Answers to the Interview Meme
Questions from Shannon:
1. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Arrogance. Plain and simple. Humility goes a long way.2. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Patience.
“Oh, patience is a virtue!” Really? Patience doesn’t get me any closer to the job of my dreams and it doesn’t put chapters on the page. Patience does nothing but make me sit quietly while I get older. Determination. Perseverance. Unflagging resolve. Kindness. Those are virtues I stand by.
3. On what occasion do you lie?
When it matters. Like when my friend had cancer and her eyes were dull, skin hanging from her cheek bones, and all that remained on her head were the few strands that chemotherapy let her keep. She asked me how she looked. And I told her she looked just fine.4. Which living person do you most despise?
Johnny Damon.
5. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
I talk all the time and when I’m not talking, I’m writing. I overuse every single word and phrase I can think of.From Nicole:
1. If you were mute and you had to introduce yourself to another person using only a photo or painting, what images(s) would you use?
2. As an author, what is more important to you: your personal satisfaction with your writing OR the number of people your words reach? Tell me why.
I’m assuming that you made the “or” in all caps so I couldn’t cheat and lay claim to both (damn it). My personal satisfaction with my writing is important. What I write – every single word of it – means more to me than how many people read it because it is a part of my soul (whoo, dramatic). HOWEVER, if what I write remains locked in a cabinet forever, it doesn’t make me an author. It doesn’t make me a writer to anyone but me. I want this to be my career. I want to make a living as a writer. So who reads it matters. And that’s okay, because by the time my words make it to someone else’s eyes, it’s passed my personal scrutiny.
3. At the moment, what is your greatest challenge? How do you intend to rise above it?
I need a new job - badly. I am working diligently to find employment that fuels me to work hard and appreciates my creativity and ambition. Medical insurance and my desire to not engross myself in another meaningless financial job fuels every morning of every day. I won’t stop until I have this issue resolved. But it is a daily challenge. I look forward to when I have another task to focus on.
4. If you could go back in time, just briefly, what time period would you visit? Why?
I would visit the year I turned five years old, so I could remember one beautiful afternoon without diabetes.
5. What is your favorite part of your own body? Why?
My hands. Small. Nails haphazardly filed. Cuticles slightly mangled. Fingertips rough from vigilant bloodsugar testing. A strong and calloused writer’s bump on my right ring finger. Two cheap rings I bought at a little shop in Watch Hill. White and soft in the winter, tanned and strong in the summer. They exemplify how hard I work at everything.
Julia's Litany O' Queries to be answered in another post because otherwise, this post would have scrolled on for all eternity... and I'll give five to the first five, per protocol. :)
Comments
I love your answer to the lies question. It is OK to lie when it makes a difference, isn't it?
And your last two answers are almost identical to my answers to those two questions. If I could go back in time for just a while and remember life without diabetes, I think I'd like to -- but don't you think that it might make the return more difficult, more painful? I think that sometimes.
And hands are my most favored body part -- on me and others. I think you can tell a lot about a person from their hands. Whether they're careful or brazen, weathered or spared... They also connect us to the world in a way that our other body parts don't...
I'm actually really enjoying this interview meme.
I hate to be a hog, and I've been trying not to do this, but I'd love it if you'd interview me.
Posted by: Nicole | May 11, 2006 10:23 AM
hi kerri,
thanks for that. wish i lived in the usa. seems it's all taken more serious over there.
i tried to apply to do a walk over here but it got cancelled. i gave my sponser money to my diabetes dept at my hospital.
if i was more motivated i'd start my own walk, but no one would do it with me.
anyways, see ya
Posted by: vicki | May 11, 2006 11:31 AM
Now you can ask me 5 questions!!
Oh, I'll find that mattress tag and you will be so sorry you cut it off!!
I'd like small bills as my first blackmail payment. Thank you.
Posted by: Shannon | May 11, 2006 12:19 PM
Great answers!
Arrogance is definitely my most hated trait in others too. I've had the unfortunate experience of working with one or two very arrogant people...
I haven't been interviewed yet, would you do it?
Posted by: Caro | May 11, 2006 12:44 PM
Hey Kerri!
Had fun reading this. The image you have posted - "Words" - was very powerful to me for some reason.
There is a lot captured in it.
I'm going to pass on the interview thing - just been real busy lately, and haven't even had time to update my blog. Hate to add anything else to the plate right now.
Just wanted to at the very least drop a quick comment and say "hello".
Posted by: Scott K. Johnson | May 11, 2006 01:09 PM
So far I've got Nicole, Shannon and Caro as my interview victims ... er, participants. Vicki, did you want to be interviewed?
Posted by: Kerri. | May 11, 2006 01:39 PM
How about your Mother????
Posted by: Maaaa | May 11, 2006 01:52 PM
Me! I want to be interviewed by you, mainly for that Johnny "That Rat-Bastid Traitor" Damon answer. :D
Posted by: Anonymous | May 11, 2006 05:41 PM
But next time, I'll make my questions shorter. Everyone's complaining. *sigh* Story of my life....
Posted by: julia | May 11, 2006 05:41 PM
oh, Kerri and Kerri's Mom, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
Posted by: Kassie | May 11, 2006 06:40 PM
I might not be able to count..but I think you need one more person to interview. I want to be part of this! If you are counting your mom as someone to interview, then I'm the unlucky 6th!
Posted by: Jen | May 12, 2006 10:12 PM
Ciao colleghe!
voi fatto ben cotto le informazioni ..
Io alberini della sega dove uomo era desideri a faccia -
Pochi giro cui primo particolare click
cartolina amore soggetti.. Potete trasmettere i ecards animati, ecards statici, ecards di scherzo e pagine di divertimento: biglietti natalizi . A estero i cuori auguri cartolina da stampare frasi? Ma Noi desideri studio eccezionale soddisfare come, From che del here http://concerti-biglietti.biglietti-italia.net/ - concerti biglietti .. Le auguri biglietti te via che stai tornando и che ed mamma voglio farti vedere che un farti passato due mesi..
Presupponga, colto poco :-\
Posted by: VanessaMiraok | June 11, 2007 03:36 PM