Waiting for the server (interview meme)

[beetiger]

I've owed this to aprivatefox for a bit now, so since I cannot get on to the server I need to at work, and since my chances of ever getting lab work here again have been significantly decreased by the fact that they've just put a long-term temp into my bay, I'll try to do these:

1) What color has the strongest emotional significance to you, and what is that significance?

I've always been very fond of deep forest greens. They remind me of warmth and depth and growth and life, and make me feel reconnected to the world. When I was a teenager, my room had a forest photomural covering one wall, and white paper with bold grasslike strokes of green on the rest of the walls.

2) What drives your creative impulse?

My creative style seems to bounce between manifestor and muse. I create things or stories because I like to see them in the world. I enjoy turning an idea or a concept or a bunch of materials into a something. I help other people's tiny ideas grow into those kinds of things as well. Apparently, I inspire people by taking their good ideas and pulling them out of a cage of poor self-esteem or disorganized wirting and handing them back. I enjoy solving problems that come from a balance between fancy and logic, which is one of the reasons I ended up in charge of world-consistency in the World Tree project. Like most creatives, I thrive on feedback, of course, positive or negative, as long as I get some sort of interaction, or expect it. I'm not the kind of writer who often has characters in my head clamoring for attention; I'm not a great blank-pager. But I can work with a tiny speck of a thing and bring it to fruition. I love dancing with an idea until it sings. I make a great editor and collaborator. I work best with deadlines.

3) What is the best thing about being you, across your entire life?

I've been incredibly lucky. Letting the universe toss me where it will has landed me mostly in the right places, and I've never really had something I've desperately wanted to do and been unable to do it. I've never wanted for love, or money, or good health. I've probably squandered this luck, in a sense, as I haven't really ever developed a strong drive to do anything in particular, but on the other hand, this dabbler's life has worked for me. Not only that, I've got my favorite toys, my body and my mind, with me all the time. Although I'm often frustrated, or depressed, or sad, I've never been truly desperate.

4)What is the most disheartening location you've ever been?

(This was a hard one. I keep reconsidering.) Random offices around Cornell, after I'd been laid off there. Various people were required by law/university policy to interview me for positions for which they had already chosen candidates, and which I would have hated anyway. I was required to go and act like I was trying.

5) What is a thought you have about your own pregnancy that you should write down to remember in ten years?

Heh. I've got no idea. I hope that I've inadvertently managed to write it down in projectmothra.


The rules of this game are that if you want five questions of your very own, comment so on this entry, and I'll give you them.

Comments

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

OOC, you're already my muse (and my manifestor, and many many other things...)

Sure, give me five questions, IC, for Sythyry. The lizard's between terms; zie may as well get some homeowrk.

needle, needle :)

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the list should start with 'Why does a small blue lizard find reckless otter-types so attractive?' :)

Re: needle, needle :)

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

That's an easy one to answer: 'who doesn't?'! :-)