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Ok! I thought I'd give it a go ;)
01) Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
02) I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. (Or just whatever I feel like asking...probably based on your interests)
03) You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
04) You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
05) When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Questions asked by Missy (I hope these are ok!)
1) What inspired the name cazzadragon?
Hee! I’m afraid it’s nothing very interesting at all. I love dragons - certain types of dragons of course, but I love them. When I was joining Immy, I thought I needed a suitably magical creature in my name, so I chose Dragons ;) The Cazza simply comes from my RL name. I had a choice of Caz, Cazza, Cazzy, Caro, plus a few more, and I chose Cazza as I thought it went better with Dragon. So there you go: cazzadragon.
I do find it interesting with the pronunciation of the cazza bit though. It wasn’t until I heard Sboofy say my name that I realised there was a difference. Sboofy pronounces it as “caz-zar” which is just so cute, I love it! I’ve always pronounced it as “cazah”
Or at least I think that’s how it is… I’m not too good at the writing of pronunciations! If anyone says it differently, I’d love to know!
2) What do you like most about poetry?
Ooh! That’s difficult! There’re many aspects of poetry that I love.
My inner laziness says it’s because they don’t take much time to read and enjoy. In only a few lines intense emotions and thoughts can be expressed that might take pages in fiction, simply because the writer is free to do whatever they want. It can be interpreted to suit the reader too - one line can have a different meaning to several people, and they’d all the correct - there is no right or wrong interpretation. I love how it can have order, but it doesn’t have to. A poem can be anything at all, and if you add music to it, it suddenly becomes a song. There’s so much to poetry, and it’s easy to do. Most days I prefer the fun, joyous kind to the serious, depressing kind. I love writing it though, whenever my muse allows me to. Sometimes I’m taken in directions I never wanted to go. Sometimes I start something with a particular purpose, but it morphs into something wholly unexpected. And then I can write something I thought wasn’t really very good, and have people tell me it really meant something to them. I think I love that most about poetry - when someone likes what I do! It’s funny to think I wouldn’t be writing poetry right now if it wasn’t for Immy.
3) What is the hardest thing you've ever had to do/go through in your life?
Hmmmm… This is a tough one… In my 21 years not too much that’s ‘hard’ has ever happened to me, that I can remember anyway. I’d have to say it’d be those first few months in France though. I went on a Rotary Student Exchange to France, and I went knowing 5 french words (you know: oui, non, merci, au revoir, bonjour - the words everyone knows!). It was quite difficult getting around without any idea how to communicate with people. I’d expected to go to a language school for a couple of weeks when I first arrived (I’d been told this would happen), but I never did! Still, I had my faithful translation dictionary, and I muddled through. I also had some great friends who’d help me with my French if I would help “learn them English”.
Fabulous times! I wouldn’t swap it for anything.
Actually, now I wrote that, I’m thinking of something else as well. My Grandmother is in the middle stages of Alzheimer’s disease, and I’ve been helping to look after her (she lives across from me). Lately she’s been harbouring out-of-date food, and I’ve had to take it off her. Whenever I do this she has a right tantrum, and is beginning to get a little violent. It’s also pretty hard knowing most of the time she doesn’t know who I am. Yeah… I think that’s something very difficult I’m going through right now…
4) What is your favorite thing and not so favorite thing about living down under?
I think my favourite thing is to just be here! Australia really is a fantastic place to live. While there are some shitty things about it, as there is in every country, I love it! We have every type of climate from the rainforest to the desert, and some truly bizarre animals too boot (I mean, the platypus…what is with that?! Hee!). Most of the people are great (you always get a few prats), and we know how to laugh at ourselves, as well as be lazy buggers! It can get confusing with the differences in the northern hemisphere school year, and times and stuff, but I love the fact that it is Oz whose school year actually lines up with the solar year! Haha! I just can’t get my head around starting school in the middle of the year! And snow at Christmas?? What the??!!
The thing I don’t like is that I’m so far away from my Immy family - still, one day I will be visiting you lot, so look out! Also it’s so expensive to post stuff, and it can get lost too! Grr!
5) If you could live in any work of fiction (book/film/television/comic/whatever) what would it be and why?
Good question! And the answer is: I have no bloody idea!
Hmmm… At this second of this particular day, I’d have to say…Doctor Who. I know! Weird! But, I dunno, I think it’d be awesome to go with the Doctor (in a sexy regeneration, if you don’t mind ;) ) to any time, any place, any where. Doctor Who has everything - magic, mystery, and most of all, mayhem. No matter how hard he tries, something will always go wrong around him, and he’ll try to fix it. But I love how, in the end, it always comes out ok - maybe not perfect, but ok. Though I think if I ever saw a Darlek face to…erm…machine… I’d bloody shit meself!
How could anyone say no to that kind of adventure? Yay to the Doctor! Yay to the TARDIS! Yay to space and time travel!
