Playing with questions
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joyeuse13, interview meme
1. Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You'll update your journal with my five questions and your five answers.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
(3 - 5 are, of course, optional)
Warning - it has taken me two days to come up with even sorta answers. I can never come up with Forever Answers to this sort of thing, just Now Answers. In a week it could be different. If you ask me for questions, it may also take a while
Here are her questions to me, and my answers:
If you could learn any one skill instantly (like Neo in the Matrix), what would it be?
Hm. Not a textile art or other craft. I can learn those on my own, and the learning process is part of the fun.
I think I'd choose harp playing and music theory.
If you could meet any historical personage, who would it be?
Oh, that really varies by the moment. Since I'm thinking of harp, I think today I shall pick Turloch O'Carolan. (Although poets also tempt me - Kipling, or Sappho.)
What would you do with them?
Ask him to play for me, and ask him to write something for me. He was remarkably prolific and wrote music for patrons all the time. And then I'd learn to play it and memorize it, and we could play it together.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
A big part of what's bugged me in life has been my inability to figure that one out in the traditional meaning. I've had various candidates for it as I was growing up - archaeologist, veterinarian, linguist, computer programmer, librarian. Haven't gotten that far with any of them.
I think perhaps I should instead answer that I want to be happy and content in a loving and caring extended family and community.
What's the best memory you have from your childhood?
Why is this one so hard?
I shall pick A good memory.
Dad's Exxon business trips that the family managed to go along on were the source of the best vacations. When I was in early high school, they sent Dad to London. The LOOK Mom gave him made it clear that We Were All Going. We got to stay in London for a while, then New Forest, and did side stuff in Stratford upon Avon, Bath, and a marvelous trip to Wales. We stayed at a farmhouse in Wales, and it all felt so absolutely relaxed and homey there. I remember the morning there, after breakfast, Dad and I went out to go walking while the others stayed behind. We went up and up and up the hills around the farm, on a cool windy day, and every time we topped a hill we realized it was just an illusion and there was more hill ahead of us. I remember being windblown and exhilarated, loving how beautiful it was, and just utterly thrilled to have the time alone with Dad. I have a handful of special memories of times with him, and 3 of those were competing for which memory I'd put down here.
joyeuse13, interview meme1. Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You'll update your journal with my five questions and your five answers.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
(3 - 5 are, of course, optional)
Warning - it has taken me two days to come up with even sorta answers. I can never come up with Forever Answers to this sort of thing, just Now Answers. In a week it could be different. If you ask me for questions, it may also take a while
Here are her questions to me, and my answers:
If you could learn any one skill instantly (like Neo in the Matrix), what would it be?
Hm. Not a textile art or other craft. I can learn those on my own, and the learning process is part of the fun.
I think I'd choose harp playing and music theory.
If you could meet any historical personage, who would it be?
Oh, that really varies by the moment. Since I'm thinking of harp, I think today I shall pick Turloch O'Carolan. (Although poets also tempt me - Kipling, or Sappho.)
What would you do with them?
Ask him to play for me, and ask him to write something for me. He was remarkably prolific and wrote music for patrons all the time. And then I'd learn to play it and memorize it, and we could play it together.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
A big part of what's bugged me in life has been my inability to figure that one out in the traditional meaning. I've had various candidates for it as I was growing up - archaeologist, veterinarian, linguist, computer programmer, librarian. Haven't gotten that far with any of them.
I think perhaps I should instead answer that I want to be happy and content in a loving and caring extended family and community.
What's the best memory you have from your childhood?
Why is this one so hard?
I shall pick A good memory.
Dad's Exxon business trips that the family managed to go along on were the source of the best vacations. When I was in early high school, they sent Dad to London. The LOOK Mom gave him made it clear that We Were All Going. We got to stay in London for a while, then New Forest, and did side stuff in Stratford upon Avon, Bath, and a marvelous trip to Wales. We stayed at a farmhouse in Wales, and it all felt so absolutely relaxed and homey there. I remember the morning there, after breakfast, Dad and I went out to go walking while the others stayed behind. We went up and up and up the hills around the farm, on a cool windy day, and every time we topped a hill we realized it was just an illusion and there was more hill ahead of us. I remember being windblown and exhilarated, loving how beautiful it was, and just utterly thrilled to have the time alone with Dad. I have a handful of special memories of times with him, and 3 of those were competing for which memory I'd put down here.
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Interview meme
Date: 2004-12-10 11:21 am (UTC)(Although the questions posed to you were toughies!)
Re: Interview meme
Date: 2004-12-10 04:49 pm (UTC)2. Your youngest is a teenager - what changes do you see coming in your life once you're an empty-nester?
3. What tells you if something is going wrong in your life?
4. What was a dream in your life that you didn't pursue?
5. What is something you believe in without proof?
Re: Interview meme
Date: 2004-12-10 06:39 pm (UTC)2. The Baby has been getting more and more independent this year, so I've gotten a taste already. I have a new husband, with whom I'd like to explore our mutual interests, and build the nice home I wasn't home enough to build when I was chasing after kid-involvements.
3. I get a queasy feeling in my stomach. Feels something like this: http://www.well.com/user/eob/poetry/The_Second_Coming.html --and I want to cry all the time. Like for example, I'm feeling now that I don't know what's going on with my son, and that really worries me. I might enlist your help--to do a driveby at his last known address, in River Oaks. Are you game?
4. I wanted to become a midwife.
5. God. There are evidences, but no proof.
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Date: 2004-12-10 01:34 pm (UTC)Pity it doesn't rhyme.
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Date: 2004-12-10 01:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-10 03:12 pm (UTC)I am so in need of a pitcher of margaritas today. Maybe two by the time it's time to leave the Orifice.