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maeve6623. Have you ever locked your keys in your car?
I locked my keys in my car ONCE, and I'd left the car running! It was at my first school, and I had gotten distracted talking to my favorite student while standing by my car in the parking lot. The old veteran gym teacher, this guy who was famous in the neighborhood, Earl McKelvy, came out and laughed at me and then jimmied the window and opened the car for me, so I didn't have to call Triple A.
24. Do you get carsick?
Nope. I can read in a car, which is handy, because my family also only did driving vacations, because they were cheaper, I assume. A whole month on the road, every August, with cheap car camping. I mean sometimes we set up the old army surplus tents at State Parks. But more than a few times, only my parents set one up, in a Rest Area or in a friend's backyard, and my sister and I slept on the vast bench seats of whatever Chevy beater we were driving then, always a hand-me-down from some older relative.
25. What are your top five favorite movies?
Yeah, Microbie's right, favorites are bullshit. I resent being told to choose. But I can name some I love a lot. Reds... Stalag 17... The Miracle Worker (the original one with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke)... Glory... and... hm. Okay, I cannot do only one more. Four more. Thé au Harem de l'Archi Ahmed... Diva... Beasts of the Southern Wild... and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Oh! And how could I forget? Wadjda, which I have watched god knows how many times -- and made students watch. A film made by a Saudi woman filmmaker in Riyadh, about a ten year old tomboy who wants to win a Koran recitation contest in order to buy a forbidden bicycle.
26. What sport is your favorite to watch?
"Sigh. American football" to quote Microbie. Every once in a while I get enthused about tennis (well, while Martina Navratilova was playing and before she became a TERF) or about soccer, while Megan Rapinoe was doing ANYTHING and while Morocco was tearing it up at the World Cup. And baseball while I was watching the new (cruelly limited) series A League of Their Own. But truthfully, for just watching and enjoying, it's American football. Though fuck Aaron Rodgers.
27. How often do you brush your hair?
You mean... brush versus comb? Brush and/or comb? God, I don't differentiate that much. A time or two a day?
28. Have your friends ever randomly stopped by your house?
Very rarely. Usually people call first.
29. What is an act of kindness you'll never forget?
My family and friends rallied the fuck around me when I got cancer, I'll say that. My sister was with me every step of the way, every doctor's appointment, drove me to surgery, waited afterwards (with my brother-in-law and nieces at home waiting for a phone call in terror -- we'd really been warned about the surgery not working and the anesthesia possibly killing me); my parents flew out after the surgery and stayed with me a month, helping me get around my apartment; my friend Dani drove me radiation appointments constantly, way the hell out in Dublin/Pleasanton; my parents came out again for the final round of internal radiation which was INSANE.
30. Would you ever wish to explore a cave?
No. I have trouble even watching other people on TV in a cave.
31. Do you like wearing shoes? Or prefer to go barefoot?
I hate shoes. Hate them. But I wouldn't go barefoot outside. I thought I'd loathe having most of this apartment/condo carpeted, but honestly I never wear shoes inside, and it's glorious.
I locked my keys in my car ONCE, and I'd left the car running! It was at my first school, and I had gotten distracted talking to my favorite student while standing by my car in the parking lot. The old veteran gym teacher, this guy who was famous in the neighborhood, Earl McKelvy, came out and laughed at me and then jimmied the window and opened the car for me, so I didn't have to call Triple A.
24. Do you get carsick?
Nope. I can read in a car, which is handy, because my family also only did driving vacations, because they were cheaper, I assume. A whole month on the road, every August, with cheap car camping. I mean sometimes we set up the old army surplus tents at State Parks. But more than a few times, only my parents set one up, in a Rest Area or in a friend's backyard, and my sister and I slept on the vast bench seats of whatever Chevy beater we were driving then, always a hand-me-down from some older relative.
25. What are your top five favorite movies?
Yeah, Microbie's right, favorites are bullshit. I resent being told to choose. But I can name some I love a lot. Reds... Stalag 17... The Miracle Worker (the original one with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke)... Glory... and... hm. Okay, I cannot do only one more. Four more. Thé au Harem de l'Archi Ahmed... Diva... Beasts of the Southern Wild... and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Oh! And how could I forget? Wadjda, which I have watched god knows how many times -- and made students watch. A film made by a Saudi woman filmmaker in Riyadh, about a ten year old tomboy who wants to win a Koran recitation contest in order to buy a forbidden bicycle.
26. What sport is your favorite to watch?
"Sigh. American football" to quote Microbie. Every once in a while I get enthused about tennis (well, while Martina Navratilova was playing and before she became a TERF) or about soccer, while Megan Rapinoe was doing ANYTHING and while Morocco was tearing it up at the World Cup. And baseball while I was watching the new (cruelly limited) series A League of Their Own. But truthfully, for just watching and enjoying, it's American football. Though fuck Aaron Rodgers.
27. How often do you brush your hair?
You mean... brush versus comb? Brush and/or comb? God, I don't differentiate that much. A time or two a day?
28. Have your friends ever randomly stopped by your house?
Very rarely. Usually people call first.
29. What is an act of kindness you'll never forget?
My family and friends rallied the fuck around me when I got cancer, I'll say that. My sister was with me every step of the way, every doctor's appointment, drove me to surgery, waited afterwards (with my brother-in-law and nieces at home waiting for a phone call in terror -- we'd really been warned about the surgery not working and the anesthesia possibly killing me); my parents flew out after the surgery and stayed with me a month, helping me get around my apartment; my friend Dani drove me radiation appointments constantly, way the hell out in Dublin/Pleasanton; my parents came out again for the final round of internal radiation which was INSANE.
30. Would you ever wish to explore a cave?
No. I have trouble even watching other people on TV in a cave.
31. Do you like wearing shoes? Or prefer to go barefoot?
I hate shoes. Hate them. But I wouldn't go barefoot outside. I thought I'd loathe having most of this apartment/condo carpeted, but honestly I never wear shoes inside, and it's glorious.
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Date: 2023-08-01 02:03 pm (UTC)Megan Rapinoe is cool is one of the only sports opinions I have.
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Date: 2023-08-02 12:13 am (UTC)