Interview by Elsa Marty
Ok, here is a cool thing from Elsa.
1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Elsa's interview Questions & Adrianne's Answers:
1.What was the most frustrating thing about living in the village for - how many years did you live there?
Four years...The most frustrating thing about living in the village for so long would have to be three different things actually: the constant goodbyes in the summer, the consuming loneliness in the winter, and my unfailing drive to lead a “normal life.”
1) I met so many AMAZING people that I was only allowed to spend a couple weeks with if I was lucky. Then, that bus would roll down the hill, I was just left in tears cuz I knew nobody could ever replace the person that left.
2) I am extroverted…so, being the only person my age was very frustrating. I was too old to hang out with a majority of the kids in the school and not old enough to hang out with the “20-somethings” and still feel like I fit it… not to mention there weren’t any guys, and you know how I can’t live without testosterone!
3) Not a day went by when I didn’t think about going to a “normal” high school and having a “normal” family in a “normal” town. When guests asked me where I was from at dinner, I just wanted to say “I am from Piedmont, North Dakota” just to dodge questions about what it was like living in the village. But now I realize, it is awesome not to be normal… now I wish I stood away from the crowd more.
2. What are you passionate about? Do you know what you want to study in college?
I am passionate about many things. I am most passionate about dance. I love it with all my soul…and I wish that I could do it in college (but because of my knees I have been advised not to.) I am also passionate about (not to get Moulin Rouge on you, but) truth, beauty, [peace] and love….only because I long for it with every fiber of my being. I am passionate about Shakespeare - he blows my mind and I will never tire of learning about his plays, sonnets, and life. In college I hope to major in psychology. I am passionate about helping people, and talking to people so…yeah.
3. a)Do you still like John Schwehn? b)Has there ever been anything between you and my brother?
a)Oooh… good question… ya know I would be a big fat liar if I answered this question “no.” however, I really can’t be sure because I haven’t seen him in so long - I have changed a lot since last summer, he has probably done the same. So…do I think about him in a strictly platonic way now? No, I don’t, and perhaps I never really have, despite all the times I told him I just wanted to be friends. (That was just me being afraid of my own true feelings I think, but that might just be psychobabble.) Do I hope that things will work out between us this summer? Yes, I honestly do… I think we have a really good friendship, and like John has said, there has always been a certain intrigue and attraction between us. Ask me this question again mid-July.
b)There never was anything between Micah and me, really… we flirted and stuff, I had a crush on him and he had a crush on me one summer, but that is it…he actually sort of disliked me last summer…but not anymore I don’t think.
4. Have you ever struggled with an eating disorder, depression, or any other illness, mental or physical?
Umm, well I am not sure. I think I overeat all the time, which could be considered an eating disorder. I use food as a coping mechanism. I eat when I am bored, lonely, PMSing, having a bad day, watching TV…all the time. I used to just not eat for like a whole day, but not because I thought I was fat, just because I got distracted or I didn't have an apitite. I get little bouts of depression - like just yesterday I felt worthless. But it is nothing serious. In studying abnormal psychology in my psych class, I have been wondering if I have any other illnesses, like acute hypochondria. but I doubt I actually do, which in a way shows that I do have hypochondria, right? Haha. I have an extreme phobia of small (or large for that matter) rodents especially mice and rats. That is indeed a sickness I have.
5. Do you get along well with your parents?
Less and less as college and Holden get closer. I love them to death, but I am coming into my own a little more and feel like they want to hold me down a little too much. I feel like I am becoming a more independent thinker, but they insist on deciding the little things for me or persuading me to decide things their way- for example, I am in the National Honors Society, and at graduation you can chose to wear a white cord and tassel. I didn’t want to wear the tassel, just the cord, but my mom is insisting on getting both, saying that I want both…but I really have expressed that I don’t. It is just little and seemingly insignificant, but it bothers me. We don’t fight very often, or yell at each other across the house, but we do get on each other’s nerves most of the time - especially my mom and I.
