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The Interview Meme Comes Round Again
Most of you know the rules:
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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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.
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I'm so glad that the image spoke to you so. I hesitated before I used it, but somehow it seemed right.