My love asks good questions.

[serene]

Guy sent me this questionnaire he made up. He's always doing this, but I liked this one especially.

1. What is your earliest memory?

2. Is there a person, who you don't know personally, who profoundly
influenced how you live your life?
If yes, who is zie and how did zie influence you?

3. Do you have a favorite place?
If yes, where is it and why is it important to you?

4. You can have a conversation with anyone you want, living or dead (not
including me).
Who would you like it to be?
Why?
What do you want to talk about?

5. You can do anything with someone else living or dead (not including me).
Who would you like it to be?
What would you like to do?
Why?

Comments

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Mmm... very good questions. I think I will answer them in my own journal. Thank you for sharing them. :)

[(Anonymous)]

1. What is your earliest memory?

Reaching up to touch a doorknob. I'm wearing a yellow dress with an orange sash; I was (I learned later) on the way to my godbrothers' 2nd birthday party. I was 18 months old.

2. Is there a person, who you don't know personally, who profoundly influenced how you live your life? If yes, who is zie and how did zie influence you?

Robert Reich. I read _The Wealth of Nations_ when still in college and working in a straight job that I was good at and bored me silly. The part that hit me was the bit about how those who were going to succeed in the 21st century were those who were geographically flexible, and I decided that that was how I wanted to work. For the last 8 years, I have. Ol' Bob was right. :)

3. Do you have a favorite place? If yes, where is it and why is it important to you?
Most places in my house or neighborhood. I feel safe and calm here.

4. You can have a conversation with anyone you want, living or dead. Who would you like it to be? Why? What do you want to talk about?

It'd be S, and I would like to tell him what's going on at work, show him the house and what I've been doing with it since he died, and just generally catch up. I miss talking with him very badly.

5. You can do anything with someone else living or dead. Who would you like it to be? What would you like to do? Why?

I would say that I wanted to spend time with S, but not if it's temporary. Barring that, I would like to spend time with a friend of mine who's been particularly supportive. I don't particularly care what we're doing--I just feel better with zir around.

Magi
In work-avoidance mode

My answers

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

> 1. What is your earliest memory?

I have a memory of going to visit my mother in the hospital after she had one of my brothers. I remember her looking through a window at me, and she was wearing bright red lipstick.

> 2. Is there a person, who you don't know personally, who profoundly > influenced how you live your life?

Oh, gosh, several.

> If yes, who is zie and how did zie influence you?

John Robbins (who gave up his inheritance in Baskin-Robbins to write books about veganism) taught me to look at my choices with reason and compassion.

Peter McWilliams, author, made it okay for me early in my search for meaning to look inside myself for the answers.

Joan Baez taught me about integrity and was my first example of a hippychick with solid ethics.

There are tons more, but those are the ones I can think of at the moment.

> > 3. Do you have a favorite place? > If yes, where is it and why is it important to you?

I don't have one favorite place. I love the benches down at the J Street pier - - great place to listen to the water and write. I also like this spot in the mountains called Green Valley Falls -- most of my favorite places have something to do with water. Oh, and the bigcomfy chairs at the City Heights library. :-)

> > 4. You can have a conversation with anyone you want, living or dead (not > including me). > Who would you like it to be? > Why?

Hm. My nana, probably. My mom says I would have adored her, and I've always felt the loss of not having known her. (I tried to think of someone lofty like Gandhi or Dr. King or someone, but I'd probably be too awed to have a decent conversation with those guys.)

> What do you want to talk about?

My mother as a child.

> 5. You can do anything with someone else living or dead (not including > me). > Who would you like it to be? > What would you like to do? > Why?

Easy. I wanna walk on the moon with Armstrong.

Heh. I thought it was just me.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

When johnpalmer and I were in the throes of NRE, I started a sort of Twenty Questions game via e-mail to (a) give us something to talk about other than mooshiness, (b) let us learn a few things about each other that we didn't know and (c) help pass the time between visits.

Guy's first question is one of the first questions I asked, too. (-:

(We were doing one question at a time, and never got to 20, but the game definitely served its purpose!)

Re: Heh. I thought it was just me.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwww. :-)

Re: Heh. I thought it was just me.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Heh. You're a fine one to be "awwwwwwww"-ing, missy.

(-:

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we're both just awwwwful.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I really really wish you could talk to S again, too. *hugs*

[kidda.livejournal.com]

hehe i might have to borrow this sometime