More It3 Interview
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memeslayer:
1. I'll turn one around on you. What parts of your worldview come from your Southern Belle upbringing? Are you happy about those parts?
a) I consider etiquette and "correct" social forms very important. For myself, I like this; it appeals to my Virgo-moon sense of order and detail. I think of them as similar to the sets of constraints on different forms of poetry - sonnets, haiku, sestinas, villanelles, and the like. However, it tends to cause serious conflicts with people who consider them constraining, in particularquantumduck.
b) A lot of my appreciation of neoclassical architecture, the antiques of the period, and the sorts of landscaping and floral design that go together with that is directly due to being brought up in that particular town in Mississippi and being constantly exposed to it. I think this is more or less neutral, kind of like liking or disliking peanut butter.
c) A lot of the non-intellectual parts of my elitism, and my intolerance of certain manners of interacting with people, are directly traceable to my grandmother's influence. This is obviously a flaw.
2. Does your Light Side ever come out? If so, what happens as a result? Anything productive?
Usually my Bright Reflection makes an appearance when someone has done something in my presence that she finds disgusting and that I'm not directly involved in. (For example, someone doing something casually sexual.) This is usually an unqualified negative; I end up reacting that way, despite intellectually not having any stake in how they're acting at all. Very occasionally I can get useful energy out of her by (a) turning her loose on someone who has acted disgustingly by both of our lights (for example, DeLay) or (b) using her to gauge how my mother will react to something (which sometimes backfires, as there are some things on which my mother is more tolerant than she is).
FWIW, she hates K. for completely different reasons than mine . . .
3. Is it possible for someone to be your friend and you not to be theirs at the same time?
It actually usually works the other way for me - I decide to be someone's friend, and they stay an acquaintance to me. That happened a lot in my first two years of high school. But it's happened once or twice. There was one person at MSMS who worked very, very hard at becoming my friend for my first semester there, and I never really reciprocated because he wasn't smart enough to interest me.
4. If you were somehow prevented from being a teacher or otherwise contributing to the school system, what would you do with your life?
What I'd do for a living, I'm not sure. Possibly get a MLS and become a librarian, although doing that without "contributing to the school system" is a little difficult. What I would do with my life, though, is probably throw myself into being clergy, and possibly work at creating some sort of public "presence" for the Pagan community - a functioning temple, or something similar.
5. What does your internal representation of me look like? Do I still do things that surprise you, or do you think you have a pretty good grasp of who I am? Do you describe me the same way I describe myself? Be as detailed as possible. :-p
To the extent that my internal representation of you "looks" like anything, it's an abstracted image of you - tall, broad-shouldered, dressed in blue and black, short-dark-haired, square-jawed, glasses - with a sort of "phantom" pair of blue-flame wings. Its primary component, though, is your voice and the "feel" of you, of the sense I get when I'm in the same room with you, which is hard to describe but includes both "challenging" and "comforting". As for what it's like - well, it contains (or is built of) everything I know about you. That means that it obviously has some serious gaps (see below), but it generally suffices.
I don't know whether I describe you in the same way that you describe yourself or not - obviously, since I don't know what your internal representation of yourself contains. I would guess that they're probably significantly different, in that (a) I don't have any experience with you as a Theater techie, and that's still obviously part of your sense of yourself/what forms you, (b) a lot of my experience of/with you is "filtered" through my experience of/feelings about DM, and (c) the word "atheist" is still something that has strong negative connotations for me, and it's part of your core identity.
As for whether you still manage to surprise me - yes, but not too often. Your taking up Tarot for a while when you were shadow-walking didn't surprise me; your not junking it immediately and completely when you came back did. Your attitudes about the natural world still manage to surprise me in both directions. Overall, I think I have a pretty good handle on who you are, but I don't find you inherently predictable or boring.
I feel like cheating, so:
6. Do you think that returning to Houston after I graduate would be a good way to advance myself along the path to World Domination? Why?
(Tell him "yes," we need him back here!)
{Do you realize how incredibly selfish that is?}
(Don't care, it's true)
[You shut up. He asked a real question, and we're going to give it a serious answer, even if it conflicts with what we want.]
Do y'all realize you're panicking before we've even thought about what the answer to the question is?
[Right, sorry.]
I can see definite positives and negatives to coming back here.
On the positive side, you have a support system here, and some obvious recruits for loyal minions. It should be fairly easy to get a job that will support you in your chosen field of education in this area, especially if you have good recommendations from co-op, so you won't have to divert energy away for that. You know this place well, so your plans can have easy foundations. You'll be far away from your psycho roomie, so it he snaps you'll be out of range. And you can keep an eye on DM easily, so if he tries to foil your plots you can react in time.
On the negative side, having people you know and presumably like around might be more of a distraction than you want. You can't keep track of your psycho roomie from here. It might, as you pointed out once, strand you in Long-Distance Relationship Hell, although I actually think that would be less of a problem than you worried it might. DM being in close proximity might mean he's more likely to act in ways that foil your plots. And there might be some important component of your plan that you haven't yet discovered that's out there somewhere.
Overall, unless you already have somewhere else in mind, I think coming back here temporarily after graduation is unlikely to impede your plan, but I don't know if it will actively promote it, either. Whether there's somewhere else that would actively promote it is an open question that I don't have enough information to even guess on; in the absence of information, I would tend to guess "no" on the grounds that the place-other-than-Houston that you already tried seems to be more of an impedance than a help. (Someplace in my subconscious is screaming "Try Austin" but I have no idea why.)
