And the meme goes on
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lillibetHope you're enjoying this as much as I am :)
1. What was your most memorable experience during your visit to Iceland?
That's hard to say, as the memories are all so fresh as yet. I hope that I will remember playing with sound in the dome at the Asmundursafn and the sight of the small waterfalls blowing off into the wind along the cliffs near Eyarbakki. I don't think I can forget walking along the Eyarbakki breakwater with the wind blowing freezing cold rain into my face.
2. What would you change about your college experience if you could look back and edit it however you like (i.e. you don't have to do it again, it just will have been different in whatever way you choose).
I was thinking about this after I asked it of you earlier today and it's very hard to say. I think the big thing is that I would have changed things around so that I graduated a year earlier and took my year off after I graduated, so that I might have entered college less scarred by the way high school ended. Once there...hmmn. I would like to have worked harder to develop mentoring relationships with my professors--I think I missed out a lot by not taking more advantage of office hours. I had such a variety of experiences because of transferring and taking time off and while not all of them were good, I really value the breadth of experience I gained from that period of my life.
3. What would you like to see Theater@First tackle in future productions? (i.e. More Shakespeare? More musicals? Oscar Wilde?)
Well, I'm looking forward to directing my first Shakespeare in the fall (Merry Wives, assuming it's approved by the committee on Sunday). I never know what I'm going to want to do next. For the moment, I think we still need to carefully assess the possibilities of space and budget to do shows that we can stage without looking too cheesy. I don't think there are many musicals that we can reasonably do, given those limitations and I don't enjoy them as much, personally. But the most important thing is that I want for T@F to be a place where people can do what they are excited to do.
4. You asked me what was the one thing my parents taught me that I wished I could be rid of? In your case, when was the one thing your parents taught you that you want to pass to others (whether friends or the next generation)?
That's really hard. My parents taught me so many good lessons that it's hard to know what one thing to focus on. Perhaps the most important thing I learned directly from them is that it's okay to make mistakes--I think a lot of people have trouble with that one.
5. Was there ever a job that you wished you never took?
Boy howdy. I've taken a couple of jobs that lastest only six weeks, because I realized that they were not for me. One of the worst mistakes I ever made was a job where the boss and I developed what I think was a genuinely abusive relationship (cf. people who can't deal with making mistakes). I was a mess by the time I finally got out of there. Fortunately, it was followed by the best job I've ever had, which definitely helped with the bends.
Anyone else want questions of their own to play with?
Alternately, if you see questions I've asked other people that you'd like to answer, feel free.
1. What was your most memorable experience during your visit to Iceland?
That's hard to say, as the memories are all so fresh as yet. I hope that I will remember playing with sound in the dome at the Asmundursafn and the sight of the small waterfalls blowing off into the wind along the cliffs near Eyarbakki. I don't think I can forget walking along the Eyarbakki breakwater with the wind blowing freezing cold rain into my face.
2. What would you change about your college experience if you could look back and edit it however you like (i.e. you don't have to do it again, it just will have been different in whatever way you choose).
I was thinking about this after I asked it of you earlier today and it's very hard to say. I think the big thing is that I would have changed things around so that I graduated a year earlier and took my year off after I graduated, so that I might have entered college less scarred by the way high school ended. Once there...hmmn. I would like to have worked harder to develop mentoring relationships with my professors--I think I missed out a lot by not taking more advantage of office hours. I had such a variety of experiences because of transferring and taking time off and while not all of them were good, I really value the breadth of experience I gained from that period of my life.
3. What would you like to see Theater@First tackle in future productions? (i.e. More Shakespeare? More musicals? Oscar Wilde?)
Well, I'm looking forward to directing my first Shakespeare in the fall (Merry Wives, assuming it's approved by the committee on Sunday). I never know what I'm going to want to do next. For the moment, I think we still need to carefully assess the possibilities of space and budget to do shows that we can stage without looking too cheesy. I don't think there are many musicals that we can reasonably do, given those limitations and I don't enjoy them as much, personally. But the most important thing is that I want for T@F to be a place where people can do what they are excited to do.
4. You asked me what was the one thing my parents taught me that I wished I could be rid of? In your case, when was the one thing your parents taught you that you want to pass to others (whether friends or the next generation)?
