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junkshop_disco gave me these lovely questions to answer:
1. If you could know the time and circumstances of your own demise, would you want to?
Yes, I would. The trick would be budgeting my life experiences for the time I have remaining. You always kinda start out assuming you're going to get the standard 70-80 years, which requires things like gainful employment and retirement accounts and possibly offspring who feel obligated to take care of you when you're old and senile. But what if you only get to live to 30 or 40? Much less long-term planning. No need to bother with the kids or the retirement account. Much less worry about damaging vital organs, as you won't live to see them fail. Much more pressure to travel and skydive and have your heart broken and write a novel before you croak.
Yeah, as a person who likes planning: I would definitely like to know ahead of time.
2. We are going to a karaoke bar - what will you sing, and how drunk will you need to be?
I do a fantastic Patsy Cline. (For a given definition of fantastic.) Fun fact: I once sang "Walking After Midnight" stone cold sober at a county fair.
A friend once described me as the least self-conscious person he'd ever met. (I am most definitely self-conscious, just not about the things most other people are self-conscious about.) Drunk, sober: if I feel like doing something, I'll do it.
3. What's your biggest regret?
Flunking out of the University of Michigan. It was a great school and a fantastic opportunity that I just wasn't ready for. I know that. I also know that I don't need a fancy degree for what I want to do with my life. But I still wish I had it. My intellectual vanity craves that validation. Some girls want to be the prettiest in the room; I want to be the smartest.
4. You can take a time machine back to the year when you were 17 - what do you tell yourself?
I don't know that I'd say anything in particular. Most likely, I'd just listen. I spend a lot of time with kids and teenagers, and there's so much I want to say to them, and sometimes I do try. But there's some advice that can't be given: it has to be lived through. (Most often, they wouldn't believe you anyway. I didn't believe most of the advice I got at that age.) But an adult who's willing to really listen is a rare commodity that should be available to more kids.
5. Do you believe plants grow better when talked and sung to?
No. But it doesn't stop me.
6. What's the biggest crime against fashion you have ever commited?
It's hard to say. "Fashion" as it's most often described bores the crap out of me, and I don't give too much of a damn about which celebrity is wearing what at any given time. I don't like people who say that, because I'm 30, I should no longer wear Converse high-tops or bright fuschia tights or my Wonder Woman t-shirt. There's very little that I've worn that I would look back on and say, "Oh God, that was horrible!" because it's what I wanted to wear at the time.
That said, I do own a pair of super baggy jeans circa 2002 that I still occasionally wear...
7. Which is your favourite track on the Heartbreaks album? (see? Now you have to buy it)
TBD! (I just bought the album, onjunkshop_disco's recommendation.
For the curious, check 'em out:
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junkshop_disco gave me these lovely questions to answer:1. If you could know the time and circumstances of your own demise, would you want to?
Yes, I would. The trick would be budgeting my life experiences for the time I have remaining. You always kinda start out assuming you're going to get the standard 70-80 years, which requires things like gainful employment and retirement accounts and possibly offspring who feel obligated to take care of you when you're old and senile. But what if you only get to live to 30 or 40? Much less long-term planning. No need to bother with the kids or the retirement account. Much less worry about damaging vital organs, as you won't live to see them fail. Much more pressure to travel and skydive and have your heart broken and write a novel before you croak.
Yeah, as a person who likes planning: I would definitely like to know ahead of time.
2. We are going to a karaoke bar - what will you sing, and how drunk will you need to be?
I do a fantastic Patsy Cline. (For a given definition of fantastic.) Fun fact: I once sang "Walking After Midnight" stone cold sober at a county fair.
A friend once described me as the least self-conscious person he'd ever met. (I am most definitely self-conscious, just not about the things most other people are self-conscious about.) Drunk, sober: if I feel like doing something, I'll do it.
3. What's your biggest regret?
Flunking out of the University of Michigan. It was a great school and a fantastic opportunity that I just wasn't ready for. I know that. I also know that I don't need a fancy degree for what I want to do with my life. But I still wish I had it. My intellectual vanity craves that validation. Some girls want to be the prettiest in the room; I want to be the smartest.
4. You can take a time machine back to the year when you were 17 - what do you tell yourself?
I don't know that I'd say anything in particular. Most likely, I'd just listen. I spend a lot of time with kids and teenagers, and there's so much I want to say to them, and sometimes I do try. But there's some advice that can't be given: it has to be lived through. (Most often, they wouldn't believe you anyway. I didn't believe most of the advice I got at that age.) But an adult who's willing to really listen is a rare commodity that should be available to more kids.
5. Do you believe plants grow better when talked and sung to?
No. But it doesn't stop me.
6. What's the biggest crime against fashion you have ever commited?
It's hard to say. "Fashion" as it's most often described bores the crap out of me, and I don't give too much of a damn about which celebrity is wearing what at any given time. I don't like people who say that, because I'm 30, I should no longer wear Converse high-tops or bright fuschia tights or my Wonder Woman t-shirt. There's very little that I've worn that I would look back on and say, "Oh God, that was horrible!" because it's what I wanted to wear at the time.
That said, I do own a pair of super baggy jeans circa 2002 that I still occasionally wear...
7. Which is your favourite track on the Heartbreaks album? (see? Now you have to buy it)
TBD! (I just bought the album, on
junkshop_disco's recommendation.For the curious, check 'em out: