Last of the February Questions
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maeve66Here; I am doing them more quickly now. Thanks, Microbie!
23. How old were you when you learned to drive?
16, in high school, with those TERRIBLE 1950s and 1960s videos about Red Death on the Highways, or whatever, and with bizarro driving simulator machines that must have been cutting edge in the 1960s or 1970s. And with closed driving courses in one of the school parking lots. It worked. I passed my first driving test. Of course, my mom did not have a car at that point, so it was kind of moot. I didn't get a car of my own until age 25, I don't think. A used red 1983 Subaru station wagon that I ADORED, which cost me $400 in 1991 or 1992. Still my second favorite car. Actually, possibly still my favorite car, despite my very long-lasting and reliable 2001 Mazda Protegé.
24. What is one thing you could change about today to make it more productive?
I do not like to think of my life in terms of its productivity, and I pretty much succeed at that goal.
25. How could you be taking better care of yourself?
Ugh. Exercise and eating better. Bleah.
26. Do you feel like its ever appropriate to be dishonest?
Uh, duh, yes. Brutal honesty when it's not necessary is just stupid. Also, self-preservation could require dishonesty. What a dumb question.
27. If you could live another person’s life for a day whose would it be and why?
An actual person who exists already? That's weird. Uh... I don't know, kind of a lot of people whose daily lives are different from mine, who I actually know. An expat British friend in Paris who has just retired from teaching (and being a part-timer for an international revolutionary organization) after living there for, god, fifty years? I think I was on track for sort of inheriting her life, at a certain point, in 1989. But then I went rogue and got so depressed I had to move back to the US and go to grad school! But I am curious about the left wing expat life.
28. What would you consider to be your love language(s)?
Thank you, Microbie for doing the internet search on this. The whole idea has made me grossed out and slightly squeamish, so I refused to look it up. Honestly, they all sound kind of icky. I mean, who doesn't like to be told they're cared for? But otherwise... "acts of service"? That sounds a great deal like a D/s relationship. Gifts? Hella mercenary, to kind of tally those as proof of something. I can't remember the other two. Oh, touch. And ... spending time together. I mean... don't those two mostly go with the territory? Oh, whatever, I concede that some people want more of a) than of b), c), d), or e). Whatever.
23. How old were you when you learned to drive?
16, in high school, with those TERRIBLE 1950s and 1960s videos about Red Death on the Highways, or whatever, and with bizarro driving simulator machines that must have been cutting edge in the 1960s or 1970s. And with closed driving courses in one of the school parking lots. It worked. I passed my first driving test. Of course, my mom did not have a car at that point, so it was kind of moot. I didn't get a car of my own until age 25, I don't think. A used red 1983 Subaru station wagon that I ADORED, which cost me $400 in 1991 or 1992. Still my second favorite car. Actually, possibly still my favorite car, despite my very long-lasting and reliable 2001 Mazda Protegé.
24. What is one thing you could change about today to make it more productive?
I do not like to think of my life in terms of its productivity, and I pretty much succeed at that goal.
25. How could you be taking better care of yourself?
Ugh. Exercise and eating better. Bleah.
26. Do you feel like its ever appropriate to be dishonest?
Uh, duh, yes. Brutal honesty when it's not necessary is just stupid. Also, self-preservation could require dishonesty. What a dumb question.
27. If you could live another person’s life for a day whose would it be and why?
An actual person who exists already? That's weird. Uh... I don't know, kind of a lot of people whose daily lives are different from mine, who I actually know. An expat British friend in Paris who has just retired from teaching (and being a part-timer for an international revolutionary organization) after living there for, god, fifty years? I think I was on track for sort of inheriting her life, at a certain point, in 1989. But then I went rogue and got so depressed I had to move back to the US and go to grad school! But I am curious about the left wing expat life.
28. What would you consider to be your love language(s)?
Thank you, Microbie for doing the internet search on this. The whole idea has made me grossed out and slightly squeamish, so I refused to look it up. Honestly, they all sound kind of icky. I mean, who doesn't like to be told they're cared for? But otherwise... "acts of service"? That sounds a great deal like a D/s relationship. Gifts? Hella mercenary, to kind of tally those as proof of something. I can't remember the other two. Oh, touch. And ... spending time together. I mean... don't those two mostly go with the territory? Oh, whatever, I concede that some people want more of a) than of b), c), d), or e). Whatever.
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Date: 2023-03-03 12:26 am (UTC)