Meme! Of Questions!
How this works: Comment with your favourite colour and I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better. Update your journal with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
I got five questions from nessaniel
1. If you had the chance to take a weekend trip to wherever you'd like - money and time being of no importance - where would you go?
This is a question to which I must add one codicil; money, time, and exhaustion levels of no importance. If I'm perfectly energetic when I get there and perfectly energetic when I get back... well, where wouldn't I go? Everywhere in this list. I'd also like to visit my mum, and my not-niece. I'd love to drop in on my aunt in Baton Rouge, too. Probably, though, New Zealand. I've been wanting to go for ages. Hiking trip in New Zealand.
2. The one thing you'd like to change about your flat?
Oh my god. The kitchen. Definitely the kitchen. I would like my kitchen to be the size of my main room - even half the size of my main room! But my kitchen is literally a nook off the hallway. MY CLOSETS ARE BIGGER THAN MY KITCHEN. This is the most poorly designed apartment ever, for people who like to do more with their food than pour boiling water into cup noodles. And even that would've been a hassle, I had to get a kettle. Mmm. My ideal kitchen has ample counters, spacious cupboards, and an array of hooks for cooking utensils (this, actually, is something I really like - I've had to put hooks all over inside my kitchen nook to hang the utensils on, and they're really convenient like that). It has a full-sized oven, a full-sized refrigerator, and a dishwasher. Room for a KitchenAid or two. A capacious pantry. A spice rack. An array of gloriously sharp knives... *drifts off into kitchen fantasies*
3. What would you love to see in the third season of "Teen Wolf"?
Actually, what I'd most like to see is Lydia and Stiles building a close friendship as Scott and Isaac get closer together. See, I'd like for a show to point out that the friends you make when you're tiny, they're important and they have a large part of you. They're like your siblings. However, as you get older, you get different, and often the friendships don't work as well. You love each other, but you don't really need to spend so much time together. And I feel like Lydia and Stiles have friendship compatibility, and Scott and Isaac certainly do. I'd also like to see them adopt Erica and/or Boyd and/or Danny into their friendship circle (especially Erica, because girl needs some more friends, and I love Erica, and I'd love to see who she'd be with a strong support network). And, well, you know how I feel about Derek and Stiles, I'd like them to slowly rely more and more on each other, and veeeeery slowly work up to a relationship. So S3 should be, like, late-night stakeouts and occasional confessions and saving each other's asses and, oooh, a teaching scene would be badass, you know it would. I would also like Allison to have an opportunity to develop her character based less on Scott and more on her recent history - happy girl loses mother to mother's ideology, goes on vengeance kick, repents vengeance kick... And you know what? I would really like to see that 'one nice day' for Derek thing (because it would be hilarious - he gets more and more paranoid and tense throughout the day). Ahem. Yes.
4. Have you ever shipped a pairing purely based on looks although the characters barely meet in canon? (e.g. I ship McCoy/Pike solely because they look good together xD)
Hmmm. Not really looks, I think. But I do ship Mycroft/Lestrade, even though they've never been in a scene together. I feel like their personalities are compatible. I mean, I definitely have looks preferences for pairings - I like contrast. Dark/light, built/wiry, healer/tank - uh, what I mean is, I think relationships are more interesting if people complement each other's strengths and weaknesses! But my OTP to end all OTPs is Doctor/Master, and they never look the same twice, and are sometimes not even the same species, so...
5. If you could decide: what subject ought to be taught in schools?
Now, this is an interesting question. I honestly - see, reading's quite important, obviously I believe reading is awesome. I think that learning another language, if presented appropriately, can help children become more understanding and compassionate of other people's worldviews. I'm really okay with what's being taught, except that I think in high school (we're talking US here - I'm broadly familiar with a number of different educational systems, but my mastery is obv USA) you should be able to start learning a trade/apprenticing. I mean, you could go an entirely academic route, of course, but I'd probably have done, I dunno, academics and cookery or something. I'd like to have a solid grounding in something practical, under the instruction of someone who knows wtf they're doing. I feel like 'everyone gets the same education, everyone quests for a job' leads to a lot of people looking for high-paying jobs they are not suited for and don't really want to do, and ends up in a lot of people getting shafted as far as the job market goes. Maybe in JH you could start shopping around for a trade, like you shop around for a major in college? Or maybe that could be HS, no need to rush. I homeschooled, I liked it.
Mostly, though, what I want to change about the education system is the attitude towards learning. It shouldn't be test-based; it should be curiosity and discovery-based. I think one of the things that makes humanity awesome is that on the whole humans are insatiably curious, and that fostering that curiosity would lead to more development than the competition-based system we have generally. I've always retained information much better and for longer if I chose to learn it than if I was tested on it, and if you've got a good teacher, any subject can be interesting. The attitude towards education in the US is largely represented in that abomination known as No Child Left Behind, and in the incredibly low pay for the teachers. I'm planning to get a Master's in Education and Literature and teach in high school, but I'm pretty resigned to penury as a result.
