September 2024 Prompts - Part 1
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fauxklore1. How Often Does Your Family Eat Together? Given that both or my parents are long gone and my brother lives at the other end of the country, it’s pretty rare.
2. Is ‘Be Yourself’ Bad Advice? It’s sometimes okay advice, but not always a good idea since I can be pretty bitchy at times.
3. What’s Your Comfort Food? A large bowl of blueberries or strawberries with sour cream.
4. How Good a Friend Are You? I try to support my friends to the extent that I can.
5. Do You Think You’ve Forged Your Lifelong Taste in Music? Most people who know me well, know my tastes. But I am always willing to discover music I wasn’t familiar with before.
6. How Well Do You Take Criticism? It depends on what I’m being criticized about. But, in general, I know what my flaws are.
7. What City or Town Most Captures Your Imagination? This is tricky. There are some cities that will never wear out their welcome in my heart, ranging from Bruges to Bologna to Boston. And there are many cities that invite me to sit on a park bench drawing little sketches and just wandering and watching people.
8. Is It Possible to Start Out Poor in Your Country, Work Hard and Become Well-Off? It used to be. My father survived the Kaunas Ghetto and Dachau and was eventually able to come to the U.S. and go to City College of New York (known in our house as “the Harvard of the Proletariat”). I hope I’ve fulfilled part of what he hoped for.
9. What Food Would You Like to Judge in a Taste-Off? Sorbet.
10. Has Anyone Ever Said That You Look Like Someone Famous? Do You Resemble Your Parents? I have my mother’s coloring and (alas) my father’s hair.
11. What Are Some Recent Moments of Happiness in Your Life? This is pretty lame, but I did get new flannel sheets. Also, I had a very nice dinner at a Nepali restaurant in my neighborhood that I hadn’t been to before.
12. Do You Pay Attention to Nutrition Labels on Food? I do to some extent, but I make exceptions for things like really good chocolate.
13. Are You a Saver or a Tosser? I am descended from generations of hoarders.
14. Does What You Wear Say Anything About You as a Person? I have a bit of a split personality as far as my wardrobe goes. I enjoy playing dress-up, but I also often just throw on whatever is handy if I’m not going out anywhere in particular.
15. What Are You Good At? I’m a good storyteller and a good craftswoman.
16. How Closely Do You Listen to Lyrics? I try to listen closely to lyrics, depending somewhat on whose lyrics they are. When I was growing up, we used to get magazines of song lyrics and I memorized lots of them.
17. Do You Root For Any Sports Teams? Anyone who knows me at all, knows of my undying love for the Red Sox.
18. What Era Do You Wish You Had Lived In? This is tricky. I think we’ve only had a few brief periods that didn’t completely suck. For example, the 1920’s sounds entertaining in many ways, but prohibition couldn’t have been any fun and women were still struggling to get basic rights and, of course, the depression ensued. The 1950’s had some hope, but was accompanied by the threat of nuclear annihilation. There were good years, maybe even a good decade or too here and there, but, oh, come on, you know what disastrous governments we’ve had to face. About all I can hope for is that things get better in the future.
19. How Do You Cope With Grief? There’s really not much you can do but just power through grief. You do what you have to and realize that eventually you will get where you need to be.
20. What Are You Listening To? I’m not listening to anything in particular right now. I have a grand plan for going through various music recordings and sorting out ones to get rid of, but I’ve made no progress on that.
21. How Impulsive Are You? I tend to be more of a planner, for the most part. I will do short term things (e.g. buying tickets to a show) on the spur of the moment, but I generally prefer having more structure.
22. What Was Your Favourite Fairy Tale or Nursery Rhyme? It’s really hard to choose one. As a child, I was rather partial to Norse mythology, though I don’t really have a good reason for that. I’m also very fond of stories involving fools, many of whom are, of course, far from foolish.
23. What Is Your Fantasy Vacation? Do I get to control the weather for this vacation? Seriously, I’m always happy to go somewhere I’ve never been before. Ideally, somewhere with some interesting architecture, pleasant walking paths, friendly locals, and good coffee.
24. How Much Do You Curse? Too much, actually.
25. What Buildings Do You Love? What Buildings Do You Hate? I hate brutalist architecture. As for buildings I love, the Chrysler Building is the most beautiful skyscraper in the world. I should probably note that I love art deco in general and I’ve been privileged to go to a number of cities with excellent collections of art deco buildings, e.g. Riga (Latvia), and Alesund (Norway).
26. Given Unlimited Resources, What Scientific or Medical Problem Would You Investigate? Probably something having to do with aging.
27. Have You Ever Felt Pressured to Betray Your Beliefs? Not really, though I’ve sometimes felt uncomfortable talking about my beliefs.
28. What Famous Landmarks Have You Visited? Lots of them, including Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Eater Island, the Western Wall, Venice, etc.
29. What Are Your Healthy Habits? I try t get out and walk every day, though I don’t always succeed.
30. Tell Me Three Good Things That Happened This Week 1) I got a few things cleared off my desk, 2) I got somewhat caught up on sleep, 3) I started getting caught up on writing here.
