That interview thing that's going around
Jun. 2nd, 2006 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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knittress to interview me, and here are the results:
(1) When/where did you meetrackham?
We met during my freshman year of college, at the BYU Science Fiction Club. Of course, at the time I thought he was way too old for me (being an ancient 21 to my oh-so-young 18), however when I came back the next year, he was definitely on the list of guys I wanted to date. At one point my roommates and I were hosting a filksing in our apartment and he was there... I was rather sneakily trying to get his attention by sharing my music with him, but having (I thought) no luck. So when my roommate (Hi Holly!!! <-- She occasionally reads my LJ), his younger sister and I all went out to get some more soda, I asked the younger sister if he was dating anybody. She instantly perked up, told me no and by the time we got back to the apartment, she and Holly had dared me into asking him out (with a deadline, after which they would do it for me). Thankfully, this all fit in nicely with Preference (a women's choice formal dance) being only two weeks away.
It just so happened that the Science Fiction Club was hosting a Spook Alley (very pared down and simple haunted house) the next week to raise money... and, as the story goes: He was a mad scientist, I was a zombie taking tickets at the door... I had written up a note on parchment using red ink (to simulate blood) and came up with some spooky sounding way to ask him out to Preference... and handed it to one of the people going through the Spook Alley with the request that he give it to the Mad Scientist. It worked! We spent practically every free moment together after that and by the time we actually went on that date to Preference, were already talking about stuff we wanted to do when we got married. Technically, we dated for three weeks before we were officially engaged. Probably a bit more than you wanted to know, but the Spook Alley story is always fun to tell. :-)
(2) Favorite subject in school, and why?
I always had two: English and Math. Because, oddly, they seemed to use the same part of my brain. The structure of language has always felt fairly mathematical to me and I've always found the structure of equations to be a bit poetic.
(3) If you could go anywhere in the world for a 3 day weekend -- but no longer -- where would you and what would you do?
Guam. In particular, I would explore Anderson Air Force Base: my old neighborhood, Tarague Beach, Ramprunner Park, the Latte Stone Drive-Inn... All the places I most likely wouldn't be able to see if I actually went to Guam on a regular vacation, because I'd have no way to get on the base. After three days, I suspect the heat and humidity would be killing me and I'd have had enough time to have a good long look at the places I used to hang out.
(4) I know you lived overseas as a kid. Was it weird/odd to come back to the States, or wonderful, or was it just-another-move?
To some extent, it was just another move... though there were things that seemed odd about coming back. There were some major differences in culture -- life on Guam had been VERY laid back and I really wasn't used to wearing shoes (which is one of the reasons I still avoid them as much as possible).
I remember the most embarrassing moment, though, came at church... On Guam, they very much followed the Hawaiian tradition: When a speaker would get up to talk, he or she would say "Hafa Adai!!" (a Chamorro greeting) and everyone in the congregation would say (and the kids, like me at the time, would shout) back "Hafa Adai!!" When we had guest speakers in from Hawaii, they would start out with "Alo-o-o-oha!!" and we'd reply in kind... and we'd occasionally have visitors from the mainland who would just say "Good Morning" (and we'd reply, often startling people who didn't know what to expect). You can probably already see what's coming... Our first Sunday back in the States, we went to church and the first speaker got up and started out with "Good morning!" and my lone voice shouted back "Good morning!!" into an echoing chapel. Yeah, it took me forever to live that one down.
(5) Can you describe one thing you own that you treasure?
Off the top of my head, I'd have to say my great-grandmother's jewelry box. When I was about 12, we were visiting her and I commented on how pretty it was... and she replied, in that rather disconcerting way some elderly folks have, that she would make sure I got it when she died (it actually freaked me out a little at the time). Flash forward about nine years, I get a box in the mail from my Great Grandmother (though not with her handwriting on the label) and inside is the jewelry box... filled with bits and pieces of jewelry, all with little notes in her handwriting about where they were from and that they were to go to me (this included her and my late-great-grandfather's wedding ring set). Freaking once again happened, only a little more severe this time... because I suddenly remembered her promise and became very worried that she'd passed on without anyone telling me. Nope, she was just wanting to make sure that certain things got to the people she wanted to have them, in case something did happen to her.
It's a beautiful jewelry box that my grandfather (her son) bought her on his first trip to Hong Kong -- it has an intricate jade carving on the lid and the wood on the box itself is just gorgeous. I love it more for its history, though. The fact that it belonged to my great-grandmother for so many years... and that she remembered I loved it and sent it to me. And for the story of how my grandfather ended up having to smuggle it into the US, because he found out after he'd bought it that there was an embargo on jade coming out of Hong Kong at the time.
