I managed to jam a lot into these five questions, and that after I didn't think I'd be able to come up with 5 for you...:
1. You've described yourself as a muggle on more than one occasion, and yet you are one of the least mundane people I know - alive with a vivid imagination. I'm tempted to simply ask "how do you do it?" - that is, how do you keep that much creativity alive and yet remain as sensible and down-to-earth as you are, at the core, but that I think I understand (I just fill mine in with a lot more worthless fretting and worrying and drama.) So, instead, the question after all this prelude is: how have you come to terms with the "muggle" thing, if at all?
2. Speaking of drama, aren't you ever tempted to indulge? Why not? Or, if so, how do you resist the urge?
3. If you woke up and were 17 again, knowing everything you know now, what would you do? Okay, after screaming, then what would you do?
4. Is there a place you want to be in five years? What is it?
5. What are the events in your life that have most shaped who Elizabeth is today? Is there a large difference between the "E.Mc." face that you show the world, and the Elizabeth inside you? Do you think the "public face" will change with your new job, and how?
P.S. Livejournal's spell check does not think "muggle" is a word.
1) Eh, I'm me. That's all there is to it. I bought some really interesting books on psychic projection and the like, but they're sitting on my shelf just now. I do have the curiosity to go back and continue reading them, but finding the time isn't as simple a matter. It's okay; I'll get to them. I know that life is fleeting, time is short, et cetera et cetera, but if I did everything I was curious about and enjoyed all at once, I would explode. I guess it helps knowing that an ability more than the everyday is out there, and available to everyone. So it'll be there when I sit down and get to it.
2) This actually would go with part of my answer to question 1, except you didn't actually ask that part as a question. When I was mucking about with feng shui-ing my room, I ended up looking up my Chinese astrological whoozy-whatsis. This was in the heydey of my getting excited about Burbank and the possibilities of this and that, so I was most annoyed to find out that my element was Earth. Earth, the grounded, stable, Chi-centric element. Gah, it annoyed me. But since I was born in the year of the Horse, I am specifically an Earth Horse. Read this link to get what I feel is a startlingly accurate description of me (even if it thinks I'm more popular than I believe I am).
I guess drama just isn't my nature. I'm nose-to-the-grindstone steady, and any time I do get the whim that I've found something else to do ... I get bored of it easily. Drama requires maintenance. :D
3) See, that's hard. Especially right now, I'm not in an unhappy place. I like what I've done with what I've got. I'm not entirely sure I'd change anything (see above link that mentions happy later life). If I were to do anything different, I would probably put real effort into my college applications, my animation portfolio. But it would likely mean never gaming, and meeting the folks I met, since I was introduced to gaming at college.
4) Making a good income doing art for a company, with the freedom to be the creative designer on a project. I feel like I should have kids, but wonderful as they would be, I can't help feeling they would be sort of an interruption in all that. Ideally, I'd be working for Pixar (though I don't know how it would be now that Disney owns them), with good pay, a good place to live, near the ocean. Yeah, I want to be near the ocean.
5) Everything's shaped it. Is that a copout? Okay, maybe the getting sick to my stomach for two days not too long ago wasn't a big deal, but my parents divorced and both of them still cared for me. Neither of them wanted me to go into art, but they put up with me when I insisted and they still love me. When I mess things up, even though I can tell when my mother disapproves, most of the time she doesn't hound me over it. I got rejected from Cal Arts and rejected out of RIT. Learning to handle that was good, even if it did take me a long, long time. Not being very popular in school I learned the value of a few close friends.
As for the other - there's no difference. If there were, I wouldn't volunteer for interview questions. I used to always pick "truth" in Truth Or Dare 'cause I really don't have anything to hide.
1. You've described yourself as a muggle on more than one occasion, and yet you are one of the least mundane people I know - alive with a vivid imagination. I'm tempted to simply ask "how do you do it?" - that is, how do you keep that much creativity alive and yet remain as sensible and down-to-earth as you are, at the core, but that I think I understand (I just fill mine in with a lot more worthless fretting and worrying and drama.) So, instead, the question after all this prelude is: how have you come to terms with the "muggle" thing, if at all?
2. Speaking of drama, aren't you ever tempted to indulge? Why not? Or, if so, how do you resist the urge?
3. If you woke up and were 17 again, knowing everything you know now, what would you do? Okay, after screaming, then what would you do?
4. Is there a place you want to be in five years? What is it?
5. What are the events in your life that have most shaped who Elizabeth is today? Is there a large difference between the "E.Mc." face that you show the world, and the Elizabeth inside you? Do you think the "public face" will change with your new job, and how?
P.S. Livejournal's spell check does not think "muggle" is a word.
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2) This actually would go with part of my answer to question 1, except you didn't actually ask that part as a question. When I was mucking about with feng shui-ing my room, I ended up looking up my Chinese astrological whoozy-whatsis. This was in the heydey of my getting excited about Burbank and the possibilities of this and that, so I was most annoyed to find out that my element was Earth. Earth, the grounded, stable, Chi-centric element. Gah, it annoyed me. But since I was born in the year of the Horse, I am specifically an Earth Horse. Read this link to get what I feel is a startlingly accurate description of me (even if it thinks I'm more popular than I believe I am).
I guess drama just isn't my nature. I'm nose-to-the-grindstone steady, and any time I do get the whim that I've found something else to do ... I get bored of it easily. Drama requires maintenance. :D
3) See, that's hard. Especially right now, I'm not in an unhappy place. I like what I've done with what I've got. I'm not entirely sure I'd change anything (see above link that mentions happy later life). If I were to do anything different, I would probably put real effort into my college applications, my animation portfolio. But it would likely mean never gaming, and meeting the folks I met, since I was introduced to gaming at college.
4) Making a good income doing art for a company, with the freedom to be the creative designer on a project. I feel like I should have kids, but wonderful as they would be, I can't help feeling they would be sort of an interruption in all that. Ideally, I'd be working for Pixar (though I don't know how it would be now that Disney owns them), with good pay, a good place to live, near the ocean. Yeah, I want to be near the ocean.
5) Everything's shaped it. Is that a copout? Okay, maybe the getting sick to my stomach for two days not too long ago wasn't a big deal, but my parents divorced and both of them still cared for me. Neither of them wanted me to go into art, but they put up with me when I insisted and they still love me. When I mess things up, even though I can tell when my mother disapproves, most of the time she doesn't hound me over it. I got rejected from Cal Arts and rejected out of RIT. Learning to handle that was good, even if it did take me a long, long time. Not being very popular in school I learned the value of a few close friends.
As for the other - there's no difference. If there were, I wouldn't volunteer for interview questions. I used to always pick "truth" in Truth Or Dare 'cause I really don't have anything to hide.
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