Me, Interviewed? Well I Never...
May. 6th, 2005 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3Thanks to http://www.livejournal.com/users/cornaidd/ I have something fun to do while waiting for the results to come in. I thank you....
The rules are:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
And away we go...
1 - Since I've just found you on frankie_ecap's blog, and you seem to be on first name terms with her spare room, how do you two know each other?
Through her other half, K, who is actually everything she paints him as: over-tall, kind, thoughtful, and a true diamond geezer in all ways. We've known each other for almost 15 years, and I've never known him to do a bad turn to anyone. A mensch, the boy is. Shit at golf, though. I try to sound convincing when I say that Frankie is too good for him, but, wonderful as she is, I don't really believe it - they deserve each other.
2 - Do you insist on Heinz baked beans, or are you happy to settle for other brands?
Purely a matter of mood - when I'm being austere and dignified, it's Heinz all the way. When I see through the sham of commercialism, I'll search for the cheapest own brand I can find (oh, the glory days of Safeway Savers at 4p.) For beans on toast, though, there can be no compromise on the bread: must be Scottish Mother's Pride Plain, extra thick for preferrence.
3 - What do you do at work and are you happy doing it?
It says here that I'm a consultant for an IT company, which shows what happens when you wander into bad places with an unsuitable degree. I must enjoy it, or I'd stop doing it (this happened before, when I was being paid to play golf and drink coffee, and I fell into something more interesting). I get to visit interesting places and have coffee with people, and I usually get paid for it. I'm still a bit confused at having a real job, since I spent 10 years being self-employed. I do spend too much time on hotels, but even that is fun in a little-boy sort of way.
4 - Describe your ideal holiday.
1) wandering across America with a backpack and a couple of months to spare. The place fascinates me - we have the history, they have the geography, and everything you can imagine is out there somewhere. I did this in my yoof, and wouldn't mind doing it again, only this time with a gold card and a red Mustang convertible.
2) sitting in a caravan in Ardnamurchan with 28 books and a week to read them. Ardnamurchan is the most Westerly part of Scotland, and a beautiful, wild place. The beach at Portuiark is the most perfect spot on earth, swept clean every day, great views out over Rum, Skye, Muck and Eigg. Everyone should go there.
5 - What is your passion?
Contradicting Sartre, my passion has to be Other People. Do you realise that every single person you meet has the same deep, rich and very, very weird interior life that we do? Everyone... Seeing tiny parts of those interiors is enough of a passion to keep me going forever and ever.
And jelly bellies.
I believe the rules say I offer to interview anyone reading this. So I do, if you want to take the risk...
The rules are:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
And away we go...
1 - Since I've just found you on frankie_ecap's blog, and you seem to be on first name terms with her spare room, how do you two know each other?
Through her other half, K, who is actually everything she paints him as: over-tall, kind, thoughtful, and a true diamond geezer in all ways. We've known each other for almost 15 years, and I've never known him to do a bad turn to anyone. A mensch, the boy is. Shit at golf, though. I try to sound convincing when I say that Frankie is too good for him, but, wonderful as she is, I don't really believe it - they deserve each other.
2 - Do you insist on Heinz baked beans, or are you happy to settle for other brands?
Purely a matter of mood - when I'm being austere and dignified, it's Heinz all the way. When I see through the sham of commercialism, I'll search for the cheapest own brand I can find (oh, the glory days of Safeway Savers at 4p.) For beans on toast, though, there can be no compromise on the bread: must be Scottish Mother's Pride Plain, extra thick for preferrence.
3 - What do you do at work and are you happy doing it?
It says here that I'm a consultant for an IT company, which shows what happens when you wander into bad places with an unsuitable degree. I must enjoy it, or I'd stop doing it (this happened before, when I was being paid to play golf and drink coffee, and I fell into something more interesting). I get to visit interesting places and have coffee with people, and I usually get paid for it. I'm still a bit confused at having a real job, since I spent 10 years being self-employed. I do spend too much time on hotels, but even that is fun in a little-boy sort of way.
4 - Describe your ideal holiday.
1) wandering across America with a backpack and a couple of months to spare. The place fascinates me - we have the history, they have the geography, and everything you can imagine is out there somewhere. I did this in my yoof, and wouldn't mind doing it again, only this time with a gold card and a red Mustang convertible.
2) sitting in a caravan in Ardnamurchan with 28 books and a week to read them. Ardnamurchan is the most Westerly part of Scotland, and a beautiful, wild place. The beach at Portuiark is the most perfect spot on earth, swept clean every day, great views out over Rum, Skye, Muck and Eigg. Everyone should go there.
5 - What is your passion?
Contradicting Sartre, my passion has to be Other People. Do you realise that every single person you meet has the same deep, rich and very, very weird interior life that we do? Everyone... Seeing tiny parts of those interiors is enough of a passion to keep me going forever and ever.
And jelly bellies.
I believe the rules say I offer to interview anyone reading this. So I do, if you want to take the risk...
