The interview meme never dies...
Nov. 30th, 2009 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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* I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
* Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
* Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
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silentq's questions:
1. Where's your favourite place to hang out in your house?
The living room -- where there are two couches, warm colors and bay windows. The good speakers are in there, and usually a couple of cats. We decorated on purpose so that it would be that way, with one room very inviting/cozy and the next one a lot more utilitarian.
2. How did you originally get into acroyoga?
The first time I ever did acroyoga was September 25, 2006 and it's basically all because of Livejournal. I was reading about the stuffnevers was doing at the time and (for the partner stuff) kept thinking I could do that!. After that one afternoon I played with friends a couple of times and did a workshop once, but it was a long time between then and when real classes came to Boston (fall '08).
3. Is there an acroyoga move that you really want to be able to do and are working your way up to?
Not really. Until last Sunday I would have said "yes, it's called spider roll". Now I'd like my spider roll to get a lot better, just like I'd like to be able to press into a candlestick instead of giving a little jump, but there aren't really any tricks that are beyond me and I really want to do.
4. What's your favourite completed knitting project?
This one, because I love cables and I love that I designed this one myself. :D I'll make more Arans one day, I'm sure, but have been sidetracked doing a software side project instead of knitting lately.
5. How did you first figure out that you wanted to go into IT? and sneaky bonus question, if you had to start over again, would you do something else?
Funny story, that... I figured it out only after several years of being in the field. :) I majored in mechanical engineering and then fall into software somewhat randomly, thinking "whatever. at least it's a job in the city, for now". Several years later when I got my second software job was the first time I realized I actually liked the field and meant to stay in it.
If I had it to do over again, nope, I'd do software again... the work is clean, respectable, interesting, high-paying, not client-facing, often non-travel, and comes with a quirk-tolerant culture. All good stuff. But I'd change my college major to reflect what I was really going to do, so I'd learn more relevant stuff and get good at it a lot earlier.
* I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity.
* Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
* Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
My answers for
silentq's questions:1. Where's your favourite place to hang out in your house?
The living room -- where there are two couches, warm colors and bay windows. The good speakers are in there, and usually a couple of cats. We decorated on purpose so that it would be that way, with one room very inviting/cozy and the next one a lot more utilitarian.
2. How did you originally get into acroyoga?
The first time I ever did acroyoga was September 25, 2006 and it's basically all because of Livejournal. I was reading about the stuff
nevers was doing at the time and (for the partner stuff) kept thinking I could do that!. After that one afternoon I played with friends a couple of times and did a workshop once, but it was a long time between then and when real classes came to Boston (fall '08).3. Is there an acroyoga move that you really want to be able to do and are working your way up to?
Not really. Until last Sunday I would have said "yes, it's called spider roll". Now I'd like my spider roll to get a lot better, just like I'd like to be able to press into a candlestick instead of giving a little jump, but there aren't really any tricks that are beyond me and I really want to do.
4. What's your favourite completed knitting project?
This one, because I love cables and I love that I designed this one myself. :D I'll make more Arans one day, I'm sure, but have been sidetracked doing a software side project instead of knitting lately.
5. How did you first figure out that you wanted to go into IT? and sneaky bonus question, if you had to start over again, would you do something else?
Funny story, that... I figured it out only after several years of being in the field. :) I majored in mechanical engineering and then fall into software somewhat randomly, thinking "whatever. at least it's a job in the city, for now". Several years later when I got my second software job was the first time I realized I actually liked the field and meant to stay in it.
If I had it to do over again, nope, I'd do software again... the work is clean, respectable, interesting, high-paying, not client-facing, often non-travel, and comes with a quirk-tolerant culture. All good stuff. But I'd change my college major to reflect what I was really going to do, so I'd learn more relevant stuff and get good at it a lot earlier.
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Date: 2009-11-30 10:29 pm (UTC)Thanks for answering!
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Date: 2009-11-30 10:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 08:37 pm (UTC)2) Would you want to be four inches taller, if it could happen instantly by magic?
3) Say you wanted to do something, but logistically you just couldn't do it. Was the limiting factor probably time, or probably money?
4) Do you work out but not post about it?
5) What would you really like to get done before the end of 2009?
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Date: 2009-12-01 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 08:10 pm (UTC)2) What are a couple of "typical" things you can totally do without?
3) You list YA books as an interest. What are some favorites?
4) When you want to do something but you are not able to because of logistics, is it time or money that stops you?
5) What's your favorite sock pattern / pair of socks you've knitted?
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Date: 2009-12-05 11:45 pm (UTC)I did my best with them at home:
http://dancing-crow.livejournal.com/68589.html
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Date: 2009-12-01 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-07 12:48 am (UTC)2) Like an idiot I bought a Chutes & Ladders game for 8-year-old Birdie while making a larger game order... oops. Would you like it?
3) If you could work full-time for the LDS church and still make the same money you make now, would you? (Assume the job would be similar to the stuff you do and have done for the church in the past, only full-time.)
4) When you were debating answering this (thus asking for questions to be asked), what were the arguments against?
5) Would you encourage your daughters to go into software, assuming they were thinking about it after college and were sorta qualified, but hadn't quite decided?