interviews
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threeplusfireIf you want me to interview you--post a comment that simply says, "Interview me." I'll respond with questions for you to take back to your own journal and answer as a post. Of course, they'll be different for each person since this is an interview and not a general survey. At the bottom of your post, after answering the Interviewer's questions, you ask if anyone wants to be interviewed. So it becomes your turn-- in the comments, you ask them any questions you have for them to take back to their journals and answer. And so it becomes the circle. Taken from catelin who got it from anoisblue
1. How do you feel about death now as opposed to a few years ago?
Difficult to say. I am learning to talk about it as an abstract concept and a reality, which was something I certainly wasn't capable of doing a few years ago. I can remember the discussion of death in my Dostoevsky class resulting in a panic attack that had me hanging onto the edge of the table as if it was the only thing in the world. It still frightens me, but I think I have more reason to believe it's not what I fear it will be.
2. Who is the person to whom you most regret not saying something and what would you have said?
I am tempted to say that I really should have asked Alan Rickman for a kiss when he was right there in front of me. Because this is a hard question and I tend to reach for flippant answers.
I most regret never telling Doc that it was his teaching and his friendship that ultimately saved my life that last year of highschool. If Doc had not shown me that I had every right to be what I wanted to be, that I could write damn well, then I never would have lasted through what happened. I regret not thanking him for introducing me to Somerset Maugham, and Left Bank Paris, and for teaching me how to put news stories together, for throwing me into competitions without warning and for bringing me into the secret life of intellectuals, for teaching me how to fight the rules from the inside and not get caught. I regret never telling him he was like a father to me.
3. What is it about Texas that you love the most? What is it about Texas that you hate the most?
The thing I love most about Texas is the feeling I get when I'm driving through the Hill Country, or watching the horizon turn gold and red, seeing the bluebonnets in the spring or summer rain and knowing that this is a place that people came to in order to build new lives.
The thing I hate most about Texas would be the insidious attitudes of ignorance and hostility that have become associated with certain aspects of Southern and Western culture. I also hate that other people assume that everyone from Texas is an ignorant, poorly educated or racist, or a frigging hippie from Austin. I am none of those things, thank you.
4. Do you think you are beautiful?
Sometimes. Usually when swimming or wearing pants. I think I have certain beautiful features, but that overall I am not a great beauty. Sometimes though, something clicks.
5. What surprises you the most about your life these days?
I think it still honestly surprises me to be alive in the first place.
But really, I think it surprises me most to know that I have come so far from who I used to be and that it is possible for me to be happy. I never imagined that there was a life outside of the one I had a few years ago, or that I could live such a life. But here I am, having two summers overseas, trips to New York, better friends than anyone could ask for, and a damn good bookshelf. I'm happy and that surprises me still because I never thought it would be true.
1. How do you feel about death now as opposed to a few years ago?
Difficult to say. I am learning to talk about it as an abstract concept and a reality, which was something I certainly wasn't capable of doing a few years ago. I can remember the discussion of death in my Dostoevsky class resulting in a panic attack that had me hanging onto the edge of the table as if it was the only thing in the world. It still frightens me, but I think I have more reason to believe it's not what I fear it will be.
2. Who is the person to whom you most regret not saying something and what would you have said?
I am tempted to say that I really should have asked Alan Rickman for a kiss when he was right there in front of me. Because this is a hard question and I tend to reach for flippant answers.
I most regret never telling Doc that it was his teaching and his friendship that ultimately saved my life that last year of highschool. If Doc had not shown me that I had every right to be what I wanted to be, that I could write damn well, then I never would have lasted through what happened. I regret not thanking him for introducing me to Somerset Maugham, and Left Bank Paris, and for teaching me how to put news stories together, for throwing me into competitions without warning and for bringing me into the secret life of intellectuals, for teaching me how to fight the rules from the inside and not get caught. I regret never telling him he was like a father to me.
3. What is it about Texas that you love the most? What is it about Texas that you hate the most?
The thing I love most about Texas is the feeling I get when I'm driving through the Hill Country, or watching the horizon turn gold and red, seeing the bluebonnets in the spring or summer rain and knowing that this is a place that people came to in order to build new lives.
The thing I hate most about Texas would be the insidious attitudes of ignorance and hostility that have become associated with certain aspects of Southern and Western culture. I also hate that other people assume that everyone from Texas is an ignorant, poorly educated or racist, or a frigging hippie from Austin. I am none of those things, thank you.
