End of March Meme
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maeve6624. Is there something you wish you thought about less often?
I wish the fuck that I didn't worry so much about how my managers (that is, administrators) perceive me and whether they think I suck. Why can't I actually know I don't suck, as a teacher?
25. Which fictional world would you like to live in?
I feel like I should have at least one idea about this. Let me think for a minute. I mean, VISIT-live-in, like, not forever-live-in, right? I think there are lots, for a visit... the concents [sic] in Neal Stephenson's Anathem, if I had that kind of mathematical, logical mind. New York City in the 1910s during the garment unionizing drives, as depicted in Meredith Tax's Rivington Street and Union Square. Jo Walton's Just City, in her Philosopher Kings trilogy... and maybe the planet Plato in the final volume, though it seems too damn cold. As a subversive noblewoman in ancient Egypt in Eloise Jarvis McGraw's Mara, Daughter of the Nile. Okay, clearly I could go on for a long time with this. I'd like to SEE all of these fictional (and often but not always, historical) worlds. I wouldn't want to swap lives forever.
26. If you could design the perfect carnival or fair would would be there?
This question is meaningless to me. I am not too into carnivals, fairs, or theme parks.
27. What person had the greatest impact on your life?
My parents, for sure. All three -- my mother, my father, and my stepmother. Also, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernest Mandel.
28. What was your last light bulb moment about?
Hm. Hmmmm. People should have light bulb moments, shouldn't they? I am having a hard time remembering a light bulb moment. You're putting me on the spot! Even if I think of it as a Homer Simpson D'Oh! moment, I am having trouble here.
29. If you could travel anywhere in the world to live in another era where and when would you go?
Well, for me, this is super close to the fictional world question. Times and places I'd love to visit sort of in unremarkable disguise, temporarily (not live, not swap lives) -- World War II home front US, maybe in Greenwich Village where my mother and her baby cousins lived in an apartment with my grandmother and my grandmother's sisters, while their husbands were I think mostly in the Navy. Well, two Navy and one Army? Or one Navy and two Army? As aforementioned, ancient Egypt; also Republican Rome right before Caesar crossed the Rubicon (well, any time in the ten or twenty years before that; thanks Colleen McCullough); the abolition movement in the US in the 1850s -- either in Boston, MA or in Bleeding Kansas; the Russian Revolution in Petrograd, 1917; Brighton, Sussex in 1873, when Eleanor Marx worked as a teacher there; Paris during the Commune, two years earlier; the late 1300s (well after the Plague) in a charter borough town in England, to experience the Middle Ages but not as a serf... I could go on and on.
30. What is something you'd do if you had more time?
If I were retired (to the tune of "If I Were a Rich Man...") I would want to write. I would try to write mysteries, and possibly (my stepmother's dream) fictionalize my master's thesis, though the POV would be an issue. Maybe not an insurmountable one. I was thinking about that last night in bed, as one does.
31. Which word(s) do you overuse the most?
Hm. I love words. I love words so fucking much. Maybe I overuse fucking? Not sure. When I first started teaching (lo, these 25 years ago) I said "ludicrous" a lot, often about students' behaviors. But this led to great hilarity, as the kids could only imagine Ludacris.
I wish the fuck that I didn't worry so much about how my managers (that is, administrators) perceive me and whether they think I suck. Why can't I actually know I don't suck, as a teacher?
25. Which fictional world would you like to live in?
I feel like I should have at least one idea about this. Let me think for a minute. I mean, VISIT-live-in, like, not forever-live-in, right? I think there are lots, for a visit... the concents [sic] in Neal Stephenson's Anathem, if I had that kind of mathematical, logical mind. New York City in the 1910s during the garment unionizing drives, as depicted in Meredith Tax's Rivington Street and Union Square. Jo Walton's Just City, in her Philosopher Kings trilogy... and maybe the planet Plato in the final volume, though it seems too damn cold. As a subversive noblewoman in ancient Egypt in Eloise Jarvis McGraw's Mara, Daughter of the Nile. Okay, clearly I could go on for a long time with this. I'd like to SEE all of these fictional (and often but not always, historical) worlds. I wouldn't want to swap lives forever.
26. If you could design the perfect carnival or fair would would be there?
This question is meaningless to me. I am not too into carnivals, fairs, or theme parks.
27. What person had the greatest impact on your life?
My parents, for sure. All three -- my mother, my father, and my stepmother. Also, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernest Mandel.
28. What was your last light bulb moment about?
Hm. Hmmmm. People should have light bulb moments, shouldn't they? I am having a hard time remembering a light bulb moment. You're putting me on the spot! Even if I think of it as a Homer Simpson D'Oh! moment, I am having trouble here.
29. If you could travel anywhere in the world to live in another era where and when would you go?
Well, for me, this is super close to the fictional world question. Times and places I'd love to visit sort of in unremarkable disguise, temporarily (not live, not swap lives) -- World War II home front US, maybe in Greenwich Village where my mother and her baby cousins lived in an apartment with my grandmother and my grandmother's sisters, while their husbands were I think mostly in the Navy. Well, two Navy and one Army? Or one Navy and two Army? As aforementioned, ancient Egypt; also Republican Rome right before Caesar crossed the Rubicon (well, any time in the ten or twenty years before that; thanks Colleen McCullough); the abolition movement in the US in the 1850s -- either in Boston, MA or in Bleeding Kansas; the Russian Revolution in Petrograd, 1917; Brighton, Sussex in 1873, when Eleanor Marx worked as a teacher there; Paris during the Commune, two years earlier; the late 1300s (well after the Plague) in a charter borough town in England, to experience the Middle Ages but not as a serf... I could go on and on.
30. What is something you'd do if you had more time?
If I were retired (to the tune of "If I Were a Rich Man...") I would want to write. I would try to write mysteries, and possibly (my stepmother's dream) fictionalize my master's thesis, though the POV would be an issue. Maybe not an insurmountable one. I was thinking about that last night in bed, as one does.
31. Which word(s) do you overuse the most?
Hm. I love words. I love words so fucking much. Maybe I overuse fucking? Not sure. When I first started teaching (lo, these 25 years ago) I said "ludicrous" a lot, often about students' behaviors. But this led to great hilarity, as the kids could only imagine Ludacris.