This is just a reminder: The "18 Lies and 1 Truth" contest is still on until Friday, December 19th, 2003, at 11:59 a.m. Go here to check out what I'm talking about.
1. Name one thing that everybody apart from yourself raves about but you. just. don't. get. (and specify why that one thing simply eludes you)
Radiohead. I know, I know...every music geek worth their salt waxes orgasmic about this band, but I've just never got into them. "Fake Plastic Trees" has always been mildly irritating at best, and "Paranoid Android" is just blah. I don't even hate them, I'm just indifferent. I don't really know why that is, but I suspect it has something to do with the fact that I missed them in my teen angst phase, and for whatever reason they don't play into my twenty something angst.
2. What is your primary reason for blogging/keeping an online journal?
I feel that writing here keeps me in good practice for the other writing that I do (academic) or don't do as often as I should (creative). Writing things down has always helped me focus and categorically sort things out. It's a way of making sense of my world, I suppose. I also like the aspect of worldiness that allows my friends everywhere to read this and keep up with my life.
3. Are you particularly drawn towards a certain type of books, plotlines or themes?
I can't get enough of dystopian literature (or movies, for that matter). 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, The Chrysalids, Brave New World, Walden...the list goes on, and I could too, but I'll leave at that so I can mention some other things. I like literature that engages with some aspect of history, whether it be serious (Woolf's Between the Acts) or silly (Stoppard's Travesties) or somewhere in between (Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage). I am a sucker for Canadian Lit, as well, and I'm starting to explore post-colonial lit. I guess that's more generic than thematic, though I think it functions on a thematic level as well. In short, I like works that don't take themselves too seriously while having an awareness of how they function as 'text'. Oh, and I love detective fiction as well. Can I have the tattoo that reads "English Major" now please?
4. Ever thought about living in a different country/different culture?
All the time. I was lucky enough to do this briefly when I was fifteen. I lived in a small village named St-Zacharie in the Provence region of France for three months. It was definitely life changing (holy cliché, Batman!) but not necessarily as a positive experience. I would very much like to go to school in Scotland, but unfortunately neither Edinburgh nor Glasgow is a CanLit epicentre. I feel that living outside of Canada will be the best way to gain perspective on my country. If I do end up doing my BEd, I would very much like to go to the UK for a year to teach.
5. And, finally, your worst habit?
Hmm...well, I have three. First, I'm a bit gossipy. I know it's terrible, and I am trying to stop. Second, I steal (and horde!) spoons from the kitchen in North Bay, usually with my tea, and don't return them for quite a while longer than I'd like to admit. Third, I have this thing about long toenails. Specifically, they gross me out beyond all reason, and so I'm constantly cutting them too short. Which leads to in-grown toenails. My big toe on my left foot is finally not in-grown for the first time in probably about four years--that's how obsessive I am about this.
The Idea: If you want to participate, leave a comment saying "interview me." I will respond by asking you five questions - each person's questions will be different. You will update your journal or blog with the answers to the questions. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.