Interview meme, kendo
May. 2nd, 2005 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemir1. 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 update your LJ 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.
Warning: bio-dorkiness ahead.
1. Which fruit or vegetable best fits your personality and why?
Er...I've actually spent about thirty minutes thinking about this question, and while I can't come up with a good answer, I'll have to say persimmonsbecause they're my favorite fruit because obviously I'm small, orange and go well with cinnamon and ginger when brewed into 수정과 (水正果). >_> Well, not the orange part or the cinnamon part, but the small part, yes?
2. What's your favorite spot in Cambridge and why?
Widener Library because it is the best book-hunting equivalent of a savanna ever, because it reinvigorates my crushed ambitions when reading period depresses me, because it was my consolation when I was bored and lonely in Cambridge over the summer. And also because it has some of the most gorgeous reading rooms on campus.
3. If you could be any Harry Potter character (don't make up a new one) who would you want to be? (doesn't have to be the person you think you match most closely)
Ollivander. I was fascinated by the wand shop in the first book, and it's quite possibly my favorite passage in the series.
4. Which turns you on the most: dimerization, multichannel micropipettes, ribosomes, or phosphorylation?
It was a close race between ribosomes and multichannel micropipettes (sorry, phosphorylation and dimerization just don't do it for me any more after the second biology midterm), but I'm afraid the multichannel pipettors won by a close margin. Because while ribosomes are sexy, they don't quite make me squeal like a preteen girl like multichannel pipettors do. ^_~
5. If you couldn't be a scientist or a writer, what would you be?
Actually, a writer isn't on my list of backup career choices at all. My second choice of career after scientist would be historian. After that, scholar of East Asian literature. (Note that all my career choices result in me staying in the university system for the rest of my life.) If I couldn't go to grad school for any academic field whatsoever, maybe then I'd become a...I have no idea. Some sort of faceless bureaucrat for the UN? ::shudders::
Other belated news: Friday, we had a kendo movie night and watched Casshern. That movie made no sense. Izzy asked rhetorically why Asians all love making such confusing films, and I retorted that those are the ones that happen to get imported, but on second thought, there is an unusually high proportion of movie plots that one way or the other make you want to tear your hair out by the roots in frustration. Gohatto being one example (I still think the ending makes no sense, regardless of what Sozaburo screams). Oldboy being another...apparently Oldboy is being made into an American film as well. Ugh. I really disliked that movie but if you do enjoy wailing "what's going on?" at the screen, I suppose it would be the film to see. Anyway, Casshern made no sense but it did have awesome CG effects (which were totally random) and a wonderful OST.
Saturday, we did demonstrations in front of the Science Center for the pre-frosh. It was drizzling on and off throughout our shift, but hey, I got to do jigeiko! For the first time in weeks! Very happy even though I couldn't move very well on the grass, and my stamina is nonexistent. First jigeiko was with Daera. We both have rather high-pitched kiai (particularly me), and we apparently woke up one of the freshmen in the Yard. According to Jen, the girl marched over and told her to shut us up because she thought that "children were being murdered in the Yard". >_> We of course ignored her because it was eleven o' clock in the morning, and she had no right to complain (quiet hours end at seven, anyway). She came back as we were finishing our match and yelled at us, "People are sleeping!" Uh, right. Like we care. Also tried to hit kote and tsuki on Zach while he was in jodan and learned that my sense of timing sucks. My last jigeiko was with Daera again. She's really gotten considerably better since I last played against her: she scored two really good men on me in the course of the match. I mean, Daera and I are usually pretty well-matched but her style's become more aggressive and more, hm, solid? ^_^ I feel like I've fallen behind in the past few weeks. And before I start sounding like a Jump protagonist, I shall finish folding my laundry and do my dratted physics lab report.
Yours &c.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ 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.
Warning: bio-dorkiness ahead.
1. Which fruit or vegetable best fits your personality and why?
Er...I've actually spent about thirty minutes thinking about this question, and while I can't come up with a good answer, I'll have to say persimmons
2. What's your favorite spot in Cambridge and why?
Widener Library because it is the best book-hunting equivalent of a savanna ever, because it reinvigorates my crushed ambitions when reading period depresses me, because it was my consolation when I was bored and lonely in Cambridge over the summer. And also because it has some of the most gorgeous reading rooms on campus.
3. If you could be any Harry Potter character (don't make up a new one) who would you want to be? (doesn't have to be the person you think you match most closely)
Ollivander. I was fascinated by the wand shop in the first book, and it's quite possibly my favorite passage in the series.
