEH EVILE GERMANS. My grandpa always used to say that the German soldiers were just boys anyway (he was a doc during WWII) and that you could hardly blame THEM for everything. But, I love, love, love that story about WWI.

its one of the few stories that really makes you think wow, maybe there really is still some humanity in humanity. I literally cannot adequately sum up how I feel about the incident in writing in any way that does it justice.

Neither can I. I've seen where they were battling, visited trenches and all that, and ... there's just something unreal about it all.

Randomly, I own a book about the Truce myself. Then again, I'm one of the weird Americans who knows more about WWI than celebrity culture.

I also hate that "evil German" stereotype too.

LOL you sure are an exception :P

Those glasses look really good on you!

The Christmas Truce is one of my favorite World War stories.

Yeah I think its one of my favourite stories of any kind.

that picture is awesome..

beekeeper! that is so cool, my man's (who happens to be a Cris too, Critóbal) grandpa has a bee farm...so we always have honey bee, pollen and um, don't know the name in english.. jalea real (royal jelly? that doesn't sound right)... quick story just so you can see how much they love bees... few years ago, i was stung by one, at the beach of all places, had a mild allergic reaction.. and my husband took the bee's side, he kept asking what did i do to it, i was tanning, and he just wouldn't accept that the little bug attacked me for no reason at all

Hahahha. So... what DID you do to the poor bee? jk jk. :D

Yes we call it "royal jelly."

Neat does he still have the bee farm? I bet it would be really interesting to me because he probably uses different traditional methods than I do, being as I have gathered you are in another country. (=

i should know you would take it's side too :P
my theory is that the smell of my tanning oil bothered her, but Cris says that makes no sense.. guess we'll never know

yes, soy mexicana :).. grandpa is 97 years old and he still goes there on a regular basis..my husband is from Chiapas, southern state, the farm is there.. Cris is not around right now, but i'll ask him about the method that "papa Aurelio" uses, let me know if you have any specific questions

Do they have any pictures of their hives? I don't have any specific questions, cause I don't know what would be different! Every beekeeper, even living in the same area, seems to have different special ways of doing things they think are best. It's always really neat and fascinating to meet with them and compare notes. I've met more than one 80+ year old beekeeper who has commented "I still learn new things about beekeeping every day." !

And actually, I think its entirely possible it was your tanning oil! Especially if it happened to be banana or citris scented, because those scents smell particularly like pheromones that mean things to bees.

not that i know of, but i'll ask :)

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