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dchenesQuestions provided by Siercia :
1. What do plan to do with your graduate degree, once you've made it into and through school?
Take the American Translators Association accreditation exam, come back to Boston and (hopefully) get hired again. There are companies that specialize in translations. Otherwise, try to get freelance work from the French Library, or the Boston Language Institute.
2. Where would you have moved after college if you hadn't been friends with Liz and moved to Boston?
I'd probably still be in Boston, but I wouldn't know anybody.
3. What's your favorite thing to do in Boston?
That depends on the season. In the winter I like to go lose myself in bookstores on weekends. In more clement weather, I like to go walking around and figure out how various places connect up to places I know already.
4. Who would you most like to be stranded on a desert island with?
Ooh, tough one. If we're talking about somebody I could actually talk to, my Japanese History professor from college. If we're talking about "stranded on a desert island with a hot guy", I don't know.
5. What's one thing you've done that you wish you could take back?
In high school, somebody I was interested in dating asked me to go out with him. Every time before that, when somebody had asked me out, they had been kidding, so I didn't trust anybody. I wish I had said yes.
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1. What do plan to do with your graduate degree, once you've made it into and through school?
Take the American Translators Association accreditation exam, come back to Boston and (hopefully) get hired again. There are companies that specialize in translations. Otherwise, try to get freelance work from the French Library, or the Boston Language Institute.
2. Where would you have moved after college if you hadn't been friends with Liz and moved to Boston?
I'd probably still be in Boston, but I wouldn't know anybody.
3. What's your favorite thing to do in Boston?
That depends on the season. In the winter I like to go lose myself in bookstores on weekends. In more clement weather, I like to go walking around and figure out how various places connect up to places I know already.
4. Who would you most like to be stranded on a desert island with?
Ooh, tough one. If we're talking about somebody I could actually talk to, my Japanese History professor from college. If we're talking about "stranded on a desert island with a hot guy", I don't know.
5. What's one thing you've done that you wish you could take back?
In high school, somebody I was interested in dating asked me to go out with him. Every time before that, when somebody had asked me out, they had been kidding, so I didn't trust anybody. I wish I had said yes.
Anybody want to be interviewed? Leave me a comment
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Date: 2003-06-04 06:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-04 07:28 am (UTC)2. What's the most fun stitching project you've done?
3. What's your favorite historical period, and would you want to live in it?
4. What did you want to be when you grew up?
5. What's your favorite comic strip, online or otherwise?
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Date: 2003-06-04 08:57 am (UTC)Hot: Cream and sugar. Iced: Skim milk and sugar
2. What's the most fun stitching project you've done?
I think Widget's baby sampler - because I picked all new colors and fabric and made it really my own. I lovedthat part of it, and then the piece itself stitched up so quickly and beautifully that I got nearly instantaneous rewards from it.
3. What's your favorite historical period, and would you want to live in it?
Urban America in the 1920's - the emerging modernity, the beginnings of the technological age, the evolving changes of family lives all hold fascination for me. I don't think I'd want tolive there permanently, but I'd love to go back and live it in for a few months.
4. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Oooh, I changd my mind about 17 times when I was a kid - typical doctor! no, fireman! no, vet! no, lawyer! kind of thing. When I was in college I thought I wanted to be a teacher, then a semester of pre-practicum time cleared my head of those delusions. After that I didn't have anything I wanted to be, which is pretty much how I ended up here.
5. What's your favorite comic strip, online or otherwise?
Wow. tough choice. I think I'd have to pick Rose is Rose, because it so wonderfully captures the magic and beauty of everyday life, without being endlessly repetitive. I love Vicki, and Peekaboo, and the love affair between Rose and Jimbo.
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Date: 2003-06-04 08:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-04 08:19 am (UTC)2. Allergies notwithstanding, are you a dog person or a cat person, or both?
3. If you could get a job tomorrow doing anything, what would you want to do?
4. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
5. Can you swim?
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Date: 2003-06-04 09:39 am (UTC)do I get to ask you questions?
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Date: 2003-06-04 09:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-04 11:50 am (UTC)2. Name a book or story that is meaningful to you, and say why.
3. What insight (if any) has the last few years brought you?
4. Pez or jelly beans?
5. If you could go anywhere for a vacation, where would it be?
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Date: 2003-06-04 12:14 pm (UTC)I miss taking karate. I didn't realize that until I went to New York last month and went to a karate class with my friend.
2. Name a book or story that is meaningful to you, and say why.
Hm. Tough question. I think I'm going to cheat a little and give you a poem instead.
The Coat
W.B. Yeats
I made myself a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat.
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they had wrought it.
Song, let them take it;
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.
I like the idea of shedding frustrations like clothing and walking off naked.
3. What insight (if any) has the last few years brought you?
I'm not the same person I was in high school, thank goodness.
4. Pez or jelly beans?
Jelly beans. I've never understood what the big deal is about Pez.
5. If you could go anywhere for a vacation, where would it be?
I joke all winter about running away to Aruba. I'd like to go to Australia, or back to Strasbourg, or back to Venice.
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Date: 2003-06-05 01:43 pm (UTC)W.B. Yeats
Oooh, I read this long ago. I like it although it says something different to me.
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Date: 2003-06-04 10:12 am (UTC)Books, by far.
2. Allergies notwithstanding, are you a dog person or a cat person, or both?
Cat Person, Although there are a few dogs I like.
3. If you could get a job tomorrow doing anything, what would you want to do?
Writing my novel, or writing a book of any kind.
Writing book, game, software or movie reviews would also be grand. I know from my college days that I do great art reviews.
4. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Pumpkin.
5. Can you swim?
Yes, but I'm very out of practice.
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Date: 2003-06-04 08:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-04 08:44 am (UTC)2. Milk, dark or white chocolate?
3. How many fish are in your fishtank?
4. If you could choose a superpower, what would you want to be able to do?
5. What gadget can't you live without?
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Date: 2003-06-04 10:06 am (UTC)I'd never realized it smelled like perfume. Can you describe it?
2. Milk, dark or white chocolate?
Usually Milk chocolate. It varies with my mood.
3. How many fish are in your fish tank?
At least 20, probably closer to 25.
4. If you could choose a superpower, what would you want to be able to do?
Indestructibility or teleportation. I'd always wondered what it would be like to be the indestructible soldier on the battlefield, or the rescue worker who didn't have to worry about running out of air or being crushed by rocks.
Besides, it's the only way I'll ever try skydiving.
5. What gadget can't you live without?
In a general, trapped on a desert island survivalist sense, a can opener. Better yet, my Swiss Army knife with the locking blade. While not EXACTLY what I would like in any given situation, it generally provides a close enough approximation to get the job done. If only I had one with a phillips screwdriver AND a corkscrew, then I'd be set.
I can live without a computer, so long as I have a typewriter or at the very least pen and paper. I wouldn't like it, but I could do it.
For day to day use, I'd have to say the mag-lite I carry in my pocket. I never seem to run out of situations where it's handy. I think it gets more use than my pocket knife.
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Date: 2003-06-04 08:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-06-04 09:12 am (UTC)2. Before you were a dad, did you ever think about what kind of dad you would be?
3. What place you haven't been to yet would you like to go to?
4. What's your favorite aspect of your job?
5. What do you do when you can't sleep?
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Date: 2003-06-09 09:31 am (UTC)2. What's your favorite thing to do in Boston on weekends?
3. Which do you find more challenging by itself, work or grad school?
4. What do you like on your pizza?
5. David wants a dog someday; would you want another cat?