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Continuing June meme topics
Jun. 26th, 2023 04:32 pm6. How often do you watch television?
I watch shows (Netflix, Hulu from my niece's sub, Max, Amazon Prime), and YouTube, but not TV per se, because I deliberately don't have cable. There are things I hate about TV, from ads to TV news to shows with laugh tracks (I mean, those used to exist; I have no idea if they still do)... and now that bingeing exists, I think my general difficulty with delaying gratification is also something I hate about TV.
7. What are you tired of hearing about?
I hate hearing about education reform because it is always top-down bullshit with dense, impenetrable, offensive jargon, and because often it PRETENDS to be not top-down and to intend to emanate from actual teachers and that is never, ever, ever the case.
8. Where and when did you last go out to eat at a sit down restaurant?
I do not do this often, so when I do, it is generally very enjoyable, as this was except for my dad getting problematic. We (my dad, stepmother, sister, brother-in-law, and my nieces) went to a really good Irish pub in Oakland called Slainte, which has VERY good pub food -- an amazing lamb-based shepherd's pie (which is what I had), Irish soda bread (the non-sweet, heavier, farl-like type) with cheddar cheese, good fish and chips, mushy peas (no thanks), Irish breakfasts (which my father joneses for), etc. And of course good Guiness and so on. I actually had cider instead, because their cider is great.
9. What do you find more annoying, a sore throat or a headache?
A sore throat kicks my usually unobtrusive potential hypochondria into gear, because of the well-worn pathway (for me) of sore throat, head cold, chest cold, bronchitis, pneumonia. Yeah, no thanks. A headache just causes me to reach for the Tylenol, pronto.
10. What do you miss most about the past?
"The past" is a big topic! I liked my traveling days in Europe, living in Britain for a year, walking lots of places with no consciousness of difficulty. I liked grad school and the endless arguing and absorption of ideas and reading and writing. It seemed at the time and in retrospect too, like one long vacation, even though I was working (illegally) more than forty hours a week in addition to classes, what with different kinds of tutoring and TAing.
11. Do you know how to play darts?
No. Do I care? No.
12. What kind of computer do you have?
I have a MacBook Pro, 2019. I am kind of a sucker for Macs, gotta say. I hate other operating systems.
13. Have you ever gone out of your area for a concert?
Huh. I don't think so. To Chicago, from Evanston. To San Jose, from Oakland, to San Francisco from Oakland. That's it, really.
14. What is your favorite board game from your childhood?
I sort of liked this weird 70s game we had about making it to the end of the month and paying all your bills. It's been updated since then to include interest payments and weird online opportunities, and seems less fun. I also loved Clue. I sucked at Monopoly and lost every game I ever played.
15. What has made this year so far different than previous years?
Huh. I got a new (to me) car last week. That's different. I haven't done that since 2006. It is a 2010 Honda Fit with 137K miles. It is "blackberry pearl" colored, which means purple when the sun hits it. Which I like. Because of my retro payment (the raise we got, all the backdated months when we were working without a contract) I was able to add some savings to that and just write a check, so no new monthly payments. I will need it in the Fall when I am back to daily commuting, UGH. U G H H H H. My younger niece has my old Mazda Protege now, but I have to keep it on my insurance (shudder) because she's pretty prone to fender benders, sigh.
I watch shows (Netflix, Hulu from my niece's sub, Max, Amazon Prime), and YouTube, but not TV per se, because I deliberately don't have cable. There are things I hate about TV, from ads to TV news to shows with laugh tracks (I mean, those used to exist; I have no idea if they still do)... and now that bingeing exists, I think my general difficulty with delaying gratification is also something I hate about TV.
7. What are you tired of hearing about?
I hate hearing about education reform because it is always top-down bullshit with dense, impenetrable, offensive jargon, and because often it PRETENDS to be not top-down and to intend to emanate from actual teachers and that is never, ever, ever the case.
8. Where and when did you last go out to eat at a sit down restaurant?
I do not do this often, so when I do, it is generally very enjoyable, as this was except for my dad getting problematic. We (my dad, stepmother, sister, brother-in-law, and my nieces) went to a really good Irish pub in Oakland called Slainte, which has VERY good pub food -- an amazing lamb-based shepherd's pie (which is what I had), Irish soda bread (the non-sweet, heavier, farl-like type) with cheddar cheese, good fish and chips, mushy peas (no thanks), Irish breakfasts (which my father joneses for), etc. And of course good Guiness and so on. I actually had cider instead, because their cider is great.
9. What do you find more annoying, a sore throat or a headache?
A sore throat kicks my usually unobtrusive potential hypochondria into gear, because of the well-worn pathway (for me) of sore throat, head cold, chest cold, bronchitis, pneumonia. Yeah, no thanks. A headache just causes me to reach for the Tylenol, pronto.
10. What do you miss most about the past?
"The past" is a big topic! I liked my traveling days in Europe, living in Britain for a year, walking lots of places with no consciousness of difficulty. I liked grad school and the endless arguing and absorption of ideas and reading and writing. It seemed at the time and in retrospect too, like one long vacation, even though I was working (illegally) more than forty hours a week in addition to classes, what with different kinds of tutoring and TAing.
11. Do you know how to play darts?
No. Do I care? No.
12. What kind of computer do you have?
I have a MacBook Pro, 2019. I am kind of a sucker for Macs, gotta say. I hate other operating systems.
13. Have you ever gone out of your area for a concert?
Huh. I don't think so. To Chicago, from Evanston. To San Jose, from Oakland, to San Francisco from Oakland. That's it, really.
14. What is your favorite board game from your childhood?
I sort of liked this weird 70s game we had about making it to the end of the month and paying all your bills. It's been updated since then to include interest payments and weird online opportunities, and seems less fun. I also loved Clue. I sucked at Monopoly and lost every game I ever played.
15. What has made this year so far different than previous years?
Huh. I got a new (to me) car last week. That's different. I haven't done that since 2006. It is a 2010 Honda Fit with 137K miles. It is "blackberry pearl" colored, which means purple when the sun hits it. Which I like. Because of my retro payment (the raise we got, all the backdated months when we were working without a contract) I was able to add some savings to that and just write a check, so no new monthly payments. I will need it in the Fall when I am back to daily commuting, UGH. U G H H H H. My younger niece has my old Mazda Protege now, but I have to keep it on my insurance (shudder) because she's pretty prone to fender benders, sigh.