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Interview meme~
20 Mar 2009 10:091. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me!"
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on.
So, I don't know if I'll actually be able to think up five questions, but I'll do my best if any of you really want me to.
From Mandy:
1. What got your into falconry?
I'll try and make this as short as I can. I've always been into birds of prey - like, always, as far back as I can remember - but somehow managed to miss the fact that falconry was something I could actually do, that it was still alive and well, until high school, while I was volunteering at the zoo's raptor program. We used a lot of falconry techniques to maintain and train our birds, and I remember hearing a few volunteers had gone on to be falconers themselves, so I started reading about it and got hooked.
It was always sort of a distant dream, though, an "I'll do this eventually" until my summers in Texas, where I was surrounded by falconers and our main leisure reading material was a pile of American Falconry magazines that my hack site partner had brought along, borrowed from her sponsor. Reading all that and hearing about it from our supervisors and seeing Paul's peregrines Eleanor and Lyla, plus the fact that I'd graduated from college and now had time to go to meets and stuff, was what finally did it I guess.
2. When you were little, were you around or involved in a lot of political protesting?
Being in Portland, it's actually impossible to avoid the protest culture here. Every Saturday and many weekdays there is some kind of protest or charity event going on somewhere downtown. Particularly in recent years; I remember a lot of anti-Bush and anti-war protests going on while I was in high school, and some of my best friends were heavily involved in these events. But while I grew up conscious of these things, I have never actually been personally involved in a political protest myself.
3. How did your first DnD/RPing experience go?
Okay well which do you want to hear about? XD I've been involved in RPing since middle school, when I joined a Pokemon MUSH game as Cassidy/Yamato. Their app process was interesting, by the way - OCs got in automatically, but OU characters had to go through an audition process where you played your character with several others in real-time in a mini-scenario. Pretty cool now that I look back on it, although it was awfully intimidating to me as a first-time RPer. Anyway, I passed, but I didn't stick with the game long. Raticate and Drowzee won't get you very far and I was trying to go through the caves to get to Cerulean and got lost and some kid with a Diglett beat me and it was just sort of dispiriting I guess. Oops.
DnD was not something I got into until college. A group of friends and I formed a mixed party of experienced and non-experienced DnDers, and I really credit our fantastic DM for keeping us all together and crafting an amazing, engaging story. I remember finding DnD more difficult than LJ RP to stay in-character in, because you have to actually, you know, talk like your character and be able to come up with what they're going to say in real-time, you can't sit there and type it out! And that's a really hard switch to make. I love it, though, and I love both my DnD characters, and really wish I could play again, but I don't think anyone here is interested in forming a team. D: I'd be willing to DM, I just need players.
4. What made you decide to get a degree in biology?
See that "obsessed with raptors" thing? Yeah, I knew I was going to get a degree in biology long before I knew what I was going to do with the rest of my life. :)
5. Hover or go? Can't pick both. 8|
Hover. Definitely hover.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on.
So, I don't know if I'll actually be able to think up five questions, but I'll do my best if any of you really want me to.
From Mandy:
1. What got your into falconry?
I'll try and make this as short as I can. I've always been into birds of prey - like, always, as far back as I can remember - but somehow managed to miss the fact that falconry was something I could actually do, that it was still alive and well, until high school, while I was volunteering at the zoo's raptor program. We used a lot of falconry techniques to maintain and train our birds, and I remember hearing a few volunteers had gone on to be falconers themselves, so I started reading about it and got hooked.
It was always sort of a distant dream, though, an "I'll do this eventually" until my summers in Texas, where I was surrounded by falconers and our main leisure reading material was a pile of American Falconry magazines that my hack site partner had brought along, borrowed from her sponsor. Reading all that and hearing about it from our supervisors and seeing Paul's peregrines Eleanor and Lyla, plus the fact that I'd graduated from college and now had time to go to meets and stuff, was what finally did it I guess.
2. When you were little, were you around or involved in a lot of political protesting?
Being in Portland, it's actually impossible to avoid the protest culture here. Every Saturday and many weekdays there is some kind of protest or charity event going on somewhere downtown. Particularly in recent years; I remember a lot of anti-Bush and anti-war protests going on while I was in high school, and some of my best friends were heavily involved in these events. But while I grew up conscious of these things, I have never actually been personally involved in a political protest myself.
3. How did your first DnD/RPing experience go?
Okay well which do you want to hear about? XD I've been involved in RPing since middle school, when I joined a Pokemon MUSH game as Cassidy/Yamato. Their app process was interesting, by the way - OCs got in automatically, but OU characters had to go through an audition process where you played your character with several others in real-time in a mini-scenario. Pretty cool now that I look back on it, although it was awfully intimidating to me as a first-time RPer. Anyway, I passed, but I didn't stick with the game long. Raticate and Drowzee won't get you very far and I was trying to go through the caves to get to Cerulean and got lost and some kid with a Diglett beat me and it was just sort of dispiriting I guess. Oops.
DnD was not something I got into until college. A group of friends and I formed a mixed party of experienced and non-experienced DnDers, and I really credit our fantastic DM for keeping us all together and crafting an amazing, engaging story. I remember finding DnD more difficult than LJ RP to stay in-character in, because you have to actually, you know, talk like your character and be able to come up with what they're going to say in real-time, you can't sit there and type it out! And that's a really hard switch to make. I love it, though, and I love both my DnD characters, and really wish I could play again, but I don't think anyone here is interested in forming a team. D: I'd be willing to DM, I just need players.
4. What made you decide to get a degree in biology?
See that "obsessed with raptors" thing? Yeah, I knew I was going to get a degree in biology long before I knew what I was going to do with the rest of my life. :)
5. Hover or go? Can't pick both. 8|
Hover. Definitely hover.
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