What's the biggest leap of faith you've ever had to take?
When I left grad school and moved North - changing time zones, changing career paths, going into a new city by myself knowing almost no one and with no professional qualification for my new job...believing that somehow, things would work out.
Well, eventually, it worked out fine =)
What compliment are you most often given?
Usually it's something about smart. However, in my experience, it's the kind of smart that kills on quiz night at the pub but isn't much use when real life pounces on your from behind. Big difference.
(And no, it's not a lack of "common sense." In my experience, "common sense" = "what I (the speaker) think is right." The next time one of my redneck relatives talks about how I was so smart as a kid but didn't have any common sense, I'm going to break their teeth with a tire iron.)
What aspect of your personality could use a little work?
The whole thing. Nom nom nom.
I guess the inability to deal with change, the unknown, etc.
What inspires you to blog?
Mostly the notion that I can just knock off whatever's on my mind, without the minimums and maximums required by most other forms of publishing or the artistic merit required for poetry. But seriously, folks...
My major literary inspiration was always Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. That sort of work, with all the vignettes strung together into a larger overarching narrative, was exactly what I wanted to write, and what I thought I would be best at. If I ever get around to writing the Great American Novel, it will probably be somewhere between that and the ubiquitous "email epistolary novel" that popped up everywhere as soon as email became a mainstream phenomenon (early 1990s? Not sure, since growing up in an area that was a conscientious objector to the 20th century meant that I didn't have an email address of my own until 1994).
Anyway...
What's the best thing about today?
I can go to an Irish pub in the City instead of to work. =)
How many push-ups can you do?
I don't do push-ups. I do curls - usually 20-oz. =)
What do you do when you find yourself with nothing to do?
Submitted by Cassie.
iPhone.
=)
Next question?
What's your morning beverage of choice? Coffee, tea, juice? Homemade or store-bought?
When I can, I try to make coffee in the morning. However, recently I have fallen back into buying it from the little independent shop on the way to work, where they are very nice and will fill a 24 oz thermos AND a 16 oz travel mug for the price of one large coffee.
