I’ve been reading the interview meme that is choking the life out of the Blogistani citizens lately.
I was totally uninterested until Gemellen joined in. If she’s asking, I’m answering. Her interview with me:
You have the option to redo your “college” years. What would you do differently?
I wouldn’t have gone to college right after high school. I wouldn’t have gone to school so far from home. No student loans. No credit card debt. No shopping with my rent money. Different major, nothing requiring calculus.
You are a generous philanthropist. What causes do you support? How do you dole out your cash?
Easily, I’d be the one handing out cash to strangers on the city bus. Without worries that they’ll “only buy more drugs” or some bullshit like that. Some money would build a school maybe for kids who need a different kind of space than the one they are in now. I can’t really explain that, so we wouldn’t have any brochures printed or anything.
What one song defines you & why?
Nothing defines me. I don’t live by one thing or the other. I breathe through music. Changing the question: one song brings you to life. Which is it? Any song that tells a good story, if it be by Paul Simon or Eminem, no matter.
You are your own boss. What do you do?
I laze around doing much of nothing. I think a lot of the things I should be doing. I wait for money to drizzle like silver glitter into my bank account. I call my dad and say hi. I ask if he has any extra glitter. Soon enough, the kids and I float into the grocery store, our hair shiny from sparkling flakes.
What’s wrong right now? What’s right right now?
Everything is wrong. I am on wrong overload. I avoid the news on TV. Then everything is right again. Not really right, but I am less aware of the wrong. What’s right: dreaming, wanting, hoping, fulfilling, singing, loving, kissing, fucking. With the right people, of course. Probably should say that upfront.
The way the meme is supposed to work: the blogger posts her interview questions and answers. If any of her readers wish to be interviewed by the posting blogger, he requests an interview in comments, then the first blogger will send the second blogger questions for to him post on his blog with his answers.
You know me way better than that. That’s not gonna happen. This is gonna happen: In comments, if you want to be interviewed on your blog, write: interviewee. If you want to be the one asking the questions, write interviewer. I will match up two people to go at it together, leaving me out of it. I’ll have to share your email for this to work, but I’ll do it through my email account. We value your privacy here at the fringe.
Interviewer? Interviewee? In comments. Any lurkers with a blog who have never commented here before even though you’ve been reading forever, I’ll interview you myself, so you and I can meet for cookies and office gossip.
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