Interview meme
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1) What's the worst chore in the house?
Cleaning up cat sick. I find it scary, ever since I was pregnant.
2) What's the *first* thing you'd buy/pay for with a large windfall?
Um. Depending on how large, a holiday or wooden flooring. If it was large enough for the flooring, then that.
3) Are there any subjects that you feel *so* strongly about, you'd stress your point to a group of relative strangers in a pub/similar atmosphere?
Depends on how safe I feel in the pub. If I feel that I can leave safely, not be followed, not be tailed into the loos, etc, then breastfeeding, mothering as a valid career choice, gay bi and het rights, not destroying the planet, all them things and stuff. If I didn't feel safe, about all I feel that strongly about is a person's right not to be assaulted - so I tend to try hard to speak up when I hear people saying that someone is asking for something unpleasant. Which isn't clever and I usually only do it if someone seems to think that someone is asking for rape. For values of "usually" including "haven't done for a long time and am unlikely to in future", now I come to think of it.
4) You have to select one item to go to room 101. What is it?
A particular Elmer the Elephant book my mother intends to burn, so appalling is it in form and content.
5) It's christmas ten years hence. What is your ideal scenario?
What, one? Um. Something like... Me and Rob and a gang of our kids, or one, you know, but preferably a gang. No-one crying for unpleasant reasons. My mother with us, for preference. Working central heating and hot water (such a bonus on Christmas Day!) and plenty of food. And sherry trifle - so no dairy intolerance. Um. In this house, please. I never want to move again.
djelibeybi_meg1) What's the worst chore in the house?
Cleaning up cat sick. I find it scary, ever since I was pregnant.
2) What's the *first* thing you'd buy/pay for with a large windfall?
Um. Depending on how large, a holiday or wooden flooring. If it was large enough for the flooring, then that.
3) Are there any subjects that you feel *so* strongly about, you'd stress your point to a group of relative strangers in a pub/similar atmosphere?
Depends on how safe I feel in the pub. If I feel that I can leave safely, not be followed, not be tailed into the loos, etc, then breastfeeding, mothering as a valid career choice, gay bi and het rights, not destroying the planet, all them things and stuff. If I didn't feel safe, about all I feel that strongly about is a person's right not to be assaulted - so I tend to try hard to speak up when I hear people saying that someone is asking for something unpleasant. Which isn't clever and I usually only do it if someone seems to think that someone is asking for rape. For values of "usually" including "haven't done for a long time and am unlikely to in future", now I come to think of it.
4) You have to select one item to go to room 101. What is it?
A particular Elmer the Elephant book my mother intends to burn, so appalling is it in form and content.
5) It's christmas ten years hence. What is your ideal scenario?
What, one? Um. Something like... Me and Rob and a gang of our kids, or one, you know, but preferably a gang. No-one crying for unpleasant reasons. My mother with us, for preference. Working central heating and hot water (such a bonus on Christmas Day!) and plenty of food. And sherry trifle - so no dairy intolerance. Um. In this house, please. I never want to move again.
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Date: 2005-10-29 09:49 pm (UTC)some of them are quite cute.
though I can't take them seriously (no, that can't be right...) since I read the one which said "meet Elmer: every child's favourite patchwork elephant". Well, I don't know how many you meet each week.
The ones I've seen all need editing, but there are very few children's books I've read without itching for a green pen. The elephant and the bad baby might have made it (rumpeta rumpeta rumpeta all down the road... or as Oliver has it, "ru-ru-ru- a' dow roa") and there are one or two others, but most of them fall down at least on the "it would have flowed so much better if..." angle.
LBs
Julie paradox
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Date: 2005-10-29 09:55 pm (UTC)BURN.
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Date: 2005-10-29 10:26 pm (UTC)small voice
I thought that was ok, really
Not a great example of the bursting genre, but not a hate object either.
I mean, obviously it's "within the context of the enclosed Elmer universe" in which everyone is a friend
...ok, you're not convinced.
it was a library book: I didn't buy it.
LBs
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Date: 2005-10-29 10:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-30 01:03 am (UTC)I'm always interested in the 5 questions meme, but while I love having people ask me questions, I am completely useless at thinking up decent questions for other people. Hrm.