1. You know, I can't remember specifically. The first conscious memory I can conjure up of thinking about what I want "to do" was in high school and it was definitely science (genetics, actually) by then. But my dad told me a story this past Christmas about how when I was a little kid I announced I was going to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, so I guess it started when I was quite young. My memory is atrocious
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Re: Follow-Up QuestionslockholmMarch 2 2008, 15:12:58 UTC
1. My earliest memory (I think) is from when I must have been around 3. My mom had just changed my diaper and sent me to walk across the hallway to my dad. And I thought "I'm just a big girl wearing diapers," with the feeling that inside I was some sort of grownup but no one knew cause here I was tiny and wearing diapers. I have a lot of memories from that same place we lived, but I think that's probably the earliest one, though it's hard to know for sure
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1. Which of Eddings' series is your favorite? (His latest one is hack-tastic, don't know if you've read it. hmm, journalistic bias.)
2. Do you think some of the less accessible "classics" of English lit should be taken off the required reading list in high schools in favor of more modern works? What would deserve admission? (inspiration for the question)
3. Do you keep your identity as a writer in your mind at all times, or do you just think of that while you are in the act of writing? As you go about your daily business, do you just absorb your surroundings and put it all together later or do you consciously think "how would I describe this?" (or "what were the essentials of that conversation those two just had" or etc etc)
Your Questions are Awesome, LockholmrobertmaprilMarch 2 2008, 21:02:27 UTC
I hope you're ready for some looooooong answers
1) Easily the Belgariad/Malloreon cycle. It's what I was brought up on. About midway through the first part of the Sparhawk trilogy, the Elenium I began to notice the conspicuous parallels but I remained tolerant of them because I liked his style and at least he switched up his male lead and some of the magic stuff. After that I more or less stopped reading his stuff. I have a notoriously bad attention span and neither of his prequel books on the sorcerers could keep my attention. Also: I have a copy of 'The Redemption of Althalus' by him given to me by you and it's been so long I couldn't remember if I was just borrowing it or if it was my birthday or something. If you'd like it back, let me know.
2) I read this article and I'm of two minds on it. The first, snotty, point of view is that "yer not doin' it right" and that these works deserve their dues. The other, however, is some of this stuff I'm not even a fan of, and I'd be far more interested in just getting kids to read than I
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2) What is your biggest worry about moving to Irvine?
3) What do you miss about NC? What do you expect to miss about Michigan, besides proximity to Bo and the Cronies?
4) Why the viola?
5) If you had to plan a lesson for teaching high school students something about science, what would you pick?
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2) When all your degree work is sewn up, what do you want to do with it? More research? World Domination?
3) Any other instruments you play or are interested in learning to play?
4) Are you one of those people who can tell straight away if I play a note that it's Middle C, or whatever? Because I sure as hell can't.
5) There is no 5.
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2. Do you think some of the less accessible "classics" of English lit should be taken off the required reading list in high schools in favor of more modern works? What would deserve admission? (inspiration for the question)
3. Do you keep your identity as a writer in your mind at all times, or do you just think of that while you are in the act of writing? As you go about your daily business, do you just absorb your surroundings and put it all together later or do you consciously think "how would I describe this?" (or "what were the essentials of that conversation those two just had" or etc etc)
4. Do you ever regret the internet?
5. What's your favorite lawn/tree/shrub tool?
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1) Easily the Belgariad/Malloreon cycle. It's what I was brought up on. About midway through the first part of the Sparhawk trilogy, the Elenium I began to notice the conspicuous parallels but I remained tolerant of them because I liked his style and at least he switched up his male lead and some of the magic stuff. After that I more or less stopped reading his stuff. I have a notoriously bad attention span and neither of his prequel books on the sorcerers could keep my attention. Also: I have a copy of 'The Redemption of Althalus' by him given to me by you and it's been so long I couldn't remember if I was just borrowing it or if it was my birthday or something. If you'd like it back, let me know.
2) I read this article and I'm of two minds on it. The first, snotty, point of view is that "yer not doin' it right" and that these works deserve their dues. The other, however, is some of this stuff I'm not even a fan of, and I'd be far more interested in just getting kids to read than I ( ... )
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