That dang-blasted interview meme
Oct. 29th, 2005 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbhe1. Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the five questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed. And it just keeps going, and going, and going....
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buzzy_bee
1. This is something people always ask me. Where would you ideally like to live? England, Ireland, Sweden, somewhere else?
I don't know. If we leave England, we are most likely to go to Sweden. We're very unlikely to return to Ireland unless something spectacular happens to the public transport and the medical system. But I mostly never, ever want to move house again as long as I live. Urgh.
2. Are you planning to raise L to be bilingual? More than bilingual?
I expect she will be reasonably fluent in at least one other language, but I don't know about truly bilingual - I know we're unlikely to ever have a bilingual household in which we use at least two languages all the time, so a lot will depend on what happens outside our household. She's toddling along to our Swedish lessons, anyway, on those rare occasions when I have not been struck down by a stomach bug and actually attend. Dammit.
3. If you had to choose one book to take to a desert island (a'la Desert Island Discs) which would it be?
Agh! "The Bone People" by Keri Hulme, I think, because it has language lessons and poetry and music and a story and stuff. I think. Ask again next week.
4. If you returned to work, what would you like to do?
If I have to "return to work", a phrase I dislike rather a lot, I will do something unskilled with a fixed shift-end, like stacking shelves or operating a till. However, it's quite likely that I will train as a lactation consultant, or whatever they're called, and volunteer. Does it count as work if no-one's paying me for it? It's not something I'd want to be paid for, I think.
I used to think I'd be a doula, but, uh, not so much any more. Perhaps later I will change my mind.
5. Are you, or have you ever been, vegetarian?
Of course I was - from age 14 to almost 19, I think.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the five questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed. And it just keeps going, and going, and going....
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buzzy_bee1. This is something people always ask me. Where would you ideally like to live? England, Ireland, Sweden, somewhere else?
I don't know. If we leave England, we are most likely to go to Sweden. We're very unlikely to return to Ireland unless something spectacular happens to the public transport and the medical system. But I mostly never, ever want to move house again as long as I live. Urgh.
2. Are you planning to raise L to be bilingual? More than bilingual?
I expect she will be reasonably fluent in at least one other language, but I don't know about truly bilingual - I know we're unlikely to ever have a bilingual household in which we use at least two languages all the time, so a lot will depend on what happens outside our household. She's toddling along to our Swedish lessons, anyway, on those rare occasions when I have not been struck down by a stomach bug and actually attend. Dammit.
3. If you had to choose one book to take to a desert island (a'la Desert Island Discs) which would it be?
Agh! "The Bone People" by Keri Hulme, I think, because it has language lessons and poetry and music and a story and stuff. I think. Ask again next week.
4. If you returned to work, what would you like to do?
If I have to "return to work", a phrase I dislike rather a lot, I will do something unskilled with a fixed shift-end, like stacking shelves or operating a till. However, it's quite likely that I will train as a lactation consultant, or whatever they're called, and volunteer. Does it count as work if no-one's paying me for it? It's not something I'd want to be paid for, I think.
I used to think I'd be a doula, but, uh, not so much any more. Perhaps later I will change my mind.
5. Are you, or have you ever been, vegetarian?
Of course I was - from age 14 to almost 19, I think.
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(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-29 07:49 pm (UTC)Interview meme
Date: 2005-10-29 07:53 pm (UTC)1) Do you generally read the journals of random strangers?
2) Brussels sprouts - love 'em or hate 'em? And would you force your kids to eat just one bite?
3) What is on your tshirt in that user icon?
4) Have you ever (wanted to) skydive?
5) Are books a necessity or a luxury? (and what do you think my answer is?)
Re: Interview meme
Date: 2005-10-30 09:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-29 08:02 pm (UTC)Interview meme
Date: 2005-10-29 08:11 pm (UTC)2) Do you mind the idea that enduring horrible things about which you have no choice makes you a stronger, better person than you were before? Or does it seem to help?
3) Have you ever done a table-dance in public (afp-events don't count)? Sober?
4) What would you eat right now, if you could have anything you've ever heard of or tasted?
5) Where do you go to be quite alone, in a good way?
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-29 08:18 pm (UTC)Oh and apologies for the return to work phrasing.
Interview meme
Date: 2005-10-29 08:21 pm (UTC)2) There aren't enough words for the roles parents of children can have. Make some up for three situations, and explain why.
3) How many slings does one baby need, anyway?
4) Is your L likely to grow up bilingual?
5) What one life-path would you be most devestated if L chose it (apply grammar to this question at your own risk)?
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-29 08:19 pm (UTC)Interview meme
Date: 2005-10-29 08:28 pm (UTC)2) Why do(n't) you live there?
3) Dogs or cats? Why?
4) How many grams of wool should I use to make a hat without a pattern which I intend to felt? Do you think that a failed felted hat would make a nice bowl?
5) Do you consciously apply your ethics to your grocery shopping decisions? if so, how?
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-29 10:36 pm (UTC)PS got your book today. It's really lovely.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-29 10:47 pm (UTC)2) How long have you been wearing a cycle helmet?
3) If you knew Susie like I know Susie, what would you think of her?
4) Is there anyone to whome healthcare should be denied?
5) Hats: fashion item, cold weather necessity, or abomination?
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-30 12:44 am (UTC)Interview meme
Date: 2005-10-30 10:15 pm (UTC)2) Have you ever had a ponytail?
3) Describe your favourite garment (yours, not something you admire on someone else).
4) Where was the best holiday you ever had?
5) How many chucks would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Re: Interview meme
Date: 2005-10-30 10:38 pm (UTC)I've always fancied having slightly purple eyes - either that or cobalt blue. Just different enough to cause a "What the heck" moment, not different enough to really stand out.
2) Have you ever had a ponytail?
Yes actually - I looked ridiculous in it, although without it I looked like Neil from the Young Ones - the perils of growing your hair out to be long enough to slick back properly (it was for a 60s set musical I was in - all the variants looked stupid)
3) Describe your favourite garment (yours, not something you admire on someone else).
A rather nice M&S "Oxford Weave" dark blue shirt in middle weight cotton - it's the one thing that I tend to get compliments when I'm wearing and compliments are good.
4) Where was the best holiday you ever had?
Of all places? Fylie in North Yorkshire in 1990 at a caravan park I can't remember the name for - I got my first "proper" kiss and first holiday romance there :@)
5) How many chucks would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
None at all - it can only chuck wood, not chucks!
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-30 09:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-30 10:17 pm (UTC)2) Gas or electric cooker?
3) What do you most miss about your previous job? What least (except money!)?
4) How often, say per day, do you feel angry or defensive because no-one seems to appreciate the job you do now, whether locally in your immediate circles or wider, throughout society?
5) Do you believe in better living through chemicals? (drugs, I'm thinking of here, rather than toilet bleach).
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-30 10:27 am (UTC)Interview meme
Date: 2005-10-30 10:19 pm (UTC)2) Why is your icon a vibrating gif?
3) Have you ever met a baby which wasn't innocent?
4) Do you have the time to listen to me whine about nothing or anythign I want? If not, what are you doing on livejournal?
5) Do you vote?
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-31 12:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-31 03:30 pm (UTC)2) Is a bell necessary on a bicycle?
3) Do you actually call your son Oyster as a nickname to his face (or bottom, as the case may be)?
4) What is the first deschooling book (as distinct from unschooling or nonschooling) you'd recommend to someone "open to the idea" of home education as long as it looks exactly like school?
5) What's your dream job title?