THE RULES
1. If you want to participate, leave a comment below saying "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions - each person’s will be different. I’ll post the questions in the comments section of this post.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
These are the questions Gwen asked me:
1. What’s the most annoying thing about your job? The most annoying thing about my job is two things. 1) How I never feel like I know what I’m doing. 2) The penis flipping game played by other attorneys.
2. How important is it that your son go to college? If he said he didn’t want to, what would you do? It’s pretty important to me, because I think education is really important.
That said, if he told me he didn’t want to, I hope that I would engage him in a conversation about why, in order to help him get clear about why, and then I would let the choice be his. I think education, when it’s something someone else wants for you, is pretty useless, and maybe counterproductive.
And that said, on the inside, I would totally freak out and obsess.
3. What was your favorite book when you were a child? Hardest question. Really. I was a really early reader. The first one I remember was something called A Zoo in Her Bed which was about this girl who tried to think of where to put all her stuffed animals so that none of them would feel left out. My mom used to read it to me and I think the best part was her voice reading it, and her substituting my name for the name of the girl in the book, which, frankly, I don’t even remember.
The first Scholastic book I remember loving was called Rich Cat, Poor Cat which was mostly about this stray cat, and which I got in first grade, (Miss MacNamara, What a Nightmare), but it told you all about these loved and cared for cats for contrast. This book always made me cry, largely because I remember as a little kid thinking that if I was warm and cared for, it meant other people were not. (I was a weird kid). This book worked out okay, because in the end the poor cat found a family who took her in, gave her a collar and named her Gwendoline.
Also loved all kinds of crap. Jessica and Carla, my best friends, had stacks and stacks of MAD magazines and Archie comics which we would read by the hours, and I remember the plot of the MAD versions of movies like the Godfather and Serpico better than I recall the actual films. Nancy Drew, The Bobsey Twins, Harriet the Spy, the Little House books, anything by C.S. Lewis.
Loved Gone With The Wind, which I read when I was about 10, and was probably my first grown up book, although it was about 20 years later that it occured to me that slavery was not quite the party that GWTW would lead you to believe.
And The Catcher in the Rye which I read when I was about 11 or 12, which I mostly loved because my mom gave it to me, and it was chock full of swear words, which was, the way I saw it, permission to swear.
Weirdly, I hardly read at all anymore.
4. What products will you buy generic versions of, and for what products will you only pay top dollar? Mmmm - I’ll buy generic pantyhose, irregular sheets, clothing, wrapping paper, all sorts of shit at the dollar store. Generic food makes me very suspicious, but most processed foods give me the shivers anyway. Also I don’t see the point in generic paper towels or toilet paper, as they suck.
5. For the rest of your life, you can only wear either men’s clothing, or else super girly clothing with ruffles and lace on everything. Which do you choose? My first instinct is men’s clothing, because it’s comfy and girly, well, not so much. Then I thought, well, what if I had to get dressed up??? But the more I thought about it, the more I thought, I’d just deal with it, because, just because it was men’s clothing doesn’t mean I couldn’t have it tailored and cool, does it? Plus, JEEZ, men’s clothing takes so much less thought. There are only about five colors that they use, right? And with my curves, there’s truly no mistaking me for a man.
