Interviews with a Kitanzi

[kitanzi]

From tigerbright:

1. What one fictional figure would you most like to meet? Why?

Ohhhh, that's a tough one. Lady Sally Callahan, I think, because I'd love to hear the stories she could tell. There are an awful lot of them, though, and a number of characters that I love that I would prudently stay well away from, such as Miles Vorkosigan.

2. If you could live in any place, real or fictional, and have unlimited access back to Atlanta, where would you live?

If I could, I'd actually rather travel around before deciding that. I've flown over an awful lot of the US but actually lived in only four states. Well, five, but I was too young to remember the few months that my parents lived in Hawaii. For that matter, I liked the UK a lot too. But if I had to choose, I think my favorite real place would be a medium sized town (say, Keene) in NH but only with the provision you mentioned - I like it here. Come to think of it, that would provide for an ideal balance of summer vs winter as needed! For a fictional alternative, I think Discworld. *G* Again, only if I could get back here, for sure!

3. What would your ideal job be?

I honestly don't know. I have contradictory drives towards wanting variety and challenge, and wanting a job I KNOW I do both easily and reliably well at. I suppose a job that managed to balance those well, but I haven't found one. Some days my ideal job would be demolishing telephones with a sledgehammer while someone was talking on them, but I think anyone reading my LJ has probably figured that out by now. *G*

4. Name three things you learned after the age of 25 that you wish you'd learned earlier. Discuss.

To trust myself, mainly. That seems to be a pivotal point. To accurately perceive what I really want, really need and really think, without letting what other people want, need and think cloud that. To be able to be angry at someone without punishing myself for it. (Actually, those sometimes still need practice, but they're all good skills, and all the kind of skills I expect I'll always be practicing at to improve.) On the flip side, there are things I learned well before 25 that I let lapse and wish I hadn't, like playing the flute.


From filkerdave:

1) It's time to go for a swim. Pool or ocean?

Probably the pool, unless I can go snorkeling in which case the ocean! For just splashing and playing and cooling off, though, the pool.

2) What's the scariest thing you've ever seen (in reality, not counting movies and such?)

Well, I was a little too busy to be scared while I was losing control of a large truck which I somehow threaded between a number of trees, around a stop sign, and into a field where it hit a ditch and rolled. Once I got out and saw it had landed foursquare straddling a creek through some unknown miracle, I kinda fell apart. I can't say it was the stopped truck that scared me, it was the too-vivid image in my mind of what if it hadn't, or if I hadn't been wearing a seatbelt. I guess the scariest things I see are in my mind, but they tend to feel exceedingly real.

3) Name one scene in a book that had you crying when you read it.

The book is Finder, by Emma Bull, and the scene is when Tick-Tick dies. That just gets me every time.

4) What's the thing you miss most about living in New England?

Autumn, I think. GA just doesn't have the same kind of season. That and some of the people. I was rather homesick off and on for the first 6 months or so that I was here, but it's tapered off.

5) How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Birch, oak or pine?

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If 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. (wording swiped from cadhla cause she said it best!)

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[bardling.livejournal.com]

Ask away, if you wish :)

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[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Gladly! (Would you do one for me, too?)

1) What and where would your dream home be?
2) How did you learn your skills at backrubs?
3) Would you want a pet, and if so what kind?
4) What's your favorite musical instrument to play, and is it also your favorite to listen to?
5) Name one thing in your life you wish you'd done differently, and one thing you'd never want different.