That's really hard. My parents taught me so many good lessons that it's hard to know what one thing to focus on. Perhaps the most important thing I learned directly from them is that it's okay to make mistakes--I think a lot of people have trouble with that one.
5. Was there ever a job that you wished you never took?
Boy howdy. I've taken a couple of jobs that lastest only six weeks, because I realized that they were not for me. One of the worst mistakes I ever made was a job where the boss and I developed what I think was a genuinely abusive relationship (cf. people who can't deal with making mistakes). I was a mess by the time I finally got out of there. Fortunately, it was followed by the best job I've ever had, which definitely helped with the bends.
Anyone else want questions of their own to play with?
Alternately, if you see questions I've asked other people that you'd like to answer, feel free.
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Date: 2005-04-28 02:30 am (UTC)One of them was about my favorite item of clothing. I have so many beautiful pieces that I've picked up from Asia that it's hard to say. I guess my favorite sari is... my only sari. :) My favorite salwar kameez (long tunic and pants) is either the blue one I got in India or the blue one I got in Nepal (and this is my favorite style of ethnic clothing, by the way). My favorite kira (Bhutanese dress) is the red one I picked out for myself, although the orange and green one that my host mother picked out and made into a half-kira for me has far more sentimental value (and is much easier to wear!!!). I have two Tibetan dresses, but don't recall much of a difference between them. My favorite Thai piece is either the red suit made from silk given to me by the parents of a student of mine, or one of the cotton suits made from fabric I bought near Sukhothai while traveling with Abbe and Bert. My favorite Lao pieces are a cobalt blue silk blouse and cobalt blue Lao-style skirt that were made for me by a member of the Lao Women's Union that I worked with on the UNIFEM project.
In terms of Western clothes, my favorite skirt-blouse combination is the cobalt blue Indian outfit that pookfreak picked out for me once when we were shopping. I don't wear dresses, generally, although I seem to have gathered a few while I was in Thailand (which is odd, because they're all winter dresses). My favorite pants are the three pairs from the Avenue I wear every day. :) I have a few pretty ethnic tops that I don't wear for various reasons (mostly shoddy workmanship, although cmeckhardt is remedying that right now). My favorite jacket is the fleece I picked up in Kathmandu.
Oddly, I remember the histories of most of my clothing fairly clearly, and I appear to not have bought much of it myself. Right now, I'm wearing my Avenue pants, a pair of Clarks shoes that I bought in March 2003 while in the US for my long visit, a Thammasat Linguistics Department t-shirt, and a cardigan that I got for $12, thanks to a sale and desert-born's generous application of a Lane Bryant gift certificate. (Sadly, I lost its sister cardigan, which was red, somewhere in Thailand.) If I turn in my chair, I see a green jacket I got from pookfreak, a green sweater that dr_bitch gave me, a fawn salwar kameez that Janice gave me, a black sweater that my ex's mother gave me for Christmas in 1995 or so, a pile of black clothing (including some of the winter dresses I mentioned, which I think came from pookfreak), a scarf that I acquired somewhere (from galestorm?), a navy acrylic sweater that I bought myself (from Filene's?), a blue t-shirt that Heidi gave me, a tie-dyed blue shirt that dr_bitch and frotz gave me, a dress I bought at the Garment District lo these many years ago and have never worn, a pile of Thammasat t-shirts, a red shirt that someone I used to work with gave me (or perhaps it was Brian's housemate's then-girlfriend), a black t-shirt I bought, the fleece I bought from pookfreak, the pajamas my mother gave me, the gho (men's dress) I bought myself in Bhutan, a blue t-shirt and a blue plaid cotton shirt that pookfreak gave me, a white shirt from pookfreak, a green silk shirt from dr_bitch, my Thai suits, and the blue Lao blouse.
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Date: 2005-04-28 05:53 am (UTC)If you'd like more questions, I can probably come up with some :)
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Date: 2005-04-28 05:55 am (UTC)1. What's your favorite piece of clothing?
2. What makes a place feel like "home" to you?
3. What's one thing guaranteed to make a guy attractive to you?
4. What would you do with a million dollars?
5. What's the oddest thing you've ever eaten?
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Date: 2005-04-28 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-28 10:11 pm (UTC)