March 2023 Prompts - Part 2
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fauxklore1. Do you have a favorite sound? The crash of ocean waves.
2. What have you learned from previous jobs or involvements you’ve held? That I have a high need for stimulus and can’t tolerate routine.
3. In what ways is your family a reflection of your personality? This is tough. I’d say that I definitely take after my father, whose primary coping mechanism was humor. But I think the question is intended more for people who have children, which I don’t.
4. What is an opportunity that you are glad did not work out? A guy I was involved with back in my early 20’s proposed to me. I am very glad I had the sense not to get married that young.
5. What is your ideal Saturday night? Going to some sort of arts event - theatre or a concert.
6. How do you feel about where you live? I like a lot of things about where I live. The cultural life of the D.C. metro area is unbeatable, for one thing. I live conveniently close to both the metro to go into the city and to a large park with nice walking trails. However, I am way too far from the ocean. And, as I get older, I am not sure whether I want to live somewhere with so many stairs in the long run.
7. Do you still keep in contact with your childhood best friend(s)? My best friend from elementary school through junior high is a Facebook friend. I’ve pretty much lost touch with my best friend from high school.
8. How do you know when it’s time to let something or someone go? I think this is something that one just knows. If you can’t manage to make time for one another, for example, it’s time to drop it. Or if you’re no longer enthusiastic about doing something you used to love.
9. What are the first things that come to mind when you’re waking up? Just five more minutes!
10. What are your comfort foods? Matzoh ball soup, bean and barley soup, strawberries with sour cream, rice pudding or bread pudding.
11. What are your feelings on meditation? I sometimes try to meditate, but it’s hard for me to shut my mind down. Many years ago, I went through a period where I swam almost daily, and I found the rhythm of swimming to be the closest I could come to meditation.
12. Invent a holiday. How would you celebrate it each year? National Stay in Bed and Read Day. Pretty much self-explanatory.
13. What is the first time you remember really standing your ground? Hmm, I think I was always pretty good at doing what I thought I should, Maybe as a teenager, standing up to a boyfriend who pushed me to go further than I was comfortable with. (Fortunately, he was a decent human being.)
14. How did you have fun as a child? Have any of those activities carried over into adulthood? I loved riding my bicycle, rowing, listening to music (and making music, though I had no talent for that), playing board games, doing various crafts, reading. I still spend lots of time reading, crafting and playing board games.
15. Are you satisfied with your sleep? No, but I am experimenting with ways to improve it.
16. What cultural mores, pleasantries, or standards do you not agree with? I dislike people thinking it is acceptable to police other people’s personal personal choices. I have no particular interest in drag queens or tattooing, for example, but those don’t harm me.
17. What is a habit you were successfully able to break? I’ve pretty much stopped negative self-talk.
18. What are your top five favorite concerts? Only 5? Most recently, the New York Philharmonic conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas would be one. Great Big Sea at Wolf Trap was totally amazing. I have to include at least one Pierre Bensusan concert, but choosing just one would be really hard. The first time I actually saw Jonathan Richman live (at the 9:30 Club) would be another. And, hmm, Frankie London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars Klezmer-Bhangra Extravaganza with Deep Singh in 2013.
19. What is the best thing you’ve created? The most notorious thing I ever created was the crocheted uterus that I sent to Ken Cuccinelli when he was running for governor of Virginia.
20. What are you looking forward to in the near future? Going to the Kentucky Derby.
21. What would you ask your older self if you could? Did you ever get to the North Pole?
22. What is your dream job? Uh, being a paid research subject in a sleep lab? Or maybe testing bed designs?
23. What is a high and a low from your week so far? High would be finishing my cross-stitch. Low would be paying my income taxes.
24. Is there something you wish you thought about less often? How much stuff I should be getting done. The thing is that obsessing about things I should do makes me more stressed out and, hence, less likely to actually do them.
25. Which fictional world would you like to live in? I’d like a flat at either 44 Scotland Street or in Corduroy Mansions. Both are settings in Alexander McCall Smith serials. 44 Scotland Street is i Edinburgh and Corduroy Mansions is in London and both buildings are occupied by interesting characters. They’re the sort of books where nothing really happens but it doesn’t happen in amusing ways.
26. If you could design the perfect carnival or fair would would be there? There has to be a carousel. And music. And ice cream. And maybe crafts for sale.
27. What person had the greatest impact on your life? Probably my father. We had a somewhat turbulent relationship, but that was probably largely because we were too much alike. He had a huge influence on my tastes in books, music, and art, and I definitely inherited his sense of humor. He died when I was in my mid-20’s and I really wish I’d had may more years with him.
28. What was your last light bulb moment about? This is really minor as epiphanies go, but I realized just the other day that I actually already own the right clothes for an upcoming event.
29. If you could travel anywhere in the world to live in another era where and when would you go? I’d definitely prefer to travel to the future and see how things turned out. Beyond that, I’d be interested in seeing Poland and Lithuania in the early 20th century or (probably better) the interwar period to better understand my family history.
30. What is something you’d do if you had more time? Pretty much the same things I already do, but more of them - travel, reading,, crafting, etc.
