The Interview Meme Comes Round Again
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Leave a comment asking to be interviewed.
I will respond with five questions which you are to answer as a post in your own journal, along with these instructions.
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vicarchori asked me:
1. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
I would live on Whidbey Island, in a home that blended as much as possible with the natural landscape around it and which was big enough for my partners, my daughter and I to co-exist without crowding. It would be set in a wooded area but not too far from the ocean.
2. Describe your ideal kitchen.
One with a full-time staff!
Not being much of a cook, my desires are relatively modest: a good quality stove, maybe one with a grill; a dishwasher; a modern refrigerator-freezer with a drink dispenser in the door; large double sink with a garbage disposal; lots of room for storing both implements and foodstuffs neatly. I’d like a breakfast nook and a window too.
3. What one event or moment completely changed your life?
The single most dramatic moment was the one in which the Void opened before me for the first time. I had just watched A Passage to India and was struck for the first time with the terrible frailty of human existence and the fact that God doesn’t always protect us in the way I had taken for granted throughout my sheltered childhood. I started to believe in my own mortality for the first time, and my entire belief structure crumbled around me in a matter of minutes. It was spring of my sophomore year of college, and I have never been the same since.
4. Describe one of your grandparents.
I think of my mother’s mother as a rather tragic figure. She married a man who abandoned her to raise five children alone. She spent her life living with her children and babysitting the children of others. She got her hair done, played solitaire, and drank Tab. She was sweet and loving, and I while I loved her as a child, I never truly connected with her, never learned anything about her inner life. She developed Alzheimer’s when I was in high school, and came to live with my family. She died around Christmas during my freshman year of college. My sister would probably describe her differently, since I think they connected on a deeper level. I feel sad whenever I think ok of her, and I very much hope she is having a joyous afterlife, because her earthly life was humble and – from where I stood – seemed to be lived primarily at the convenience of others.
5. What famous living person would you like to meet and have extended conversation with? Why?
I’m surprising myself with this one, but I would really like to sit down and have a long, frank discussion with Bush, off the record, and find out what he really thinks about the war, what he feels. Even if I don’t agree with what he tells me, I want to know the truth of his perceptions and beliefs, not what he and his handlers have decided is most politic to say in public.
Leave a comment asking to be interviewed.
I will respond with five questions which you are to answer as a post in your own journal, along with these instructions.
vicarchori asked me:1. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
I would live on Whidbey Island, in a home that blended as much as possible with the natural landscape around it and which was big enough for my partners, my daughter and I to co-exist without crowding. It would be set in a wooded area but not too far from the ocean.
2. Describe your ideal kitchen.
One with a full-time staff!
Not being much of a cook, my desires are relatively modest: a good quality stove, maybe one with a grill; a dishwasher; a modern refrigerator-freezer with a drink dispenser in the door; large double sink with a garbage disposal; lots of room for storing both implements and foodstuffs neatly. I’d like a breakfast nook and a window too.
3. What one event or moment completely changed your life?
The single most dramatic moment was the one in which the Void opened before me for the first time. I had just watched A Passage to India and was struck for the first time with the terrible frailty of human existence and the fact that God doesn’t always protect us in the way I had taken for granted throughout my sheltered childhood. I started to believe in my own mortality for the first time, and my entire belief structure crumbled around me in a matter of minutes. It was spring of my sophomore year of college, and I have never been the same since.
4. Describe one of your grandparents.
I think of my mother’s mother as a rather tragic figure. She married a man who abandoned her to raise five children alone. She spent her life living with her children and babysitting the children of others. She got her hair done, played solitaire, and drank Tab. She was sweet and loving, and I while I loved her as a child, I never truly connected with her, never learned anything about her inner life. She developed Alzheimer’s when I was in high school, and came to live with my family. She died around Christmas during my freshman year of college. My sister would probably describe her differently, since I think they connected on a deeper level. I feel sad whenever I think ok of her, and I very much hope she is having a joyous afterlife, because her earthly life was humble and – from where I stood – seemed to be lived primarily at the convenience of others.
5. What famous living person would you like to meet and have extended conversation with? Why?
I’m surprising myself with this one, but I would really like to sit down and have a long, frank discussion with Bush, off the record, and find out what he really thinks about the war, what he feels. Even if I don’t agree with what he tells me, I want to know the truth of his perceptions and beliefs, not what he and his handlers have decided is most politic to say in public.
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(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 04:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 05:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 05:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 05:53 am (UTC)2. What is your biggest challenge in being a mother?
3. How did you get started playing RPG's?
4. Who has been the most influential teacher in your life? (Can be a person in your life, an author, or etc.)
5. Who is your favorite heroine? (Not necessarily a role model.)
Remember to answer in your own journal!
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 04:47 am (UTC)interview me!!! if you like : )
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 05:58 am (UTC)1. What is the greatest lesson you've learned/insight you've gained about yourself from your marriage?
2. If you could go on vacation anywhere, without guilt, where would you go?
3. What book had the most profound impact on you?
4. What one law would you change if you had the power?
5. What would your ideal life 5 years from now look like?
Remember to post your answers in your own journal, not here!
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 05:20 am (UTC)Do me, do me!!!
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 06:02 am (UTC)2. What has been your biggest challenge in becoming a mother?
3. How are you coming on setting up your practice as a spiritual consultant?
4. What are your own central tenets of belief?
5. What is your wildest fantasy for yourself? Your impossible dream?
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 06:13 am (UTC)Thank you for asking, and for virtually doing my hair so tenderly as we talk. Apparently I'm really missing that in my life.
Still crying...
Wow.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 02:09 pm (UTC)I'm so glad that the image spoke to you so. I hesitated before I used it, but somehow it seemed right.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 04:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-18 06:36 pm (UTC)1. What is your favorite holiday (any kind) and what would be your ideal way to celebrate it?
2. What book has touched you the most deeply?
3. You have two weeks to be entirely by yourself and an unlimited budget. Where do you go? What do you do?
4. Who is your most important role model?
5. What is your favorite indulgence?
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 08:37 pm (UTC)If you did this, you probably wouldn't get an answer any different than what he's given the American people. He might not be straight with you and even if he would, he might not know the answer himself.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-13 09:02 pm (UTC)Lemme have it.
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-16 02:08 pm (UTC)1. Where in the world do you want to travel that you have not already been?
2. The white smoke goes up. Your name is announced. Do you accept the job?
3. Where shall we go for our next luxury vacation?
4. What is your favorite fairy tale or folk story?
5. What are your plans for your next life?