Interviews

[jethrien]

Works like this. If you want questions of your own to answer, comment on this post.

From shnayder -

1. Are you going to let me read your thesis? You can upload it to the same place as the draft :)

Not until after Dean's Date. It's huge, and my computer is dying by degrees and no longer seems capable of opening the file. So I can't convert it to pdf. I'll try to get it converted and into my public folder or something in a few days, but right now I'm still too busy. Sorry.

2. What are you most looking forward to after graduation?

Being able to spend the entire weekend doing fun stuff and not feeling guilty for not doing homework.

3. What are you most dreading after graduation?

I'm terrified that I'm going to find out that my job is unrewarding and has bad hours and hate the commute. I'm worried that I'll never really find a job that I actually enjoy, and that I'll spend the rest of the mornings of my life not wanting to get out of bed.

4. Stealing from Pat again: What was your first impression of me?

I'm not sure I totally remember, honestly. I had you and Todd lumped in my head together for the first week or two, since you were both geeky engineering types who seemed like nice guys and hung around each other a lot.

I get the feeling that most people don't really remember first impressions that well.

5. Should I come to Princeton for dead week or go hiking until wednesday?

I don't know. I've never actually done all the band activities, so you know better than I whether these things interest you. I'm going to be in and out, and I'm not really sure I can offer you my floor for more than a day or two. Do you have somewhere else to stay?

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[fairylane.livejournal.com]

I might as well ask for questions...it's at least an active form of procrastination.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

1. What is your favorite musical?
2. (The perennial favorite) What was your first impression of me?
3. If you had to live in one city, anywhere in the world, for the rest of your life, where would it be?
4. What would you like to be remembered for 10 years after you die?
5. What's the most detailed, strange dream you remember having?

[fairylane.livejournal.com]

1. Is amazingly difficult. I love so many musicals. I guess I'd go with The Last Five Years, because it's so simple (two people!) yet has a really interesting concept and is gorgeous. Ragtime, I also have to mention.

2. Weirdly, I can't remember first meeting you. I have a feeling it was at my first Wildcats audition, which I bombed because I had no idea what sound anyone was looking for. So, I'm sure my first impression must have been "oh my god they're all judging me I'm so scared." Thankfully, I believe I've gotten to know you a lot better this year especially, and while I never quite succeeded in becoming a Wildcat, I see you as a good friend, not as a judge. :)

3. Toronto. New York would be okay, and I guess I would be happy in London or Paris as well, but Toronto is my home. It's a wonderful city in a wonderful country, and I think in my heart it's where I'll always want to be.

4. I want to be remembered as a good person who liked to give, a good friend and (hopefully) wife, a wacky, creative, funny person who was more often happy than not. And I want to be remembered as the writer of the best musical and/or play of my generation. (Little ambitious, but it's what I want).

5. You know, I have a ton of strange dreams. I think at the moment I'd say either that dream I had in eighth grade about a school shooting in my class, mostly because I remember it from grade eight, and because it had a role for every single member of my class. (Weirdly enough, it was both scary and funny). More recently, there was a dream I had before the 2000 Presidential election. Al Gore and GWB were having the final debate, and the moderator was asking questions, and it was normal. But then, the moderator said, "Mr. Vice President, why do you wear your sunglasses at night?" and Gore pulled out a pair of sunglasses and started singing the Corey Hart song, with GWB harmonizing after the first verse. Mondo weird. I should probably stop now or I could keep going for a long time. (Final note: one of the funniest random details in one of my dreams to me was going to a museum opening with a band, but the museum wasn't rich enough to get The Who, so they hired The What).

Back to work!

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

2. I'm glad.
4. The idea is to be ambitious.
5. I love it. I may steal the What for a story some day, with your permission. It's so very Terry Pratchett.