Teh Interview
Interview Meme Rules are as follows: You comment on this entry requesting an interview. I respond with five questions. The questions will theoretically be tailored to you based on what I know of you (or want to know). You copy and paste those questions into your own journal, and write the answers, along with these rules. Anyone wanting an interview from you continues the game by requesting an interview from you.
Questions are from same_sky, obviously.
1. What is your absolute favorite thing about your wife? ;) (You totally set yourself up for that one, boyo.)
The favorite thing? That I smile every time I think about her.
2. You are creating a new country from scratch, using the best parts of both America and Sweden. What's it like?
Oh, wow. That's kind of a novel there. Also very difficult to answer without being superficial or flippant or very, very political. I would like to have corruption like in Sweden, confidence like America, organization like Sweden, limitlesness like America, safety like Sweden and absurdity like America. How's that for a start?
3. What are you most looking forward to about impending fatherhood? What are you most dreading?
Well, I've sat here thinking about that for about 20 minutes now, and there seem to be a lot of things here. Two groupings make themselves obvious, though. Good things have to do with happy baby, bad things have to do with sad baby. There are a lot of things I look forward to, things like a moment I witnessed at wally world tonight, for example. This woman was walking down the ice cream isle with a baby in the cart, maybe four or five months old. I noticed them because she was looking amused, and the baby was looking around a lot. Suddenly the baby started waving its arms and squawking "Eee! Eee! Eee!" The woman giggled and said "Yes, this is the ice cream isle, we're going to get your Dibs." I thought that this was clearly one of those moments where an adult is projecting things onto the behavior of a baby. Clearly, the baby wouldn't recognize the ice cream isle from the frozen vegetable isle for example, and that it would be yelling for Dibs was just kind of absurd. That is, until they stopped and pulled out a box of Dibs from the freezer, and the baby started bouncing hysterically in the buggy, laughing hysterically. "Eee! EEE! EEE! EEE!"
That was just a totally awesome moment of neat. What I DON'T look forward to is the worrying.
4. Someone is giving you $100,000. (No investing.) What do you spend it on?
Sorry, no fun answer. Most of it would go to the mortgage. Maybe replace the Oldsmobile with something a few years younger. Some more tools for the basement, that sort of thing.
5. What's the hardest thing you've ever done voluntarily?
Depends on what kind of hard you're talking about. The most technically difficult thing was probably building my first mandolin. The hardest thing physically was quitting smoking. The hardest thing to go through emotionally was probably going through the infertility treatments.
Questions are from same_sky, obviously.
1. What is your absolute favorite thing about your wife? ;) (You totally set yourself up for that one, boyo.)
The favorite thing? That I smile every time I think about her.
2. You are creating a new country from scratch, using the best parts of both America and Sweden. What's it like?
Oh, wow. That's kind of a novel there. Also very difficult to answer without being superficial or flippant or very, very political. I would like to have corruption like in Sweden, confidence like America, organization like Sweden, limitlesness like America, safety like Sweden and absurdity like America. How's that for a start?
3. What are you most looking forward to about impending fatherhood? What are you most dreading?
Well, I've sat here thinking about that for about 20 minutes now, and there seem to be a lot of things here. Two groupings make themselves obvious, though. Good things have to do with happy baby, bad things have to do with sad baby. There are a lot of things I look forward to, things like a moment I witnessed at wally world tonight, for example. This woman was walking down the ice cream isle with a baby in the cart, maybe four or five months old. I noticed them because she was looking amused, and the baby was looking around a lot. Suddenly the baby started waving its arms and squawking "Eee! Eee! Eee!" The woman giggled and said "Yes, this is the ice cream isle, we're going to get your Dibs." I thought that this was clearly one of those moments where an adult is projecting things onto the behavior of a baby. Clearly, the baby wouldn't recognize the ice cream isle from the frozen vegetable isle for example, and that it would be yelling for Dibs was just kind of absurd. That is, until they stopped and pulled out a box of Dibs from the freezer, and the baby started bouncing hysterically in the buggy, laughing hysterically. "Eee! EEE! EEE! EEE!"
That was just a totally awesome moment of neat. What I DON'T look forward to is the worrying.
4. Someone is giving you $100,000. (No investing.) What do you spend it on?
Sorry, no fun answer. Most of it would go to the mortgage. Maybe replace the Oldsmobile with something a few years younger. Some more tools for the basement, that sort of thing.
5. What's the hardest thing you've ever done voluntarily?
Depends on what kind of hard you're talking about. The most technically difficult thing was probably building my first mandolin. The hardest thing physically was quitting smoking. The hardest thing to go through emotionally was probably going through the infertility treatments.