Comments | pocket_cathy: Ack!

pocket_cathy

Ack!

Apr 23, 2007 11:18

I've been asked to do an interview for my company's newsletter, which will also be handed out to the executive board so they know more about me for the trip to Mexico. I'm completely stumped on one question, though... Please provide some personal information, an anecdote about yourself that exemplifies who you are, or something about you that is ( Read more... )

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scintillare2 April 23 2007, 15:40:32 UTC

You should also not mention that you used to have a tree stump in your kitchen. That certainly labels you as a nutter.

Um... you could mention you edited all my application essays so I could get into grad school. That makes it sound like editing is the very air you breathe. I actually suspect it is.

pocket_cathy April 23 2007, 16:39:47 UTC

Definitely leaving out the tree stump.

I think the root of the problem (no pun intended) is that I hate writing about myself. I don't mind whining (obviously), but if I have to talk about what a great person I am or something, it either sounds cheesy or conceited. I've love to write a mock-interview for fun, where the answers would certainly be more "me", but knowing me, some weird mix up would happen and I'd send the wrong version and they'd print it and I'd be horrified.

pocket_cathy April 25 2007, 20:57:42 UTC

Does the fact that the kitchen tree stumps are now free-range tree stumps make us any more normal?

pwiggily April 23 2007, 16:24:38 UTC

"My husband, who will accompany me on my much-deserved trip to Mexico, has an affinity for midgets. I have heard Mexicans in general are tiny people, so this should be an enjoyable trip for him. Also, I will be able to satisfy my churro craving, which cannot be satiated in Ohio, a.k.a. What-the-fuck-is-a-churro, U.S.A."

pocket_cathy April 23 2007, 16:37:46 UTC

LOL, that's awesome. Maybe I should resort to what I did when writing papers: writing something funny or obscene using the first letter of each paragraph. I once did that and wrote "COMMUNISM" for a paper for my Cold War class. I also once wrote "YOURE A STUPID COW" (obviously could not start a paragraph with "'" very easily) for a professor I disliked. I could make this one "CLEVELAND SUCKS" or something.

scintillare2 April 23 2007, 18:36:03 UTC

You didn't! Cathy, you are my new idol. It's the Dalai Lama (not Llama, Corey, dammit!) and you.

scintillare2 April 23 2007, 18:40:03 UTC

I think I am going to give up on trying not to spell it "Lama" with two "l"s. From now on, it'll have to be the "Dalai Llama", which will instantly conjure mental images of an alpaca-type creature dressed in saffron-colored robes. His Holiness will just have to suck it up, I suspect.

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olivetree April 23 2007, 17:01:01 UTC

I found another one myself: besom! Scottish and northern English use, still in use, at least 150 years old.

Which makes me declare a new IHOP name: the buxom besom.

yes.

godd luck on showing aspects of your personality that do not involve things that frighten the normies.

scintillare2 April 23 2007, 18:34:52 UTC

Nonono, Becky, you're supposed to include a nationality! So it would have to be the Buxom Brazilian Besom. Tcha.

olivetree April 23 2007, 18:52:41 UTC

OK, I'm down with that.

some euphemisms for you braziliansnoopy April 24 2007, 01:31:45 UTC

unique sense of humor
appreciation for history - particularly the Renaissance and characters on the fringes of society
a lover of words and synonyms

Re: some euphemisms for you scintillare2 April 24 2007, 13:01:47 UTC

"Characters on the fringes of society"

I suspect that means whores and wacky spoon-waving peasants. Ah, Jess, you are a master wordsmith.

akrodha April 24 2007, 14:43:47 UTC

what about knitting? that's gotta be the only non-threatening activity of yours.

pocket_cathy April 25 2007, 20:58:12 UTC

Non-threatening? But knitting needles are so stabby stabby!