Livejournal Meme
I've signed up to do this twice in the last couple of days because I really like answering questions about myself, and because I really like the writers who decided to participate in the meme in the first place. If you want to try it, don't feel like you have to sign on for the experience more than once.
The rules are as follows:
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
My answers from Gaelicspirit's questions are as follows:
1)If you were to start a new trend, and be known for creating that trend, what would you choose?
I collect costumes, and it makes me sad that I have so very few opportunities to wear them. I would want to start a monthly dress up in costumes day as a trend. It might make me unpopular among the “don’t like to dress up” crowd, but I don’t care.
2)If you were guaranteed an honest answer to any question from any person in the world, who and what would you ask?
I thought about what kind of personal and introspective things I’d ask from people, and the truth is that any answer they gave me would probably hurt in some way. I decided instead to be very practical. I would want to know the day that the Halloween fabric at Jo-Anne’s stopped being 25% off so I could use my 40% off coupon to get the pillowcase fabric for my nieces and nephews and not have it cost me a gazillion dollars.
3)Assuming you agree that there is a subtle difference between being a 'storyteller' and being a 'writer' who is your favorite storyteller and why?
PERFECT question for me! There isn’t a subtle difference. There’s a HUGE difference. One’s a cultural performance art, and one’s a literary art. I’ve been telling stories professionally for five years now, and fifteen years voluntarily before that. I don’t consider myself to be a writer, and I don’t tell original stories when I perform. That’s changing, since this is the first year since college that I’ve actually written something. I could become a writer too!
Soapbox moment over, my favorite storyteller is Donald Davis. He’s a storyteller from North Carolina, and I have had the honor of being able to see him perform many times now. He has the ability to have you laughing hysterically one moment, and crying the next. His stories are warm and wonderful, and I always feel like I’ve been home after listening to him. He’ll be performing Labor Day weekend here at the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival. I can’t wait to see him again!
4)What is the one thing that always makes you laugh hysterically?
When my friend Bryan gets the giggles, it always makes me get them too. It’s hard to get him there, and always worth it when he does.
5)If you knew a nuclear war would begin in two hours, what would you do?
I’m a practical girl when it comes to this stuff. We take our emergency preparedness pretty seriously out here in Utah. My first step would be to make sure everyone was home. Then there would be a phone tree to make sure everyone was notified. I’d make sure I had a store of water, and that everything we needed and/or wanted to keep was moved someplace accessible. Beyond that, we’d stay together as a family, pray, and deal with the aftermath as best we could.