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January's End (as far as Microbie's Meme)
Feb. 1st, 2023 02:33 pm26. Have you ever been blindsided by something someone told you?
I was blindsided when I was told what I was going to get for winning the annual French contest at the end of my senior year of high school. I thought I was going to get a dictionary, and was hoping for a Petit Larousse. No, instead I was getting a scholarship to an Alliance Française course in Paris, fucking unbelievable. I was also blindsided when I was told, more recently (about a year and a half ago) that I was being involuntarily transferred from my school site of ten or so years to the alternative (and right now still virtual) school I am at now.
27. What is a positive habit you’d like to cultivate?
I HATE this kind of question, because there are SO MANY good habits I do not have and will probably not cultivate. The one I am working on now is trying to make food from pantry shelves and fridge rather than ordering from DoorDash.
28. What are your favorite "little things" in life?
Really, a lot of it is petting my cat, and drinking tea. Even just taking the first sip of tea makes me feel better, when I am stressed, and the exact same thing is true of petting Devlin. I am sure petting all cats is calming, but her fur is particularly plush and dense.
29. When was the last time you had to hold your tongue?
Yeah, work meetings are a good bet for this one. I had to bite my tongue repeatedly at our Zoom Staff Meeting yesterday, sigh.
30. How do you feel about traveling to and possibly inhabiting other planets?
I would actually be into this if it were kind of along Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy lines, which involve anti-capitalist revolution on Mars and also anti-aging treatments.
31. If you could redo a decade in your life which would you choose?
Not an entire decade. One year, yeah, probably. Worst relationship I was ever in, and I'm still mad at myself for even beginning it, much less failing to end it until it had been most of a year. UGH.
I was blindsided when I was told what I was going to get for winning the annual French contest at the end of my senior year of high school. I thought I was going to get a dictionary, and was hoping for a Petit Larousse. No, instead I was getting a scholarship to an Alliance Française course in Paris, fucking unbelievable. I was also blindsided when I was told, more recently (about a year and a half ago) that I was being involuntarily transferred from my school site of ten or so years to the alternative (and right now still virtual) school I am at now.
27. What is a positive habit you’d like to cultivate?
I HATE this kind of question, because there are SO MANY good habits I do not have and will probably not cultivate. The one I am working on now is trying to make food from pantry shelves and fridge rather than ordering from DoorDash.
28. What are your favorite "little things" in life?
Really, a lot of it is petting my cat, and drinking tea. Even just taking the first sip of tea makes me feel better, when I am stressed, and the exact same thing is true of petting Devlin. I am sure petting all cats is calming, but her fur is particularly plush and dense.
29. When was the last time you had to hold your tongue?
Yeah, work meetings are a good bet for this one. I had to bite my tongue repeatedly at our Zoom Staff Meeting yesterday, sigh.
30. How do you feel about traveling to and possibly inhabiting other planets?
I would actually be into this if it were kind of along Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy lines, which involve anti-capitalist revolution on Mars and also anti-aging treatments.
31. If you could redo a decade in your life which would you choose?
Not an entire decade. One year, yeah, probably. Worst relationship I was ever in, and I'm still mad at myself for even beginning it, much less failing to end it until it had been most of a year. UGH.
