Apurplepatch Asks me Questions!
1. If you could change places with anyone, anywhere in time for one day, who would it be and what would you do in that day?
I would very much like to be the editor of the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, just for a day. And see what exactly that job is like. I don't know that I would change anything about it, but I think there's an (untrue, I believe) sense that journalism and integrity in journalism is dying... and I don't know about that.
2. What are your most favourite and least favourite things about being American?
This was such a difficult question, you don't even know. I guess my least favorite thing about being an American is that we've sort of sold this idea to the world that we're some sort of Utopia, a place of higher ideals and streets paved with gold and the American dream. And I think all of that is good. What's difficult about it, however, is that it invites the idea (rightly, perhaps), that the whole world is invested in what it means to be an American. This is complicated by the fact that, as a super power, we're very often in a politically damned-if-we-do, damned-if-we-don't situation. And it's very difficult, I find, for even my Canadian friends, who live right on the border with the US, to sometimes understand why I vote the way I do, or the think the way I do, and it's (sometimes) because the vision of America they have in their heads is not the version of America in which I actually live. (If any of that makes sense).
My favorite thing about being an American is... the general attitude of optimism and hope. I mean, we're sort of in a generation right now that finds the cynical cool, but even Jon Stewart does what he does (brilliantly), I think, because he believes that as Americans, we have an obligation to do the very best we can by the ideals we claim to be founded on. And I don't know a single American who is like, "Yeah, scrap that freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to bear arms, right to privacy crap". Our ideas of how those rights and ideals should be... executed, for lack of a better word, can be different, but there's generally NOT a hint of malice when it comes to most Americans in the way they think about America.
3. What made you smile today?
I've finally nailed down my plan for next year. It's going to be good.
4. List 3 of your best personality traits
I'm extroverted (and loud-mouthed). I can be a perfectionist but usually only when it comes to me. And I'm tolerant. I will bend over backwards to make sure that everyone else is safe, comfortable and happy. I find that very often I have to talk myself into objecting, even if I find an activity or an opinion morally reprehensible. Very, very live-and-let-live, me.
5. If the Doctor invited you to travel with him in the TARDIS would you go?
New New York. Or... anywhere off-planet, you know? I'd love to say that I'd breathed different air, stepped on different ground. Boring, I know. But it's the truth.
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I would very much like to be the editor of the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, just for a day. And see what exactly that job is like. I don't know that I would change anything about it, but I think there's an (untrue, I believe) sense that journalism and integrity in journalism is dying... and I don't know about that.
2. What are your most favourite and least favourite things about being American?
This was such a difficult question, you don't even know. I guess my least favorite thing about being an American is that we've sort of sold this idea to the world that we're some sort of Utopia, a place of higher ideals and streets paved with gold and the American dream. And I think all of that is good. What's difficult about it, however, is that it invites the idea (rightly, perhaps), that the whole world is invested in what it means to be an American. This is complicated by the fact that, as a super power, we're very often in a politically damned-if-we-do, damned-if-we-don't situation. And it's very difficult, I find, for even my Canadian friends, who live right on the border with the US, to sometimes understand why I vote the way I do, or the think the way I do, and it's (sometimes) because the vision of America they have in their heads is not the version of America in which I actually live. (If any of that makes sense).
My favorite thing about being an American is... the general attitude of optimism and hope. I mean, we're sort of in a generation right now that finds the cynical cool, but even Jon Stewart does what he does (brilliantly), I think, because he believes that as Americans, we have an obligation to do the very best we can by the ideals we claim to be founded on. And I don't know a single American who is like, "Yeah, scrap that freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to bear arms, right to privacy crap". Our ideas of how those rights and ideals should be... executed, for lack of a better word, can be different, but there's generally NOT a hint of malice when it comes to most Americans in the way they think about America.
3. What made you smile today?
I've finally nailed down my plan for next year. It's going to be good.
4. List 3 of your best personality traits
I'm extroverted (and loud-mouthed). I can be a perfectionist but usually only when it comes to me. And I'm tolerant. I will bend over backwards to make sure that everyone else is safe, comfortable and happy. I find that very often I have to talk myself into objecting, even if I find an activity or an opinion morally reprehensible. Very, very live-and-let-live, me.
5. If the Doctor invited you to travel with him in the TARDIS would you go?
New New York. Or... anywhere off-planet, you know? I'd love to say that I'd breathed different air, stepped on different ground. Boring, I know. But it's the truth.
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