Having done zero prep for this year’s Librarians Prompt Month (@the-librarians-prompt-month), I was struck at the eleventh hour with the realization that there are novelizations of Strange New Worlds now and that if there were ever two people who needed to meet it is Eve Baird and Una Chin-Riley.
Nope. My grandma used to like to tell people that my name came from her suggesting it to my parents, having read a book shortly before I was born where the main character had my name, but they say that’s not true.
2. When was the last time you cried?
Last Thursday, when I watched ‘Ad Astra Per Aspera’.
3. Do you have kids?
Yup, two of them.
4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
Yes, and thanks to my example my son does too, which is delightful, obviously.
5. What sports do you play/have you played?
I’m not really a sporty person, but I like stand up paddle boarding and kayaking, and I play tennis with my husband or my kids from time to time. I played hockey in school, but I was terrible at it and I hated it, so that didn’t last long.
6. What’s the first thing you notice about people?
I feel extremely unobservant now, because I really don’t know the answer to this question…
7. What’s your eye colour?
Hazel.
8. Scary movies or happy endings?
I’m not a fan of horror movies, though I can appreciate a psychological thriller, like Silence of the Lambs. I definitely generally prefer my media to have at least a happy-ish ending.
We have a lovely old dog called Oscar, who’s sadly on his last legs. My daughter is campaigning hard for a bearded dragon, but we haven’t given in yet.
13. How tall are you?
5’ 6"
14. Favourite subject in school?
Biology. Which is kind of weird, given that I’m now a lawyer.
15. Dream job?
I don’t really know. I’m honestly not a very career driven person. I do like the job I do now, but a few years ago I discovered that space law is a thing and I briefly genuinely considered switching practice areas again to try to do that. But I got over it.
When I was a kid I wanted to be in musical theatre. Unfortunately, I really can’t sing.
Okay but imagine if Spock decides to investigate and find out who reported him for “noise violations” and for the next several episodes, we see snipets of him on this little personal side mission and dead set on finding the culprit to the point where people will try to ask him something and he’s like “I’m busy.”
And then they cut to the crew watching this distraught and peeved Spock with a mix of amusement, concern, and consternation.
Until finally he finds out it was Ortegas and she wasn’t actually bothered, she was just fucking with him. “I mean, come on, dude, it’s like the quietest and chillest of all instruments you could possibly play. And this ship is an engineering masterpiece with soundproof walls. I can’t actually hear through my neighbors’ walls!”
And thus Spock begins to study the art of pranking.
