Interview #1
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starcat_jewel:
1. Who on your friends list (who isn't already on mine) would you recommend that I read?
2. When was the last time (or the time you remember most vividly) that you felt completely alien to everyone around you?
3. What's in Room 101? (cf. Orwell's 1984)
4. Tea or coffee?
5. Someone offers you an all-expenses-paid trip to any one country in the world for 2 weeks. Where do you go, and why?
1) Well,bibulb is the Spouse, and while he's friended you, you don't seem to have returned the favor . . . but that doesn't quite count, I think. Hmm . . . I think stylistically you might like bassfingers, especially some of his photography, but he also posts a lot about music you probably aren't interested in.
2) Back during my second year ever teaching, I needed to take a six-hour course called "Nature and Needs of the Gifted and Talented" in order to be correctly certified to teach a Pre-AP math course. Naturally enough, I was quite eager to actually learn, y'know, the content of the course. However, when I arrived, I found that everyone there - including the teacher - considered this a waste of time, were only there to put in their hours, and really didn't care a bit about the content, or about G/T kids in general. As I not only see my position in the school system almost entirely in terms of being an advocate for the G/T, and identify strongly with the label myself, it was both extremely alienating and extremely depressing.
More recently, I had a moment at the last CMA event when I realized that the set of experiences, problems, and talents I bring to a gathering is almost entirely disjoint from the set that 99% of the other attendees bring. and that even though I've been a member since 1995, there are still dozens of people who joined after me that think I'm a newbee. That wasn't so much alienation as just feeling unappreciated and mopey, though.
3) It isn't so much what's in Room 101 as what's not in it. For one thing, it has no floor - it just goes down forever. For another, the doors are invisible, undetectable, and unopenable from the inside. The walls absorb all sound, and the air is dead still. It's one endless, inescapable fall in compete silence, alone.
4) Tea. In many varieties and flavors. I think of coffee as a flavoring rather than a beverage in its own right, but tea comes in everything from flavored, sugared, over-lemoned or over-dairy'd froufrou down to an oolong steeped for exactly 3 minutes in an unmarred cup, unadulterated. I currently have over twenty varieties of tea on my pantry shelves, not counting iced, which I think of as a separate beverage.
5) Oh, do I have to go? I'd really rather not, all things considered. Having said that - Ireland. I'd like to know what the mystique really is, and I have ancestors from there. I feel little enough draw to the gods of my foreparents that I'm a little curious as to why; visiting them at home might help explain things a bit.
starcat_jewel:1. Who on your friends list (who isn't already on mine) would you recommend that I read?
2. When was the last time (or the time you remember most vividly) that you felt completely alien to everyone around you?
3. What's in Room 101? (cf. Orwell's 1984)
4. Tea or coffee?
5. Someone offers you an all-expenses-paid trip to any one country in the world for 2 weeks. Where do you go, and why?
1) Well,
bibulb is the Spouse, and while he's friended you, you don't seem to have returned the favor . . . but that doesn't quite count, I think. Hmm . . . I think stylistically you might like bassfingers, especially some of his photography, but he also posts a lot about music you probably aren't interested in. 2) Back during my second year ever teaching, I needed to take a six-hour course called "Nature and Needs of the Gifted and Talented" in order to be correctly certified to teach a Pre-AP math course. Naturally enough, I was quite eager to actually learn, y'know, the content of the course. However, when I arrived, I found that everyone there - including the teacher - considered this a waste of time, were only there to put in their hours, and really didn't care a bit about the content, or about G/T kids in general. As I not only see my position in the school system almost entirely in terms of being an advocate for the G/T, and identify strongly with the label myself, it was both extremely alienating and extremely depressing.
More recently, I had a moment at the last CMA event when I realized that the set of experiences, problems, and talents I bring to a gathering is almost entirely disjoint from the set that 99% of the other attendees bring. and that even though I've been a member since 1995, there are still dozens of people who joined after me that think I'm a newbee. That wasn't so much alienation as just feeling unappreciated and mopey, though.
3) It isn't so much what's in Room 101 as what's not in it. For one thing, it has no floor - it just goes down forever. For another, the doors are invisible, undetectable, and unopenable from the inside. The walls absorb all sound, and the air is dead still. It's one endless, inescapable fall in compete silence, alone.
4) Tea. In many varieties and flavors. I think of coffee as a flavoring rather than a beverage in its own right, but tea comes in everything from flavored, sugared, over-lemoned or over-dairy'd froufrou down to an oolong steeped for exactly 3 minutes in an unmarred cup, unadulterated. I currently have over twenty varieties of tea on my pantry shelves, not counting iced, which I think of as a separate beverage.
5) Oh, do I have to go? I'd really rather not, all things considered. Having said that - Ireland. I'd like to know what the mystique really is, and I have ancestors from there. I feel little enough draw to the gods of my foreparents that I'm a little curious as to why; visiting them at home might help explain things a bit.
