I Almost Forgot to Add a Title

Status, Dog Sweater: complete, except for the fact that I have to actually undo part of the neck and sleeves so it will fit. So … not really. I could lie. She fits in it okay. But it’s not right yet. I blame Audrey. She used to be a pound and a half heavier, which is a lot for a roughly 10-pound dog, and it kinda screwed up my original measurements.  What do you do with an extra 2 inches of width on a dog sweater?  Hard to figure.  In lieu of that, this:

The “Freedom of Information Act” Questionnaire:  (seems a topical name) Periodically I like to mess up the flow of my blog by inserting sudden question-and-answer sessions. I found a good one on the Stitch Bitch blog, interesting because actual bloggers made up the questions. The first 5 are from Doaleigh, who I don’t know, and the second 5 are from Sitch Bitch, who I do know in that internet-ey way. There are rules, below, but no one should feel burdened by participation or close rule-following, because I clearly didn’t follow the rules too precisely.  Like Ms. SB, I will answer the questions I ask.

1. If you want to participate, leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.” (And your e-mail address if I don’t already have it, please.)
2. I will respond by e-mailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
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.

DOALEIGH QUESTIONS

1. Would you rather be beautiful but always smell terrible or be ugly but smell lovely? Hm, a choice between ugliness and ugliness. Neither. (I really am not a rule follower.)

2. The old adage says to regret nothing, and that’s probably true. But if you could change something you’ve done, what would it be and why? I consider regret to generally be a self-flagellating exercise in futility best ignored (ranks second to guilt, which I just have no time for), but nevertheless, I’m pretty sure I regret not eating lunch today.

3. What are some of your nicknames? Tell us the stories behind them. I was small and nerdy, so I got appropriate nicknames from that – Little People and Four Eyes. Junior high nicknames relating to being a silly junior high girl. My brother has about 3,000 for me, typically highly inappropriate and nonsensical. I am often called Mouse at new jobs by coworkers who don’t know me  (later they call me stubborn). My uncle calls me Trout, and won’t tell me why, and I’m not convinced he knows anymore either.

4. What is one of your own favorite physical features and why? Also, you should show us a picture (if appropriate). Another pic? No. I like my eyes, which seem to change color sometimes.

5. When was the last time you cried and why? Audrey. See last post.

Bonus question: Who is John Galt? I don’t know who that is. Since AVS mentioned it, I never read Ayn Rand. That wasn’t my brand of quack philosophy.

STITCH BITCH QUESTIONS

1. The local news media shows up on your doorstep. It turns out your neighbor is a serial killer. You cannot say, “He was so quiet. This is such a shock. This kind of thing doesn’t happen here.” What do you say? (You can choose the neighbor.) I would fail to be surprised. I just had a neighbor arrested last year for something disturbing. Serial killers, I suppose, have to live somewhere, and it’s no good stereotyping where I think they ought to live.

2. What’s the greatest invention created in your lifetime? I pick the Macintosh. Perhaps if I did not mine would become angry. Actually, because I have no idea what I would do with myself without my Mac. I am a big nerd.

3. What was your best job? Being a TA. Even though the academia thing didn’t much work out, I enjoyed teaching and grading and the questions from students, and I really liked the professor I worked for.

4. Over the next 18 months, we’re all likely going to have to cut back. Where will you make these cuts? What luxury will fight to save? Will you actually come to blows? I will probably not cut back anywhere. We are already very conservative and overly analytical people, so it really be ridiculous for us to do this more.

5. Are you a good speller? Yes. While there are a few words that trip me up consistently (usually because I truly feel they ought to be spelled differently), mostly I am very precise. I once regularly won spelling bees. I have trophies. With bees on them. Please proceed to find the spelling error in this post, yes, I know it’s here.

I do wonder what I will do if someone asks me to interview them.