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ciroccojIt's the Interview Meme! The one that goes around lj every few months and that I hop on to every. single. time. My lemmingness knows no limits.
Here's how it works:
-Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
-I will respond by asking you five questions.
-You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
-You'll include this explanation.
-You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
So, I finally answered![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snarkhunter's
1) What will it take to get you reading LoTRips?
Hee :)
A miracle or an offer I can't refuse. "I will give you $1M if you read LoTRips" would do it.
Who am I kidding. "I will give you $500 if you read LoTRips" will do it.
I avoid it like the plague because I know myself, you see. I tend to be rather obsessive in my hobbies. I once memorized everything anybody ever knew about Gypsies because I thought to wonder one day, "Who the hell are the Gypsies? Where do they come from?" Several months, dozens of books, a few movies, and various magazine searches later, I finally de-obsessed. And that was before the days of web searches. Can you imagine what I would do if I got it into my head that I needed to learn more about the various LOTR actors?
So. For the sake of remaining only a friendly fan and not a ViggOrlando!Stalker, I think I will stay the hell away.
2) If you had to live somewhere other than Canada, what country would you live in (and why)?
Probably the US. It wouldn't be that different from here, especially if I lived in Oregon, Northern California, New York, Massachussets, Vermont... you know, traditionally liberal stomping grounds ;)
Or Australia. I visited Melbourne for about a week a few years ago and was almost disoriented at how identical it was to Southern Ontario. Except they had parrots and didn't say "eh."
I would prefer somewhere with not a lot of poverty, without much violence, and with some kind of social conscience. Not millenia of history either - you know, one of those places where your grandchildren will still be considered immigrants? So a lot of Europe would be right out.
So yeah. US. Australia. Maybe New Zealand.
3) Do you know what kind of law you want to practice when you're done with school?
Not really. Maybe mediation/alternative dispute resolution. Aboriginal law is huge right now, as is intellectual property law, but I don't know if I could deal with the property part of "intellectual property." It's rather dry.
I'd love to do either family or environmental law, but burnout in family is legendary, so um, no thanks, and apparently most of the jobs for environmental lawyers are in companies like DuPont or Shell, helping them to legally rape Mother Earth. Again: no thanks.
4) What is your ultimate (money and time no issue) vacation fantasy?
Oh, wow. I don't know. Money and time have been an issue for so long that I just don't go there in my mind.
Um... probably hiking through Ireland and Scotland. Or horseback riding through the Rockies. Or sailing around the world.
Unfortunately, Chris is afraid of horses and doesn't like boats. I may have to settle for the hiking, although he said once that if it was important enough to me, he would do his best to get over his fear of horses. That's real love :)
5) What three things do you think would improve public schooling for all kids?
Here's how it works:
-Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
-I will respond by asking you five questions.
-You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
-You'll include this explanation.
-You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
So, I finally answered
snarkhunter's 1) What will it take to get you reading LoTRips?
Hee :)
A miracle or an offer I can't refuse. "I will give you $1M if you read LoTRips" would do it.
Who am I kidding. "I will give you $500 if you read LoTRips" will do it.
I avoid it like the plague because I know myself, you see. I tend to be rather obsessive in my hobbies. I once memorized everything anybody ever knew about Gypsies because I thought to wonder one day, "Who the hell are the Gypsies? Where do they come from?" Several months, dozens of books, a few movies, and various magazine searches later, I finally de-obsessed. And that was before the days of web searches. Can you imagine what I would do if I got it into my head that I needed to learn more about the various LOTR actors?
So. For the sake of remaining only a friendly fan and not a ViggOrlando!Stalker, I think I will stay the hell away.
2) If you had to live somewhere other than Canada, what country would you live in (and why)?
Probably the US. It wouldn't be that different from here, especially if I lived in Oregon, Northern California, New York, Massachussets, Vermont... you know, traditionally liberal stomping grounds ;)
Or Australia. I visited Melbourne for about a week a few years ago and was almost disoriented at how identical it was to Southern Ontario. Except they had parrots and didn't say "eh."