I got five questions from nessaniel
1. If you had the chance to take a weekend trip to wherever you'd like - money and time being of no importance - where would you go?
This is a question to which I must add one codicil; money, time, and exhaustion levels of no importance. If I'm perfectly energetic when I get there and perfectly energetic when I get back... well, where wouldn't I go? Everywhere in this list. I'd also like to visit my mum, and my not-niece. I'd love to drop in on my aunt in Baton Rouge, too. Probably, though, New Zealand. I've been wanting to go for ages. Hiking trip in New Zealand.
2. The one thing you'd like to change about your flat?
Oh my god. The kitchen. Definitely the kitchen. I would like my kitchen to be the size of my main room - even half the size of my main room! But my kitchen is literally a nook off the hallway. MY CLOSETS ARE BIGGER THAN MY KITCHEN. This is the most poorly designed apartment ever, for people who like to do more with their food than pour boiling water into cup noodles. And even that would've been a hassle, I had to get a kettle. Mmm. My ideal kitchen has ample counters, spacious cupboards, and an array of hooks for cooking utensils (this, actually, is something I really like - I've had to put hooks all over inside my kitchen nook to hang the utensils on, and they're really convenient like that). It has a full-sized oven, a full-sized refrigerator, and a dishwasher. Room for a KitchenAid or two. A capacious pantry. A spice rack. An array of gloriously sharp knives... *drifts off into kitchen fantasies*
3. What would you love to see in the third season of "Teen Wolf"?
Actually, what I'd most like to see is Lydia and Stiles building a close friendship as Scott and Isaac get closer together. See, I'd like for a show to point out that the friends you make when you're tiny, they're important and they have a large part of you. They're like your siblings. However, as you get older, you get different, and often the friendships don't work as well. You love each other, but you don't really need to spend so much time together. And I feel like Lydia and Stiles have friendship compatibility, and Scott and Isaac certainly do. I'd also like to see them adopt Erica and/or Boyd and/or Danny into their friendship circle (especially Erica, because girl needs some more friends, and I love Erica, and I'd love to see who she'd be with a strong support network). And, well, you know how I feel about Derek and Stiles, I'd like them to slowly rely more and more on each other, and veeeeery slowly work up to a relationship. So S3 should be, like, late-night stakeouts and occasional confessions and saving each other's asses and, oooh, a teaching scene would be badass, you know it would. I would also like Allison to have an opportunity to develop her character based less on Scott and more on her recent history - happy girl loses mother to mother's ideology, goes on vengeance kick, repents vengeance kick... And you know what? I would really like to see that 'one nice day' for Derek thing (because it would be hilarious - he gets more and more paranoid and tense throughout the day). Ahem. Yes.
4. Have you ever shipped a pairing purely based on looks although the characters barely meet in canon? (e.g. I ship McCoy/Pike solely because they look good together xD)
Hmmm. Not really looks, I think. But I do ship Mycroft/Lestrade, even though they've never been in a scene together. I feel like their personalities are compatible. I mean, I definitely have looks preferences for pairings - I like contrast. Dark/light, built/wiry, healer/tank - uh, what I mean is, I think relationships are more interesting if people complement each other's strengths and weaknesses! But my OTP to end all OTPs is Doctor/Master, and they never look the same twice, and are sometimes not even the same species, so...
5. If you could decide: what subject ought to be taught in schools?
Now, this is an interesting question. I honestly - see, reading's quite important, obviously I believe reading is awesome. I think that learning another language, if presented appropriately, can help children become more understanding and compassionate of other people's worldviews. I'm really okay with what's being taught, except that I think in high school (we're talking US here - I'm broadly familiar with a number of different educational systems, but my mastery is obv USA) you should be able to start learning a trade/apprenticing. I mean, you could go an entirely academic route, of course, but I'd probably have done, I dunno, academics and cookery or something. I'd like to have a solid grounding in something practical, under the instruction of someone who knows wtf they're doing. I feel like 'everyone gets the same education, everyone quests for a job' leads to a lot of people looking for high-paying jobs they are not suited for and don't really want to do, and ends up in a lot of people getting shafted as far as the job market goes. Maybe in JH you could start shopping around for a trade, like you shop around for a major in college? Or maybe that could be HS, no need to rush. I homeschooled, I liked it.
Mostly, though, what I want to change about the education system is the attitude towards learning. It shouldn't be test-based; it should be curiosity and discovery-based. I think one of the things that makes humanity awesome is that on the whole humans are insatiably curious, and that fostering that curiosity would lead to more development than the competition-based system we have generally. I've always retained information much better and for longer if I chose to learn it than if I was tested on it, and if you've got a good teacher, any subject can be interesting. The attitude towards education in the US is largely represented in that abomination known as No Child Left Behind, and in the incredibly low pay for the teachers. I'm planning to get a Master's in Education and Literature and teach in high school, but I'm pretty resigned to penury as a result.