interview meme responses the second.
my lindsalicious asked me the following awesome questions:
1. if you could not have tv, movies, tivo, any of that in your life for one year, what would you do with your life during that time?
HAHAHA, you didn't say no computer! which means i'd be online! hahaha!
um, better now. but seriously, is there internet? becuase that'd probably replace a lot of tv time.
probably i'd first read for as long as i could stand it. i'd sleep more, to be sure. i might take up knitting or some other crafty thing, and i'd probably write. i'd talk to people more often -- probably annoyingly so, lol -- and i'd go out more and to more distant places. not more distant like travel -- although if, in this magical land, money was no object, i'd *certainly* do that -- but distant like connecticut, upstate new york, maybe pennsylvania. and is there music still? cause music, duh. i'd almost definitely be more active, too. yoga's almost a certainty, plus tennis, maybe golf, maybe even baseball.
on a related note, there's actually little doubt in my mind that i'd be a very different chicky without tv and the like. what i sincerely don't know is if AU chicky would be any happier than reality chicky. i don't honestly think so. i'm pretty happy now, as much as i'm kind of a hermit, and i don't think that getting rid of tv would really change that in any way.
(not that you asked, but because i've been asked before, and also because i've thought about it myself on occasion.)
2. i'm turning your question around on you! i want to hear your two favorite memories of me, one of which you think *i* don't even remember. and you know how we are about embarrassment around here, so go for it.
there are no two absolute favorites, these are just what popped into my head.
the one i don't know if you remember (since i barely do...): one day we were walking across i guess state street? that crosswalk over by the academy -- with the island in the middle -- i think towards the academy. and you were doing silly walks, and we were or had been talking about your quaker faith and how jesus fit in or something. (i think those were the same conversation...damn memory.)
and my second would've been bringing sexyback to canadia, but you totally stole it! although you forgot to emphasize how we had planned and planned to do it, then forgot until we're already past the border, and how i called my brother to tell him about how we did it and he put my entire extended family on the phone.
so instead i'll pick you, at the mailroom, with the nipple clamps. (that sounds like a clue game, haha.) i was trying to go for something all deep, and of course there are those, but i said i'd pick what leapt to mind, and that's certainly a memorable one. :P
3. what would your ideal house be like? describe it!
(warning: these were all handwritten earlier, and this one is long! so, just, caveat emptor.)
well, it would have a starbucks AND a restaurant serving all my family food, of course.
okay, that *would* be awesome, but *seriously*.
this is actually on the (long) list of things i don't think about because it's at least five years out, still, but here's my right now response.
open, open, open space. ideally it would include a loft, though not actually *be* a loft (as in like, one big room with the sleeping area in a loft like a warehouse). actually -- it would be a little like my dad's, layout-wise. two, three bedrooms, master bedroom suite downstairs. no dining room, but the kitchen would be eat in and kind of huge (ironic for someone who doesn't cook a lick, eh?). the master suite would be in the back left of the house, the kitchen in the back right, with the eat-in part more towards the front (but still right). the front of the downstairs would have a living room on the left and a small office on the right -- more like a library than an office, really. and everything would just open into everything. somewhere in the center of the ground floor -- accessible from maybe just the office -- would be a half bath. the master suite would have a full bathroom with an oversized tub -- maybe a jacuzzi? (why not? fantasy, right?)
and upstairs would be at least one open, open bedroom with a full bath. that's probably the back of the house -- the front would be the loft, basically another mini living room, and the library would have higher ceilings.
okay, does any of that make sense? no? all i know is open = good, and loft = awesome. and no dining room. and no "tv" or "family" room -- my house will have a single, centralized living area. (maybe two, with the loft.) also, my bedroom will probably never again contain a tv. or computer. other residents of my house down the line could have a tv in their rooms, although i'll probably discourage it. finally, the living room will be for *living*. no plastic sofa covers, no coasters necessary, eating 100% allowed.
and that's it. next!
4. tell me where you see yourself in five years!
you realize that you're asking someone who doesn't look six *months* ahead to look five *years* ahead, right? geez. ;P
i'd like to say that either i've moved into an arts administration position, or into the arts/entertainment industry. if i'm still in the tri-state area, i'd also like to say that, whatever my job is, it's in manhattan, so i'm living either in an outer borough or back on the other side of the bridge. i'll have travelled some, hopefully, by then (which apparently we'll get to shortly!), so locations actually kind of up in the air: last week i was moving back to noho; the week before that i was in california. so there's that.
i may have a master's; i may not.
i may be 50lbs lighter; i may not.
i'll hopefully have had at least one serious, adult relationship in the intervening five years, and may even still be in one, although i doubt i'll be married. (go ahead, universe, prove me wrong.) and i'll probably be trying to figure out how best to become a parent, if not have already done so.
...i think that's it.
5. where are the next five places you want to visit?
the very next five? montreal's, i think, "immediately" next on the list, because it's close and i speak the language (both, kind of, LOL). california's up there too, although it's not at the top because it's a HUGE state and where in it i'd like to go changes pretty much daily. i'd love to go to colorado, but only if i could do it with you (because otherwise it'd just feel weird). france is always nagging at the back of my mind, but only if i could have at least a week, and i wouldn't even consider doing that alone. which leaves...somewhere canadian touristy. not canadian and touristy, but as in a tourist destination within canada FOR canadians. somewhere with open spaces and water, preferably. somewhere most americans would never go, because i love the thought of going somewhere non-native, but everyone else is non-native too -- but in that *different* way. the way that new jersey people go down the shore, or new englanders go to the vineyard, or new yorkers go to the hamptons. somewhere a canadian might weekend, if that makes sense.
and that's it! keep letting me ask you questions so you can ask me questions! and we'll get more awesome posts like this one where i pour my heart out into these here interwebs!!!
mwahs!
