Interview Meme
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or, your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate.
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 post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
julayfm asked me:
1. Did you get my postcard from a few weeks ago?
Oh, that was you? Thank goodness, I thought they were after me again! (Yeah, I got it. Thanks!)
2. If you could live in any time period, which one would you choose and why?
Honestly, I'd choose now. I love the internet and mass media and the way technology changes every day. I love that you can travel half way around the world in a day. I love that education is readily available. I love my car and my computer and all my techy toys. Most of all, I love being a woman and in most of history being a woman doesn't sound like a whole hell of a lot of fun.
On the other hand, there's something about the late renaissance that has a romantic and philosophic appeal to it. Ooh, or the 1960s, that would be groovy. I would have made a decent flapper in the 1920s... damn, can I just have a time machine and try them all?
3. (I'm using this one again because I like hearing what people have to say) If you were a Tetris block, which one would you be and why?
I'd totally be the L piece. It wraps around things and is totally useful for completing corners. Also, sometimes it looks like it's going to fit perfectly somewhere, but it's facing the wrong way and doesn't fit at all! It's a tricky piece like that.
4. Which book has been the most inspirational to you, whether it be for your writing, school, whatever.
I've been inspired in a lot of ways by a lot of different books. Really, the book that's influenced me the most (I'm not really sure if inspired is the right word here) is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It showed me at a very young age that the universe is completely mad and that that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Behind all the zaniness and towels, there's a sense of curious exploration and good-natured acceptance to it that really gets to me. Somedays are good, somedays are bad. Somedays your planet gets blown up - that doesn't mean you can't still look for the answer to life the universe and everything.
5. If you could have coffee with any person, living or dead, who would it be?
You. Are you free Friday or Saturday night?
(I know I could have chosen Jesus or Shakespeare or Thomas Jefferson, but honestly, they'd probably want to talk about important religious, artistic or philosophic matters when all I really want is someone's opinion about what colors I should use to redo my LJ.)
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate.
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 post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
julayfm asked me:
1. Did you get my postcard from a few weeks ago?
Oh, that was you? Thank goodness, I thought they were after me again! (Yeah, I got it. Thanks!)
2. If you could live in any time period, which one would you choose and why?
Honestly, I'd choose now. I love the internet and mass media and the way technology changes every day. I love that you can travel half way around the world in a day. I love that education is readily available. I love my car and my computer and all my techy toys. Most of all, I love being a woman and in most of history being a woman doesn't sound like a whole hell of a lot of fun.
On the other hand, there's something about the late renaissance that has a romantic and philosophic appeal to it. Ooh, or the 1960s, that would be groovy. I would have made a decent flapper in the 1920s... damn, can I just have a time machine and try them all?
3. (I'm using this one again because I like hearing what people have to say) If you were a Tetris block, which one would you be and why?
I'd totally be the L piece. It wraps around things and is totally useful for completing corners. Also, sometimes it looks like it's going to fit perfectly somewhere, but it's facing the wrong way and doesn't fit at all! It's a tricky piece like that.
4. Which book has been the most inspirational to you, whether it be for your writing, school, whatever.
I've been inspired in a lot of ways by a lot of different books. Really, the book that's influenced me the most (I'm not really sure if inspired is the right word here) is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It showed me at a very young age that the universe is completely mad and that that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Behind all the zaniness and towels, there's a sense of curious exploration and good-natured acceptance to it that really gets to me. Somedays are good, somedays are bad. Somedays your planet gets blown up - that doesn't mean you can't still look for the answer to life the universe and everything.
5. If you could have coffee with any person, living or dead, who would it be?
You. Are you free Friday or Saturday night?
(I know I could have chosen Jesus or Shakespeare or Thomas Jefferson, but honestly, they'd probably want to talk about important religious, artistic or philosophic matters when all I really want is someone's opinion about what colors I should use to redo my LJ.)