shitsumon a-go-go
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/journal with the answers to the questions. (if you don't have one, you can leave a comment to this post)
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.
These questions brought to you by Katie, (LJ-tetetetigi) my friend up at the University of Illinois who has been so kind and hospitable on my trips there.
1} You find out that your future roommate, Jonah, has been replaced by an evil clone of himself bent on destruction. What do you do about it?
**this would be totally awesome, becuase i actually have an evil plan for world domination that i need a co-conspiritor in. we could plan evil schemes in the basement, or in the car on the way to FLB (the Foreign Languages Building) or something. thanks for hooking me up with a future roommate and a partner in the taking-over-the-world thing.
2) Other than Japan, where would you want to travel most in this world? Why?
**Europe. i'd love to do the whirlwind Europe tour. the idea of travelling to so many closely situated countires sounds awesome. i'd be mainly in terested in hitting the UK, France, Germany and the Scandinavian countries. and i could practice my mediocre Francais!
3) What inspired you to go back to grad school?
**two solid years of crappy jobs, or no jobs. when i returned from Japan in 2001, i needed time to decompress. it was so tough that i couldn't imagine getting back into Japan studies right away (or maybe ever, back then) but after working in crappy jobs that i hated, i realized that i want to be in Academia.
4) How would you have ended the latest Star Wars movie?
**i'd go back in time, kidnap George Lucas and force him to reveal all his story to better filmmakers, sign over the entire production to them in a will, and kill him. this is the only way we could've gotten prequels which would've been up to snuff: remove Lucas from the equation.
5) Why move to Illinois? Remember that your reasons may not and do not have to match up to my reasons... except for the big "Because I'm going to grad school there." What do you like about IL?
**the department i'll be going into seems super-progressive academically, adn i think that this will be the best fit for a hazy, cultural studies oriented line of inquiry like mine. i also already love the profs. as for Chambana, it seems a lot like Gainesville (which i love) but a little more low-key, which seems nice. and the proximity to Chicago is attractive as well.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ/journal with the answers to the questions. (if you don't have one, you can leave a comment to this post)
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.
These questions brought to you by Katie, (LJ-tetetetigi) my friend up at the University of Illinois who has been so kind and hospitable on my trips there.
1} You find out that your future roommate, Jonah, has been replaced by an evil clone of himself bent on destruction. What do you do about it?
**this would be totally awesome, becuase i actually have an evil plan for world domination that i need a co-conspiritor in. we could plan evil schemes in the basement, or in the car on the way to FLB (the Foreign Languages Building) or something. thanks for hooking me up with a future roommate and a partner in the taking-over-the-world thing.
2) Other than Japan, where would you want to travel most in this world? Why?
**Europe. i'd love to do the whirlwind Europe tour. the idea of travelling to so many closely situated countires sounds awesome. i'd be mainly in terested in hitting the UK, France, Germany and the Scandinavian countries. and i could practice my mediocre Francais!
3) What inspired you to go back to grad school?
**two solid years of crappy jobs, or no jobs. when i returned from Japan in 2001, i needed time to decompress. it was so tough that i couldn't imagine getting back into Japan studies right away (or maybe ever, back then) but after working in crappy jobs that i hated, i realized that i want to be in Academia.
4) How would you have ended the latest Star Wars movie?
**i'd go back in time, kidnap George Lucas and force him to reveal all his story to better filmmakers, sign over the entire production to them in a will, and kill him. this is the only way we could've gotten prequels which would've been up to snuff: remove Lucas from the equation.
5) Why move to Illinois? Remember that your reasons may not and do not have to match up to my reasons... except for the big "Because I'm going to grad school there." What do you like about IL?
**the department i'll be going into seems super-progressive academically, adn i think that this will be the best fit for a hazy, cultural studies oriented line of inquiry like mine. i also already love the profs. as for Chambana, it seems a lot like Gainesville (which i love) but a little more low-key, which seems nice. and the proximity to Chicago is attractive as well.