The Friday Five - Personal Questions
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thefridayfive, we've got some kinda-sorta personal questions to answer:
1. Do you have good manners? I like to think I do. I always try to remember to say please when I ask for something and I strongly believe in thanking people. I am a good sharer and a welcoming host. But I am also impatient at times, and I will curse a blue streak when I get tired and frustrated. I chew with my mouth closed, know what utensils to use, have an "indoor voice", but will talk over people when excited about something. I also get very annoyed and hurt when people talk over me, so that's something I have to work on.
2. Did your parents support your career choice? Yes – well at least the choice to practice law. They weren't too keen, though, when I told them I wanted to be a trapeze artist. Not only because I could get hurt, but I also have a terrible fear of falling and they thought I'd would have a hard time making a living with that kind of phobia.
3. When in your life have you been a leader? I'm an Aries, so I've always been a leader. But all kidding aside – president of the Student Action Movement club in high school, president of the university chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (history honor society), president of an international collectors' organization (Japanese Art Deco porcelain, if you are really interested).
4. Have you ever been harassed for simply being good at something? Yeah. I was always a "good" reader and read well above my grade level. In 7th grade English class, we had to report on the number of books we read for the marking period. I had read 42 in the first quarter. In front of the whole class, my teacher (Mr. Fontaine - 38 years later, I still remember his name) called me a liar and then refused to apologize when both the school and town librarians provided lists of the books I read. For the rest of the year, whenever there was a reading assignment, he'd make snide comments about "Oh, "Elr" must have already read that one, so you can just ask her what it's about." What a freakin' asshole! What kind of 45 year-old man needs to feel good about himself so he humiliates a 13 year old?
5. Are you a novelty seeker? I'm not sure what this means. I love learning new things, but I don't need novelty to be happy.
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thefridayfive, we've got some kinda-sorta personal questions to answer:1. Do you have good manners? I like to think I do. I always try to remember to say please when I ask for something and I strongly believe in thanking people. I am a good sharer and a welcoming host. But I am also impatient at times, and I will curse a blue streak when I get tired and frustrated. I chew with my mouth closed, know what utensils to use, have an "indoor voice", but will talk over people when excited about something. I also get very annoyed and hurt when people talk over me, so that's something I have to work on.
2. Did your parents support your career choice? Yes – well at least the choice to practice law. They weren't too keen, though, when I told them I wanted to be a trapeze artist. Not only because I could get hurt, but I also have a terrible fear of falling and they thought I'd would have a hard time making a living with that kind of phobia.
3. When in your life have you been a leader? I'm an Aries, so I've always been a leader. But all kidding aside – president of the Student Action Movement club in high school, president of the university chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (history honor society), president of an international collectors' organization (Japanese Art Deco porcelain, if you are really interested).
4. Have you ever been harassed for simply being good at something? Yeah. I was always a "good" reader and read well above my grade level. In 7th grade English class, we had to report on the number of books we read for the marking period. I had read 42 in the first quarter. In front of the whole class, my teacher (Mr. Fontaine - 38 years later, I still remember his name) called me a liar and then refused to apologize when both the school and town librarians provided lists of the books I read. For the rest of the year, whenever there was a reading assignment, he'd make snide comments about "Oh, "Elr" must have already read that one, so you can just ask her what it's about." What a freakin' asshole! What kind of 45 year-old man needs to feel good about himself so he humiliates a 13 year old?
5. Are you a novelty seeker? I'm not sure what this means. I love learning new things, but I don't need novelty to be happy.
If you want to play along, here's the code for this week's entry for
thefridayfive. Post your answers on your journal and then link back to this entry.
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Date: 2015-04-24 02:28 pm (UTC)Because mine would be serving drinks in a strip joint... OK, it would have been, now I am too old... just kidding. We always wander what we would have done.
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Date: 2015-04-24 02:30 pm (UTC)The trapeze artist thing - that was when I was 9.
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Date: 2015-04-24 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-24 03:28 pm (UTC)And seriously - I once got stuck on a little hiking path because I couldn't climb up or down - I was too terrified I'd fall.
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Date: 2015-04-24 04:09 pm (UTC)Let me share a story. I used to work in a scene shop as the foreperson. Anyone taking Drama 10 had a choice of working ten hours in the shop with me or writing a paper. So those that could write did and I got everyone else, including four football players. They were big guys, so I took them up into the fly loft to help me load fly weights. Except one of them was terrified of heights and had a panic attack about sixty feet up (guess he didn't look down until then). It took me nearly fifteen minute to get him down ten rungs to a platform (and a door).
He became one of my best techs and ended up working for me during the summer, doing sound. But I never put him up in the air again.
Fear happens to everyone now and again.
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Date: 2015-04-24 03:17 pm (UTC)Novelty meaning running after trends and fads to be 'with it' and part of the 'in' crowd.
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Date: 2015-04-24 04:46 pm (UTC)It was a good thing I loved reading more that I cared about his opinion.
And no, I've never - EVERY - been into trends and fads. Except for wanting a very specific type of handbag when I was 14 - Le Sportsac - but that's it. I tend to prefer the opposite of the trend and being part of the in-crowd is pretty loathsome.
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Date: 2015-04-24 05:15 pm (UTC)I'm glad you triumphed over his and his narrow mind.
Somehow, I have always felt that the truly interesting people were the ones not part of the 'in' crowd. They're all a bunch of sheep.
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Date: 2015-04-24 05:39 pm (UTC)By the way, I did go college (Barry University), received a scholarship from the Army, and become a nurse. Yea me!
Love the insights into Elr
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Date: 2015-04-24 06:06 pm (UTC)I loved the insights into your life. "I'm an Airies so I've always been a leader".
Well...me too.
Not always easy for us women to have alpha personnalities.