Interview Meme

Beware, for I am: Geeky

This is an interview meme that I thwoinked from chaineddove.

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
3. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

So, without further ado...

1. What is your most precious childhood memory?
I honestly don’t remember a lot of my childhood. What I did mostly other than daydream was climb the trees in our back yard and daydream. But there is one memory that does stand out a bit more than the random ones. It was 5th grade, Mrs. Perry’s class. I hated school, and what’s more I hated myself. I was stupid and slow and couldn’t learn and everyone always did everything better than me. But one day we had a free art period where she instructed us to simply use our imaginations. So I stared at a blank sheet of loose-leaf paper for about fifteen minutes, knowing full and well that I was terrible at drawing things. So I dumped all of my crayons out of my crayon box onto my desk...and I separated the junk from the good crayons. There was a lot of flecks of crayon wax from sharpening them, and crayon label papers and stubs of broken crayons and the like. Then I grabbed my glue bottle and smeared glue all over the page of paper...I’m sure everyone around me was watching me perplexed by this. They always made a habit of watching what I was doing and teasing me, but this was so weird they had no idea how to tease me. Then after I’d gotten glue all over the paper and my hands, I gently began placing the stubs of broken crayon down. Some of them were laying down (the bigger ones) and some were standing up. I made a strange pattern with the laying down crayons and then I built up the standing up ones around it in a strange oval-like pattern. Then I took the tiny stubs and crayon shavings and placed those around the bigger standing up crayons and then I started gluing the paper labels down flat to the rest till there wasn’t a part of that paper that wasn’t covered. The teacher walked over and asked what I had done, and I told her “This is a city.” The long crayons that were laying down were a river that ran through a city, the stubby crayons that were standing up straight were sky scrapers, the shavings and tiny flecks were houses and the paper labels were forests and pounds and rural land. She studied it for a moment and then she demanded that I let her have it to put up on her wall. She was so impressed that I used all the ‘junk’ from my crayon box (that any other kid would’ve just thrown away) and made it into something almost artistic, that she wanted to make sure everyone saw it. I was so pleased about it, and that’s when it hit me that I might not be very smart or athletic, but I could in fact be quite creative when I wanted to be.

2.What's your favorite movie and why?
Oh. Tough question. There are so many. Officially, I’d have to say the Lord of the Rings movie (and I say movie because Tolkien did not intend for it to be a trilogy, we just couldn’t handle it all at once). I’m guessing I just admire and respect Tolkien for his originality and his use of that when making his world. But then, The Chronicles of Narnia haven’t completely come out yet, so we’ll see how long this statement stands once all of Lewis’s Chronicles have been shown ^__^.

3. What is the one thing you wish you could write which you just haven't managed to do yet?
Hands down, my original story. I have bits and pieces of the story in my head, but I cannot connect them together for the life of me. I try writing the pieces down in hopes that I might just figure out a way to connect them, but it doesn’t work. I’ve tried to just start at the beginning and keep going, and it doesn’t work. I just can’t seem to make it work, but I don’t know how to fix it /shrug.

4. What is your dream job?
At this point, it’d have to be web design, but that’s because I can’t think of anything else. Sounds kinda lame to me now. If you would’ve asked me this ten years ago, I would’ve said “I want to be a rancher.” Because my passion was horses, and I wanted to own a lot of them and teach others how to ride them. I had a huge ambition when I was younger to take in battered and abused horses, and then have a program going where abused and abandoned kids could live there and tend to the horses. I think it’s awfully sweet now, but it’s completely impractical.

5. Am I EVER going to live down my old nickname and be known by my real name in your eyes? *lol*
Why in the world would you want to /grin? No really. You probably will...that is to say, when I think of you I think ‘Maaya’, but when I talk about you with other people (other people being Chibi), I refer to you ask Odango, because that’s how we both first came to know you. So maybe, yeah. One day when I grow up and get a life and start wearing makeup every day and suits to work, I might stop calling you that ^__^ (aka – don’t look for it to happen any time soon =.=).

In the words of Tom Cruise on The Soup’s Tom Cruise Watch...Much love...

MM

Behold the power of hot wings...

Beware, for I am: Calm

Wow. Today was a flurry of things. I woke up and it was almost 12. I was like O___o. So was my mom come to think of it.

But anyway. I hadn’t gotten to sleep till late (thanks so much, insomnia). I realized that I’d been reading and forgetting the time. Then when I finally did go to bed, I realized that today would be the 4th, meaning that the next chapter in the EQ Saga was due Friday. I kinda freaked because even though I had the chapter put together the way I wanted it, I hadn’t proofread it. So there’s little guessing as to what I planed on doing today.

But there were a few kinks in that plan. First off, Mom wanted some help ‘straightening up’ the house. I don’t mind that in the least. I stripped my bed and put the sheets on, made my bed with fresh sheets, picked up around my room, cleaned my bathroom, and then I vacuumed the living room. Mom and I finally put up the last little Asian art thingy for the set that I have on my wall. I think it looks really nice considering that it’s on a wall that’s all bowed out =__=.

( behold )

But anyway.

Then I got out my papers and started proofreading. I had both stories to think about. Both the EQ Saga and Different from Me needed updating. So, I proofread both of those and then I helped Mom clean off the carport so that she could wash it down and pour cleaner on the concrete. I tell you, my Mom likes things being orderly and clean. And she everything she cleans, she cleans completely. None of this half-way crap that others may give you. Oh no. My Mom’s sister didn’t nickname her Clorox Bleach for no reason.

So after that, Reiko came over to check her MySpace and chat as usual. She told me her mom would be leaving Tuesday to go out of town for something, and she wanted a place to crash that’d have some fun company. I told her my parents were leaving Tuesday to go to Arkansas, so I would have 2 beds free if she wanted to occupy one. So she shall be staying next week. Mom had fixed some hot wings and some corn on the cob, and Reiko hadn’t eaten so we offered her some food and of course...she took it. So after she ate and we gabbed a bit more she left.

Then it was back to working. I read over what I proofread and then I made sure everything was working to the best of my knowledge, then I htmled the chapters. I already posted the next chapter in the Different from Me story line. Then I htmled the next chapter in the EQ Saga. But it was getting kinda late, so Mom called me in to watch CSI. Man, I love that show. Don't ask me why. I guess it's because I understand it, and that makes me feel smart. Not that I feel smarter for watching it. I just feel smart because I can understand what's going on. But anyway.

After watching CSI and taking a shower, I loaded it on to FF.net, but I didn’t post it. So tomorrow, I’ll go ahead and post it.

I was thinking of going over to FF.net to read some fan fiction (what else does one do when they go over to FF.net?), but it’s already late and Mom needs me to get up early and drive her to pick up her car from the auto shop tomorrow. So, I shall be off to bed. Goodnight.

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Your Extroversion Profile:

Assertiveness: Medium

Cheerfulness: Medium

Friendliness: Medium

Excitement Seeking: Low

Sociability: Low

Activity Level: Very Low

How Extroverted Are You?

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MM