Interview meme.
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poisontaster
1. Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the five questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed. And it just keeps going, and going, and going.
1. Where do you think the limitation on personal freedom vs. the quest for national security is leading? What are your pros and cons?
I think this all depends on what happens with the Supreme Court nominations and also the next house/senate elections in 2006. If the Republicans, especially the so-called conservatives backed by Dobson, maintain their strangle hold on the House and Senate, the the limitations on personal freedom and privacy will increase in the the supposed interest of national security. Dear Leader Dobson and cohorts don't like privacy because it means that people can live their lives however they want without following the "moral" laws...which encourages things like Gay Marriage in their opinion. The need for national security in the face of terrorism gives them the perfect excuse to be able to see into every aspect of an individual's life in the supposed pursuit of terrorists.
Terrorism is wrong. Racial profiling is wrong too. At the same time, just because a three year old has the same name as a terrorist on a do not fly watch list, does not mean that said three year old has the intent or ability to do so. Common sense has a role to play in national security.
At the same time, digging into the lives and files of every single American and legal alien in the United States in search of the next potential terrorist or threat to the state is a) unconstitutional, b) not what our Founding Fathers intended, and c) lazy ass investigative work. The US government does not deserve to know what library books I check out. They don't deserve to know what websites I visit provided they aren't illegal ones. If they find out I visit a website, they better be monitoring the website, and not my personal computer. Doing anything else makes it too easy for there to be an abuse in power either by selling a person's habits to company or holding those habits hostage against the person at a later date.
George, meet the kettle.
That's not a very coherent or academic answer to your question. I hope it answers it.
2) How do you know you're in love? Have you ever been in love? Are you in love now?
Hmmm...honestly, this is almost as hard. I know I've asked lots of friends this over the years, but it's just one of those things that, well, how do you explain it? I mean, equating it to parents or siblings doesn't work to me, because despite how you love them etc, after a point, you establish a distance with them both to establish your own life and also because you know you eventually have to make it without them. And differentiating between "in love" and "in lust", whoooah baby. Heinlein's written entire novels dedicated to trying to explain that.
Sooo..."in love"...I'll preface this by saying that I think it's different for everyone. Cause I know that most of my friends who have been or profess to be in love, gods, I'd shoot myself if I ever had a relationship like it. I think I realized that I was really and truly in love for the first time when I first realized that I didn't really have to have any me/alone time if that meant that instead I could spend more time w/ the guy I was dating. It was a first for me -- always before, I needed/craved my own space and for the most part, rarely had a guy ever give it to me without basically..well, giving waaay too much. So when an evening at home w/ my guy can easily substitute for my me time without me getting uber-bitchy..well, then, I'm either in love...or I've somehow been attatched to someone and can't kill them without killing myself. *grin*
Have I ever been in love? Yeppers. Am I in love now? I'm pretty sure of it. That or my dislike of change has reached pathological levels, but I'm pretty sure it's love.
3. How did you start writing? Why fanfic?
My parents enrolled me in school at the age of five and one year later in the first grade, my teacher taught us how to write the alphabet.
*hee* Sorry, couldn't resist. :) Basically, once I got the dvds for Firefly and had watched them twice (or so), I couldn't stop wondering why Yosaff was the way she was. And then about an hour later, this vivid color play started in my head while I was TRYING to go to sleep. It wouldn't stop...and it seemed straightforward enough to type it down since I'd only been reading fanfic for almost a decade at the time...and well, you've seen the results!
