interview meme!
Interview Meme!
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 with the answers to the questions and leave the answers as comments on my LJ.
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.
here are the answers to my questions from dalbino83:
1. How did you get started with knitting?
When I moved back stateside in 2001 I decided I needed a new hobby for the cold snowy months. I started with crochet, as I figured one curved hook was less intimidating than 2 pointy needles. I learned from library books. Eventually, the lady at my local yarn store convinced me I should try knitting - she claimed it uses less yarn and is more expansive. I couldn’t figure it out from books, so I went in and she taught me the basics. I made 2 scarves but was intimidated about more advanced techniques, so it took the backburner for awhile while I made prints and cards and various things. Then, a few weeks before my birthday last summer I remembered Dan had gotten me a gift certificate to the yarn store ands I better use it. So I took a class and made a hat with cables. The class helped me figure out how to read a pattern and added on some more skills (decreasing, cable stitches, using double pointed needles) and I’ve been getting more and more into it ever since. Now I’m the knitting enabler … I actually have a date to teach a friend how to knit tomorrow.
2. What's your favorite kind of sushi?
Well, depends on the sushi place and its specialties, but I love spicy tuna, rainbow roll, salmon skin (if it’s crunchy), and rolls with crunchy tempura. Oh dear this is making me hungry. Miso soup and sake are nice additions to a sushi meal.
3. Describe your best friend.
Well, I have a different regard for all my friends, and it’s hard to say one is my best friend, but I’ll describe jenniferblaufra because she is a very good friend and we have such a colorful history:
we met a few days before freshman year in college, on the street in Austin. I was sitting down with some street musicians and she walked by with a dulcimer.
we wrote each other letters even though we lived in dorms down the street from each other
we later lived together in a house in the ‘hood. There was a crack house across the street, and our landlord lived next door and frequently stopped by to shoot the shit and remind us that we wouldn’t have to pay rent if we let him suck our toes. Rent was damn cheap, so we passed on the offer.
she has a great enthusiasm for life, a radiant smile, a hauntingly beautiful singing voice, a passion for cheese, and inspired and encourages a lot of my crafty tendencies.
4. How did you end up living in Long Island?
I was living in Tel- Aviv when I went back to Texas to the folk festival I’ve been going to for most of the past 13 years. Dan was there and we reconnected in a major way. He was living in Long Island in his grandparents’ old house (where we live now). I wasn’t ready to leave Israel, so he ended up moving to Tel-Aviv. A few months short of a year we moved back stateside. By that point I had decided keeping Dan in my life was more important than staying in Israel.
5. What are some nifty things you've found while dumpster diving?
Hrmmmm …. I’ve come across a former friend I was avoiding in my favorite dumpster behind a used bookstore once. I found some dead cats in a dumpster in Egypt (sometimes it’s a curse to have a knee-jerk reaction of peering into a dumpster). Oh wait, you said nifty, not weird. I’ve found some old Jackson 5 records. I found some very 80’s male gay porn mags once and propped it open to the centerfold inside the refrigerator to catch jenniferblaufra off guard. And once we found lots and lots of bagels and decorated some branches of a tree with them.
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 with the answers to the questions and leave the answers as comments on my LJ.
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.
here are the answers to my questions from dalbino83:
1. How did you get started with knitting?
When I moved back stateside in 2001 I decided I needed a new hobby for the cold snowy months. I started with crochet, as I figured one curved hook was less intimidating than 2 pointy needles. I learned from library books. Eventually, the lady at my local yarn store convinced me I should try knitting - she claimed it uses less yarn and is more expansive. I couldn’t figure it out from books, so I went in and she taught me the basics. I made 2 scarves but was intimidated about more advanced techniques, so it took the backburner for awhile while I made prints and cards and various things. Then, a few weeks before my birthday last summer I remembered Dan had gotten me a gift certificate to the yarn store ands I better use it. So I took a class and made a hat with cables. The class helped me figure out how to read a pattern and added on some more skills (decreasing, cable stitches, using double pointed needles) and I’ve been getting more and more into it ever since. Now I’m the knitting enabler … I actually have a date to teach a friend how to knit tomorrow.
2. What's your favorite kind of sushi?
Well, depends on the sushi place and its specialties, but I love spicy tuna, rainbow roll, salmon skin (if it’s crunchy), and rolls with crunchy tempura. Oh dear this is making me hungry. Miso soup and sake are nice additions to a sushi meal.
3. Describe your best friend.
Well, I have a different regard for all my friends, and it’s hard to say one is my best friend, but I’ll describe jenniferblaufra because she is a very good friend and we have such a colorful history:
we met a few days before freshman year in college, on the street in Austin. I was sitting down with some street musicians and she walked by with a dulcimer.
we wrote each other letters even though we lived in dorms down the street from each other
we later lived together in a house in the ‘hood. There was a crack house across the street, and our landlord lived next door and frequently stopped by to shoot the shit and remind us that we wouldn’t have to pay rent if we let him suck our toes. Rent was damn cheap, so we passed on the offer.
she has a great enthusiasm for life, a radiant smile, a hauntingly beautiful singing voice, a passion for cheese, and inspired and encourages a lot of my crafty tendencies.
4. How did you end up living in Long Island?
I was living in Tel- Aviv when I went back to Texas to the folk festival I’ve been going to for most of the past 13 years. Dan was there and we reconnected in a major way. He was living in Long Island in his grandparents’ old house (where we live now). I wasn’t ready to leave Israel, so he ended up moving to Tel-Aviv. A few months short of a year we moved back stateside. By that point I had decided keeping Dan in my life was more important than staying in Israel.
5. What are some nifty things you've found while dumpster diving?
Hrmmmm …. I’ve come across a former friend I was avoiding in my favorite dumpster behind a used bookstore once. I found some dead cats in a dumpster in Egypt (sometimes it’s a curse to have a knee-jerk reaction of peering into a dumpster). Oh wait, you said nifty, not weird. I’ve found some old Jackson 5 records. I found some very 80’s male gay porn mags once and propped it open to the centerfold inside the refrigerator to catch jenniferblaufra off guard. And once we found lots and lots of bagels and decorated some branches of a tree with them.