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i don't remember the directions. just answer and i'll ask you 5 questions which you'll answer in your own journal, and then you post this. rinse, lather, repeat....
(although don't be sad if i can't think of 5 questions...i'm having a hell of a time with my answers)
_boy_'s interview questions....
1) What originally drew you to criminology?
a tv show called "Hill Street Blues." seriously. i was majoring in psychology, but knew i didn't want to be a therapist (another reason i'm resisting clergy...i'm too empathic and would get depressed on behalf of my clients, probably).
and (you'll appreciate the humor of this) i didn't want to go to graduate school.....
so i discovered that the soc classes and psych classes fullfilled each other's 'elective' requirements, so a double major was possible. i entered the criminology track in sociology and started taking police tests. i also took the GRE, "just in case," and entered graduate school at ohio state a year after graduating from miami, still fully intending to be a cop. i'm not sure what happened between then and now :) but i at some point found i enjoyed teaching and research :)
2) Do you have any belief in an afterlife? Beforelife? Soul? Are these beliefs convinced positions or hopes?
my pat answer is "well, something probably happens. it's too universal a belief for it to NOT be there. but if it were all that important to know NOW, we'd know it."
the longer answer varies on any given day. i do believe in reincarnation, but i also talk to my deceased grandparents and other ancestors, so reconciling this, is something i've thought of. i heard one "native american" belief (i don't remember now which tribe, and it's horrid to lump all 500+ together, but...) that ancestor spirits stick around for 7 generations before they move on...i "like" that interpretation (bigtime UPG). i would think they would at least stick around until everyone they knew that was honoring them had passed on.
i've also been reading some stuff in the troth's publication "Idunna" about soul parts and full soul beings from an asatru perspective. too extensive to summarize here, but the gist is the soul is multiple, so one soul being can go to Hel, another can stick around as a dis or alf, etc.
3) How did you meet Vitamin J and when did you realize that he had overpowered you with his charm?
:D we met standing in the beer line at polaris amphitheatre at a styx/reo speedwagon concert :) he wanted to flirt with me, but i was wearing a plain t shirt, no visible jewelry, nothing to start up a conversation with. so he started flirting with my friend, M. of course, i thought this mean he was interested in her, so i tried to not interfere :D :D :D
i found out he was also pagan (ding ding ding) and that he worked for gnc (health company ding ding ding). we had been sitting in the same DEAD section in the amphitheatre and both he and his brother and me and M had moved to the lawn so we could have fun. i saw them walking and (still thinking he was interested in M) pointed at them and yelled "HEY, there's those guys!!" he gave me his card after the concert.
we talked on the phone a few times. our first date was supposed to be a BB King concert, after a conversation where we agreed that BB King could put more feeling and emotion into one note than Satriani/Steve Vai/etc. could in all their "technical superiority" (feh...and ding ding ding!!) but something happened and we couldn't go, so our first date was comfest in goodale park. somewhere around the 2nd date i think? he came over and didn't leave, so i figured i should probably marry him :)
(he proposed 6 weeks or so later)
oh, and it wasn't me he overpowered with his charm....it was my cat, Garth, who hates EVERYONE who is not me. except vitaminj who he snuggled with and meowed at, and loved on.....DING DING DING.
4) What is a warrior and what does it mean to be a warrior today? Is it something reserved for police/military/security guards or do we even have warriors anymore?
