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maeve661. How do you prefer your toast?
Medium? Sort of light caramel colored, if it is, say, sour dough.
2. How often do you post something to social media?
Very infrequently, and basically only on Facebook (or in here).
3. Do you prefer silver or gold?
I prefer silver. I actually think gold is kind of ugly, in jewelry. I like it on an illuminated manuscript, though.
4. What’s your favorite movie soundtrack?
This is one of those questions that freezes my brain, so I cannot recall any music from any movie, EVER. Unless it was a musical. Or a Bollywood movie. I'll go with Bollywood -- I have two favorite Bollywood soundtracks -- first, the soundtrack to Rang de Basanti, which is one of my favorite Bollywood 'political' dramas ever, with Aamir Khan and Kunal Kapoor starring. There is not one bad song on that soundtrack and I listen to it a lot. Second, I really like the giant crowd pleasing homage to the Bollywood 70s movie industry, Om Shanti Om which also seems to have no duds at all.
5. What is a skill you wish you had?
I wish I could play the guitar. What else? Hm. I wish I had more handyman skillz.
6. Did your parents teach you how to cook/bake when you were growing up?
My mom did teach me a lot (and also made me cook on the nights she worked late, once a week, starting when I was ten or eleven, I think.) She also bought me the Betty Crocker Junior cookbook when I was, like, 12. My great-aunt Fran also taught me to cook things she made -- I particularly remember her fried zucchini slices, dredged in flour and salt and pepper, mmm. I would also pressure mini-cooking lessons out of other adults, like my friend David's Italian mother Gianna, whom I remember advising me on homemade pasta sauce over the phone for, like, half an hour one evening when I was in high school.
7. Where was the last beach you visited?
I haven't been to the beach for ages -- years. Probably the lake front beach in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, which I went to with my nieces several years ago. That was a beach I adored when I was a kid -- as had my dad when he was a kid.
8. Have you ever negotiated a pay raise?
Thank fuck my union does that for me.
9. What is the last thing you ordered for delivery?
Groceries from Safeway.
10. Do you like watching TV with the lights on or the lights off?
With one or two lights on, but not bright ones or overhead ones (this apartment doesn't actually HAVE any overhead lights in any room but the kitchen).
11. If you could change your first name would you?
I love my weird name and I would never change it, though there was a hot minute when I was tired of the endless and inevitable jokes on it, age 10, and thought about it for literally a second, before getting mad that the thought had even occurred to me.
12. Do you prefer plastic or fabric bandaids?
"How is this a writing prompt?" Truth!
13. Do you and your parents share any of the same hobbies?
Being a revolutionary socialist is not exactly a hobby. My mom and I shared tons -- singing, reading, cooking, drawing, writing. My dad and I... reading, I guess. ETA: Oh, duh, and Ancestry.com! We are both into family history, though he only cares about his side, not my mom's.
14. Have you ever lost something of sentimental value to you?
Yeah, for sure. The losses that come to mind immediately are one -- actually, possibly two -- of my journals at different times. That sucked. And two different rings! One was my high school ring (oh, the arguments I had with that same friend David about how bourgeois it was for me to buy one! Fuck you, condescending leftier-than-thou high school boy!) I loved that Jostens ring -- silver, amethyst stone, my signature engraved on the inside, symbols for chorus and drama and books or something. And the HS name and Class Year. The other ring was also silver, but in a sort of large Art Deco style, with a stone that was a cabochon of, I think, lavender jade.
15. When was the last time you ran into something?
Like Microbie, I occasionally step on Devlin's (cat) tail. I have TERRIBLE balance, so I try to be super careful when moving around: falls scare me.
16. What is something you'd love to learn?
Guitar, see above.
17. Have you ever been bitten by a wild animal?
I have only been bitten by a German Shepherd. But it sucked.
18. Are you afraid of any insects?
If I encountered one, I would be afraid of a black widow or a brown recluse spider.
19. Is your handwriting easily read?
I super love my handwriting, and kids usually get used to it, though more and more they cannot read cursive and my script is sort of half-cursive and half-printing...
