my turn on questions?
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Since for once I decided to play along, I suppose this means now I have to answer
kythiaranos' questions:
1. What's your favorite place in the world?
Three years ago (and for most of my life), I would've said northern Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachians. But now, I think it's my own home. Perhaps because it's the first time I've had something of my own that I could, at the same time, make become my own. Put my stamp on it.
After this one spot, though, it's still northern Georgia -- and after that, Dunotter.
2. Do you have a specific writing ritual?
Other than daydreaming? Mostly, research, and let things bubble in my head for awhile. But when it comes to the act of writing itself, when I'm ready, I just sit down and write. I have revision rituals, but none for the first draft.
3. What's one great thing about yourself that you wish more people knew?
Okay, I'm stumped. I can't think of anything, honestly; the good stuff, seems to me everyone probably already knows.
4. Who's your favorite artist?
I'll admit this one stumped me even more than #3, because I've never really had a 'favorite' artist, not the kind I'd think K means by this question -- the kind whose work catches your eye, keeps you staring for a long moment, and yet you return to stare again a year later, and again, and always see something new. (Like a favorite album that you've heard a thousand times?) Closest might be certain photographers. Jock Sturges, for his ability to capture the way light moves across skin and sand; Tina Modotti for her luminous mysteriousness; above both, I'd say Lewis Hines. Talk about using technology to create a compassionate bridge between those with nothing and those who can read, write, and afford a newspaper. I've spent hours poring over Hine's reportage-photos, wondering who those people are, whether those children survived another year of such hard labor.
5. What's your favorite food?
I don't think I could narrow it down to just one, but if I absolutely had to, I'd say fried okra. If only I got it more than once a year, le sigh.
Kife it forward.
Seem to recall the way this works is that you leave a favorite quote or poem in my journal, and I'll respond with a mini-interview that you answer in turn in your LJ. Have at it.
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1. What's your favorite place in the world?
Three years ago (and for most of my life), I would've said northern Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachians. But now, I think it's my own home. Perhaps because it's the first time I've had something of my own that I could, at the same time, make become my own. Put my stamp on it.
After this one spot, though, it's still northern Georgia -- and after that, Dunotter.
2. Do you have a specific writing ritual?
Other than daydreaming? Mostly, research, and let things bubble in my head for awhile. But when it comes to the act of writing itself, when I'm ready, I just sit down and write. I have revision rituals, but none for the first draft.
3. What's one great thing about yourself that you wish more people knew?
Okay, I'm stumped. I can't think of anything, honestly; the good stuff, seems to me everyone probably already knows.
4. Who's your favorite artist?
I'll admit this one stumped me even more than #3, because I've never really had a 'favorite' artist, not the kind I'd think K means by this question -- the kind whose work catches your eye, keeps you staring for a long moment, and yet you return to stare again a year later, and again, and always see something new. (Like a favorite album that you've heard a thousand times?) Closest might be certain photographers. Jock Sturges, for his ability to capture the way light moves across skin and sand; Tina Modotti for her luminous mysteriousness; above both, I'd say Lewis Hines. Talk about using technology to create a compassionate bridge between those with nothing and those who can read, write, and afford a newspaper. I've spent hours poring over Hine's reportage-photos, wondering who those people are, whether those children survived another year of such hard labor.
5. What's your favorite food?
I don't think I could narrow it down to just one, but if I absolutely had to, I'd say fried okra. If only I got it more than once a year, le sigh.
Kife it forward.
Seem to recall the way this works is that you leave a favorite quote or poem in my journal, and I'll respond with a mini-interview that you answer in turn in your LJ. Have at it.
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Date: 6 Sep 2007 12:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 15 Sep 2007 08:44 pm (UTC)1. What's your first memory?
2. What's your favorite part of the day?
3. Do you prefer baths or showers?
4. If you could only save one thing (material item) before your house burned down, what would it be?
5. Have you ever ridden a motorcycle?
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Date: 17 Sep 2007 02:30 am (UTC)Given that one of the cases we read dithered on a comma and how it affected the wording of a statute...yeah.
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Date: 6 Sep 2007 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 15 Sep 2007 09:00 pm (UTC)Anyway, me belated respond now:
1. Have you ever witnessed a crime?
2. What's the longest you've lived in one place?
3. If you could snap your fingers and be fluent in a second language, what language would it be? [or third, if you're bilingual, etc]
4. What's one thing/event certain to make you cry?
5. Do you prefer large immediate families, or small?