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memeslayer:1. I'll turn one around on you. What parts of your worldview come from your Southern Belle upbringing? Are you happy about those parts?
a) I consider etiquette and "correct" social forms very important. For myself, I like this; it appeals to my Virgo-moon sense of order and detail. I think of them as similar to the sets of constraints on different forms of poetry - sonnets, haiku, sestinas, villanelles, and the like. However, it tends to cause serious conflicts with people who consider them constraining, in particular
quantumduck.b) A lot of my appreciation of neoclassical architecture, the antiques of the period, and the sorts of landscaping and floral design that go together with that is directly due to being brought up in that particular town in Mississippi and being constantly exposed to it. I think this is more or less neutral, kind of like liking or disliking peanut butter.
c) A lot of the non-intellectual parts of my elitism, and my intolerance of certain manners of interacting with people, are directly traceable to my grandmother's influence. This is obviously a flaw.
2. Does your Light Side ever come out? If so, what happens as a result? Anything productive?
Usually my Bright Reflection makes an appearance when someone has done something in my presence that she finds disgusting and that I'm not directly involved in. (For example, someone doing something casually sexual.) This is usually an unqualified negative; I end up reacting that way, despite intellectually not having any stake in how they're acting at all. Very occasionally I can get useful energy out of her by (a) turning her loose on someone who has acted disgustingly by both of our lights (for example, DeLay) or (b) using her to gauge how my mother will react to something (which sometimes backfires, as there are some things on which my mother is more tolerant than she is).
FWIW, she hates K. for completely different reasons than mine . . .
3. Is it possible for someone to be your friend and you not to be theirs at the same time?
It actually usually works the other way for me - I decide to be someone's friend, and they stay an acquaintance to me. That happened a lot in my first two years of high school. But it's happened once or twice. There was one person at MSMS who worked very, very hard at becoming my friend for my first semester there, and I never really reciprocated because he wasn't smart enough to interest me.
4. If you were somehow prevented from being a teacher or otherwise contributing to the school system, what would you do with your life?
What I'd do for a living, I'm not sure. Possibly get a MLS and become a librarian, although doing that without "contributing to the school system" is a little difficult. What I would do with my life, though, is probably throw myself into being clergy, and possibly work at creating some sort of public "presence" for the Pagan community - a functioning temple, or something similar.
5. What does your internal representation of me look like? Do I still do things that surprise you, or do you think you have a pretty good grasp of who I am? Do you describe me the same way I describe myself? Be as detailed as possible. :-p
To the extent that my internal representation of you "looks" like anything, it's an abstracted image of you - tall, broad-shouldered, dressed in blue and black, short-dark-haired, square-jawed, glasses - with a sort of "phantom" pair of blue-flame wings. Its primary component, though, is your voice and the "feel" of you, of the sense I get when I'm in the same room with you, which is hard to describe but includes both "challenging" and "comforting". As for what it's like - well, it contains (or is built of) everything I know about you. That means that it obviously has some serious gaps (see below), but it generally suffices.
I don't know whether I describe you in the same way that you describe yourself or not - obviously, since I don't know what your internal representation of yourself contains. I would guess that they're probably significantly different, in that (a) I don't have any experience with you as a Theater techie, and that's still obviously part of your sense of yourself/what forms you, (b) a lot of my experience of/with you is "filtered" through my experience of/feelings about DM, and (c) the word "atheist" is still something that has strong negative connotations for me, and it's part of your core identity.
As for whether you still manage to surprise me - yes, but not too often. Your taking up Tarot for a while when you were shadow-walking didn't surprise me; your not junking it immediately and completely when you came back did. Your attitudes about the natural world still manage to surprise me in both directions. Overall, I think I have a pretty good handle on who you are, but I don't find you inherently predictable or boring.
I feel like cheating, so:
6. Do you think that returning to Houston after I graduate would be a good way to advance myself along the path to World Domination? Why?
(Tell him "yes," we need him back here!)
{Do you realize how incredibly selfish that is?}
(Don't care, it's true)
[You shut up. He asked a real question, and we're going to give it a serious answer, even if it conflicts with what we want.]
Do y'all realize you're panicking before we've even thought about what the answer to the question is?
[Right, sorry.]
I can see definite positives and negatives to coming back here.
On the positive side, you have a support system here, and some obvious recruits for loyal minions. It should be fairly easy to get a job that will support you in your chosen field of education in this area, especially if you have good recommendations from co-op, so you won't have to divert energy away for that. You know this place well, so your plans can have easy foundations. You'll be far away from your psycho roomie, so it he snaps you'll be out of range. And you can keep an eye on DM easily, so if he tries to foil your plots you can react in time.
On the negative side, having people you know and presumably like around might be more of a distraction than you want. You can't keep track of your psycho roomie from here. It might, as you pointed out once, strand you in Long-Distance Relationship Hell, although I actually think that would be less of a problem than you worried it might. DM being in close proximity might mean he's more likely to act in ways that foil your plots. And there might be some important component of your plan that you haven't yet discovered that's out there somewhere.
Overall, unless you already have somewhere else in mind, I think coming back here temporarily after graduation is unlikely to impede your plan, but I don't know if it will actively promote it, either. Whether there's somewhere else that would actively promote it is an open question that I don't have enough information to even guess on; in the absence of information, I would tend to guess "no" on the grounds that the place-other-than-Houston that you already tried seems to be more of an impedance than a help. (Someplace in my subconscious is screaming "Try Austin" but I have no idea why.)
The Rules:
1. Leave a comment requesting an interview.
2. I'll respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. Update your corner of the net with the answers to the questions and leave notification in the comments to this entry.
4. Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five questions. And thus the cycle continues.