20. Have you ever went on a road trip?
Yes, I have GONE on several road trips, first with my family every August, and then as an adult on research trips (Louisiana, North Carolina, Connecticut and places between, twice) and visits to friends and family (from California to Columbia, Missouri, and to Chicago, and to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, many, many times).
21. What would you love to do every day?
Read to relax, which I do.
22. Do you prefer candles in jars or candlesticks better?
Uhhh. I like small (not votive... kind of like the size of three votive candles on top of each other, but tapered) very highly perfumed candles in small candleholders, so neither a candlestick nor a jar (by which I assume is meant one of those Yankee whatsit candles).
23. Do you know self defense?
Nope
24. If you were granted one wish of any kind what would you wish for?
World peace and the replacing of capitalism with a functioning not-for-profit economy
25. What was the last thing you ate?
A cheese sandwich for lunch and a small plastic container of flan.
26. When you get to sleep in, what time do you usually wake up?
Hm. 10 AM? I stay up way too late, so that's what happens.
27. If you wake up in the middle of a dream do wish you could go back to it?
"Wouldn't that depend on the dream?" Duh. Sometimes I am so grateful to wake up from miserable emotional dreams. Occasionally it is an interesting dream I wouldn't mind continuing.
28. What was the first record/CD you purchased?
PURCHASED... I think it was the reissued Beatles music on "the Red Album" and "the Blue Album", released probably in the mid to late 1970s.
29. How many pets have you had in your household at one time?
When I was very, very little (like, 3) we had two dogs and one or two cats. Mostly, after Anna (my mom's German Shepherd) died and we had to give Butchka (my dad's Black Lab) away, we only had a cat or cats, and the most we ever had at one time was three. More usually two. Oh, but for a while there when I was around ten, we also had an aquarium (my dad's), a parakeet (very boring), and a cage of gerbils (mine). Those outlier pets did not last terribly long. The endlessly reproducing gerbils were a problem. Also pretty boring.
30. What was the last thing you wrote by hand?
Notes at a terrible weekly meeting this morning. I mean, there was more doodling than writing, but still.
Medium? Sort of light caramel colored, if it is, say, sour dough.
2. How often do you post something to social media?
Very infrequently, and basically only on Facebook (or in here).
3. Do you prefer silver or gold?
I prefer silver. I actually think gold is kind of ugly, in jewelry. I like it on an illuminated manuscript, though.
4. What’s your favorite movie soundtrack?
This is one of those questions that freezes my brain, so I cannot recall any music from any movie, EVER. Unless it was a musical. Or a Bollywood movie. I'll go with Bollywood -- I have two favorite Bollywood soundtracks -- first, the soundtrack to Rang de Basanti, which is one of my favorite Bollywood 'political' dramas ever, with Aamir Khan and Kunal Kapoor starring. There is not one bad song on that soundtrack and I listen to it a lot. Second, I really like the giant crowd pleasing homage to the Bollywood 70s movie industry, Om Shanti Om which also seems to have no duds at all.
5. What is a skill you wish you had?
I wish I could play the guitar. What else? Hm. I wish I had more handyman skillz.
6. Did your parents teach you how to cook/bake when you were growing up?
My mom did teach me a lot (and also made me cook on the nights she worked late, once a week, starting when I was ten or eleven, I think.) She also bought me the Betty Crocker Junior cookbook when I was, like, 12. My great-aunt Fran also taught me to cook things she made -- I particularly remember her fried zucchini slices, dredged in flour and salt and pepper, mmm. I would also pressure mini-cooking lessons out of other adults, like my friend David's Italian mother Gianna, whom I remember advising me on homemade pasta sauce over the phone for, like, half an hour one evening when I was in high school.
7. Where was the last beach you visited?
I haven't been to the beach for ages -- years. Probably the lake front beach in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, which I went to with my nieces several years ago. That was a beach I adored when I was a kid -- as had my dad when he was a kid.
8. Have you ever negotiated a pay raise?
Thank fuck my union does that for me.
9. What is the last thing you ordered for delivery?
Groceries from Safeway.
