Question time
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oursin,
1. If you could choose a super-power what would it be?
Something along the lines of an ability to transport myself instantly somewhere else. Travel is becoming a royal pain, but I don't want to have to give up exploring places because the airline industry is becoming increadingly obnoxious and/or desperate. So the ability to say "alashazam" HERE and find myself THERE instantaneously would be just WONDERFUL.
2. If there were a movie of your life, who would be the director (or what genre would it be)?
Well, I'd like to think fantasy, but then again it sounds awfully hubristic to even say that your life would someone's fantasy [grin]. As for directors, I have no clue. Just keep Tom Cruise out of the movie. Please.
3. What historical era would you most like to visit?
That would ENTIRELY depend if I could choose the social class I could belong to. I don't want to go to any of the places that I'd really like to see if I didn't have the money and power to experience them without the REALLY icky stuff - I appreciate that such commonplace things like hot water and roads that aren't mud up to your knees and no vermin in your hair and modern medicine are luxuries that most people from any era would gasp over, but still... I am spoiled, spoiled, spoiled. Having said all that... Heian Japan.
4. Where would you most like to live?
Where I am right now - I love Washington state. However, having said that, if I ever have a chance to live in London, I'd grab it so fast it would make your head spin. My husband clutches his head in pain at the prospect, though, he hates cities...
5. Is there any skill you wish you had learnt when you were younger?
How to deal with computers when they really lose their marbles. I would like to be competent enough to deal with my own crises and not holler for help as soon as things start slipping...
And if you like, dear reader, you can do the following:
1. Leave me a comment expressing interest in being interviewed
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. (Subject to time and the possible running out of inspiration)
3. Then update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others ask to be interviewed, ask them five questions.
UPDATE: Okay, I'm setting a limit on these for now. After I do the one currently in the queue, I'm doing two more, should they appear. After that I need to recharge my question batteries.
oursin, 1. If you could choose a super-power what would it be?
Something along the lines of an ability to transport myself instantly somewhere else. Travel is becoming a royal pain, but I don't want to have to give up exploring places because the airline industry is becoming increadingly obnoxious and/or desperate. So the ability to say "alashazam" HERE and find myself THERE instantaneously would be just WONDERFUL.
2. If there were a movie of your life, who would be the director (or what genre would it be)?
Well, I'd like to think fantasy, but then again it sounds awfully hubristic to even say that your life would someone's fantasy [grin]. As for directors, I have no clue. Just keep Tom Cruise out of the movie. Please.
3. What historical era would you most like to visit?
That would ENTIRELY depend if I could choose the social class I could belong to. I don't want to go to any of the places that I'd really like to see if I didn't have the money and power to experience them without the REALLY icky stuff - I appreciate that such commonplace things like hot water and roads that aren't mud up to your knees and no vermin in your hair and modern medicine are luxuries that most people from any era would gasp over, but still... I am spoiled, spoiled, spoiled. Having said all that... Heian Japan.
4. Where would you most like to live?
Where I am right now - I love Washington state. However, having said that, if I ever have a chance to live in London, I'd grab it so fast it would make your head spin. My husband clutches his head in pain at the prospect, though, he hates cities...
5. Is there any skill you wish you had learnt when you were younger?
How to deal with computers when they really lose their marbles. I would like to be competent enough to deal with my own crises and not holler for help as soon as things start slipping...
And if you like, dear reader, you can do the following:
1. Leave me a comment expressing interest in being interviewed
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. (Subject to time and the possible running out of inspiration)
3. Then update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others ask to be interviewed, ask them five questions.
UPDATE: Okay, I'm setting a limit on these for now. After I do the one currently in the queue, I'm doing two more, should they appear. After that I need to recharge my question batteries.
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Date: 2006-04-20 04:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-20 04:34 pm (UTC)1. If you could go back in time to change ONE thing in your past, what would it be?
2. Do you learn better by reading/listening or by doing?
3. Give your first reaction to these three things: "decaf coffee"; "daylight savings time"; "the Harry Potter phenomenon"
4. If you were told that someone you love has six months to live, and it were up to you to rule on how the person was told, would you tell the truth or would you soften the sentence with a gentle white lie?
5. Is the glass half full or half empty?
(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-20 05:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-20 06:03 pm (UTC)1. What kind of wonderful and exotic thing would you do if you were given a chance? (For ezample, balloon ride over the Serengeti, swimmign with dolphins... stuff like that... just ONE!)
