Another Day...
Feb. 16th, 2004 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athersgeoAnother interview, this one from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aspartaimee (*waves*). Here are those rules again...
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
1) What is your favorite poem?
I have a few. One is Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience (Charles Causley [I think - I have a copy at home, if anyone's interested]) which was the first poem we deconstructed for English literature and it's something I get a new little something out of every time I read it. A second is Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas), another Eng Lit offering and just one of the nicest and at the same time creepiest poems I've come across; you also have to love Thomas' imagery - reading it, you can just picture the rolling Welsh countryside. Beautiful. Then lastly is a compendium called Please Mrs Butler - I can't remember the authors (Allan Alberg and his wife is ringing a bell, but don't quote me on that), but it's a collection of poems about life in primary school. I'm not sure how accurate a picture it is these days - things have changed a lot in the last twenty (eep!) years, but it certainly reflects my experience. Favourite individual poems from the book are Scissors (all about clearing up and the fact that there are NEVER the same number of scissors when you finish as when you start - it's one of those immutable classroom rules), The Headmaster's Hymn (I had a headmaster who was just as likely to stop singing to repremand a miscreant so I can definitely relate to this one!) and Haircut ("Oh you've had a haircut//...//Oh you've had a BARE cut - and silly things like that" - one of my pet hates was being told I'd had a hair cut; like I hadn't already noticed!).
2) What moment in time would you like to have been present for?
hooboy. History-wise, I think I'd have liked to have been present at VE Day and then later VJ Day, just because those are two days that had huge significance to everyone, worldwide and I can't begin to imagine what it must have felt like to know that the fighting was over. Personal/family-wise, I'd like to have been around cerca December 1978 (ok, so technically I was present, what I mean is I'd like to have memories thereof) - because that would have given me a chance to know both my grandmothers (my dad's mother died when I was about eighteen months old, my mother's step-mother died when I was four and a half. A third point would be to go back to roughly 1947 so that I could actually know my mother's mother (she died when mum was 3).
3) What would be the last line of Act I of Your Life: A Play in Three Acts, before intermission begins?
"I shall miss this place, but it's time to start some new adventures."
4) If your super power were writing really effective letters that could convince anyone to do anything, how would you use this for the greater good?
I would try to get all the really silly legislation repealled or modified so it at least made sense (zB "It is illegal to send food to the USA through the mail without a prior notice number, unless it's homemade - for example cakes or cookies" and "It is illegal for me to be holding my cell phone in my car with my engine turned on, even if I am pulled into the side of the road with my hazard indicators switched on" [no, I'm not making either of those two up]). Considering the absolute tonne of it that's out there, I think that would keep me productively busy.
5) You are your own country. Describe your flag.
Blue. A nice, pearlescent blue. With maybe some purply highlights. Plain. Simple but elegant :)
For anyone waiting more Jingle All The Way commentary, that should go up at lunch time :)
aspartaimee (*waves*). Here are those rules again...1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
1) What is your favorite poem?
I have a few. One is Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience (Charles Causley [I think - I have a copy at home, if anyone's interested]) which was the first poem we deconstructed for English literature and it's something I get a new little something out of every time I read it. A second is Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas), another Eng Lit offering and just one of the nicest and at the same time creepiest poems I've come across; you also have to love Thomas' imagery - reading it, you can just picture the rolling Welsh countryside. Beautiful. Then lastly is a compendium called Please Mrs Butler - I can't remember the authors (Allan Alberg and his wife is ringing a bell, but don't quote me on that), but it's a collection of poems about life in primary school. I'm not sure how accurate a picture it is these days - things have changed a lot in the last twenty (eep!) years, but it certainly reflects my experience. Favourite individual poems from the book are Scissors (all about clearing up and the fact that there are NEVER the same number of scissors when you finish as when you start - it's one of those immutable classroom rules), The Headmaster's Hymn (I had a headmaster who was just as likely to stop singing to repremand a miscreant so I can definitely relate to this one!) and Haircut ("Oh you've had a haircut//...//Oh you've had a BARE cut - and silly things like that" - one of my pet hates was being told I'd had a hair cut; like I hadn't already noticed!).
2) What moment in time would you like to have been present for?
hooboy. History-wise, I think I'd have liked to have been present at VE Day and then later VJ Day, just because those are two days that had huge significance to everyone, worldwide and I can't begin to imagine what it must have felt like to know that the fighting was over. Personal/family-wise, I'd like to have been around cerca December 1978 (ok, so technically I was present, what I mean is I'd like to have memories thereof) - because that would have given me a chance to know both my grandmothers (my dad's mother died when I was about eighteen months old, my mother's step-mother died when I was four and a half. A third point would be to go back to roughly 1947 so that I could actually know my mother's mother (she died when mum was 3).
3) What would be the last line of Act I of Your Life: A Play in Three Acts, before intermission begins?
"I shall miss this place, but it's time to start some new adventures."
4) If your super power were writing really effective letters that could convince anyone to do anything, how would you use this for the greater good?
I would try to get all the really silly legislation repealled or modified so it at least made sense (zB "It is illegal to send food to the USA through the mail without a prior notice number, unless it's homemade - for example cakes or cookies" and "It is illegal for me to be holding my cell phone in my car with my engine turned on, even if I am pulled into the side of the road with my hazard indicators switched on" [no, I'm not making either of those two up]). Considering the absolute tonne of it that's out there, I think that would keep me productively busy.
5) You are your own country. Describe your flag.
Blue. A nice, pearlescent blue. With maybe some purply highlights. Plain. Simple but elegant :)
For anyone waiting more Jingle All The Way commentary, that should go up at lunch time :)
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Date: 2004-02-16 07:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-16 07:50 am (UTC)1) What's your animal?
2) Where would you like to visit (that you haven't already)?
3) If you had a million dollars you'd buy a...?
4) What's your dream day?
5) *turning this one back on you* You are your own country; describe your flag? :)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-02-22 08:00 am (UTC)Oh, and friending you, just so's ya know. I meant to do that for a while... ^_^;;
Re:
Date: 2004-02-23 02:09 pm (UTC)1) What can you see out of your window right now?
2) If you were a superhero, what would your super-special power be?
3) If you had a million dollars, you'd buy a...?
4) What's the best thing about being you?
5) *gacks question from Aims because it is such a cool one* You are your own country; describe your flag.