5 questions, retook
The Rules:
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 blog/site with the answers to the questions and leave the answers as comments on my blog.
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.
new_man asked me:
1. What do you hope to get out of being interviewed?
2. What question are you most afraid I'll ask?
3. If you could interview one person from your life in this format, who would it be, why, and what five questions would you ask?
4. Once Will has grown up and left home, do you think you'll stay in the same place? If not, where do you think you'll go?
5. Have you ever had a "day job" and if so, what was it?
I answered
1. What do you hope to get out of being interviewed?
a) Interaction with you. b) Insight.
2. What question are you most afraid I'll ask?
Boring answer, sorry, but there isn't one. I like hard questions that make me think. You like to ask challenging questions, so I was looking forward to seeing you hit me with your best shot.
3. If you could interview one person from your life in this format, who would it be, why, and what five questions would you ask?
(Hmm...I'm curious about the lives of everyone about whom I don't already know, but that's not a good answer.) Probably my ex-husband, Glenn. Because we were married for 17 years, I miss him, he prefers not to interact with me, and I wonder what his life is like now. The questions:
1st: What do you think caused our marriage to end, and why? In hindsight, do you think we could've saved it?
2nd: What about me bothered you the most, and what did you most appreciate in me?
3rd: What have you learned about yourself; how have you grown and changed from/since our divorce?
4th: What is your current relationship like, and how is it different from what ours was?
5th: Are you happy? What achievement are you proudest of in life so far?
4. Once Will has grown up and left home, do you think you'll stay in the same place? If not, where do you think you'll go?
I'll be gone like a bullet from a gun. I might move to mid-south, where there's an extra month of spring and an extra month of fall, taken off winter. Or, I may join a co-housing group. I may move closer to my largest/closest clump of friends (which might keep me in the Boston area), but as soon as Will's in college I'm out of here.
5. Have you ever had a "day job" and if so, what was it?
Yes. I taught Jr. High School. Shop. (9th grade pre-vocational jewelry making in Woonsocket RI) ....razor knives, blow torches....and 13 year olds. I learned a lot, but teaching paid me about as much money as Glenn and I paid in income taxes every year.
Then I worked as an actor touring schools for three different companies; Crosswalk Theatre Co, Young Audiences, and New England Theatre Guild for Children. I was also Artistic Director of NETGC.
I've done various other paying free-lance and contract jobs, (especially photography,) but those are the "day jobs" I've had since graduating college.
Edit: I'm going to ask you all personal questions of the sort I maybe couldn't in polite conversation, so if you don't want to answer, or want to answer more privately, I'll understand, and no hard feelings, ok?
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 blog/site with the answers to the questions and leave the answers as comments on my blog.
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.
new_man asked me:
1. What do you hope to get out of being interviewed?
2. What question are you most afraid I'll ask?
3. If you could interview one person from your life in this format, who would it be, why, and what five questions would you ask?
4. Once Will has grown up and left home, do you think you'll stay in the same place? If not, where do you think you'll go?
5. Have you ever had a "day job" and if so, what was it?
I answered
1. What do you hope to get out of being interviewed?
a) Interaction with you. b) Insight.
2. What question are you most afraid I'll ask?
Boring answer, sorry, but there isn't one. I like hard questions that make me think. You like to ask challenging questions, so I was looking forward to seeing you hit me with your best shot.
3. If you could interview one person from your life in this format, who would it be, why, and what five questions would you ask?
(Hmm...I'm curious about the lives of everyone about whom I don't already know, but that's not a good answer.) Probably my ex-husband, Glenn. Because we were married for 17 years, I miss him, he prefers not to interact with me, and I wonder what his life is like now. The questions:
1st: What do you think caused our marriage to end, and why? In hindsight, do you think we could've saved it?
2nd: What about me bothered you the most, and what did you most appreciate in me?
3rd: What have you learned about yourself; how have you grown and changed from/since our divorce?
4th: What is your current relationship like, and how is it different from what ours was?
5th: Are you happy? What achievement are you proudest of in life so far?
4. Once Will has grown up and left home, do you think you'll stay in the same place? If not, where do you think you'll go?
I'll be gone like a bullet from a gun. I might move to mid-south, where there's an extra month of spring and an extra month of fall, taken off winter. Or, I may join a co-housing group. I may move closer to my largest/closest clump of friends (which might keep me in the Boston area), but as soon as Will's in college I'm out of here.
5. Have you ever had a "day job" and if so, what was it?
Yes. I taught Jr. High School. Shop. (9th grade pre-vocational jewelry making in Woonsocket RI) ....razor knives, blow torches....and 13 year olds. I learned a lot, but teaching paid me about as much money as Glenn and I paid in income taxes every year.
Then I worked as an actor touring schools for three different companies; Crosswalk Theatre Co, Young Audiences, and New England Theatre Guild for Children. I was also Artistic Director of NETGC.
I've done various other paying free-lance and contract jobs, (especially photography,) but those are the "day jobs" I've had since graduating college.
Edit: I'm going to ask you all personal questions of the sort I maybe couldn't in polite conversation, so if you don't want to answer, or want to answer more privately, I'll understand, and no hard feelings, ok?