2. If your house was on fire and you could save ONE thing, what would it be?
3. If you could throw a dinner party for five people, who would you invite? (no fictional characters, just real people - but they can be from any time and place you like)
4. What exotic creature would you keep for a pet if you had the chance?
5. What is the one thing that you would never be able to forgive?
(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-20 11:46 pm (UTC)2. Photos. All other things, clothes, jewellery, books, certificates, passports, my camera, my computer - they are of sentimental value but in most cases replaceable. Photos aren't, especially if they are the only copy of the image that you have (that is, the film is missing or not yours). I'd like to think my family would have grabbed the rest of the stuff if they could though ... hehe.
3. Oddly enough, a dinner party with my closest friends would satisfy me. Not that I wouldn't love to talk to a number of historical figures to find out the whys behind their actions or discoveries, etc ... but I really think that a dinner with my closest friends would mean so much more to me.
4. Oh, probably a dragon - so long as he knew I was not to be nibbled. Or crisped. Wait. Exotic vs legendary. I guess my favourite exotic animal would be a Golden Lion Tamarin monkey.
5. Vengeful, spiteful and malicious behaviour, be it words or actions.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-20 11:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-20 08:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-20 10:18 pm (UTC)1.How do you know when you've made a friend?
2. If someone gave you an open ticket tomorrow, to anywhere you wanted, where would you go?
3. There are far too many disparate cultures on this planet with a very similar concept of a dragon. Do you think that dragons could have been real, like dinosaurs, and just died out (but within human memory, and were then transformed into legends)?
4. Do you ever "see" music? (In other words, if you're listening to a piece of music and close your eyes do you transform it into a visual?)
5. If there was something that you could go back and tell yourself while you were much younger, something that would have saved you heartache or made your life easier in the now, what would it be?
(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-20 10:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-20 10:32 pm (UTC)1. What would be the first thing you would grab to save out of a burning house?
2. Which historical characters would you pick to go with you on an expedition of exploration? (Just assume you're Magellan or Columbus or Cook) You get a team of four.
3. Do you believe there are places on this earth that are permanently hautned by their past?
4. Would you eat anything purple?
5. what's your favourite poem? Why?
(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-21 12:39 am (UTC)1. What would be the first thing you would grab to save out of a burning house?
When I was faced with bushfire I took my backup of my fiction. I had all kinds of plans to take photos and things, but the thing I actually *took* was a CD. The second time I had thought it through because of the amusement evinced by friends upon being shown the CD, and I took a heritage briefcase (owned by a favourite cousin) full of family memorabilia, negatives of photos, jewellery ... and my computer backup. before I was faced with the reality, I would have sworn I would have grabbed my handbag or a family heirloom. Mind you, both times I did take my handbag... (and, in case it worries anyone, my place escaped everything except smoke inhalation both times)
2. Which historical characters would you pick to go with you on an expedition of exploration? (Just assume you're Magellan or Columbus or Cook) You get a team of four.
I will get back to you on this one. I'll update the post. This one needs thinking.
3. Do you believe there are places on this earth that are permanently haunted by their past?
Yes. Do you want more than that?
4. Would you eat anything purple?
Of course! Black sticky rice with coconut milk sauce, purple yam, aubergine. I love purple food.
5. what's your favourite poem? Why?
The poem that my blogname is taken from. I read it first when I was nineteen and it has been just terribly important to me ever since. It was recorded by Ruth Finnegan in an oral collection and I haven't been able to lay my hands on the book since I first saw it. Why do I love it? Because it has somehow divined my heart.
The poem goes something like (my memory is fallible):
Even in a little thing,
A leaf, a child's hand, a star's flicker
I shall find a song worth singing
If my eyes are wide and sleep not.
Even in a laughable thing
(O hark the children are laughing)
There is that which fills the heart to overflowing
And makes dreams wistful
Small is the life of a man
Not too sad, not too happy
I shall find my song in a man's small life
Behold it soaring
Very low on earth is the frigate bird hatched
But it soars as high as the sun.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-21 04:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-21 04:55 pm (UTC)1. What is the most awe-inspiring sight you have ever seen?
2. What colour is your sky? (think about that one for a minute. The sky definitely isn't the same colour in the tropics and in the Arctic. What colour is YOUR sky, the one over the place you call heart's home?)
3. Do we have choices or are our lives lived according to some higher script?
4. If everything tastes like chicken, what does chicken taste like?
5. Imagine you've just climbed the very peak of your chosen achievement. What lies beyond?