what do you see?
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 LJ with the answers to the questions.
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.
Sara's Answers for bugorama:
1. what were the hardest parts about moving to barrow? what are the best parts about living in barrow?
By far the very hardest part was leaving my family behind. I worry about all of them and how they are coping without me, but I also know that they are (or need to become) independent. Particularly Dad & Kayla. The pressure of being such an important cog can become wearing. And I do miss them terribly sometimes. The other hard part was leaving behind a lifestyle that I was quite getting to like (clubs, bands, bookstores, microbrews, and farmable land - I am still in love with the idea of gardens). The best part about being here is the absolute certainty that this is where I'm supposed to be right now. The more tangible best part is my apartment and my job. As a Cancer, I desperately need my own secure little home to take care of and draw energy from. It is an indisputable truth. Time spent away from that domestic nucleus (say housesitting or chaperoning youth retreats) makes me jumpy and cranky. And I make a difference every day at work. It is such a small little job, but it matters deeply to me and I do it well, instictively.
2. tell me about the book you’re writing (in your head or otherwise).
Right now I'm still collecting general themes, threads, and ideas to begin weaving with. I still get bogged down and overwhelmed when I try to fit them to any sort of character within the parameters of an actual plot, but I suppose that will come in time. In my own life I seem to always be seeking after something deeper, stronger, and much older than myself. Something ageless, unchanging, and deeply rooted. I went to see Eskimo dancing the other night and it made me cry. The same motions have been repeated and wrung for generations. Elders in the crowd shouted encouragement to dancers on the stage. There was a dialogue going on, completely unintelligble to me. It was one of the perfect moments in my life. So I like the idea of journeys, boundaries, geographies (physical & spiritual), motion, and disappointment. I am constantly in motion, and I'm still waiting for the end that doesn't disappoint.
3. if you had it in your pocket, what could you blow $200 on without even blinking?
Music. But I think you already knew that.
4. what rock star do you want to make babies with today? why?
Hmmmm. I'm not feeling to hot for anyone just at this precise moment, but I think the answer for now, based on recent listening habits, will have to be Ben Gibbard (Postal Service, deathcab). I think in real life he wouldn't be quite funny enough to engage, but he has such lovely thoughts and words. I've listened to "Brand New Colony" way too much lately. He's a romantic after my own heart; even though we both know that the fairy-tale ending isn't coming we still dream about it sometimes.
5. what’s your favorite memory?
This is a tricky sort of question. So I shall answer in two parts: best pure, unspoiled moment and current favorite moment for replay.
The moment that's been following me lately and getting lots of replay:
Late June of last year, Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR, half-past 11 in the evening. My head and heart buzzing with just the right amount of beer. Dave Bazan just finished a set. The crowd around us throbbed and rustled and began to shake out of the audio dream. I turned to you and you were tall and strong and your head tilted down, just so. I never expected to feel these things for you, but you smell warm and salty and perfect. Floating on the dying notes I leaned in to you, my hand resting on your stomach, just above your narrow hips. Your arms hovered near and my full eyes met your slow gaze before I whispered in your ear. "I'm going to the ladies' room."
And the best pure, unspoiled moment:
Baking on the concrete next to the pool at Great Grandma's house, Kayla drifting by on a plastic float, Mum in the shady corner chatting with her sister, reading aloud under the shade created by my straw cowboy hat. Flies buzz, barn kitties sneak through the pool gate, and we listen to life and words and heat and family.
6. where do you picture yourself being in 10 years (career, personal life, geographic location, etc.)? this doesn’t need to be a prophecy or anything, just a sense of your current goals.
Barefoot, pregnant, and wandering between the rows of the little garden in the backyard of a little frame house somewhere in southeast Alaska. The library where I'm working part-time is just down the hill, and a very nice man is down at the water cleaning the fish he caught for our dinner. Sunshine daydream...
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
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.
Sara's Answers for bugorama:
1. what were the hardest parts about moving to barrow? what are the best parts about living in barrow?
By far the very hardest part was leaving my family behind. I worry about all of them and how they are coping without me, but I also know that they are (or need to become) independent. Particularly Dad & Kayla. The pressure of being such an important cog can become wearing. And I do miss them terribly sometimes. The other hard part was leaving behind a lifestyle that I was quite getting to like (clubs, bands, bookstores, microbrews, and farmable land - I am still in love with the idea of gardens). The best part about being here is the absolute certainty that this is where I'm supposed to be right now. The more tangible best part is my apartment and my job. As a Cancer, I desperately need my own secure little home to take care of and draw energy from. It is an indisputable truth. Time spent away from that domestic nucleus (say housesitting or chaperoning youth retreats) makes me jumpy and cranky. And I make a difference every day at work. It is such a small little job, but it matters deeply to me and I do it well, instictively.
2. tell me about the book you’re writing (in your head or otherwise).
Right now I'm still collecting general themes, threads, and ideas to begin weaving with. I still get bogged down and overwhelmed when I try to fit them to any sort of character within the parameters of an actual plot, but I suppose that will come in time. In my own life I seem to always be seeking after something deeper, stronger, and much older than myself. Something ageless, unchanging, and deeply rooted. I went to see Eskimo dancing the other night and it made me cry. The same motions have been repeated and wrung for generations. Elders in the crowd shouted encouragement to dancers on the stage. There was a dialogue going on, completely unintelligble to me. It was one of the perfect moments in my life. So I like the idea of journeys, boundaries, geographies (physical & spiritual), motion, and disappointment. I am constantly in motion, and I'm still waiting for the end that doesn't disappoint.
3. if you had it in your pocket, what could you blow $200 on without even blinking?
Music. But I think you already knew that.
4. what rock star do you want to make babies with today? why?
Hmmmm. I'm not feeling to hot for anyone just at this precise moment, but I think the answer for now, based on recent listening habits, will have to be Ben Gibbard (Postal Service, deathcab). I think in real life he wouldn't be quite funny enough to engage, but he has such lovely thoughts and words. I've listened to "Brand New Colony" way too much lately. He's a romantic after my own heart; even though we both know that the fairy-tale ending isn't coming we still dream about it sometimes.
5. what’s your favorite memory?
This is a tricky sort of question. So I shall answer in two parts: best pure, unspoiled moment and current favorite moment for replay.
The moment that's been following me lately and getting lots of replay:
Late June of last year, Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR, half-past 11 in the evening. My head and heart buzzing with just the right amount of beer. Dave Bazan just finished a set. The crowd around us throbbed and rustled and began to shake out of the audio dream. I turned to you and you were tall and strong and your head tilted down, just so. I never expected to feel these things for you, but you smell warm and salty and perfect. Floating on the dying notes I leaned in to you, my hand resting on your stomach, just above your narrow hips. Your arms hovered near and my full eyes met your slow gaze before I whispered in your ear. "I'm going to the ladies' room."
And the best pure, unspoiled moment:
Baking on the concrete next to the pool at Great Grandma's house, Kayla drifting by on a plastic float, Mum in the shady corner chatting with her sister, reading aloud under the shade created by my straw cowboy hat. Flies buzz, barn kitties sneak through the pool gate, and we listen to life and words and heat and family.
6. where do you picture yourself being in 10 years (career, personal life, geographic location, etc.)? this doesn’t need to be a prophecy or anything, just a sense of your current goals.
Barefoot, pregnant, and wandering between the rows of the little garden in the backyard of a little frame house somewhere in southeast Alaska. The library where I'm working part-time is just down the hill, and a very nice man is down at the water cleaning the fish he caught for our dinner. Sunshine daydream...