Random Thoughts and Musings

I have done a few others, here (interviewed by Nancy), here (Interviewed by Ruprecht), and here (interviewed by my sweet Adelle, aka TopSurf to all you uninitiated). Now, one of my dearest friends has stepped up to the plate to interview me. You can read where he was interviewed by me, here: Is This Like 5th Degree.

Here goes nuttin, folk!

1. What job can you least imagine yourself doing?
Anything that requires me to be the center of attention/focus of an audience: model/actress/singer … although I COULD be a spokesperson for something I believe in, because that puts the object of my belief in focus, not me specifically.

2. What is your biggest life-goal/dream?
I always wanted to be a mother, to live happily. I have achieved those goals. Now, I would like to travel, I would like to do missionary work, and I would like to see parts of the world that others only dream about.

3. If you could switch places with someone for a day, who would it be?
This is difficult. There are so many great and wonderful people to choose from, and there are so many dreams to fulfill in this manner. I think, though, I would switch places with a coma patient. It would allow us to determine if they can see, hear, feel, and understand what is going on around them. I know we have suppositions, and tales that people tell us after they wake up … but we do not have actual knowledge. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to KNOW?

4. What piece of writing has most affected your life?
Many years ago, my grandparents moved from their long-time home in Small Town By The Water, FL to live in Maryland near my Uncle. My parents and siblings and I headed south once we returned from living in England. Our goal was to clean up my grandparents’ home and get it ready to be sold, so they could then move to New Mexico (where it would be easier to make their twice-a-year pilgrimage to Aguascalientes, Mexico to see their families). I stumbled across legal pads full of my grandfather’s writings. He had learned to speak English while working for a construction company in Small Town By The Water. The workers had taught them words as they went along in the job, and he learned even more by taking classes the company provided. The first few pads were full of stilted English, but they progressively became more clear and fluent. I read about his thoughts and feelings upon coming to the US, his anxiety about how they had to live (in a converted chicken coop) when they first arrived, and his love for his family (which he rarely displayed openly). I read about my grandfather, and learned more than I could have ever learned by him telling me verbally. It was amazing, and beautiful. Only a couple of hours into my reading, my stepfather discovered what I was doing threw me across the room onto the floor. He called me a nosy bitch and other rather rude things, then tossed the notebooks I had been obsessively absorbing. I later confessed to my grandfather, because I thought I had done something awful. He hugged me and told me he was glad I had read what I did, and he wished I had been able to read the rest of his notebooks. They were not diaries, he told me, they were the story of his love. He had written it for us to read when he was gone. I will never have those pads of writings back, but I have the memories of reading a few of my grandfather’s thoughts.

5. Which one place you’ve never been would you most like to visit? What about to live?
I have always dreamed of visiting New Zealand. I dreamed of it long ago, when I was a child, and that dream was renewed when I first began talking to my friend Ian via IRC, ICQ, & Yahoo IM. (He could better tell you where, and when, we started talking. He helped m navigate my way around the net the first few years I was online!) He and his wife were incredibly sweet, and I loved getting to know them. I planned on visiting two years ago (in 1997, I said in “10 years”), but that still has not been feasible. Hopefully, though, I will get there in the near future! If I could live anywhere, it would be on a huge plantation with all of my friends and family surrounding me … and with plenty of green land and streams and ponds and lakes to keep everyone happy and healthy. Yes, a completely fictional place … but then again, I always live in a dream world.

Do you want to be part of it? Follow these instructions:

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will answer the questions on your blog, and include the original post and your interviewer’s post.
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.