A meme, from a Deshi
Feb. 13th, 2009 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grim23The Rules
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me" or something of an equally pithy nature.
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature. Be warned!
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions, or there will be trouble.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.
My responses to her questions:
1. What fear is there for you in being out of control? The fear is the same as wielding an out-of-control weapon. Someone is likely to get hurt or killed. Having said that, I'm human, and there is a great potential to be out of control. Training reduces that potential.
2. Why the Masons? I joined the Free Masons when a roadbrother's (and another BIMC President) son (and my god son) with CP was medically taken care of by the Shriner's Hospital, sponsored by the Free Masons. They wouldn't accept money for his care, so we both joined the Free Masons to give back to them. We are now both Past Masters and life-time members of our respective Lodges.
3. What touches you so deeply that it makes you vulnerable? Love. Honor. Valor. Service.
4. Which character from the Bugs Bunny cartoons would you be? Maybe Bugs himself. Sam the Sheepdog?
5. If you had to pick only one place to live forever, where would it be? Asia. I would move around and train, and learn, and enjoy the culture and arts, as well as the centuries of tradition.
I think, perhaps, I'd like to offer to interview two people: Simone, and Miss Rebecca. However, I'll interview anyone who responds to this. *smile*
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me" or something of an equally pithy nature.
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature. Be warned!
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions, or there will be trouble.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.
My responses to her questions:
1. What fear is there for you in being out of control? The fear is the same as wielding an out-of-control weapon. Someone is likely to get hurt or killed. Having said that, I'm human, and there is a great potential to be out of control. Training reduces that potential.
2. Why the Masons? I joined the Free Masons when a roadbrother's (and another BIMC President) son (and my god son) with CP was medically taken care of by the Shriner's Hospital, sponsored by the Free Masons. They wouldn't accept money for his care, so we both joined the Free Masons to give back to them. We are now both Past Masters and life-time members of our respective Lodges.
3. What touches you so deeply that it makes you vulnerable? Love. Honor. Valor. Service.
4. Which character from the Bugs Bunny cartoons would you be? Maybe Bugs himself. Sam the Sheepdog?
5. If you had to pick only one place to live forever, where would it be? Asia. I would move around and train, and learn, and enjoy the culture and arts, as well as the centuries of tradition.
I think, perhaps, I'd like to offer to interview two people: Simone, and Miss Rebecca. However, I'll interview anyone who responds to this. *smile*
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I'll jump out of that airplane, so to speak
Date: 2009-02-27 06:14 am (UTC)If it is, ask away. This should be, um, interesting....
Re: I'll jump out of that airplane, so to speak
Date: 2009-02-27 07:08 am (UTC)1. What draws you to sing?
2. Where is the place you really want to visit before you die?
3. What is the skill you most want to learn?
4. Where is the best place for chinese food that you know of?
5. What is the most significant barrier you have to yet overcome?
Re: I'll jump out of that airplane, so to speak
Date: 2009-02-27 03:50 pm (UTC)I sing because I have to. I didn’t sing for a few years because my talent was threatening to my then-girlfriend and I wasn’t confident enough to stand up to her. I was one unhappy puppy. And I will not do that again.
I sing because words and music together are bigger than the sum of their parts.
I sing because words and music together allow my soul to soar, to experience and express every emotion there is, because my brain and my personality need it.
I perform because it allows me to share emotions with an audience, to manipulate what they are feeling; because it allows me to touch souls en masse.
I perform because it allows me to draw attention to myself in ways that are (mostly) positive and (mostly) under my control.
I sing with groups because it allows for bonding like nothing else I know other than physical intimacy. (And there’s some recent scientific evidence of that, too – now I just have to remember where it is because I’m sure you’re going to ask for it.)
I sang as a girl because choir gave me a place to belong and to be successful when I felt like the consummate outsider and failure.
I sing because it is the one thing I truly know that I am very, very good at.
2. Where is the place you really want to visit before you die?
Geographical place is not that important to me. I don’t have to see the pyramids or the great wall of China to be fulfilled. I can learn enough about them from a distance to satisfy me. I want to visit inner space with other humans…with as many as I can, for as long as I can, before I die.
3. What is the skill you most want to learn?
I would like to feel competent making love to a man. This is a set of skills, I know, but it’s the best answer to this question that I have.
4. Where is the best place for chinese food that you know of?
I doubt that it’s the best, but I have fond memories of the Chinese restaurant in Aggieville, just outside of the K-State campus. (I wonder if it’s still there.) I had many nice meals there with friends and had some nice evenings with my then-girlfriend in our dorm room with delivery…
(I can tell you there the best Thai food place is…Tacoma Mall Boulevard.)
5. What is the most significant barrier you have to yet overcome?
Impatience. I am better about it but I’m not there yet.
Re: I'll jump out of that airplane, so to speak
Date: 2009-02-27 04:48 pm (UTC)