Here are the rules, if anyone is interested!:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
knittress to interview me, and here are the results:(1) When/where did you meet
rackham? We met during my freshman year of college, at the BYU Science Fiction Club. Of course, at the time I thought he was way too old for me (being an ancient 21 to my oh-so-young 18), however when I came back the next year, he was definitely on the list of guys I wanted to date. At one point my roommates and I were hosting a filksing in our apartment and he was there... I was rather sneakily trying to get his attention by sharing my music with him, but having (I thought) no luck. So when my roommate (Hi Holly!!! <-- She occasionally reads my LJ), his younger sister and I all went out to get some more soda, I asked the younger sister if he was dating anybody. She instantly perked up, told me no and by the time we got back to the apartment, she and Holly had dared me into asking him out (with a deadline, after which they would do it for me). Thankfully, this all fit in nicely with Preference (a women's choice formal dance) being only two weeks away.
It just so happened that the Science Fiction Club was hosting a Spook Alley (very pared down and simple haunted house) the next week to raise money... and, as the story goes: He was a mad scientist, I was a zombie taking tickets at the door... I had written up a note on parchment using red ink (to simulate blood) and came up with some spooky sounding way to ask him out to Preference... and handed it to one of the people going through the Spook Alley with the request that he give it to the Mad Scientist. It worked! We spent practically every free moment together after that and by the time we actually went on that date to Preference, were already talking about stuff we wanted to do when we got married. Technically, we dated for three weeks before we were officially engaged. Probably a bit more than you wanted to know, but the Spook Alley story is always fun to tell. :-)
(2) Favorite subject in school, and why?
I always had two: English and Math. Because, oddly, they seemed to use the same part of my brain. The structure of language has always felt fairly mathematical to me and I've always found the structure of equations to be a bit poetic.
(3) If you could go anywhere in the world for a 3 day weekend -- but no longer -- where would you and what would you do?
Guam. In particular, I would explore Anderson Air Force Base: my old neighborhood, Tarague Beach, Ramprunner Park, the Latte Stone Drive-Inn... All the places I most likely wouldn't be able to see if I actually went to Guam on a regular vacation, because I'd have no way to get on the base. After three days, I suspect the heat and humidity would be killing me and I'd have had enough time to have a good long look at the places I used to hang out.
(4) I know you lived overseas as a kid. Was it weird/odd to come back to the States, or wonderful, or was it just-another-move?
To some extent, it was just another move... though there were things that seemed odd about coming back. There were some major differences in culture -- life on Guam had been VERY laid back and I really wasn't used to wearing shoes (which is one of the reasons I still avoid them as much as possible).
I remember the most embarrassing moment, though, came at church... On Guam, they very much followed the Hawaiian tradition: When a speaker would get up to talk, he or she would say "Hafa Adai!!" (a Chamorro greeting) and everyone in the congregation would say (and the kids, like me at the time, would shout) back "Hafa Adai!!" When we had guest speakers in from Hawaii, they would start out with "Alo-o-o-oha!!" and we'd reply in kind... and we'd occasionally have visitors from the mainland who would just say "Good Morning" (and we'd reply, often startling people who didn't know what to expect). You can probably already see what's coming... Our first Sunday back in the States, we went to church and the first speaker got up and started out with "Good morning!" and my lone voice shouted back "Good morning!!" into an echoing chapel. Yeah, it took me forever to live that one down.
(5) Can you describe one thing you own that you treasure?
Off the top of my head, I'd have to say my great-grandmother's jewelry box. When I was about 12, we were visiting her and I commented on how pretty it was... and she replied, in that rather disconcerting way some elderly folks have, that she would make sure I got it when she died (it actually freaked me out a little at the time). Flash forward about nine years, I get a box in the mail from my Great Grandmother (though not with her handwriting on the label) and inside is the jewelry box... filled with bits and pieces of jewelry, all with little notes in her handwriting about where they were from and that they were to go to me (this included her and my late-great-grandfather's wedding ring set). Freaking once again happened, only a little more severe this time... because I suddenly remembered her promise and became very worried that she'd passed on without anyone telling me. Nope, she was just wanting to make sure that certain things got to the people she wanted to have them, in case something did happen to her.
It's a beautiful jewelry box that my grandfather (her son) bought her on his first trip to Hong Kong -- it has an intricate jade carving on the lid and the wood on the box itself is just gorgeous. I love it more for its history, though. The fact that it belonged to my great-grandmother for so many years... and that she remembered I loved it and sent it to me. And for the story of how my grandfather ended up having to smuggle it into the US, because he found out after he'd bought it that there was an embargo on jade coming out of Hong Kong at the time.
Here are the rules, if anyone is interested!:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