2. Is ‘Be Yourself’ Bad Advice? It’s sometimes okay advice, but not always a good idea since I can be pretty bitchy at times.
3. What’s Your Comfort Food? A large bowl of blueberries or strawberries with sour cream.
4. How Good a Friend Are You? I try to support my friends to the extent that I can.
5. Do You Think You’ve Forged Your Lifelong Taste in Music? Most people who know me well, know my tastes. But I am always willing to discover music I wasn’t familiar with before.
6. How Well Do You Take Criticism? It depends on what I’m being criticized about. But, in general, I know what my flaws are.
7. What City or Town Most Captures Your Imagination? This is tricky. There are some cities that will never wear out their welcome in my heart, ranging from Bruges to Bologna to Boston. And there are many cities that invite me to sit on a park bench drawing little sketches and just wandering and watching people.
8. Is It Possible to Start Out Poor in Your Country, Work Hard and Become Well-Off? It used to be. My father survived the Kaunas Ghetto and Dachau and was eventually able to come to the U.S. and go to City College of New York (known in our house as “the Harvard of the Proletariat”). I hope I’ve fulfilled part of what he hoped for.
9. What Food Would You Like to Judge in a Taste-Off? Sorbet.
10. Has Anyone Ever Said That You Look Like Someone Famous? Do You Resemble Your Parents? I have my mother’s coloring and (alas) my father’s hair.
11. What Are Some Recent Moments of Happiness in Your Life? This is pretty lame, but I did get new flannel sheets. Also, I had a very nice dinner at a Nepali restaurant in my neighborhood that I hadn’t been to before.
12. Do You Pay Attention to Nutrition Labels on Food? I do to some extent, but I make exceptions for things like really good chocolate.
13. Are You a Saver or a Tosser? I am descended from generations of hoarders.
14. Does What You Wear Say Anything About You as a Person? I have a bit of a split personality as far as my wardrobe goes. I enjoy playing dress-up, but I also often just throw on whatever is handy if I’m not going out anywhere in particular.
15. What Are You Good At? I’m a good storyteller and a good craftswoman.
16. How Closely Do You Listen to Lyrics? I try to listen closely to lyrics, depending somewhat on whose lyrics they are. When I was growing up, we used to get magazines of song lyrics and I memorized lots of them.
17. Do You Root For Any Sports Teams? Anyone who knows me at all, knows of my undying love for the Red Sox.
18. What Era Do You Wish You Had Lived In? This is tricky. I think we’ve only had a few brief periods that didn’t completely suck. For example, the 1920’s sounds entertaining in many ways, but prohibition couldn’t have been any fun and women were still struggling to get basic rights and, of course, the depression ensued. The 1950’s had some hope, but was accompanied by the threat of nuclear annihilation. There were good years, maybe even a good decade or too here and there, but, oh, come on, you know what disastrous governments we’ve had to face. About all I can hope for is that things get better in the future.
19. How Do You Cope With Grief? There’s really not much you can do but just power through grief. You do what you have to and realize that eventually you will get where you need to be.
20. What Are You Listening To? I’m not listening to anything in particular right now. I have a grand plan for going through various music recordings and sorting out ones to get rid of, but I’ve made no progress on that.
21. How Impulsive Are You? I tend to be more of a planner, for the most part. I will do short term things (e.g. buying tickets to a show) on the spur of the moment, but I generally prefer having more structure.
22. What Was Your Favourite Fairy Tale or Nursery Rhyme? It’s really hard to choose one. As a child, I was rather partial to Norse mythology, though I don’t really have a good reason for that. I’m also very fond of stories involving fools, many of whom are, of course, far from foolish.
23. What Is Your Fantasy Vacation? Do I get to control the weather for this vacation? Seriously, I’m always happy to go somewhere I’ve never been before. Ideally, somewhere with some interesting architecture, pleasant walking paths, friendly locals, and good coffee.
24. How Much Do You Curse? Too much, actually.
25. What Buildings Do You Love? What Buildings Do You Hate? I hate brutalist architecture. As for buildings I love, the Chrysler Building is the most beautiful skyscraper in the world. I should probably note that I love art deco in general and I’ve been privileged to go to a number of cities with excellent collections of art deco buildings, e.g. Riga (Latvia), and Alesund (Norway).
26. Given Unlimited Resources, What Scientific or Medical Problem Would You Investigate? Probably something having to do with aging.
27. Have You Ever Felt Pressured to Betray Your Beliefs? Not really, though I’ve sometimes felt uncomfortable talking about my beliefs.
28. What Famous Landmarks Have You Visited? Lots of them, including Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Eater Island, the Western Wall, Venice, etc.
29. What Are Your Healthy Habits? I try t get out and walk every day, though I don’t always succeed.
30. Tell Me Three Good Things That Happened This Week 1) I got a few things cleared off my desk, 2) I got somewhat caught up on sleep, 3) I started getting caught up on writing here.
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Date: 2024-12-16 02:57 am (UTC)So true.
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