August 2024 Prompts - Part 1
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fauxklore1. What Do You Gain From Pursuing Something You Do Really, Really Badly? I think it’s always good to pursue goals, as long as they’re achievable goals. But pursuing goals that are unrealistic is only likely to be frustrating.
2. What Would You Be Willing to Wait in a Really Long Line For? My favorite example of this was at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The Canadian Mint had set up an opportunity to hold Olympic medals. You put on a white glove and they took photos of you holding three medals. I waited in line for five hours to hold medals for a couple of minutes. I know that sounds absurd, but I thought it was cool enough t be worth it.
3. Do You Wish You Could Return to Moments From Your Past? There are some moments from my past I’d love to revisit and others I hope never to think of again.
4. What Pranks, Jokes, Hoaxes or Tricks Have You Ever Fallen For or Perpetrated? In college, one of my suite mates and I wound a long piece of yarn through all the clothes in another suite mate’s closet.
5. What Are Your Personal Superstitions? It is incredibly bad luck to put a hat on a bed.
6. Do You Spend Enough Time With Other People? Probably not, though sometimes I spend too much time with other people.
7. How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors? Not well at all. I had a next door neighbor for a while who I used to see and chat with, but she moved out years ago. There are a couple of neighbors I know well enough to say hello to, but that’s about it.
8. How Much Time Do You Spend in Nature? I should get out to the park up the street from my condo complex more often, but the weather here doesn’t always cooperate.
9. What Are Your Favorite TV Shows? I’m not really much if a TV watcher. There have been shows here and there which I’ve binge watched, e.g. Better Off Ted and Schmigadoon but most of what little TV I watch consists of baseball games.
10. When Have You Ever Succeeded When You Thought You Might Fail? I managed to get through my Ph.D. program, which meant overcoming a lot of self-doubt and laziness.
11. How Productive and Organized Are You? I am capable of being productive, but most of the time I don’t want to. Similarly for being organized.
12. How Do You Deal With Boredom? I’m rarely bored. If I do get bored, I read or do crafts or talk on the phone with friends.
13. Should Couples Live Together Before Marriage? Living together would help people find the things that drive them nuts about one another.
14. What Assumptions Do People Make About You? I think other people often think I’m more sociable than I am. I do a lot of things, but I also need time to recharge my batteries on my own. People don’t see me during that introvert time, so they don’t realize my need for it.
15. Can Money Buy You Happiness? No, but it can buy you a lot of ways to distract yourself when you’re not happy.
16. What’s Your Favorite Candy? I don’t actually know what they’re called, but I absolutely love those little sesame brittle candies. I also like certain chocolates and, in particular, the Five Star Hazelnut Bar from Lake Champlain Chocolates.
17. How Do You React When Provoked? Sometimes, I run and hide. Sometimes, I just growl and kvetch.
18. What is Your Favorite Place in Your House? I’d like it to be my rocking chair, but I need to do something about the lighting in my living room for that to work.
19. What’s the Best Way to Heal a Broken Heart? Distract myself with trashy novels.
20. Are You a Hoarder or a Minimalist? A hoarder, alas, mostly of books and craft supplies.
21. What Would You Outsource if You Could? What I probably need most is a regular house cleaner.
22. What Fantasy Invention Would You Want to Exist in Reality? This is the 21t century. I am sure I was promised teleportation by now.
23. What Old, Worn Out Thing Can You Just Not Part With? I have a long sleeve t-short from the 2017 March for Science that is getting rather tattered, but it’s too comfortable to abandon yet.
24. Do You Want to Live to 100? Yes, but only if I can do so in reasonable health.
25. How Good Is Your Sense of Direction? I can hear everyone who knows me laughing out loud at that. I have a notoriously terrible sense of direction. I am the person who once had to drive to an airport terminal and follow an Avis van in order to find the rental car return. And then there’s the problem of maps that are two-dimensional but claim to portray three-dimensional cities. (Yes, Edinburgh, it is possible to put up signs for all those staircases and ramps.)
26. Do You Write in Cursive? Yes. Now, writing legibly might be a different matter.
27. What Are Your Earliest Memories of Music? I don’t really remember any time in my life without music. My father brought home records (mostly Broadway cast albums) pretty much every week. And, of course, we also sang along with Mitch. (Do younger people know what I’m talking about?)
28. What Would You Grab in a Fire? I have a metal box that I keep important documents like my passport and the like in.
29. Do You Have Any Tattoos? If Not, Would You Ever Consider Getting a Tattoo? I do not have any tattoos and will not be getting any.
30. Does Buying and Accumulating More and More Stuff Make Us Happier? Definitely not. Experiences are infinitely more satisfying than possessions. I need to get rid of stuff, not accumulate more.
