Friday
Okay... So I wanted to try too!! Here goes.
1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich, maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
(From Rachel:)
1. Your most memorable night at the Argus (for better or worse, as you wish)
It's the coldest night of the year so far, about February of 2005. My weird left side of my body numbness is in full force. Sitting in a crappy chair at an Argus desk doesn't help, and at one point all four of my limbs are completely numb. Part way through layout, I realize this has been going on for more than 8 hours and I call my mom (a nurse). She tells me that I should go to the emergency room. I spend several more hours in the office finishing my layout before I finally tell Erie at midnight that I'm leaving to go to the emergency room. When I get there, and after much waiting, the doctor tells me that it must be carpal tunnel (which it obviously is not...)
Alternately: my last night there, with cookies and a sweet card signed by everyone, was probably my best.
2. If you could only solve one problem (world, local, moral, ethical, whatever), which would you choose?
The problem that immediately jumps to mind is immigration, so I will go with that, despite the fact that it feels short-sighted.
3. Your favorite memory from abroadness
I don't know how I can pick just one! I would have to say an overall sense of independence: walking down the street and realizing that I could communicate in Spanish and navigate a huge city all by myself. Also, the time Elise and I were walking back from the university in the dark and saw a woman walking her dog... and the woman leaned down and wiped the dog's butt. It was the first of MANY hilarious inside jokes with Elisa ;)
4. If you could only bring 3 books on a desert island, what would they be?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the biggest collection of poetry I could find, and One Hundred Years of Solitude -- only because it's so appropriate for a deserted island.
5. Something you would like to learn if time/money/resources were not an issue
Um, everything? Ha ha. Probably additional languages: Italian, French and Portuguese to begin with.
1. Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich, maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
5. When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
(From Rachel:)
1. Your most memorable night at the Argus (for better or worse, as you wish)
It's the coldest night of the year so far, about February of 2005. My weird left side of my body numbness is in full force. Sitting in a crappy chair at an Argus desk doesn't help, and at one point all four of my limbs are completely numb. Part way through layout, I realize this has been going on for more than 8 hours and I call my mom (a nurse). She tells me that I should go to the emergency room. I spend several more hours in the office finishing my layout before I finally tell Erie at midnight that I'm leaving to go to the emergency room. When I get there, and after much waiting, the doctor tells me that it must be carpal tunnel (which it obviously is not...)
Alternately: my last night there, with cookies and a sweet card signed by everyone, was probably my best.
2. If you could only solve one problem (world, local, moral, ethical, whatever), which would you choose?
The problem that immediately jumps to mind is immigration, so I will go with that, despite the fact that it feels short-sighted.
3. Your favorite memory from abroadness
I don't know how I can pick just one! I would have to say an overall sense of independence: walking down the street and realizing that I could communicate in Spanish and navigate a huge city all by myself. Also, the time Elise and I were walking back from the university in the dark and saw a woman walking her dog... and the woman leaned down and wiped the dog's butt. It was the first of MANY hilarious inside jokes with Elisa ;)
4. If you could only bring 3 books on a desert island, what would they be?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the biggest collection of poetry I could find, and One Hundred Years of Solitude -- only because it's so appropriate for a deserted island.
5. Something you would like to learn if time/money/resources were not an issue
Um, everything? Ha ha. Probably additional languages: Italian, French and Portuguese to begin with.