Why fanfic? Honestly, when I was a kid, I tried to write other stuff. No, seriously. I went through a huge existential crisis when I was 6 (yes, yes, I know. I was raised catholic, I think it's required that it happens by the time you have first communion), in which I finally admitted that I couldn't remember being in heaven before I was born, ergo, I had no reason to believe that heaven existed since I already knew priests lie. (This is what happens when you tell a three year old that if you pray hard enough, God will take your headaches away). So I decided the only way to ensure I lived on was to write a book because it was the only way to leave something that wouldn't be destroyed. (Nope, I didn't know about WWII or Southern Baptists yet). But I never could write a story and gave up before my seventh birthday. But since life in OK was boring and by the time I was in middle school, I had long bus rides, I starting making up stories of my favorite TV shows in my head in which I appeared in. five years later, I found out that lots of other people did the same thing and they actually posted their stories on the internet. And so began my fanfic addiction that I used to make sure that I had enough money to eat rather than spending all my money on my reading addiction. So, when I started writing, writing fanfic didn't seem horrible, dirty, or lazy to me. Rather, it seemed like a good place to knock the rust off my narrative skills.
4. What do you think is the best thing about growing up in OK?
Hmm....You know, I'm not sure. I knew very early on when I was a kid that just because we lived in a small town, it didn't mean that BAD THINGS couldn't happen. I always knew that my parents were over-protective (though I didn't know till later that it was with good reason when I found out that I had an uncle who'd been molested by a priest) and my crazy grandmother had no problem telling a little girl all the kinds of trouble she could get herself into. So I've never felt that growing up in OK was safer than growing up anywhere else. And trust me, it doesn't really offer too many unique opportunities that can't be had elsewhere.
That said, growing up there did give me an appreciation for a way of life that I don't think anyone who grew up in a metropolitan city or the coasts has. I'm also well aware of exactly what the rural regions of the south and mid-west give to this nation while being dismissed by the more populous areas of flyover country. So I guess that especially given that I'm well aware of how rare and unique and incredible my parents are, growing up in OK forced me to be tolerant of people who weren't tolerant of me. And this was before I ever left the area because even there at the end of feminism in the 80s, I think it was still pretty rare in most small towns for parents to raise their daughter with the expectation that she could do anything and everything that she wanted so long as she made the right choices. And I had to be tolerant and respectful of my friends' parents who didn't believe or teach the same thing while also being conscious of how I interacted with those friends...I mean, I wanted them to feel the way I did about their futures, but egging them into fights with their parents wasn't going to achieve anything.
I don't know if any of that makes sense. Don't get me wrong. There is a lot about OK that I love, but the experiences I had growing up as a child, I don't think those were specific to the state so much as specific to my family.
5. In a matter of life or death, do you think you could kill someone, to save your own life or that of someone you love?
I don't know. I don't think that until you are faced with it, that you can know that if you have the means at your disposal and the need, can you kill someone. I know that, growing up, my brother managed to make me angry enough to want to and to try to cause him physical harm at times. but I also know that given the same situation nowadays, I could probably keep my temper. And the only time I've ever felt my life was in danger, it was from someone I loved and I know that in that situation there wouldn't have been anything I could have done had it gone differently. Give me a gun and put me in the same situation, I don't know. Fear might have allowed me to. So I don't know. I hope so.
ETA only 3 people have asked for interviews, so still room for more if anyone wants one. (9am tues)
poisontaster1. Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the five questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed. And it just keeps going, and going, and going.
1. Where do you think the limitation on personal freedom vs. the quest for national security is leading? What are your pros and cons?
I think this all depends on what happens with the Supreme Court nominations and also the next house/senate elections in 2006. If the Republicans, especially the so-called conservatives backed by Dobson, maintain their strangle hold on the House and Senate, the the limitations on personal freedom and privacy will increase in the the supposed interest of national security. Dear Leader Dobson and cohorts don't like privacy because it means that people can live their lives however they want without following the "moral" laws...which encourages things like Gay Marriage in their opinion. The need for national security in the face of terrorism gives them the perfect excuse to be able to see into every aspect of an individual's life in the supposed pursuit of terrorists.
Terrorism is wrong. Racial profiling is wrong too. At the same time, just because a three year old has the same name as a terrorist on a do not fly watch list, does not mean that said three year old has the intent or ability to do so. Common sense has a role to play in national security.