31. When Do You Become an Adult? I’m 66 years old and I’m still waiting.
2. What Would You Be Willing to Wait in a Really Long Line For? My favorite example of this was at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The Canadian Mint had set up an opportunity to hold Olympic medals. You put on a white glove and they took photos of you holding three medals. I waited in line for five hours to hold medals for a couple of minutes. I know that sounds absurd, but I thought it was cool enough t be worth it.
3. Do You Wish You Could Return to Moments From Your Past? There are some moments from my past I’d love to revisit and others I hope never to think of again.
4. What Pranks, Jokes, Hoaxes or Tricks Have You Ever Fallen For or Perpetrated? In college, one of my suite mates and I wound a long piece of yarn through all the clothes in another suite mate’s closet.
5. What Are Your Personal Superstitions? It is incredibly bad luck to put a hat on a bed.
6. Do You Spend Enough Time With Other People? Probably not, though sometimes I spend too much time with other people.
7. How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors? Not well at all. I had a next door neighbor for a while who I used to see and chat with, but she moved out years ago. There are a couple of neighbors I know well enough to say hello to, but that’s about it.
8. How Much Time Do You Spend in Nature? I should get out to the park up the street from my condo complex more often, but the weather here doesn’t always cooperate.
9. What Are Your Favorite TV Shows? I’m not really much if a TV watcher. There have been shows here and there which I’ve binge watched, e.g. Better Off Ted and Schmigadoon but most of what little TV I watch consists of baseball games.
10. When Have You Ever Succeeded When You Thought You Might Fail? I managed to get through my Ph.D. program, which meant overcoming a lot of self-doubt and laziness.
11. How Productive and Organized Are You? I am capable of being productive, but most of the time I don’t want to. Similarly for being organized.
12. How Do You Deal With Boredom? I’m rarely bored. If I do get bored, I read or do crafts or talk on the phone with friends.
13. Should Couples Live Together Before Marriage? Living together would help people find the things that drive them nuts about one another.
14. What Assumptions Do People Make About You? I think other people often think I’m more sociable than I am. I do a lot of things, but I also need time to recharge my batteries on my own. People don’t see me during that introvert time, so they don’t realize my need for it.
15. Can Money Buy You Happiness? No, but it can buy you a lot of ways to distract yourself when you’re not happy.
16. What’s Your Favorite Candy? I don’t actually know what they’re called, but I absolutely love those little sesame brittle candies. I also like certain chocolates and, in particular, the Five Star Hazelnut Bar from Lake Champlain Chocolates.
17. How Do You React When Provoked? Sometimes, I run and hide. Sometimes, I just growl and kvetch.
18. What is Your Favorite Place in Your House? I’d like it to be my rocking chair, but I need to do something about the lighting in my living room for that to work.
19. What’s the Best Way to Heal a Broken Heart? Distract myself with trashy novels.
20. Are You a Hoarder or a Minimalist? A hoarder, alas, mostly of books and craft supplies.
21. What Would You Outsource if You Could? What I probably need most is a regular house cleaner.
22. What Fantasy Invention Would You Want to Exist in Reality? This is the 21t century. I am sure I was promised teleportation by now.
23. What Old, Worn Out Thing Can You Just Not Part With? I have a long sleeve t-short from the 2017 March for Science that is getting rather tattered, but it’s too comfortable to abandon yet.
24. Do You Want to Live to 100? Yes, but only if I can do so in reasonable health.
25. How Good Is Your Sense of Direction? I can hear everyone who knows me laughing out loud at that. I have a notoriously terrible sense of direction. I am the person who once had to drive to an airport terminal and follow an Avis van in order to find the rental car return. And then there’s the problem of maps that are two-dimensional but claim to portray three-dimensional cities. (Yes, Edinburgh, it is possible to put up signs for all those staircases and ramps.)
26. Do You Write in Cursive? Yes. Now, writing legibly might be a different matter.
27. What Are Your Earliest Memories of Music? I don’t really remember any time in my life without music. My father brought home records (mostly Broadway cast albums) pretty much every week. And, of course, we also sang along with Mitch. (Do younger people know what I’m talking about?)
28. What Would You Grab in a Fire? I have a metal box that I keep important documents like my passport and the like in.
29. Do You Have Any Tattoos? If Not, Would You Ever Consider Getting a Tattoo? I do not have any tattoos and will not be getting any.
30. Does Buying and Accumulating More and More Stuff Make Us Happier? Definitely not. Experiences are infinitely more satisfying than possessions. I need to get rid of stuff, not accumulate more.
31. When Do You Become an Adult? I’m 66 years old and I’m still waiting.