1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Elsa's interview Questions & Adrianne's Answers:
1.What was the most frustrating thing about living in the village for - how many years did you live there?
Four years...The most frustrating thing about living in the village for so long would have to be three different things actually: the constant goodbyes in the summer, the consuming loneliness in the winter, and my unfailing drive to lead a “normal life.”
1) I met so many AMAZING people that I was only allowed to spend a couple weeks with if I was lucky. Then, that bus would roll down the hill, I was just left in tears cuz I knew nobody could ever replace the person that left.
2) I am extroverted…so, being the only person my age was very frustrating. I was too old to hang out with a majority of the kids in the school and not old enough to hang out with the “20-somethings” and still feel like I fit it… not to mention there weren’t any guys, and you know how I can’t live without testosterone!
3) Not a day went by when I didn’t think about going to a “normal” high school and having a “normal” family in a “normal” town. When guests asked me where I was from at dinner, I just wanted to say “I am from Piedmont, North Dakota” just to dodge questions about what it was like living in the village. But now I realize, it is awesome not to be normal… now I wish I stood away from the crowd more.
2. What are you passionate about? Do you know what you want to study in college?
I am passionate about many things. I am most passionate about dance. I love it with all my soul…and I wish that I could do it in college (but because of my knees I have been advised not to.) I am also passionate about (not to get Moulin Rouge on you, but) truth, beauty, [peace] and love….only because I long for it with every fiber of my being. I am passionate about Shakespeare - he blows my mind and I will never tire of learning about his plays, sonnets, and life. In college I hope to major in psychology. I am passionate about helping people, and talking to people so…yeah.
3. a)Do you still like John Schwehn? b)Has there ever been anything between you and my brother?
a)Oooh… good question… ya know I would be a big fat liar if I answered this question “no.” however, I really can’t be sure because I haven’t seen him in so long - I have changed a lot since last summer, he has probably done the same. So…do I think about him in a strictly platonic way now? No, I don’t, and perhaps I never really have, despite all the times I told him I just wanted to be friends. (That was just me being afraid of my own true feelings I think, but that might just be psychobabble.) Do I hope that things will work out between us this summer? Yes, I honestly do… I think we have a really good friendship, and like John has said, there has always been a certain intrigue and attraction between us. Ask me this question again mid-July.
b)There never was anything between Micah and me, really… we flirted and stuff, I had a crush on him and he had a crush on me one summer, but that is it…he actually sort of disliked me last summer…but not anymore I don’t think.
4. Have you ever struggled with an eating disorder, depression, or any other illness, mental or physical?
Umm, well I am not sure. I think I overeat all the time, which could be considered an eating disorder. I use food as a coping mechanism. I eat when I am bored, lonely, PMSing, having a bad day, watching TV…all the time. I used to just not eat for like a whole day, but not because I thought I was fat, just because I got distracted or I didn't have an apitite. I get little bouts of depression - like just yesterday I felt worthless. But it is nothing serious. In studying abnormal psychology in my psych class, I have been wondering if I have any other illnesses, like acute hypochondria. but I doubt I actually do, which in a way shows that I do have hypochondria, right? Haha. I have an extreme phobia of small (or large for that matter) rodents especially mice and rats. That is indeed a sickness I have.
5. Do you get along well with your parents?
Less and less as college and Holden get closer. I love them to death, but I am coming into my own a little more and feel like they want to hold me down a little too much. I feel like I am becoming a more independent thinker, but they insist on deciding the little things for me or persuading me to decide things their way- for example, I am in the National Honors Society, and at graduation you can chose to wear a white cord and tassel. I didn’t want to wear the tassel, just the cord, but my mom is insisting on getting both, saying that I want both…but I really have expressed that I don’t. It is just little and seemingly insignificant, but it bothers me. We don’t fight very often, or yell at each other across the house, but we do get on each other’s nerves most of the time - especially my mom and I.