At the same time, digging into the lives and files of every single American and legal alien in the United States in search of the next potential terrorist or threat to the state is a) unconstitutional, b) not what our Founding Fathers intended, and c) lazy ass investigative work. The US government does not deserve to know what library books I check out. They don't deserve to know what websites I visit provided they aren't illegal ones. If they find out I visit a website, they better be monitoring the website, and not my personal computer. Doing anything else makes it too easy for there to be an abuse in power either by selling a person's habits to company or holding those habits hostage against the person at a later date.
George, meet the kettle.
That's not a very coherent or academic answer to your question. I hope it answers it.
2) How do you know you're in love? Have you ever been in love? Are you in love now?
Hmmm...honestly, this is almost as hard. I know I've asked lots of friends this over the years, but it's just one of those things that, well, how do you explain it? I mean, equating it to parents or siblings doesn't work to me, because despite how you love them etc, after a point, you establish a distance with them both to establish your own life and also because you know you eventually have to make it without them. And differentiating between "in love" and "in lust", whoooah baby. Heinlein's written entire novels dedicated to trying to explain that.
Sooo..."in love"...I'll preface this by saying that I think it's different for everyone. Cause I know that most of my friends who have been or profess to be in love, gods, I'd shoot myself if I ever had a relationship like it. I think I realized that I was really and truly in love for the first time when I first realized that I didn't really have to have any me/alone time if that meant that instead I could spend more time w/ the guy I was dating. It was a first for me -- always before, I needed/craved my own space and for the most part, rarely had a guy ever give it to me without basically..well, giving waaay too much. So when an evening at home w/ my guy can easily substitute for my me time without me getting uber-bitchy..well, then, I'm either in love...or I've somehow been attatched to someone and can't kill them without killing myself. *grin*
Have I ever been in love? Yeppers. Am I in love now? I'm pretty sure of it. That or my dislike of change has reached pathological levels, but I'm pretty sure it's love.
3. How did you start writing? Why fanfic?
My parents enrolled me in school at the age of five and one year later in the first grade, my teacher taught us how to write the alphabet.
*hee* Sorry, couldn't resist. :) Basically, once I got the dvds for Firefly and had watched them twice (or so), I couldn't stop wondering why Yosaff was the way she was. And then about an hour later, this vivid color play started in my head while I was TRYING to go to sleep. It wouldn't stop...and it seemed straightforward enough to type it down since I'd only been reading fanfic for almost a decade at the time...and well, you've seen the results!
Why fanfic? Honestly, when I was a kid, I tried to write other stuff. No, seriously. I went through a huge existential crisis when I was 6 (yes, yes, I know. I was raised catholic, I think it's required that it happens by the time you have first communion), in which I finally admitted that I couldn't remember being in heaven before I was born, ergo, I had no reason to believe that heaven existed since I already knew priests lie. (This is what happens when you tell a three year old that if you pray hard enough, God will take your headaches away). So I decided the only way to ensure I lived on was to write a book because it was the only way to leave something that wouldn't be destroyed. (Nope, I didn't know about WWII or Southern Baptists yet). But I never could write a story and gave up before my seventh birthday. But since life in OK was boring and by the time I was in middle school, I had long bus rides, I starting making up stories of my favorite TV shows in my head in which I appeared in. five years later, I found out that lots of other people did the same thing and they actually posted their stories on the internet. And so began my fanfic addiction that I used to make sure that I had enough money to eat rather than spending all my money on my reading addiction. So, when I started writing, writing fanfic didn't seem horrible, dirty, or lazy to me. Rather, it seemed like a good place to knock the rust off my narrative skills.
4. What do you think is the best thing about growing up in OK?
Hmm....You know, I'm not sure. I knew very early on when I was a kid that just because we lived in a small town, it didn't mean that BAD THINGS couldn't happen. I always knew that my parents were over-protective (though I didn't know till later that it was with good reason when I found out that I had an uncle who'd been molested by a priest) and my crazy grandmother had no problem telling a little girl all the kinds of trouble she could get herself into. So I've never felt that growing up in OK was safer than growing up anywhere else. And trust me, it doesn't really offer too many unique opportunities that can't be had elsewhere.
