the Village Knittiot

Okay, round two, which I assure you is not so long and self-indulgent as the last one. Also, I actually manage to answer them all this time

More from Alyshajane:

2. If you could have any job in the world, what would it be?

Writing and Teaching at University (in that order).

3. Who do you admire?

This could also turn out very long, but let me just say that I admire anyone who is honest and does their best. I admire people who are self-aware and who pursue their dreams. As a writer, I tend to admire a lot of other writers — and I mean a lot, and all for different reasons, which is why I can’t possibly list them all here (I promised at least an attempt at brevity, remember?). But in general I just admire creativity and intelligence in any field. I admire people who stand out from the crowd and who live conciously every day (or at least a significant portion of the time). I admire people who have high-standards for themselves and who expect a lot out of me — to me that communicates respect, and I admire people who communicate their respect. I also admire people who find it possible to both see the state of things as it is in all it’s horrific splendor and still love every single moment of their existence in this life.

And from Colleen:
1. If you could speak another language, which one would you choose and why?

I would choose to speak Japanese, because my best friend is Japanese. I very much like to think that Hiroe and I communicate on a level quite beyond language, but I can’t help knowing that it would add another layer of depth to our understanding of each other. Also there is the practical side of her family and friends speaking Japanese and I really want to be able to communicate with them better than I currently do. That and it’s always been a dream of mine to live in Japan at least for a little while someday.

Pictures of Hiroe speaking at my wedding last year, and also one from the prom we went to together (starting a lot of very fun rumors).

2. What are three of your ââ?¬Å?guilty pleasures?ââ?¬Â? You know - the things youââ?¬â?¢re really embarrassed to admit you like to do for fear of being made fun of (like Iââ?¬â?¢ll readily admit to loving the movie ââ?¬Å?Greaseââ?¬Â? - how pathetic is that?).

Hmmm. This takes some thinking…

One thing that jumps out is a recent embarrasment upon discovering my Dan Fogelberg MP3s playing on my computer (Mr. Knittiot who set up the playlist kindly remembered how much I enjoyed Mr. Fogelberg and added them to the mix for my benefit — what a sweetie pie) at a party where there were several musically hip people in attendance, most of whom I didn’t know well. I will on occassion admit my fondness for 70’s soft rock and if pressed will even fess up to having gone so far as to see Gordon Lightfoot in concert a couple of years ago when he came through Minneapolis. But I’m not sure I was ready to confess it that evening. Of course I did.

I think that the embarassment in “guilty” pleasures often stems from a fear that people will form an opinion of us based on just a snapshot of who we are. This seems less and less important as I get older. And also, I’ve embraced the geek within and I’m much more comfortable with myself than I used to be… Still, I’m sure there are other things that could be classified as guilty pleasures, I just for the life of me can’t think of what they are right now! (And yet I can ramble on and on and on about it — amazing!)

3. If you didn�t have a knit blog, what kind of blog would you have and why?

Well, even though this is a knit blog, I write about a lot of other things including my writing, computers, life in general, video games, and whatever happens to strike my fancy at the moment. So instead, let me tell you about the kind of blogs I wouldn’t have.

I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t have a political blog because all the ignorance and stupidity I would be certain to encounter in the comments and emails and so forth would really piss me off. And also because, though I am quite informed, I know a lot of people who know a lot more about politics than I do and I would feel shamed by my own ignorance too probably. Also I am still in the post election funk struggling to believe there is anything we can really do anyway.

I would also probably not have a blog about physics as I know nothing about physics except that it affects me in practical ways every second and that I don’t need to know how in order for it to continue to work.

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