4. Do you think you are beautiful?
Sometimes. Usually when swimming or wearing pants. I think I have certain beautiful features, but that overall I am not a great beauty. Sometimes though, something clicks.
5. What surprises you the most about your life these days?
I think it still honestly surprises me to be alive in the first place.
But really, I think it surprises me most to know that I have come so far from who I used to be and that it is possible for me to be happy. I never imagined that there was a life outside of the one I had a few years ago, or that I could live such a life. But here I am, having two summers overseas, trips to New York, better friends than anyone could ask for, and a damn good bookshelf. I'm happy and that surprises me still because I never thought it would be true.
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no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 10:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 10:50 am (UTC)2. Where would you like to live when you're a grown up?
3. Why German, and Germany?
4. Would you go to Mars if there was a colonization mission?
5. Tell me about your best qualities.
no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 10:14 am (UTC)here you go
Date: 2003-06-03 10:58 am (UTC)2. How have the places you have lived shaped you?
3. Do you have a central belief system that influences your actions, and what is it?
4. What's your comfort food?
5. Describe a weekend or couple or days that involve doing things that make you happy.
no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 10:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 11:09 am (UTC)1. Would you ever consider going into politics?
2. Do you consider yourself a writer with a day job, or a lawyer who writes?
3. What will you miss most about Texas?
4. When you were my age, what did you imagine you would be doing at your age?
5. What makes it all worthwhile for you?
no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 10:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 11:02 am (UTC)1. What do you want to be when you grow up?
2. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
3. How many children do you want to have, and what are you going to name them?
4. Why did you choose to become a Texan rather than a Californian?
5. How did you get so into college football?
no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 10:29 am (UTC)of course!
Date: 2003-06-03 11:29 am (UTC)2. Who are some of your favorite authors and have any of them influenced your own writing?
3. When did you learn to cook and who taught you?
4. Tell us more of your interest in Tom Riddle and Ginny Weasley. What about them do you find compelling?
5. What makes you happiest? (can be multiple answers)
no subject
Date: 2003-06-04 10:54 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-04 11:06 am (UTC)1. You wake up one morning to discover, owing to some bizarre conjunction of planets, that you are no longer in your own room but in the master bedroom of Malfoy Manor. Though you still look and sound like your old self, Lucius seems to believe you are his wife, Draco believes you are his mother, and Narcissa herself is nowhere in sight. The reactions of others remain to be seen. What are the first, second and third things you do?
2. If you could be a brilliant, celebrated writer but in exchange had to forever renounce every single person you loved save one, who would that remaining person be and why?
3. Describe the outfit (clothing, shoes, hairstyle, etc.) which never fails to make you feel too stylin' for the room. If you don't possess such an outfit, describe a fantasy version thereof.
4. When you hear HP fains ranting on and on about JKR's many failings in regard to how she writes her books as opposed to how BNFs write their HP stories, do you want to cheer said ranters on or slap them silly, and why?
5. Everyone, in whatever faindom, has read a story which everyone and their mother has praised to the skies as a fainfic "classic," which you personally thought was wildly overrated or just plain not interesting, and which you never shared your honest opinion on for fear of the public reaction. Muster up your courage, and name that story now and why you didn't like it.
no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 11:17 am (UTC)sure thing!
Date: 2003-06-03 11:47 am (UTC)2. Was Interlochen the right choice for you? Do you feel it has prepared you for college?
3. What are you going to study in your first semester or two of college? Have you picked specific classes yet?
4. If you could travel anywhere, where would you like to go this summer?
5. What is your favorite summertime activity?
Re: sure thing!
Date: 2003-06-03 01:59 pm (UTC)2. Going to Interlochen was the best choice I could have made. If I hadn't gone, I would probably be going to some college that I'm not crazy about to major in something I don't really want to do. Socially, it's debatable. I didn't have a "normal" high school experience, and that may be good or bad. I suppose we shall see. It has prepared me for college, particularly artistically but also academically. Even in my academic classes, we had a lot of freedom. The classes were small, but no one forced us to do the reading. So there was a lot of self-discipline involved with living away from home and not having anyone hold my hand.
3. I haven't picked specific classes, but I believe I have to do Music Theory and History and an ensemble of some sort (Choir). I'll see what credits I get from APs. I don't know when I sign up for my classes though. Probably during Orientation Week.