i think a warrior is someone who does what needs to be done. i think some police/military/etc. are warriors, but more are just soldiers or someone getting a paycheck. i think there's an underlying social service and spiritual component, that i'm still figuring out :)
i think cindy sheehan, for whatever anyone else may think, is a warrior. martin luther king, jr. was a warrior. there are many ways to fight for smething in which you believe and feel is important for your society. those my disjointed thoughts about it :)
oh one more...when i was in girl scouts (everyone laugh now) we did these things called 'challenges' which were more indepth than badges. i did one on emergency preparedness, where we took at 10? 12? week curse on first aid, cpr, and a whole host of other related things. the day of the challenge, we were all (there were probably 100 girls) on a camp out at a local GS camp, and the siren blew and we ran across a field to a 'mock' airplane crash, where other volunteers were scattered about with all sorts of fake injuries we had to treat with our little first aid kits. everyone quickly found a patient to help, except those of us slow runners...i.e., me. i began to help transport folks on makeshift gurnies (gurneys?) to a triage area after they had been treated in the field. and that's all i did the entire afternoon. i never used my little kit once. after it was over i cried because i felt like i had failed.
it wasn't until an embarassing number of years later that i realized how important (had this been an actual emergency) my contribution actually was. all the first aid in the world doesn't matter if you don't get them to the evac place! i had done what was necessary and what was needed, and more importantly, i did it without thinking or complaining (until later). i don't think i actually PASSED the challenge until that point. (and now i get teary about it for THAT reason).
soooo, the warrior does what is needed, even if it isn't all that dramatic or flashy.
5) What is your favorite Rush song and why? (Mmmmm... Broon's Bane/The Trees from Exit Stage Left; all full of druidy goodness!)
you mean i have to pick just ONE? forget that!!!
well "Subdivisions" always reminds me of where i grew up (and where i now live ::shudder::) "Time Stand Still" takes me back to MANY gatherings of folks on my irc channel when we used to get together to go to shows together all over the eastern half of the country (largest number was 20 i think?) i was leaving one of those (opening night of the Vapor Trails tour, i think, in Hartford). I had stopped off atsthma's over night in PA, and then was heading back home and that came on and it just pulled on the ol' emotions, like neil can be soooo good at.
somehow "spirit of radio" creeps up there too, but i don't know why. it might be b/csthma and i were at a bar before another irc-related roadtrip and kept screaming at the very young cover band to play it and giggling when they didn't know what we were talking about :)
*whew* and all that was on a half cup of caff/decaff coffeee!!!
_boy_i don't remember the directions. just answer and i'll ask you 5 questions which you'll answer in your own journal, and then you post this. rinse, lather, repeat....
(although don't be sad if i can't think of 5 questions...i'm having a hell of a time with my answers)
_boy_'s interview questions....1) What originally drew you to criminology?
a tv show called "Hill Street Blues." seriously. i was majoring in psychology, but knew i didn't want to be a therapist (another reason i'm resisting clergy...i'm too empathic and would get depressed on behalf of my clients, probably).
and (you'll appreciate the humor of this) i didn't want to go to graduate school.....
so i discovered that the soc classes and psych classes fullfilled each other's 'elective' requirements, so a double major was possible. i entered the criminology track in sociology and started taking police tests. i also took the GRE, "just in case," and entered graduate school at ohio state a year after graduating from miami, still fully intending to be a cop. i'm not sure what happened between then and now :) but i at some point found i enjoyed teaching and research :)
2) Do you have any belief in an afterlife? Beforelife? Soul? Are these beliefs convinced positions or hopes?
my pat answer is "well, something probably happens. it's too universal a belief for it to NOT be there. but if it were all that important to know NOW, we'd know it."
the longer answer varies on any given day. i do believe in reincarnation, but i also talk to my deceased grandparents and other ancestors, so reconciling this, is something i've thought of. i heard one "native american" belief (i don't remember now which tribe, and it's horrid to lump all 500+ together, but...) that ancestor spirits stick around for 7 generations before they move on...i "like" that interpretation (bigtime UPG). i would think they would at least stick around until everyone they knew that was honoring them had passed on.
i've also been reading some stuff in the troth's publication "Idunna" about soul parts and full soul beings from an asatru perspective. too extensive to summarize here, but the gist is the soul is multiple, so one soul being can go to Hel, another can stick around as a dis or alf, etc.
3) How did you meet Vitamin J and when did you realize that he had overpowered you with his charm?
