interview meme
Jan. 27th, 2004 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wisdomeagle1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
Questions from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
divagypsy
1. What's your favorite thing about your school? PEG, the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted. It admits girls any time after they finish eighth grade, and it has saved the lives and sanity of more gifted youth than I can count--me included. The existence of PEG covers a multitude of sins, in my book.
2. You're hired to fix Andromeda - you get to pick one point during the series run, toss out all episodes after that, and rewrite it all. What episode is your stopping point; where do you think it all started going wrong? 2x12, "Ouroboros." See, I'm slightly biased on this one; I was taught to hate all things Dylan before I even started watching the show. But in my stolen-from-gvambat-opinion, RHW should be unfired, Trance should be purple, and the Commonwealth arc should not be bloody abandoned. Nor should the Magog Worldship arc, or the megalomaniac!Dylan arc. Oh, and Trance's tail should come back, and all characters should be in character.
3. How would you end Stargate? Ooh, tough one. See,gvambat has been telling me since before I can remember that she likes shows to end with the idea that the stories continue. So, SG-1 (original team, as you all know by now) still goes through the 'gate every week, so--nothing changes. No 'ship gets made canon, no one gets married, no one dies, no one goes to live on Abydos forever. Anubis is gone, because he's boring. But the System Lords are still out there.
Everyone has something to live for, something to do. Everyone is relatively happy. But it's not perfect, because nothing ever is. There's enough subtext for everyone.
Alternate, totally shallow response: Jack retires and kisses everyone from Hammond to Teal'c in a final gesture of goodwill. :)
4. Favorite musical act and why? Must confess at this point that I've never actually seen any group perform live, which sort of leaves me without much to go on... currently my favorite group of all time is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, because Beethoven's Last Night is incredibly, amazingly, unbelievably beautiful.
5. Where would you like to live once you finish school? Wherevergvambat is, which means probably Ohio for at least a year. Probably not the south, but anywhere else is fair game. I'm considering graduate school in California at the moment, but that's subject to change at any moment.... The real answer, as I said, is wherever Gvambat is. Other details are non-essential. :)
So, who wants to be interviewed? (Please specify whether you mind fairly personal questions or not; I don't want to ask anyone anything ze's uncomfortable answering.)
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
Questions from
divagypsy1. What's your favorite thing about your school? PEG, the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted. It admits girls any time after they finish eighth grade, and it has saved the lives and sanity of more gifted youth than I can count--me included. The existence of PEG covers a multitude of sins, in my book.
2. You're hired to fix Andromeda - you get to pick one point during the series run, toss out all episodes after that, and rewrite it all. What episode is your stopping point; where do you think it all started going wrong? 2x12, "Ouroboros." See, I'm slightly biased on this one; I was taught to hate all things Dylan before I even started watching the show. But in my stolen-from-
gvambat-opinion, RHW should be unfired, Trance should be purple, and the Commonwealth arc should not be bloody abandoned. Nor should the Magog Worldship arc, or the megalomaniac!Dylan arc. Oh, and Trance's tail should come back, and all characters should be in character. 3. How would you end Stargate? Ooh, tough one. See,
gvambat has been telling me since before I can remember that she likes shows to end with the idea that the stories continue. So, SG-1 (original team, as you all know by now) still goes through the 'gate every week, so--nothing changes. No 'ship gets made canon, no one gets married, no one dies, no one goes to live on Abydos forever. Anubis is gone, because he's boring. But the System Lords are still out there. Everyone has something to live for, something to do. Everyone is relatively happy. But it's not perfect, because nothing ever is. There's enough subtext for everyone.
Alternate, totally shallow response: Jack retires and kisses everyone from Hammond to Teal'c in a final gesture of goodwill. :)
4. Favorite musical act and why? Must confess at this point that I've never actually seen any group perform live, which sort of leaves me without much to go on... currently my favorite group of all time is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, because Beethoven's Last Night is incredibly, amazingly, unbelievably beautiful.
5. Where would you like to live once you finish school? Wherever
gvambat is, which means probably Ohio for at least a year. Probably not the south, but anywhere else is fair game. I'm considering graduate school in California at the moment, but that's subject to change at any moment.... The real answer, as I said, is wherever Gvambat is. Other details are non-essential. :)So, who wants to be interviewed? (Please specify whether you mind fairly personal questions or not; I don't want to ask anyone anything ze's uncomfortable answering.)
Oh oh, pick me, pick me!
Date: 2004-01-27 09:09 pm (UTC)(In other words, yes, Interview me.)
Re: Oh oh, pick me, pick me!
Date: 2004-01-27 09:22 pm (UTC)1) Fill in the blank: I would rather chew glass than_____.
2) Who's your role model?
3) What websites do you check every single day?
4) Do you believe in God?
5) What's the absolute best J/D fic you've ever read? (What, looking for recs, me? Surely you jest.)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-27 09:56 pm (UTC)splendid. the trans-siberian orchestra is a work of some brilliant version of "genius." <333
&ask away. lay the personal questions down. :P
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-27 10:02 pm (UTC)And slang-impaired Ari wonders: does that mean "ask" or "don't ask"?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-27 10:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-27 10:08 pm (UTC)1) What's the worst decision you've ever made?
2) What on Earth is the advisorperson up to these days?
3) So you and Tony are celebrating your fiftieth anniversary. What will your relationship be like? What do you fear it will be? What do you hope it will?
4) What's your favorite track on Beethoven's Last Night?