4. Matt is going to Oxford for July summer school, and if I could, I would love to go with him. I've never been to England, and I have this romantic daydream of Matt and I living in a little flat for the month and taking weekend trips to the country.
5. Probably lounging by the pool with a book or magazine and my CD player with a mix CD that a friend has made for me. I'm looking forward to being in Michigan for the summer. For one, it'll be cooler. Second of all, it'll be absolutely beautiful. Third, trips to the dunes with fun people!
Excuse me
Date: 2003-06-03 11:18 am (UTC)Katja
Re: Excuse me
Date: 2003-06-03 11:54 am (UTC)2. What is your definition of yourself?
3. Where have you travelled to, and how have those places changed you?
4. Tell us about your most pleasant memory.
5. Who do you admire?
Re: Excuse me
Date: 2003-06-03 10:48 pm (UTC)Ekatarina
of course!
Date: 2003-06-03 12:07 pm (UTC)2. What made you choose American History?
3. What do you consider to be the most important qualities in a friend?
4. How many children would you and Dan like to have? Does being an only child have any influence on that decision for you?
5. What things are you glad to have in your life, and what things would you rather be without?
no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 01:39 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-03 02:04 pm (UTC)1. Doing what makes you happiest?
2. When did you first start becoming more politically minded?
3. What would you most like to see changed about the world?
4. What are you very knowledgeable about? What would you like to know more about?
5. Who is your best friend and why?
no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 03:12 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-04 01:23 am (UTC)2. How many "Oh shit, I'm going to die" moments have you had?
3. What makes your city home for you?
4. Who was your hero when you were little?
5. What do you think of real actual coyotes? Have you ever encountered one?
no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 04:03 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-04 01:41 am (UTC)2. How has living away from NYC changed you, or your world view?
3. What is your earliest memory?
4. If you could live in a movie, which movie would you choose?
5. What's your favorite thing to cook?
no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 04:53 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-04 01:46 am (UTC)2. Do you believe a college education is a necessary thing to have?
3. Who has had the most impact on your life, positive and negative?
4. How many vacations have you taken and where did you go?
5. Describe an ideal day.
no subject
Date: 2003-06-03 07:33 pm (UTC)Interview me! (thanks)
Re:
Date: 2003-06-04 01:49 am (UTC)2. Who or what motivates you?
3. How have you changed in the psat five years?
4. What makes an RPG compelling for you?
5. Do you believe in fate?
no subject
Date: 2003-06-04 01:01 am (UTC)I'll let you ask directly you prat, but first you can interview me.
Please?
Re:
Date: 2003-06-04 01:51 am (UTC)2. Where did you meet Dave?
3. Talk about your art, and what it means to you.
4. Who do you think will die in the next Harry Potter book and why?
5. Describe your dream home.
no subject
Date: 2003-06-04 01:02 am (UTC)Might there be some questions for me as well? From you or your wizard?
Dae says that's dangeorus to ask, but when do I ever listen to her?
Re:
Date: 2003-06-04 01:54 am (UTC)2. Do you believe that some things are fated and unchangeable, or not? Explain.
3. How many times have you been seriously injured in your work?
4. Why Lucius?
5. What do you want to name your children?
no subject
Date: 2003-06-04 05:12 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-04 09:49 pm (UTC)2. How has the internet altered the way you view people and relate to them?
3. Where do you want to be right now?
4. What keeps you from sleeping?
5. Why Oliver?
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And for the boy...
1. Why Quidditch?
2. What is Marcus' best quality? What is his worst?
3. Could you live without Quidditch?
4. What were the most important things you learned at Hogwarts?
5. Tell us a favorite childhood memory.
no subject
Date: 2003-06-05 12:39 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-05 12:43 am (UTC)1. Why did we get tattoos again?
2. What was the best concert you've ever seen?
3. Fancy a shag?
4. What's the greatest thing you've ever seen?
5. If you could live in a movie, which movie would you choose?
no subject
Date: 2003-06-05 08:28 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-06-05 09:27 am (UTC)1. What is the best thing about Germany?
2. It's been awhile since I've seen you, what's happened since then?
3. What are you studying right now? What is something you haven't learned yet that you really want to?
4. American highways, or European public transit? Which is better?
5. What do you want more than anything? (Very general, but answer however you like)