Sign me up!
01) Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
02) I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. (Or just whatever I feel like asking...probably based on your interests)
03) You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
04) You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
05) When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Questions asked by Missy (I hope these are ok!)
1) What inspired the name cazzadragon?
Hee! I’m afraid it’s nothing very interesting at all. I love dragons - certain types of dragons of course, but I love them. When I was joining Immy, I thought I needed a suitably magical creature in my name, so I chose Dragons ;) The Cazza simply comes from my RL name. I had a choice of Caz, Cazza, Cazzy, Caro, plus a few more, and I chose Cazza as I thought it went better with Dragon. So there you go: cazzadragon.
I do find it interesting with the pronunciation of the cazza bit though. It wasn’t until I heard Sboofy say my name that I realised there was a difference. Sboofy pronounces it as “caz-zar” which is just so cute, I love it! I’ve always pronounced it as “cazah”
Or at least I think that’s how it is… I’m not too good at the writing of pronunciations! If anyone says it differently, I’d love to know!
2) What do you like most about poetry?
Ooh! That’s difficult! There’re many aspects of poetry that I love.
My inner laziness says it’s because they don’t take much time to read and enjoy. In only a few lines intense emotions and thoughts can be expressed that might take pages in fiction, simply because the writer is free to do whatever they want. It can be interpreted to suit the reader too - one line can have a different meaning to several people, and they’d all the correct - there is no right or wrong interpretation. I love how it can have order, but it doesn’t have to. A poem can be anything at all, and if you add music to it, it suddenly becomes a song. There’s so much to poetry, and it’s easy to do. Most days I prefer the fun, joyous kind to the serious, depressing kind. I love writing it though, whenever my muse allows me to. Sometimes I’m taken in directions I never wanted to go. Sometimes I start something with a particular purpose, but it morphs into something wholly unexpected. And then I can write something I thought wasn’t really very good, and have people tell me it really meant something to them. I think I love that most about poetry - when someone likes what I do! It’s funny to think I wouldn’t be writing poetry right now if it wasn’t for Immy.
3) What is the hardest thing you've ever had to do/go through in your life?
Hmmmm… This is a tough one… In my 21 years not too much that’s ‘hard’ has ever happened to me, that I can remember anyway. I’d have to say it’d be those first few months in France though. I went on a Rotary Student Exchange to France, and I went knowing 5 french words (you know: oui, non, merci, au revoir, bonjour - the words everyone knows!). It was quite difficult getting around without any idea how to communicate with people. I’d expected to go to a language school for a couple of weeks when I first arrived (I’d been told this would happen), but I never did! Still, I had my faithful translation dictionary, and I muddled through. I also had some great friends who’d help me with my French if I would help “learn them English”.
Fabulous times! I wouldn’t swap it for anything.
Actually, now I wrote that, I’m thinking of something else as well. My Grandmother is in the middle stages of Alzheimer’s disease, and I’ve been helping to look after her (she lives across from me). Lately she’s been harbouring out-of-date food, and I’ve had to take it off her. Whenever I do this she has a right tantrum, and is beginning to get a little violent. It’s also pretty hard knowing most of the time she doesn’t know who I am. Yeah… I think that’s something very difficult I’m going through right now…
4) What is your favorite thing and not so favorite thing about living down under?
I think my favourite thing is to just be here! Australia really is a fantastic place to live. While there are some shitty things about it, as there is in every country, I love it! We have every type of climate from the rainforest to the desert, and some truly bizarre animals too boot (I mean, the platypus…what is with that?! Hee!). Most of the people are great (you always get a few prats), and we know how to laugh at ourselves, as well as be lazy buggers! It can get confusing with the differences in the northern hemisphere school year, and times and stuff, but I love the fact that it is Oz whose school year actually lines up with the solar year! Haha! I just can’t get my head around starting school in the middle of the year! And snow at Christmas?? What the??!!
The thing I don’t like is that I’m so far away from my Immy family - still, one day I will be visiting you lot, so look out! Also it’s so expensive to post stuff, and it can get lost too! Grr!
5) If you could live in any work of fiction (book/film/television/comic/whatever) what would it be and why?
Good question! And the answer is: I have no bloody idea!
Hmmm… At this second of this particular day, I’d have to say…Doctor Who. I know! Weird! But, I dunno, I think it’d be awesome to go with the Doctor (in a sexy regeneration, if you don’t mind ;) ) to any time, any place, any where. Doctor Who has everything - magic, mystery, and most of all, mayhem. No matter how hard he tries, something will always go wrong around him, and he’ll try to fix it. But I love how, in the end, it always comes out ok - maybe not perfect, but ok. Though I think if I ever saw a Darlek face to…erm…machine… I’d bloody shit meself!
How could anyone say no to that kind of adventure? Yay to the Doctor! Yay to the TARDIS! Yay to space and time travel!
Sign me up!