5) You can only read one book for the rest of your life. What do you do to the person who's inflicted this punishment on you?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-27 10:34 pm (UTC)Btw, you should come join
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-27 10:39 pm (UTC)1) Is there life after PEG?
2) No, really, is there life after PEG?
3) Um... what are/were your LotR pairings?
4) What's your favorite book?
5) Who pimped you into LJ, way back in the day?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-27 11:34 pm (UTC)1) I can only speak for myself, but...yes and no. Yes, because PEG is such a wonderful time. Probably the only time in your life you'll ever be around so many people like you. But afterwards...the real world is kind of cool. There are men, and they can be fun! ;) PEG gives you a few extra years to figure out what you want to do, and after MBC... you can go do it. Life moves on, and you'll go off and do new things, probably feeling more empowered and secure than you would had you not gone to PEG.
2) And yet it sucks. In some ways, I feel so old. I'm 21. People my age (my former classmates) are graduating from college this year. This May, it will be four years since I graduated. I don't relate well to most people my age. Even (especially?) in graduate school-- they all seemed so young.
Now, I might as well be 30! I'm (almost) married with (furry) kids, I run my own business, and I think of college kids as, well, kids. (Present company excepted, of course.) Sometimes I'm a little bitter that my youth is already pretty much over. (But that's due mostly to choices I made.) It's why I like fandom so much-- age really doesn't matter online.
And I can't help wondering sometimes what life would be like if I'd gone to high school. Would I be almost ready to finish at Harvard or Yale with a pre-med degree? I'll never know. And you have to explain the PEG thing for the rest of your life, and that sucks. ;)
This is...not eloquent, but it's 1:30 AM and I'm tired.
3) I was in LOTR fandom for the Elvish and the meta, occasionally the silly. I never wrote or read fic.
But, in the books, I like Faramir/Eowyn the best.
4) Oh, god. There's no way to just name one. Top ten?
LOTR (of course)
The Riddle Master trilogy (Patricia McKillip)
The Prydain chronicles (Lloyd Alexander)
Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
Moonwise (Greer Ilene Gilman)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper)
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeline L'Engle)
The Obernewtyn chronicles (Isobelle Carmody)
...I love HP, but they aren't my favorite books. Which is probably why I can mess with canon so much. ;)
5)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-28 04:53 am (UTC)Now, me! Ask me! ;)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-28 07:20 am (UTC)1) Who's your least favorite Stargate guest star?
2) What fandoms do you read fanfic for?
3) What do you hope to be doing/have achieved ten years down the road?
4) If you were stuck on the Gamekeeper's planet, what memory do you think you would keep reliving?
5) What is your highly subjective, personal definition of "fandom"?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-28 07:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-28 10:22 am (UTC)2) If you could drop just one class, which one would it be?
3) What are you plans for after graduation?
4) Gay marriage is legal in Canada now, is it not? Do you want to get married?
5) Are you happy?
hello darling.
Date: 2004-01-28 10:17 am (UTC)this has nothing to do with the post, so i'm sorry. i'm on my way out for work, so i haven't much time. but, i stumbled across a link which made me think of you. sorry if you've already seen it, i just thought you might be interested. =)
http://journalfen.net/
Re: hello darling.
Date: 2004-01-28 10:24 am (UTC)Thanks for thinking of me. I have a journalfen account which I use to keep track of fandom_wank, dl_anon, and other communities that aren't allowed on LJ anymore.
It's fun.
Re: hello darling.
Date: 2004-01-28 10:32 am (UTC)- Meg
questions for Meg
Date: 2004-01-28 10:40 am (UTC)In which case:
1) Jack/Maybourne. First time. Who tops? (And did you bring the video camera?)
2) Do you identify as queer? If so, for how long, and why?
3) You said you like movie!Catherine better, and so do I. What about Jack, Daniel, and Shau'ri/Sha're?
4) I bet you get sick of this one (I know I do), but what are you going to do with your English major?
5) Which character on Stargate do you over-identify with the most?
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-28 11:36 am (UTC)Person questions are fine, but I'd probably friendslock it just to you then, which kinda cuts out step 5...*shrug*
:)
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-28 02:09 pm (UTC)1) "Death Knell" is online. How are we possibly going to wait until the weekend to watch it?
2) What was your earliest obsession?
3) What is "our song"?
4) What pairing do you over-identify with the most?
5) What character do you over-identify with the most?
addendum
Date: 2004-01-28 02:27 pm (UTC)6)Would you rather give up fanfic or caffeine?
::evil cackles::
Re: addendum
Date: 2004-01-28 08:26 pm (UTC)The board ate it.
I'm going to wait for the technocidal urges to abait a bit before I try again.
Re: addendum
Date: 2004-01-28 08:30 pm (UTC)*kills LiveJournal*
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-28 12:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-28 02:13 pm (UTC)1) What scares you the most about growing up?
2) What do you miss most from middle school? What are you gladdest to have left behind?
3) Which is more important to your self-identity: being female, or being Indian? Why? Has this changed over the years?
4) Is there a book that tells the story of your life? If so, what is it?
5) Fill in the blanks: All my friends ____ & none of them ______.
(no subject)
Date: 2004-01-28 03:11 pm (UTC)Questions for Meg:
Date: 2004-01-28 05:07 pm (UTC)2) Are you counting down the days till something? If so, what?
3) Pads or tampons? :p
4) Do you still identify as bi? Would you say it's an important part of your self-identity?
5) What's the thing you've done that you're most proud of?