31. Which word(s) do you overuse the most? I have a bad habit of starting a lot of sentences with “so.”
2. What have you learned from previous jobs or involvements you’ve held? That I have a high need for stimulus and can’t tolerate routine.
3. In what ways is your family a reflection of your personality? This is tough. I’d say that I definitely take after my father, whose primary coping mechanism was humor. But I think the question is intended more for people who have children, which I don’t.
4. What is an opportunity that you are glad did not work out? A guy I was involved with back in my early 20’s proposed to me. I am very glad I had the sense not to get married that young.
5. What is your ideal Saturday night? Going to some sort of arts event - theatre or a concert.
6. How do you feel about where you live? I like a lot of things about where I live. The cultural life of the D.C. metro area is unbeatable, for one thing. I live conveniently close to both the metro to go into the city and to a large park with nice walking trails. However, I am way too far from the ocean. And, as I get older, I am not sure whether I want to live somewhere with so many stairs in the long run.
7. Do you still keep in contact with your childhood best friend(s)? My best friend from elementary school through junior high is a Facebook friend. I’ve pretty much lost touch with my best friend from high school.
8. How do you know when it’s time to let something or someone go? I think this is something that one just knows. If you can’t manage to make time for one another, for example, it’s time to drop it. Or if you’re no longer enthusiastic about doing something you used to love.
9. What are the first things that come to mind when you’re waking up? Just five more minutes!
10. What are your comfort foods? Matzoh ball soup, bean and barley soup, strawberries with sour cream, rice pudding or bread pudding.
11. What are your feelings on meditation? I sometimes try to meditate, but it’s hard for me to shut my mind down. Many years ago, I went through a period where I swam almost daily, and I found the rhythm of swimming to be the closest I could come to meditation.
12. Invent a holiday. How would you celebrate it each year? National Stay in Bed and Read Day. Pretty much self-explanatory.
13. What is the first time you remember really standing your ground? Hmm, I think I was always pretty good at doing what I thought I should, Maybe as a teenager, standing up to a boyfriend who pushed me to go further than I was comfortable with. (Fortunately, he was a decent human being.)
14. How did you have fun as a child? Have any of those activities carried over into adulthood? I loved riding my bicycle, rowing, listening to music (and making music, though I had no talent for that), playing board games, doing various crafts, reading. I still spend lots of time reading, crafting and playing board games.
15. Are you satisfied with your sleep? No, but I am experimenting with ways to improve it.
16. What cultural mores, pleasantries, or standards do you not agree with? I dislike people thinking it is acceptable to police other people’s personal personal choices. I have no particular interest in drag queens or tattooing, for example, but those don’t harm me.
17. What is a habit you were successfully able to break? I’ve pretty much stopped negative self-talk.
18. What are your top five favorite concerts? Only 5? Most recently, the New York Philharmonic conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas would be one. Great Big Sea at Wolf Trap was totally amazing. I have to include at least one Pierre Bensusan concert, but choosing just one would be really hard. The first time I actually saw Jonathan Richman live (at the 9:30 Club) would be another. And, hmm, Frankie London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars Klezmer-Bhangra Extravaganza with Deep Singh in 2013.
19. What is the best thing you’ve created? The most notorious thing I ever created was the crocheted uterus that I sent to Ken Cuccinelli when he was running for governor of Virginia.
20. What are you looking forward to in the near future? Going to the Kentucky Derby.
21. What would you ask your older self if you could? Did you ever get to the North Pole?
22. What is your dream job? Uh, being a paid research subject in a sleep lab? Or maybe testing bed designs?
23. What is a high and a low from your week so far? High would be finishing my cross-stitch. Low would be paying my income taxes.
24. Is there something you wish you thought about less often? How much stuff I should be getting done. The thing is that obsessing about things I should do makes me more stressed out and, hence, less likely to actually do them.
25. Which fictional world would you like to live in? I’d like a flat at either 44 Scotland Street or in Corduroy Mansions. Both are settings in Alexander McCall Smith serials. 44 Scotland Street is i Edinburgh and Corduroy Mansions is in London and both buildings are occupied by interesting characters. They’re the sort of books where nothing really happens but it doesn’t happen in amusing ways.
26. If you could design the perfect carnival or fair would would be there? There has to be a carousel. And music. And ice cream. And maybe crafts for sale.
27. What person had the greatest impact on your life? Probably my father. We had a somewhat turbulent relationship, but that was probably largely because we were too much alike. He had a huge influence on my tastes in books, music, and art, and I definitely inherited his sense of humor. He died when I was in my mid-20’s and I really wish I’d had may more years with him.
28. What was your last light bulb moment about? This is really minor as epiphanies go, but I realized just the other day that I actually already own the right clothes for an upcoming event.
29. If you could travel anywhere in the world to live in another era where and when would you go? I’d definitely prefer to travel to the future and see how things turned out. Beyond that, I’d be interested in seeing Poland and Lithuania in the early 20th century or (probably better) the interwar period to better understand my family history.
30. What is something you’d do if you had more time? Pretty much the same things I already do, but more of them - travel, reading,, crafting, etc.
31. Which word(s) do you overuse the most? I have a bad habit of starting a lot of sentences with “so.”
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Date: 2023-04-19 03:38 am (UTC)