I would prefer somewhere with not a lot of poverty, without much violence, and with some kind of social conscience. Not millenia of history either - you know, one of those places where your grandchildren will still be considered immigrants? So a lot of Europe would be right out.
So yeah. US. Australia. Maybe New Zealand.
3) Do you know what kind of law you want to practice when you're done with school?
Not really. Maybe mediation/alternative dispute resolution. Aboriginal law is huge right now, as is intellectual property law, but I don't know if I could deal with the property part of "intellectual property." It's rather dry.
I'd love to do either family or environmental law, but burnout in family is legendary, so um, no thanks, and apparently most of the jobs for environmental lawyers are in companies like DuPont or Shell, helping them to legally rape Mother Earth. Again: no thanks.
4) What is your ultimate (money and time no issue) vacation fantasy?
Oh, wow. I don't know. Money and time have been an issue for so long that I just don't go there in my mind.
Um... probably hiking through Ireland and Scotland. Or horseback riding through the Rockies. Or sailing around the world.
Unfortunately, Chris is afraid of horses and doesn't like boats. I may have to settle for the hiking, although he said once that if it was important enough to me, he would do his best to get over his fear of horses. That's real love :)
5) What three things do you think would improve public schooling for all kids?
- smaller classrooms
- more community involvement (volunteers, field trips, co-op placements, etc)
- more support staff - especially for learning disabled kids
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Date: 2004-09-10 04:01 pm (UTC)Would you interview me, pretty please?
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Date: 2004-09-12 06:42 pm (UTC)1) What do you most wish you could change about the world?
2) This caught my eye in another interview: (I'm Hispanic actually, but I don't seem to look the part) What does being Hispanic mean to you? Is it racial, cultural, linguistic, other?
3) Pick a contentious political/social/ideological debate. Eg, pro-life/pro-choice; Bush/Kerry; pro/anti-Kyoto Accord; pro/anti-gay marriage, etc.
What are the best arguments you've heard from the side opposite to where you stand?
4) So what is he drinking, if it's not beer?
5) What's your favourite/least favourite type of fic, and why?
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Date: 2004-09-10 06:46 pm (UTC)Read this, and I swear on a stack I will never rec another LOTRPS story to you unless you ask. (Although there are quite a few more in the same vein that I can think of off the top of my head, with Shaenie's "Half Four" and jael's body-swapping birthday fic being my favorites.)
Liberace, by
Orlando woke up feeling very, very gay.
He'd gone to bed the night before at a reasonable hour, gotten a lot of rest, and been absolutely, 100% sure that he was straight before he fell asleep. Nothing out of the ordinary, except that whole reasonable hour thing, but he was at least 96% sure that too much sleep didn't turn one gay.
But here he was, at the crack of dawn on a lovely promising-to-be-sunny Tuesday morning with a nice dewy breeze blowing in through his windows, and he was staring at his closet with a growing feeling of horror in his chest.
Reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaad eeeeeeeeet.
I haven't forgotten about the website update, either. It's on my to-do list for the weekend, barring natural disaster.
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Date: 2004-09-12 05:47 pm (UTC)And yes, I am a lemming. I went, I read, I ::snortlaughed::, I felt so dirrrty, and I was so not surprised to learn that the line If Tuesday was going to suck this hard, he wished it would do something particularly wicked with its tongue was yours. Because you're evil like that :)
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Date: 2004-09-12 05:54 pm (UTC)Isn't it FUN? Don't you want MORE? Especially more mocking of Orlando? (It's my favorite kind of RPS.)
(I totally missed my calling. I shoulda been a drug dealer.)
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Date: 2004-09-12 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-14 08:02 am (UTC)Anyway. Here goes:
1. When you were 15, where did you think you would be, personally and professionally, when you got to our age?
2. Who's your favourite author, and why?
3. What do you like the most about karate?
4. What would be your best piece of advice to somebody planning their wedding?
5. If you could change one thing about the world today, what would it be?