~a
1. if you could not have tv, movies, tivo, any of that in your life for one year, what would you do with your life during that time?
HAHAHA, you didn't say no computer! which means i'd be online! hahaha!
um, better now. but seriously, is there internet? becuase that'd probably replace a lot of tv time.
probably i'd first read for as long as i could stand it. i'd sleep more, to be sure. i might take up knitting or some other crafty thing, and i'd probably write. i'd talk to people more often -- probably annoyingly so, lol -- and i'd go out more and to more distant places. not more distant like travel -- although if, in this magical land, money was no object, i'd *certainly* do that -- but distant like connecticut, upstate new york, maybe pennsylvania. and is there music still? cause music, duh. i'd almost definitely be more active, too. yoga's almost a certainty, plus tennis, maybe golf, maybe even baseball.
on a related note, there's actually little doubt in my mind that i'd be a very different chicky without tv and the like. what i sincerely don't know is if AU chicky would be any happier than reality chicky. i don't honestly think so. i'm pretty happy now, as much as i'm kind of a hermit, and i don't think that getting rid of tv would really change that in any way.
(not that you asked, but because i've been asked before, and also because i've thought about it myself on occasion.)
2. i'm turning your question around on you! i want to hear your two favorite memories of me, one of which you think *i* don't even remember. and you know how we are about embarrassment around here, so go for it.
there are no two absolute favorites, these are just what popped into my head.
the one i don't know if you remember (since i barely do...): one day we were walking across i guess state street? that crosswalk over by the academy -- with the island in the middle -- i think towards the academy. and you were doing silly walks, and we were or had been talking about your quaker faith and how jesus fit in or something. (i think those were the same conversation...damn memory.)
and my second would've been bringing sexyback to canadia, but you totally stole it! although you forgot to emphasize how we had planned and planned to do it, then forgot until we're already past the border, and how i called my brother to tell him about how we did it and he put my entire extended family on the phone.
so instead i'll pick you, at the mailroom, with the nipple clamps. (that sounds like a clue game, haha.) i was trying to go for something all deep, and of course there are those, but i said i'd pick what leapt to mind, and that's certainly a memorable one. :P
3. what would your ideal house be like? describe it!
(warning: these were all handwritten earlier, and this one is long! so, just, caveat emptor.)
well, it would have a starbucks AND a restaurant serving all my family food, of course.
okay, that *would* be awesome, but *seriously*.
this is actually on the (long) list of things i don't think about because it's at least five years out, still, but here's my right now response.
open, open, open space. ideally it would include a loft, though not actually *be* a loft (as in like, one big room with the sleeping area in a loft like a warehouse). actually -- it would be a little like my dad's, layout-wise. two, three bedrooms, master bedroom suite downstairs. no dining room, but the kitchen would be eat in and kind of huge (ironic for someone who doesn't cook a lick, eh?). the master suite would be in the back left of the house, the kitchen in the back right, with the eat-in part more towards the front (but still right). the front of the downstairs would have a living room on the left and a small office on the right -- more like a library than an office, really. and everything would just open into everything. somewhere in the center of the ground floor -- accessible from maybe just the office -- would be a half bath. the master suite would have a full bathroom with an oversized tub -- maybe a jacuzzi? (why not? fantasy, right?)
and upstairs would be at least one open, open bedroom with a full bath. that's probably the back of the house -- the front would be the loft, basically another mini living room, and the library would have higher ceilings.
okay, does any of that make sense? no? all i know is open = good, and loft = awesome. and no dining room. and no "tv" or "family" room -- my house will have a single, centralized living area. (maybe two, with the loft.) also, my bedroom will probably never again contain a tv. or computer. other residents of my house down the line could have a tv in their rooms, although i'll probably discourage it. finally, the living room will be for *living*. no plastic sofa covers, no coasters necessary, eating 100% allowed.
and that's it. next!
4. tell me where you see yourself in five years!
you realize that you're asking someone who doesn't look six *months* ahead to look five *years* ahead, right? geez. ;P
i'd like to say that either i've moved into an arts administration position, or into the arts/entertainment industry. if i'm still in the tri-state area, i'd also like to say that, whatever my job is, it's in manhattan, so i'm living either in an outer borough or back on the other side of the bridge. i'll have travelled some, hopefully, by then (which apparently we'll get to shortly!), so locations actually kind of up in the air: last week i was moving back to noho; the week before that i was in california. so there's that.
i may have a master's; i may not.
i may be 50lbs lighter; i may not.
i'll hopefully have had at least one serious, adult relationship in the intervening five years, and may even still be in one, although i doubt i'll be married. (go ahead, universe, prove me wrong.) and i'll probably be trying to figure out how best to become a parent, if not have already done so.
...i think that's it.
5. where are the next five places you want to visit?
the very next five? montreal's, i think, "immediately" next on the list, because it's close and i speak the language (both, kind of, LOL). california's up there too, although it's not at the top because it's a HUGE state and where in it i'd like to go changes pretty much daily. i'd love to go to colorado, but only if i could do it with you (because otherwise it'd just feel weird). france is always nagging at the back of my mind, but only if i could have at least a week, and i wouldn't even consider doing that alone. which leaves...somewhere canadian touristy. not canadian and touristy, but as in a tourist destination within canada FOR canadians. somewhere with open spaces and water, preferably. somewhere most americans would never go, because i love the thought of going somewhere non-native, but everyone else is non-native too -- but in that *different* way. the way that new jersey people go down the shore, or new englanders go to the vineyard, or new yorkers go to the hamptons. somewhere a canadian might weekend, if that makes sense.
and that's it! keep letting me ask you questions so you can ask me questions! and we'll get more awesome posts like this one where i pour my heart out into these here interwebs!!!
mwahs!
~a