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Questionnaire!
1 -- Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 -- I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 -- You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 -- You'll include this explanation.
5 -- You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
1. What has been the driving force in your life?
When people tell me I can’t do something for whatever reason they may have. I just have to work my hardest to prove them wrong. Sometimes they’re right and I can’t, but I always get farther than they think and I think so I don’t really believe they’re 100% right in the end.
2. Do you breathe through your nose or your mouth more?
Nose. The mouth is when I’m congested, sometimes when I sleep and its not a restful sleep, and when I’m running.
3. What memory do you like to share the most with other people?
In 1986, Pa died during his second stroke. The first stroke several years before robbed him of a lot of his fine motor skills and comprehensible speech. I don’t know how much of this could have been corrected as Ma refused to take him in for check ups and the therapy the doctors prescribed (not to mention would have been paid for by Medi-Care) as a waste of her money. Still, as the paramedics were arriving (now this story is according to Ma and a bit at the end from the paramedics) Ma was crying and saying “Stanley don’t leave me. Stanley don’t leave me.” To which Pa responded, “Audrey. I love you. Let me go.”
4. Do you ever think about words, and say them over and over again, only to discover now you’re aren’t sure on the spelling because you over-thought them?
Not so much that as with words like through, threw, and thru. Sometimes I end up staring and wondering if I used the right one. Gets a little unnerving. Usual and unusual sometimes gets messed up too. The biggest one is then and than for being messed up in usage.
5. Do you think these quizzes could be an internet form of truth or dare? (minus the dare, obviously.. *sigh*)
In its own fashion, yes. It’s a kind of naughty flirtation when the questions get to be really racy. As most of the people who converse on the internet haven’t actually physically met one another in person it’s a safe way of indulging in fantasies as well. Unfortunately its also a great way of getting away with things you wouldn’t normally be able to do in person.
I’ve noticed that people do not communicate in the same fashion in on-line communities as they would if they bumped into each other on the street. The lack of body contact and visual queues also make it harder to see when there is something that isn’t quite on the up and up. Take for instance, if I was suddenly seen by you with a guy called Nick, and you knew Nick was a real scum sucking bastard. You might very well not say anything to Rainy when she pops on line because you won’t see her reaction when my name comes up, and she could very well have just seen me with the scum sucking bastard herself. The internet tends to create this bubble where people don’t talk about what’s bothering them as they’re afraid its will lead to betrayal of confidences.
So where in real life Tric and Rainy might run into each other and pick up that something was bothering them and tip toe around it until one says, “I saw Lynn with Nick.” “Me too! What the hell is she doing with him!” Conversation would ensue and a discussion on whether or not to confront Lynn, warn Lynn, or just wait to see what happens.
When was the last time that happened on line?
Or for that matter, when you really think about it, how many people get away with behavior on-line that you wouldn’t accept from a person you say hello to and share a cup of coffee with in the morning on the way to work? If that behavior isn’t acceptable for the day to day out and about real life why is it acceptable on-line? Not that its something a person really wants to think about. People like to think they’re the same across the board.
1 -- Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 -- I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 -- You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 -- You'll include this explanation.
5 -- You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
1. What has been the driving force in your life?
When people tell me I can’t do something for whatever reason they may have. I just have to work my hardest to prove them wrong. Sometimes they’re right and I can’t, but I always get farther than they think and I think so I don’t really believe they’re 100% right in the end.
2. Do you breathe through your nose or your mouth more?
Nose. The mouth is when I’m congested, sometimes when I sleep and its not a restful sleep, and when I’m running.
3. What memory do you like to share the most with other people?
In 1986, Pa died during his second stroke. The first stroke several years before robbed him of a lot of his fine motor skills and comprehensible speech. I don’t know how much of this could have been corrected as Ma refused to take him in for check ups and the therapy the doctors prescribed (not to mention would have been paid for by Medi-Care) as a waste of her money. Still, as the paramedics were arriving (now this story is according to Ma and a bit at the end from the paramedics) Ma was crying and saying “Stanley don’t leave me. Stanley don’t leave me.” To which Pa responded, “Audrey. I love you. Let me go.”
4. Do you ever think about words, and say them over and over again, only to discover now you’re aren’t sure on the spelling because you over-thought them?
Not so much that as with words like through, threw, and thru. Sometimes I end up staring and wondering if I used the right one. Gets a little unnerving. Usual and unusual sometimes gets messed up too. The biggest one is then and than for being messed up in usage.
5. Do you think these quizzes could be an internet form of truth or dare? (minus the dare, obviously.. *sigh*)
In its own fashion, yes. It’s a kind of naughty flirtation when the questions get to be really racy. As most of the people who converse on the internet haven’t actually physically met one another in person it’s a safe way of indulging in fantasies as well. Unfortunately its also a great way of getting away with things you wouldn’t normally be able to do in person.
I’ve noticed that people do not communicate in the same fashion in on-line communities as they would if they bumped into each other on the street. The lack of body contact and visual queues also make it harder to see when there is something that isn’t quite on the up and up. Take for instance, if I was suddenly seen by you with a guy called Nick, and you knew Nick was a real scum sucking bastard. You might very well not say anything to Rainy when she pops on line because you won’t see her reaction when my name comes up, and she could very well have just seen me with the scum sucking bastard herself. The internet tends to create this bubble where people don’t talk about what’s bothering them as they’re afraid its will lead to betrayal of confidences.
So where in real life Tric and Rainy might run into each other and pick up that something was bothering them and tip toe around it until one says, “I saw Lynn with Nick.” “Me too! What the hell is she doing with him!” Conversation would ensue and a discussion on whether or not to confront Lynn, warn Lynn, or just wait to see what happens.
When was the last time that happened on line?
Or for that matter, when you really think about it, how many people get away with behavior on-line that you wouldn’t accept from a person you say hello to and share a cup of coffee with in the morning on the way to work? If that behavior isn’t acceptable for the day to day out and about real life why is it acceptable on-line? Not that its something a person really wants to think about. People like to think they’re the same across the board.