![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogYou know the basics. She asks for volunteers to be questioned, I volunteer. She asks five of them, I answer. I ask you to volunteer to be questioned, you volunteer. I ask five of them, you answer.
And so on
And so on And so on....
1) What made you want to become a lawyer?
Long-term and short-term causes here. Long-term, realizing that an English degree and a journalism specialty weren't likely to pay the fairly staggering debt I'd gotten into while obtaining that degree and specialty, and that law schools just wanted an open mind and good writing/analytical abilities. By late college, two specific things kicked the butt further along that way: reading Scott Turow's book One L and having it seem not all so horrible, and taking the LSAT and doing well despite having the bottom of a whole page torn out of my exam book when I opened it.
2) What did you want to be when you grew up?
I lacked for role models- Dad had a classic Ward Cleaver job where nobody quite knew what he did, and Mom never worked outside the home- so probably teaching was the only thing I had any notion of ever wanting to do. I've done it in sprints and spurts in between legal gigs; the consensus is, I'm a decent lecturer on an occasional basis, but I'm rather poisonous teaching and grading an entire semester-long course.
3) Tell us about the very first baseball game you ever attended.
Forty years ago, two weeks from this Friday. July 20, 1967, at Shea against the fellow-expansionist Astros. Their pitcher was Don Wilson, who you might have heard of (he died under very sad circumstances a mere eight years later); ours was Dick Selma, who you haven't heard of if you're lucky. They whupped us 7-0. It was Eleanor's 11th birthday, although that fact wouldn't be known to me for another 20 years. And a year minus a day ago, on July 21, 2006, the Mets played the Astros at Shea- and beat them by the same 7-0 score. Justice takes time sometimes.
4) Best Mets team ever?
The '86 championship team. Some would say there was more raw talent on the ones either side of it- Gooden had by far his best year in '85, and David Cone didn't join the rotation until '87- but in terms of chemistry and opportunity, not to mention drama (sorry, Sox fans), nothing gets better than that kind of comeback down to your last strike.
5) Say you were elected County Executive of our fine county. What would your first official act be?
Check Joel's top drawer for a harikari knife? Nah, too messy. I'd propose a budget that would share revenue more equitably with the city, towns, villages and schools, but only on the condition that they join in a real consolidation effort to eliminate the current idiocy here which, literally, has almost exactly the same number of governmental units in Erie County as there are square miles. Either that or give me a square mile around my house and name me king.
6) So you actually remembered one of your favorite peoples' birthdays on time and were gonna post on time but she went out of town?!? What's with that?
Ask her yourself; I think you're the one who introduced me to her. She's by far at the top of all the lists you could put a Friend on here- sweet, funny, whip-smart, loving in all the ways that matter to crotchety Old Married Guy (which is to say, of animals), and despite all available evidence, a year older. So whether you ask me for questions or not, be sure to wish belated birthday hugs to the Kimmy with the Kimmiest, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
bluesilverkdg!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 02:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 05:13 pm (UTC)1) What is your quest (and why)?
2) What's your favourite colour (and why)?
3) You have an only child, as we do (not counting the aminals). Were you an only yourself (neither of us was), and how is raising a single child today different from you being brought up as one (or not as one, depending).
4) What's the furthest north all'y'all have ever been, and what did you think of us?
5) Why metal? (You know that in at least one country, headbanging has been recognized as a medical disability qualifying you for government payments (http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=75046).)
no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 01:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 05:22 pm (UTC)1) Hold your nose, now: what's the one thing (not person) you miss most about the B-lo?
2) If you could have an animal companion again, what would it be and why?
3) Pick any book never before made into a major motion picture or tv series. Now make 25 words or less of it to describe why you'd want to see it, and who you'd like to see in it.
4) Ziggy's ready to send you back in time in your own life to change any one decision you've ever made. Assume nothing else in human history will change, so go nuts.
5) What will the world look like in 2047? Like 2047, like Star Trek, like Soylent Green, or like the end of Dr. Strangelove (i.e., blowed up real good)?
no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 01:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 05:34 pm (UTC)2) You've now lived (wot I know of) in three of our great real metropoli. Which is the best for (choose any or all) you, someone who wants to visit, someone who wants to live there?
3) Little baby Ledges? Absolutely yes someday, absolutely never, or not sure?
4) What's with the no puns? Were you spanked with a rolled-up MAD magazine as a child or sumthin?
5) Know anybody at FEMA who can stop this idiocy (http://captainsblog.livejournal.com/395859.html) about making us cut down all our trees within a year of our October storm?
no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-04 12:25 am (UTC)If you'd like to interview me, feel free. If not...that's OK, too. :-P
no subject
Date: 2007-07-04 03:38 am (UTC)1) What's your favorite musical piece to play? And if it's different, to listen to?
2) (I already axed Terri this, in so many words:) What's the furtherest north you've ever been, and what did all'y'all think of us'y'us?
3) Desert island time: 1 book, 1 CD, 1 movie, 1 of anything else, be it person place or thing. (Assume all the kitties are already on the island; I know you could never pick just one of those.) Pack your bag.
4) The Wayback Machine awaits your instructions: set the dials for anyplace in past or present history, and tell me why you want to go there and then.
5) So a year from now- are we gonna get jokes about another 39th birthday or are you gonna be 40something and proud of it? Discuss.
Better late than never!
Date: 2007-07-09 03:05 pm (UTC)To listen to, my favorite classical piece is probably Chopin's Pollonaise in A Minor, although I have tried to play it, and unfortunately my hands just aren't big enough for some of the reaches in it.
2. The furthest north, period, that I've been would be Montreal. But within the continental US, I've been to Michigan, Wisconsin, NY (upstate and NYC), NJ and all the New England states. I love visiting the north, and with the exception of a few snippy NYers, I've yet to have any difficulty with the people. And since well over half the guys I've dated have been from the northeast, I'd say that I like y'all pretty well. :-)
3. One book: not really a "book" per se, but I'd have to take my journal. As for a book by an author, probably something from my childhood, like one of the Little House books. They always make me happy.
CDs: Depeche Mode "Black Celebration.
One movie: Ooooh.....Ferris Bueller? Or Amadeus! Grrr...I can't pick.
One other thing/person: Probably my mom! She'd keep the island nice and clean.
4. I would pick 1987. It was the year I started college, the music was amazing, I could wear size 3 jeans, and it was truly one of the best years (as a whole) of my life. I might change my choice of eye shadow colors, but otherwise, it was pretty darned close to perfection.
5. Right now (that it's not here yet), I'm oddly OK with 40. I'm actually planning on a "rebirth" of sorts. I'm hoping for a career change (yes, another one, but hopefully this will be "the one"), my move back home...I want the beginning of middle age to be a new beginning, so I think I'll be all right!