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fpb1. Leave a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people questions when they want to be interviewed. And it just keeps going, and going, and going....
1. Is there a particular work (book, song, play, poem, painting, anything vaguely creative) that you can say has influenced you in your life?
2. Are you a day bird or a night owl?
3. How far do you resemble your star sign, if at all, regardless of whether you believe in astrology or not?
4. Is there any one ambition that you can single out which you want to achieve, over and above all the others?
5. Rice Krispies chocolate cakes... good or bad? :p
1. Oh my goodness... many, many. The work of Georges Dumezil, the greatest historian in the twentieth century, determined the direction of my own research; and that of generations of great comics artists, a mountain range crowned by the titanic peaks of Jack Kirby and Hayao Miyazaki, made me a cartoonist. Then there are the great classical musicians: Beethoven, Schubert, Verdi, Mozart, Bach, Haendel, Rossini, Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Palestrina and so on and so forth and so following. Popular music: Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Francesco Guccini, Edith Piaf. Movies... Oh my God, where do I begin? And then Keats, Virgil, Dante (the greatest poet I ever read), Goethe, Shakespeare, Dickens, Dr.Johnson, Sappho, Aeschylus, Homer, Thomas Mann, Kalidasa, Horace, Rabindranath Tagore.... I do not think that there is a place at which I can stop. I have read and seen and listened to and watched many, many things that I have loved, and I have learned from everything I have loved. And yes, there were Cathy, Ruth, Clare and Debbie, too. They do not count as works of art, except of course from God's hand, but they taught me what life was about.
2. Hard to tell. It depends on how much I ate the previous day, really.
3. Quite a bit, especially if you take in the Chinese year system. I was born in the month of the Lion of the year of the Tiger. Figures, does it not?
4. Depends what you mean. That I would like to achieve and think I can: to become well known as a historian (preferably without prostituting my views or my professionality). That I dream of: to marry the woman I love.
5. Good: for the taste. And bad: they probably have the nutritional value of dirty water.
2. I'll reply and give you five questions to answer.
3. You'll update your LJ with the questions answered.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You ask other people questions when they want to be interviewed. And it just keeps going, and going, and going....
1. Is there a particular work (book, song, play, poem, painting, anything vaguely creative) that you can say has influenced you in your life?
2. Are you a day bird or a night owl?
3. How far do you resemble your star sign, if at all, regardless of whether you believe in astrology or not?
4. Is there any one ambition that you can single out which you want to achieve, over and above all the others?
5. Rice Krispies chocolate cakes... good or bad? :p
1. Oh my goodness... many, many. The work of Georges Dumezil, the greatest historian in the twentieth century, determined the direction of my own research; and that of generations of great comics artists, a mountain range crowned by the titanic peaks of Jack Kirby and Hayao Miyazaki, made me a cartoonist. Then there are the great classical musicians: Beethoven, Schubert, Verdi, Mozart, Bach, Haendel, Rossini, Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Palestrina and so on and so forth and so following. Popular music: Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Francesco Guccini, Edith Piaf. Movies... Oh my God, where do I begin? And then Keats, Virgil, Dante (the greatest poet I ever read), Goethe, Shakespeare, Dickens, Dr.Johnson, Sappho, Aeschylus, Homer, Thomas Mann, Kalidasa, Horace, Rabindranath Tagore.... I do not think that there is a place at which I can stop. I have read and seen and listened to and watched many, many things that I have loved, and I have learned from everything I have loved. And yes, there were Cathy, Ruth, Clare and Debbie, too. They do not count as works of art, except of course from God's hand, but they taught me what life was about.
2. Hard to tell. It depends on how much I ate the previous day, really.
3. Quite a bit, especially if you take in the Chinese year system. I was born in the month of the Lion of the year of the Tiger. Figures, does it not?
4. Depends what you mean. That I would like to achieve and think I can: to become well known as a historian (preferably without prostituting my views or my professionality). That I dream of: to marry the woman I love.
5. Good: for the taste. And bad: they probably have the nutritional value of dirty water.
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Date: 2006-01-08 11:26 pm (UTC)Except dirty water doesn't have so many calories....
Wanna ask me some questions?
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Date: 2006-01-09 08:00 am (UTC)Depends on whether you count Coca Cola as dirty water or not.
1. You are a remarkably attractive young woman. Does it worry you that this might affect the attitude of patients to you?
2. What are your tastes in music?
3. Do you speak English with any Russian accent at all?
4. Tell me about something really silly that happened to you in real life, or something which made you feel silly.
5. Tell me one dish that you really love, and if you can, give me the recipe.
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Date: 2006-01-09 11:16 am (UTC)Do you mean if I worry I won't be taken seriously? Well, yes, the thought has struck me once or twice, though more for the simple fact of being a young woman rather than an attractive one. Yes, I think there's an extra little bit of pressure to make sure I'm a really good doctor. Because if one patient decides I'm a bimbo, it's all downhill from there...
2. What are your tastes in music?
My musical tastes are quite varied. I spent my teenage years listening to nothing but rock, so there's a fair bit of that, but I later got into a whole lot of other stuff. I'm slowly discovering classical music, and even more slowly starting to get into a bit of jazz.
My favourite bands, which I know I've raved about in my LJ, are not too well-known: there's a jazzy little Aussie band called The Whitlams which I absolutely love. And more recently, I got into Jack Johnson, who basically writes sweet, mellow acoustic songs that always seem to calm me down and put me in a good mood. Highly reccomend his album "Inbetween Dreams".
3. Do you speak English with any Russian accent at all?
Yes and no. If I have an accent, it's very faint and not easily recognisable as Russian. People do tend to notice that I have an accent of some sort, but they can't quite place it. A lot of people don't notice at all. If you heard me speak, what you'd hear most clearly is Aussie. :)
4. Tell me about something really silly that happened to you in real life, or something which made you feel silly.
Hmmm, which story to tell? There are so many. Usually when I haven't quite caught on to the drift of a conversation and say something completely out of place.
For example, quite recently, I was talking to abunch of Mike's friends, and somehow the conversation turned to supermodels and dieting, and how they lose weight. I had tuned out a little, and came into the conversation just as one of the guys was saying "Yeah, and they snort Coke." I didn't hear the "snort" part, and thought they were talking about Coca-Cola, so I made my little correction. "Diet Coke," I said.
They all cracked up laughing. For a few seconds I thought they were all laughing at my joke, which I thought was a bit strange since it wasn't all that funny, but I was pleased all the same. Then finally it dawned on me what they actually had been talking about. I felt like Luna Lovegood or something.
And this is the only tale I'm willing to tell in a public LJ post. :)
5. Tell me one dish that you really love, and if you can, give me the recipe.
My brother made the most awesome curry the other day. Unfortunately, I don't really know the recipe. I don't think it's anything complicated - he just bought the sauce in a jar, and I think followed the recipe on the jar, with a few modifications of his own. But maaaan that was good curry. I wish he'd come over more often.