4. Which turns you on the most: dimerization, multichannel micropipettes, ribosomes, or phosphorylation?
It was a close race between ribosomes and multichannel micropipettes (sorry, phosphorylation and dimerization just don't do it for me any more after the second biology midterm), but I'm afraid the multichannel pipettors won by a close margin. Because while ribosomes are sexy, they don't quite make me squeal like a preteen girl like multichannel pipettors do. ^_~
5. If you couldn't be a scientist or a writer, what would you be?
Actually, a writer isn't on my list of backup career choices at all. My second choice of career after scientist would be historian. After that, scholar of East Asian literature. (Note that all my career choices result in me staying in the university system for the rest of my life.) If I couldn't go to grad school for any academic field whatsoever, maybe then I'd become a...I have no idea. Some sort of faceless bureaucrat for the UN? ::shudders::
Other belated news: Friday, we had a kendo movie night and watched Casshern. That movie made no sense. Izzy asked rhetorically why Asians all love making such confusing films, and I retorted that those are the ones that happen to get imported, but on second thought, there is an unusually high proportion of movie plots that one way or the other make you want to tear your hair out by the roots in frustration. Gohatto being one example (I still think the ending makes no sense, regardless of what Sozaburo screams). Oldboy being another...apparently Oldboy is being made into an American film as well. Ugh. I really disliked that movie but if you do enjoy wailing "what's going on?" at the screen, I suppose it would be the film to see. Anyway, Casshern made no sense but it did have awesome CG effects (which were totally random) and a wonderful OST.
Saturday, we did demonstrations in front of the Science Center for the pre-frosh. It was drizzling on and off throughout our shift, but hey, I got to do jigeiko! For the first time in weeks! Very happy even though I couldn't move very well on the grass, and my stamina is nonexistent. First jigeiko was with Daera. We both have rather high-pitched kiai (particularly me), and we apparently woke up one of the freshmen in the Yard. According to Jen, the girl marched over and told her to shut us up because she thought that "children were being murdered in the Yard". >_> We of course ignored her because it was eleven o' clock in the morning, and she had no right to complain (quiet hours end at seven, anyway). She came back as we were finishing our match and yelled at us, "People are sleeping!" Uh, right. Like we care. Also tried to hit kote and tsuki on Zach while he was in jodan and learned that my sense of timing sucks. My last jigeiko was with Daera again. She's really gotten considerably better since I last played against her: she scored two really good men on me in the course of the match. I mean, Daera and I are usually pretty well-matched but her style's become more aggressive and more, hm, solid? ^_^ I feel like I've fallen behind in the past few weeks. And before I start sounding like a Jump protagonist, I shall finish folding my laundry and do my dratted physics lab report.
Yours &c.
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Date: 2005-05-03 03:00 am (UTC)And I bet you go pretty well with cinnamon...^_~
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Date: 2005-05-03 03:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-03 03:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-03 03:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-03 03:11 am (UTC)Interview me!
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Date: 2005-05-03 03:43 am (UTC)1. I've been curious for a while, but what inspired you to study classics? Also, did your parents oppose your decision to major in it at all? (Er, followup questions don't count as additional ones, right?)
2. What's on your list of languages to learn next? ^_^
3. If you absolutely had to choose: Greek or Latin?
4. Describe the story (original or fanfiction) that you want to write but probably never will.
5. If you were supreme dictator of the world, what would be your first command to the hordes of minions ready to do your bidding?
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Date: 2005-05-03 03:12 am (UTC)*sigh* i can't hit men on people who are taller than me, which, sadly enough, is most people. you should have seen the embarrassment of my sumo-kendo 'match' with the umass amherst guy at shoryuhai. *shudder*
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Date: 2005-05-03 03:45 am (UTC)Oh, yes, I know perfectly what you mean about taller people. ::sighs:: I hate being short sometimes.
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Date: 2005-05-03 03:28 am (UTC)Interview meeeee!!!
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Date: 2005-05-03 03:54 am (UTC)2. Since you have pwned the Chemistry 27 exam...which amino acid is sexiest? XD
3. What's your favorite 7+-syllable word in German and what does it mean?
4. What animal form would your daemon take if you were living in Lyra's world? (His Dark Materials)
5. Imagine that we (blocking group) were attending Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted. What would all our mutant powers be (including you, of course)?
Also, I've been meaning to send you this link:
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Date: 2005-05-03 04:44 am (UTC)And also, I'm so sorry for not finishing the downloads for Hikaru no Go. I promise I'll finish downloading all of the chapters by the weekend so you won't run out of webspace! ;__;
♥
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Date: 2005-05-03 05:06 pm (UTC)1. What would be the name of your zanpakutou, and what form would it take?
2. Out of all the fanfiction you've written, which one is your favorite and why?
3. If you possessed a Death Note, would you ever use it? Why or why not?
4. What's your favorite children's book or series?
5. If you could travel back to any point in history, when and where would it be? What would you do if you were stranded there and couldn't travel back to the here and now?