Q and A #1
Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
i got the following questions from spitemeat
1. Considering your current job and education, but pretending the economy isn't a complete travesty, where do you foresee yourself career-wise in five years?
well, in 5 years, i'll have just finished my masters program (i still have 9 more classes left after this semester). i'm still at that stage where i'm not sure in which direction i want to go. i find archiving and database management interesting, but i'm not entirely sure if i want to make a career out of it. public libraries interest me, but i'm not totally sold on it. if i wanted to go the children's librarian route, i know it would be fun but creatively exhausting (even just a semester of children's services was fun but it really taxed my brain). just recently i was listening to NPR and they went to their reference librarian to answer an obscure questions. i started to think THAT might be a really cool thing to do: a reference librarian for a production company of some kind. i've really enjoyed my reference services class this semester. of course, i'm seeing a trend where i've really enjoyed my class and then think i may want to continue with that kind of work. i'll tell you this: last year an archives position was open at pixar and if we didn't live where we live now, i would've TOTALLY applied even WITHOUT a complete masters. so yeah, i think the ultimate answer is: i don't know.
2. Expanding on the career theory, if you could spend your days doing anything at all, regardless of income, expenses, etc., what would it be?
i would be a chef. actually, let me clarify. if money wasn't an issue, i would go to school to train as a chef, however i might actually prefer to spend my days being a food critic. :)
3. Were you as into video games before you met The Tall Fellow™ or did he influence you in that regard?
i was, but not definitely not as much. i think being with the tall fellow™ has enhanced and fed my interest in video games. i'm a huge fan of games found in the arcade. i LOVE fighting games. i grew up playing mortal kombat on my sega genesis. my sega was my first console i bought and my mom insisted that i save my own money and buy it myself. i did and i developed a small, but respectful library of games. when i got older i started on PC games. i spent most of my junior high and early high school years playing quake II. it wasn't until i got into college that i picked up video games again. for what it's worth, the guys i dated in high school before the tall fellow™ all were into video games. so, he had an influence, but as i said earlier, he merely just enhanced a love of video games that was always there.
4. Rank the categories "beer," "wine," and "cocktails" in ascending order of preference, with a favorite example of each.
beer > cocktails > wine, although it doesn't mean i like wine the least. i will much easily go to beer before cocktails and then before wine. i love wine, but i can be picky. i'm not nearly as picky with my beer and only slightly more picky when it comes to cocktails. honestly, it's all about the situation. if it's dinner at my parents, i'll take wine. if it's right after work, i'll grab a beer. if it's a bar in the evening, i'll take a cocktail (although if it's a pub - i ALWAYS have beer). now to my favorites:
beer - boddington's
cocktail - no matter how hard i try to fool myself, my favorite has always been the gin and tonic (funny story - i distinctly remember the first time i ever tried tonic water. my dad and i were house-sitting for my grandma (his mom) and all she had to drink, other than tap water, was tonic water. it was left over from when she used to stock her bar. my dad said it was like soda and i tried it. i immediately liked it. when i got older, i believe my dad served me my first G&T. i've been in love ever since. i'll go further to say that my favorite gin is hendrick's.
wine - oh my, this is difficult. in the broadest sense, i like reds more than whites. narrowing it further, i like big reds: cabernets and zinfandels. i also really like earthy pinot noirs. i don't like merlots. if i had to pick a go-to wine, i think it would be a côtes du rhône. i have experienced a recent taking to rosés. they're dry, which i like, and cold. i find them very refreshing. i simply cannot STAND buttery and oaky chardonnays and much prefer savignon blancs if i choose to have a glass of white.
5. Serial commas: discuss.
*sigh* there is a definite time and place for using serial commas. i think since more and more communication is through the written word these days, we have to resort to being creative with punctuation in order to convey inflection and tone to the dry text. when i chat or write in my LJ, i use the serial comma to convey sarcasm and exaggeration. in my head, at least, reading "com'on." (with a single period) and "com'on..." (with a serial comma) conveys different emotion. with a single period, it is more of a command, and with a serial comma it conveys a feeling of disbelief. however, i am intolerant of the misuse and overuse of serial commas. i had a boss who would use serial commas like they were periods; ending every single sentence with a... now, in my mind, i see an incomplete thought, when in her mind she is done with her thought and it's complete. that's two VERY DIFFERENT interpretations. i have a vendor who does the very same thing. when sending confirmation of instructions or materials for a project, i prefer to receive a "OK." not an "OK...", which makes me feel like what i sent means little to her or she doesn't understand what i've sent. i know that i don't use capitals when i write in my journal. i decided and kept to a specific style with my online journal. however, i do make sure i use proper grammar, when i can, and certainly correct spelling (don't even get me STARTED on the growing lose-loose fad i have seen. com'on people - they are TWO separate words and are NOT interchangeable! i've told marshall this and i'm sure i've mentioned it a few times before here, i KNOW how to write. my emails and my papers for school are treated professionally and written correctly. so, those are my thoughts about the serial comma.
okay, i was much more loquacious than i originally anticipated. i have received another set of questions to answer, but those will have to wait for another time.
