July 2024 Prompts - Part 1
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fauxkloreI have a lot of stuff to catch up on. But I am home and working on it.
1. How Easy — or Hard — Is It for You to Say No When You Want To? It depends on how much I really do or don’t want to do something. There are many things I have mixed feelings about and sometimes I want to do something mostly to see friends rather than for the thing itself. In that case, I am good with finding excuses to skip out.
2. How Good Are You at Time Management? Let’s just say that I am an expert at procrastination.
3. Have You Ever Been in Love? Yes, though I have also often been in like or lust.
4. What Nicknames Have You Ever Gotten or Given? I refer to the gentleman with whom I am conducting the world’s longest brief meaningless fling by the initial of his last name. My family tends to refer to me as “Mir” or “Miri.” A group of people I used to work with called me “Doctor Evil” or “Dr. E” or (less often) “Doc.”
5. Do You Have Siblings? How Well Do/Did You Get Along With Them? I have one (older) brother. We are, in general, not on the same wavelength.
6. Do You See Great Disparities of Wealth in Your Community? I don’t know about great disparities in my community, but there are certainly class differences.
7. What Are Your Best Sleepover Memories? My best friend and I around late elementary school did sleepovers, which often included playing various 45 rpm records.
8. What Childhood Rules Did You Break? I was an expert in sneaking out the back door and ignoring curfews. The trickiest thing was how loud to play music downstairs so that my parents wouldn’t come downstairs to look for me. I sometimes claim that I am probably still supposed to be grounded.
9. What Is Your Racial and Ethnic Identity? I’m an Ashkenazi Jew.
10. What Have You Made Yourself? I became a successful aerospace engineer. Or, reinterpreting the question to address grammatical ambiguity, I have done various crafts projects for myself.
11. Have You Ever Experienced Food Insecurity? The end of the semester in grad school often had me down to living on bread and cheese.
12. Do/Did You Collect Anything? My mother insisted my brother and I should collect coins. I also collected dolls, though more recent years have limited that to paper dolls.
13. Who in Your Life Introduces You to New Music? Several people do point out music to me that they think I’d like. My friend, Gary, dips into "that part of the internet" often.
14. Are You a Saver or a Spender? I tend to be more of a saver.
15. How Careful Are You in the Sun? I am very careful about the sun. I can burn easily and I hate the pain of sunburns.
16. What Local ‘Microadventures’ Would You Like to Go On? There are lots of local hiking trails I have never gone on.
17. Would You Consider Moving Overseas for a Job? I would have when I was younger, but it’s really no longer relevant.
18. Do You Ever Feel Overlooked and Underappreciated? I’ve sometimes felt underappeciated, but not in several years.
19. What Were Your Favorite Picture Books When You Were Little? I remember a book called “You Will Go to the Moon.” Beyond that, I know I had “Charlotte’s Web.” And my Mom pushed all the Beatrix Potter books on us.
20. How Much Information Is ‘Too Much Information’? It depends on why I asked about something. If I was just curious about something, a little is fine, but, in general, I’d rather know more.
21. Would You Most Want to Live in a City, a Suburb or the Country? I like the concept of an inner suburb. That is places that are just outside the city, but within easy distance to it, particularly if transit friendly.
22. What Life Lessons Has Adversity Taught You? I can’t say that I’ve experienced true adversity. And I really don’t want to.
23. Have You Ever Been Scammed? I’ve experienced a few financial scams, but was able to get them resolved.
24. Can Creativity Be Scheduled? I think it can, to some extent. At the very least, there are ways to schedule practice at trying to do creative work.
25. What’s Your Favorite Sandwich? The heart of what I refer to as “Purina Miriam Chow” is a tuna fish sandwich on crunchy whole grain bread with lettuce, onions, pickles, and banana peppers. Once in a whole, I go to a kosher deli and get a tongue sandwich on rye bread, with full sour pickles and cole slaw.
26. What Would Your Personal Mascot Be? Not at all practical, but I am quite fond of bears, especially polar bears.
27. How Did Your Parents Teach You to Behave? They were prone to lecturing me on things I’d done wrong. Hence, I was subject to the “We’re so disappointed in you” lectures rather than physical punishment.
28. Are You a Perfectionist? Somewhat, but I’ve learned over the years that some things are worth doing a mediocre job at.
29. Should People Give Money to Panhandlers? Yes, but it is better to find ways to enable people to learn survival skills when possible.
30. What Would You Put in Your Emergency ‘Go-Bag’? I keep my passport, other major papers, etc. in a safe box.
31. How Much Do You Know About History? I know a fair amount about American history and Western history. I know less than I think I should about local history. I’d like to know more about Asian history. In general, I am interested in social history more than I am in the sort of history that amounts to “what dead white men did from nine to five.”