That said, growing up there did give me an appreciation for a way of life that I don't think anyone who grew up in a metropolitan city or the coasts has. I'm also well aware of exactly what the rural regions of the south and mid-west give to this nation while being dismissed by the more populous areas of flyover country. So I guess that especially given that I'm well aware of how rare and unique and incredible my parents are, growing up in OK forced me to be tolerant of people who weren't tolerant of me. And this was before I ever left the area because even there at the end of feminism in the 80s, I think it was still pretty rare in most small towns for parents to raise their daughter with the expectation that she could do anything and everything that she wanted so long as she made the right choices. And I had to be tolerant and respectful of my friends' parents who didn't believe or teach the same thing while also being conscious of how I interacted with those friends...I mean, I wanted them to feel the way I did about their futures, but egging them into fights with their parents wasn't going to achieve anything.
I don't know if any of that makes sense. Don't get me wrong. There is a lot about OK that I love, but the experiences I had growing up as a child, I don't think those were specific to the state so much as specific to my family.
5. In a matter of life or death, do you think you could kill someone, to save your own life or that of someone you love?
I don't know. I don't think that until you are faced with it, that you can know that if you have the means at your disposal and the need, can you kill someone. I know that, growing up, my brother managed to make me angry enough to want to and to try to cause him physical harm at times. but I also know that given the same situation nowadays, I could probably keep my temper. And the only time I've ever felt my life was in danger, it was from someone I loved and I know that in that situation there wouldn't have been anything I could have done had it gone differently. Give me a gun and put me in the same situation, I don't know. Fear might have allowed me to. So I don't know. I hope so.
ETA only 3 people have asked for interviews, so still room for more if anyone wants one. (9am tues)
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Date: 2005-10-24 08:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-24 09:08 pm (UTC)1) When did you start making icons and why? Have you always been graphically oriented?
2) What is the biggest dream/hope that you've accomplished thus far in your life? What is the one thing that you can't imagine not accomplishing before you die?
3) Why do blog? What got you onto LJ in the first place?
4) After the requisite squeeing was over, what are three questions that you'd ask Joss Whedon if you ever got to meet him one on one? (Forgetful dust for Joss is available if you don't want him to remember one of the questions).
5) Name the one author that if a person has heard of/read automatically makes you think them an uncultured beast. Why?
woops..
Date: 2005-10-24 09:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-24 09:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-24 09:34 pm (UTC)Sure, sure;) LOL.
kidding.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-25 07:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-24 09:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-25 06:26 am (UTC)2) What did you want to be when you grew up when you were a child?
3) If money were not an issue, where would you like to live?
4) If you could live in a book, which novel/story would you choose? Why?
5) Who will you support for president in 2008 if they run? What do you think makes a good president?
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-25 04:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-25 06:30 am (UTC)2) What's your dream job? why?
3) You've landed a freelance position with an entertainment magazine and been asked to go and interview your three favorite entertainment personalities. Who do you interview and tell us three questions that you ask them.
4) You just won ten million dollars (pounds..whatever) in the lottery. What are you going to do now?
5) What do you think of people who go on reality TV shows? Would anything ever convince you to go on one? If you were to make a reality TV show, what would it be?
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-25 09:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-25 10:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-25 01:55 pm (UTC)2) If we could clone fandom characters and elect them for public office, who would you vote for president and why? (eg Scorpius for President)
3) Livind, dead, or imaginary, whose your hero and why?
4) What experience have you had that would surprise your ten year old self?
5) What aspect of nature would you do away with if you suddenly had Q-powers? Why?
(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-25 02:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-25 11:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-10-25 02:00 pm (UTC)2) Where and what do you want to be in ten years?
3) What TV writer would you elect to public office? Why?
4) What do you like most about college? Least?
5) What do you miss the most about childhood? why?