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
i got the following questions from spitemeat
1. Considering your current job and education, but pretending the economy isn't a complete travesty, where do you foresee yourself career-wise in five years?
well, in 5 years, i'll have just finished my masters program (i still have 9 more classes left after this semester). i'm still at that stage where i'm not sure in which direction i want to go. i find archiving and database management interesting, but i'm not entirely sure if i want to make a career out of it. public libraries interest me, but i'm not totally sold on it. if i wanted to go the children's librarian route, i know it would be fun but creatively exhausting (even just a semester of children's services was fun but it really taxed my brain). just recently i was listening to NPR and they went to their reference librarian to answer an obscure questions. i started to think THAT might be a really cool thing to do: a reference librarian for a production company of some kind. i've really enjoyed my reference services class this semester. of course, i'm seeing a trend where i've really enjoyed my class and then think i may want to continue with that kind of work. i'll tell you this: last year an archives position was open at pixar and if we didn't live where we live now, i would've TOTALLY applied even WITHOUT a complete masters. so yeah, i think the ultimate answer is: i don't know.
2. Expanding on the career theory, if you could spend your days doing anything at all, regardless of income, expenses, etc., what would it be?
i would be a chef. actually, let me clarify. if money wasn't an issue, i would go to school to train as a chef, however i might actually prefer to spend my days being a food critic. :)
3. Were you as into video games before you met The Tall Fellow™ or did he influence you in that regard?
i was, but not definitely not as much. i think being with the tall fellow™ has enhanced and fed my interest in video games. i'm a huge fan of games found in the arcade. i LOVE fighting games. i grew up playing mortal kombat on my sega genesis. my sega was my first console i bought and my mom insisted that i save my own money and buy it myself. i did and i developed a small, but respectful library of games. when i got older i started on PC games. i spent most of my junior high and early high school years playing quake II. it wasn't until i got into college that i picked up video games again. for what it's worth, the guys i dated in high school before the tall fellow™ all were into video games. so, he had an influence, but as i said earlier, he merely just enhanced a love of video games that was always there.
4. Rank the categories "beer," "wine," and "cocktails" in ascending order of preference, with a favorite example of each.
beer > cocktails > wine, although it doesn't mean i like wine the least. i will much easily go to beer before cocktails and then before wine. i love wine, but i can be picky. i'm not nearly as picky with my beer and only slightly more picky when it comes to cocktails. honestly, it's all about the situation. if it's dinner at my parents, i'll take wine. if it's right after work, i'll grab a beer. if it's a bar in the evening, i'll take a cocktail (although if it's a pub - i ALWAYS have beer). now to my favorites:
beer - boddington's
cocktail - no matter how hard i try to fool myself, my favorite has always been the gin and tonic (funny story - i distinctly remember the first time i ever tried tonic water. my dad and i were house-sitting for my grandma (his mom) and all she had to drink, other than tap water, was tonic water. it was left over from when she used to stock her bar. my dad said it was like soda and i tried it. i immediately liked it. when i got older, i believe my dad served me my first G&T. i've been in love ever since. i'll go further to say that my favorite gin is hendrick's.
wine - oh my, this is difficult. in the broadest sense, i like reds more than whites. narrowing it further, i like big reds: cabernets and zinfandels. i also really like earthy pinot noirs. i don't like merlots. if i had to pick a go-to wine, i think it would be a côtes du rhône. i have experienced a recent taking to rosés. they're dry, which i like, and cold. i find them very refreshing. i simply cannot STAND buttery and oaky chardonnays and much prefer savignon blancs if i choose to have a glass of white.
5. Serial commas: discuss.
*sigh* there is a definite time and place for using serial commas. i think since more and more communication is through the written word these days, we have to resort to being creative with punctuation in order to convey inflection and tone to the dry text. when i chat or write in my LJ, i use the serial comma to convey sarcasm and exaggeration. in my head, at least, reading "com'on." (with a single period) and "com'on..." (with a serial comma) conveys different emotion. with a single period, it is more of a command, and with a serial comma it conveys a feeling of disbelief. however, i am intolerant of the misuse and overuse of serial commas. i had a boss who would use serial commas like they were periods; ending every single sentence with a... now, in my mind, i see an incomplete thought, when in her mind she is done with her thought and it's complete. that's two VERY DIFFERENT interpretations. i have a vendor who does the very same thing. when sending confirmation of instructions or materials for a project, i prefer to receive a "OK." not an "OK...", which makes me feel like what i sent means little to her or she doesn't understand what i've sent. i know that i don't use capitals when i write in my journal. i decided and kept to a specific style with my online journal. however, i do make sure i use proper grammar, when i can, and certainly correct spelling (don't even get me STARTED on the growing lose-loose fad i have seen. com'on people - they are TWO separate words and are NOT interchangeable! i've told marshall this and i'm sure i've mentioned it a few times before here, i KNOW how to write. my emails and my papers for school are treated professionally and written correctly. so, those are my thoughts about the serial comma.
okay, i was much more loquacious than i originally anticipated. i have received another set of questions to answer, but those will have to wait for another time.