"Have you met Miss Jones?" someone said as we shook hands

The interview meme is making the rounds again. The rules are as follows:

1. Leave me a comment.
2. I respond by asking you five questions. You will answer them, because you like talking about yourself.
3. You then update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

My questions come from loopygirl:

1. What was the best thing about going to Northwestern?

Whoah. Not starting out with the easy questions, are we? Hmm. I'm going to have to go with the cheesy answer, sadly, and admit that the totally awesome friends I met as a result of being at Northwestern remain the single best part of the whole experience. Sorry to be so uninteresting.

2. There's a new changeling book coming out at GenCon. Are you nervous or excited, and why?

Both? On the one hand you have Ethan Skemp doing the development, and I have a fair bit of respect for him as a game writer. And all of the dribbles of information I've been hearing seem good, from the subtitle (Changeling: the Lost) through to the fact that the follow-up supplements seem to have a seasonal theme. But I've been burned by White Wolf before, so I remain at best cautiously optimistic.

3. I adore the fact that you really keep, chronicle and treasure your gaming memories. What's the first gaming memory you have where I was involved?

Thank you. And that's easy, that would be DCP my freshman year, being pretty thoroughly terrified of your character Delphai. I had built this irreverent little Malkavian based around having the Oracular Ability merit, and here you came walking in with a better costume and just generally greater presence than me, doing essentially the same shtick and doing it so much better that it factored into your character's name. I was petrified and, I'm not sorry to admit, disheartened. I said something about it to Cow who, in a fine gesture, tried his best to console me in-character as Don Sancho that you were less terrifying than you seemed, while at the same time maintaining your mystique.

4. On dating gamer women - what's the one piece of advice you'd share with all the other gamer boys out there?

Probably the same piece of advice I give to anyone interested in having gamer friends over the long haul: sometimes the best thing to do is walk away from the table in the interest of letting other people have a good time. It can be fantastic to share a hobby with your significant other but it can also be terribly stifling to be in every aspect of each other's lives. Know when its best to give a gamer girl breathing room, even if it means missing out on that game that seems oh my god so cool (and yes, there's a tendency to be selfish because your geek spaz traits are fully deployed. Fight it.)

5. Is there any food you miss from Chicago? If so, what?

Zounds yes. I miss proper deep dish pizza, which you cannot get anywhere on the East coast no matter what anyone tells you. I miss beef steak being good and plentiful even when its dirt cheap; my father took me to Morton's of Chicago a few times and it remains the best beef I've ever eaten. I miss the potato croquettes at Lulu's in Evanston and the cheddar waffle-cut fries from Buffalo Joe's. That's not even a comprehensive list, its just the first few things that came to mind.