1. How Easy — or Hard — Is It for You to Say No When You Want To? It depends on how much I really do or don’t want to do something. There are many things I have mixed feelings about and sometimes I want to do something mostly to see friends rather than for the thing itself. In that case, I am good with finding excuses to skip out.
2. How Good Are You at Time Management? Let’s just say that I am an expert at procrastination.
3. Have You Ever Been in Love? Yes, though I have also often been in like or lust.
4. What Nicknames Have You Ever Gotten or Given? I refer to the gentleman with whom I am conducting the world’s longest brief meaningless fling by the initial of his last name. My family tends to refer to me as “Mir” or “Miri.” A group of people I used to work with called me “Doctor Evil” or “Dr. E” or (less often) “Doc.”
5. Do You Have Siblings? How Well Do/Did You Get Along With Them? I have one (older) brother. We are, in general, not on the same wavelength.
6. Do You See Great Disparities of Wealth in Your Community? I don’t know about great disparities in my community, but there are certainly class differences.
7. What Are Your Best Sleepover Memories? My best friend and I around late elementary school did sleepovers, which often included playing various 45 rpm records.
8. What Childhood Rules Did You Break? I was an expert in sneaking out the back door and ignoring curfews. The trickiest thing was how loud to play music downstairs so that my parents wouldn’t come downstairs to look for me. I sometimes claim that I am probably still supposed to be grounded.
9. What Is Your Racial and Ethnic Identity? I’m an Ashkenazi Jew.
10. What Have You Made Yourself? I became a successful aerospace engineer. Or, reinterpreting the question to address grammatical ambiguity, I have done various crafts projects for myself.
11. Have You Ever Experienced Food Insecurity? The end of the semester in grad school often had me down to living on bread and cheese.
12. Do/Did You Collect Anything? My mother insisted my brother and I should collect coins. I also collected dolls, though more recent years have limited that to paper dolls.
13. Who in Your Life Introduces You to New Music? Several people do point out music to me that they think I’d like. My friend, Gary, dips into "that part of the internet" often.
14. Are You a Saver or a Spender? I tend to be more of a saver.
15. How Careful Are You in the Sun? I am very careful about the sun. I can burn easily and I hate the pain of sunburns.
16. What Local ‘Microadventures’ Would You Like to Go On? There are lots of local hiking trails I have never gone on.
17. Would You Consider Moving Overseas for a Job? I would have when I was younger, but it’s really no longer relevant.
18. Do You Ever Feel Overlooked and Underappreciated? I’ve sometimes felt underappeciated, but not in several years.
19. What Were Your Favorite Picture Books When You Were Little? I remember a book called “You Will Go to the Moon.” Beyond that, I know I had “Charlotte’s Web.” And my Mom pushed all the Beatrix Potter books on us.
20. How Much Information Is ‘Too Much Information’? It depends on why I asked about something. If I was just curious about something, a little is fine, but, in general, I’d rather know more.
21. Would You Most Want to Live in a City, a Suburb or the Country? I like the concept of an inner suburb. That is places that are just outside the city, but within easy distance to it, particularly if transit friendly.
22. What Life Lessons Has Adversity Taught You? I can’t say that I’ve experienced true adversity. And I really don’t want to.
23. Have You Ever Been Scammed? I’ve experienced a few financial scams, but was able to get them resolved.
24. Can Creativity Be Scheduled? I think it can, to some extent. At the very least, there are ways to schedule practice at trying to do creative work.
25. What’s Your Favorite Sandwich? The heart of what I refer to as “Purina Miriam Chow” is a tuna fish sandwich on crunchy whole grain bread with lettuce, onions, pickles, and banana peppers. Once in a whole, I go to a kosher deli and get a tongue sandwich on rye bread, with full sour pickles and cole slaw.
26. What Would Your Personal Mascot Be? Not at all practical, but I am quite fond of bears, especially polar bears.
27. How Did Your Parents Teach You to Behave? They were prone to lecturing me on things I’d done wrong. Hence, I was subject to the “We’re so disappointed in you” lectures rather than physical punishment.
28. Are You a Perfectionist? Somewhat, but I’ve learned over the years that some things are worth doing a mediocre job at.
29. Should People Give Money to Panhandlers? Yes, but it is better to find ways to enable people to learn survival skills when possible.
30. What Would You Put in Your Emergency ‘Go-Bag’? I keep my passport, other major papers, etc. in a safe box.
31. How Much Do You Know About History? I know a fair amount about American history and Western history. I know less than I think I should about local history. I’d like to know more about Asian history. In general, I am interested in social history more than I am in the sort of history that amounts to “what dead white men did from nine to five.”
