Five Question Meme Game
A fine lady and blogger by the name of Amy gave me a standing ovation for yesterday's post, and being so pleased with myself thanks to her comment I was induced to check out her blog.
Thus, I saw she had been tagged with a meme, one of those blog games that many bloggers seem to hate but I still find amusing. With that, the game goes like this:
Instructions:
1. If you want to participate, leave a comment below saying “Interview me.” (”Blow me” or “Eat me” are not acceptable substitutes.) You must leave your blog address so I can think of good questions for you!
2. I will respond by asking you five questions - each person’s will be different. I’ll post the questions in the comments section of this post.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
So I left a comment, and she tagged me--and scripted some good questions to boot! As for my answers...
1. You are stranded on an island with no hope of rescue. You have two books with you and one CD, what are they?
Book 1: The Art of War by Sun Tzu. I'll need it to plan my eventual overthrow of the native islanders
Book 2: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens is my hero, one of the elder statesmen of antisocial commentary; and so far DC is my favorite volume (I have a feeling, though, once I read The Pickwick Papers I might have to change my book selection before the plane crashes).
CD: Tough call; either Dawn by pianist Steven Halpern or Sound of Wind Driven Rain by guitarist Will Ackerman, which are instrumental works I listen to over and over again (indeed, I've listened to Dawn at least 3 times a week since 1994!). Maybe I could rip them both to CD/RW...
2. What is the one piece of advice one of your parents gave you that you will never forget?
Well, my biological dad never actually said this advice, but he certainly demonstrated it: he was a violent alcoholic who drank himself to an early and painful liver disease death at 35. Although I enjoy a good beer every now and then and brew my own on occasion, I've learned never to find the answers to life's problems at the bottom of a bottle, or with any drug for that matter (coffee-infused caffeine excepted).
3. Sometimes the best example is a bad example, what bad example has been the best one for you?
A former supervisor. He treated his minions--including myself--like absolute pond scum; with absurd overtime, public verbal beatings, "do as I say not as I do" leadership, and inconsistent and flaky decision making (and the military is chock full of such leaders). I vowed never to treat my people in such fashion, and it's paid off in spades--when you have subordinates that beg to follow you from job to job, you've got their loyalty! I should mention, then, that I'm much nicer in person than I am on this blog...
4. What would be worse, your kid announcing he/she's gay, or that he/she is not going to go to college?
Not going to college. Although I say I'm not homophobic I'd probably be a little weirded out if the fruits of my loins said they were gay; but gay or straight, a person has got to have an education to get anywhere these days. Yes, being gay will probably cause them some social problems; but such problems are surmountable, especially compared to making ends meet flipping burgers. And don't give me that [PIGEONED] about Bill Gates being a college dropout! Such a payoff isn't worth the educational crap shoot.
5. Given a choice between a colonoscopy or a root canal, which one would you pick?
...and speaking of crap shoot, definitely a root canal--some parts of the body were designed "one way" for a good reason. Furthermore, I want to be able to walk out of the doctor's office, and root canals are better water cooler talk than colonoscopies hands down (pardon the pun).
As an aside, if the organ is called a colon, and the procedure is a colonoscopy, why, then, are new human settlements called colonies and the residents colonists?
Now maybe my fellow author MOGS will answer the questions, too!
Anyone else want to get tagged? Leave a comment and method to contact you and I'll come up with 5 questions for ya!
Stumble It!
interview me plaese!
Posted by: Stephanie | 30 July 2005 at 22:44
Ok I'm game: Interview Me!
(The rebel in me was very tempted to say Blow me, but I resisted, which is probably for the better since we are both married and male.)
I'm probably opening Pandora's box with this; now instead of writing interesting high-quality posts I'll be chained to my computer thinking up questions for random strangers... Oh well, I'll just blame the Pigeon!
Posted by: Philosopher Poet aka Flying Squirrel | 30 July 2005 at 22:46
Interview me
Posted by: Sim Gishel | 01 February 2007 at 11:08