10. Do you like watching TV with the lights on or the lights off?
With one or two lights on, but not bright ones or overhead ones (this apartment doesn't actually HAVE any overhead lights in any room but the kitchen).
11. If you could change your first name would you?
I love my weird name and I would never change it, though there was a hot minute when I was tired of the endless and inevitable jokes on it, age 10, and thought about it for literally a second, before getting mad that the thought had even occurred to me.
12. Do you prefer plastic or fabric bandaids?
"How is this a writing prompt?" Truth!
13. Do you and your parents share any of the same hobbies?
Being a revolutionary socialist is not exactly a hobby. My mom and I shared tons -- singing, reading, cooking, drawing, writing. My dad and I... reading, I guess. ETA: Oh, duh, and Ancestry.com! We are both into family history, though he only cares about his side, not my mom's.
14. Have you ever lost something of sentimental value to you?
Yeah, for sure. The losses that come to mind immediately are one -- actually, possibly two -- of my journals at different times. That sucked. And two different rings! One was my high school ring (oh, the arguments I had with that same friend David about how bourgeois it was for me to buy one! Fuck you, condescending leftier-than-thou high school boy!) I loved that Jostens ring -- silver, amethyst stone, my signature engraved on the inside, symbols for chorus and drama and books or something. And the HS name and Class Year. The other ring was also silver, but in a sort of large Art Deco style, with a stone that was a cabochon of, I think, lavender jade.
15. When was the last time you ran into something?
Like Microbie, I occasionally step on Devlin's (cat) tail. I have TERRIBLE balance, so I try to be super careful when moving around: falls scare me.
16. What is something you'd love to learn?
Guitar, see above.
17. Have you ever been bitten by a wild animal?
I have only been bitten by a German Shepherd. But it sucked.
18. Are you afraid of any insects?
If I encountered one, I would be afraid of a black widow or a brown recluse spider.
19. Is your handwriting easily read?
I super love my handwriting, and kids usually get used to it, though more and more they cannot read cursive and my script is sort of half-cursive and half-printing...
20. Have you ever went on a road trip?
Yes, I have GONE on several road trips, first with my family every August, and then as an adult on research trips (Louisiana, North Carolina, Connecticut and places between, twice) and visits to friends and family (from California to Columbia, Missouri, and to Chicago, and to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, many, many times).
21. What would you love to do every day?
Read to relax, which I do.
22. Do you prefer candles in jars or candlesticks better?
Uhhh. I like small (not votive... kind of like the size of three votive candles on top of each other, but tapered) very highly perfumed candles in small candleholders, so neither a candlestick nor a jar (by which I assume is meant one of those Yankee whatsit candles).
23. Do you know self defense?
Nope
24. If you were granted one wish of any kind what would you wish for?
World peace and the replacing of capitalism with a functioning not-for-profit economy
25. What was the last thing you ate?
A cheese sandwich for lunch and a small plastic container of flan.
26. When you get to sleep in, what time do you usually wake up?
Hm. 10 AM? I stay up way too late, so that's what happens.
27. If you wake up in the middle of a dream do wish you could go back to it?
"Wouldn't that depend on the dream?" Duh. Sometimes I am so grateful to wake up from miserable emotional dreams. Occasionally it is an interesting dream I wouldn't mind continuing.
28. What was the first record/CD you purchased?
PURCHASED... I think it was the reissued Beatles music on "the Red Album" and "the Blue Album", released probably in the mid to late 1970s.
29. How many pets have you had in your household at one time?
When I was very, very little (like, 3) we had two dogs and one or two cats. Mostly, after Anna (my mom's German Shepherd) died and we had to give Butchka (my dad's Black Lab) away, we only had a cat or cats, and the most we ever had at one time was three. More usually two. Oh, but for a while there when I was around ten, we also had an aquarium (my dad's), a parakeet (very boring), and a cage of gerbils (mine). Those outlier pets did not last terribly long. The endlessly reproducing gerbils were a problem. Also pretty boring.
30. What was the last thing you wrote by hand?
Notes at a terrible weekly meeting this morning. I mean, there was more doodling than writing, but still.