:D we met standing in the beer line at polaris amphitheatre at a styx/reo speedwagon concert :) he wanted to flirt with me, but i was wearing a plain t shirt, no visible jewelry, nothing to start up a conversation with. so he started flirting with my friend, M. of course, i thought this mean he was interested in her, so i tried to not interfere :D :D :D
i found out he was also pagan (ding ding ding) and that he worked for gnc (health company ding ding ding). we had been sitting in the same DEAD section in the amphitheatre and both he and his brother and me and M had moved to the lawn so we could have fun. i saw them walking and (still thinking he was interested in M) pointed at them and yelled "HEY, there's those guys!!" he gave me his card after the concert.
we talked on the phone a few times. our first date was supposed to be a BB King concert, after a conversation where we agreed that BB King could put more feeling and emotion into one note than Satriani/Steve Vai/etc. could in all their "technical superiority" (feh...and ding ding ding!!) but something happened and we couldn't go, so our first date was comfest in goodale park. somewhere around the 2nd date i think? he came over and didn't leave, so i figured i should probably marry him :)
(he proposed 6 weeks or so later)
oh, and it wasn't me he overpowered with his charm....it was my cat, Garth, who hates EVERYONE who is not me. except vitaminj who he snuggled with and meowed at, and loved on.....DING DING DING.
4) What is a warrior and what does it mean to be a warrior today? Is it something reserved for police/military/security guards or do we even have warriors anymore?
i think a warrior is someone who does what needs to be done. i think some police/military/etc. are warriors, but more are just soldiers or someone getting a paycheck. i think there's an underlying social service and spiritual component, that i'm still figuring out :)
i think cindy sheehan, for whatever anyone else may think, is a warrior. martin luther king, jr. was a warrior. there are many ways to fight for smething in which you believe and feel is important for your society. those my disjointed thoughts about it :)
oh one more...when i was in girl scouts (everyone laugh now) we did these things called 'challenges' which were more indepth than badges. i did one on emergency preparedness, where we took at 10? 12? week curse on first aid, cpr, and a whole host of other related things. the day of the challenge, we were all (there were probably 100 girls) on a camp out at a local GS camp, and the siren blew and we ran across a field to a 'mock' airplane crash, where other volunteers were scattered about with all sorts of fake injuries we had to treat with our little first aid kits. everyone quickly found a patient to help, except those of us slow runners...i.e., me. i began to help transport folks on makeshift gurnies (gurneys?) to a triage area after they had been treated in the field. and that's all i did the entire afternoon. i never used my little kit once. after it was over i cried because i felt like i had failed.
it wasn't until an embarassing number of years later that i realized how important (had this been an actual emergency) my contribution actually was. all the first aid in the world doesn't matter if you don't get them to the evac place! i had done what was necessary and what was needed, and more importantly, i did it without thinking or complaining (until later). i don't think i actually PASSED the challenge until that point. (and now i get teary about it for THAT reason).
soooo, the warrior does what is needed, even if it isn't all that dramatic or flashy.
5) What is your favorite Rush song and why? (Mmmmm... Broon's Bane/The Trees from Exit Stage Left; all full of druidy goodness!)
you mean i have to pick just ONE? forget that!!!
well "Subdivisions" always reminds me of where i grew up (and where i now live ::shudder::) "Time Stand Still" takes me back to MANY gatherings of folks on my irc channel when we used to get together to go to shows together all over the eastern half of the country (largest number was 20 i think?) i was leaving one of those (opening night of the Vapor Trails tour, i think, in Hartford). I had stopped off at
sthma's over night in PA, and then was heading back home and that came on and it just pulled on the ol' emotions, like neil can be soooo good at.somehow "spirit of radio" creeps up there too, but i don't know why. it might be b/c
sthma and i were at a bar before another irc-related roadtrip and kept screaming at the very young cover band to play it and giggling when they didn't know what we were talking about :)*whew* and all that was on a half cup of caff/decaff coffeee!!!
