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yakalskovich) now, and will post Frar's when they're ready to go. You lot know the drill with the interview thing by now, I think - comment and I'll think up questions. Evenutally.
1) Is there anything about yourself that you absolutely hate despite other people expressing admiration or even envy towards it? Can be physical or personality-wise.
Hmm. I think the closest I get is... I speak my mind, on general terms, and for the most part like doing so. The problem is when I do, and it sounds bitchy, despite my best efforts not to.
Or there’s the people who say they want to have naturally curly hair. I usually tell them they wouldn’t want the bother of trying to brush this stuff (it tangles like there’s no tomorrow).
2) What is your favourite place in all the world, and why? (Another repetition; as I said to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
teriel, I am a rather place-oriented person.)
Oooh, one of the difficult questions (especially since I’ve been to most of the States).
Of the places I’ve been so far, either New York or New Orleans. Plenty to do and places to relax when necessary. (Interesting factoid: Mom’s ancestors owned at least part of Central Park before it was the park.) I’d love to go to Australia and England at some point, as much because they sound so cool as because of the people I know online who live in those areas.
3) Tell me a bit about that interminable kitchen revamp you keep mentioning, and for which I pity you deeply. Why are you inflicting that on yourselves? Why does it take so horribly long?
In a nutshell, because the kitchen design we’d been putting up with for the last 9 years sucked. Not enough counter space, stove and oven dying slow deaths, another oven we never used because Mom doesn’t know how to cook on electric, about zero cabinet space in the final analysis. And then when we got round to taking it apart, it turned out thelady who’d done the previous design had overconstructed like you wouldn’t believe. I was very much ready to throttle her at a few points in there, but she’s already dead.
Anyway, it’s mostly done now (and we started in... March? April?). We had to wait for the new cabinets to get here. Dad got hit with the kidney stone thing in the middle of all that. We had to wait on the new fridge. We had to wait for the countertop before the dishwasher and stove and sink could be fully installed, and the earliest date for that was in the middle of the parents’ vacation. We had to wait on drawer pulls. And now that that stuff’s done, Mom’s changed her mind about the green paint and wants to change the color. ::tears out hair::
4) RPage related question: what is happening between Ade and Imp at the moment? One hears hardly anything.
Would help if Celestina wasn’t swamped with school, but what can you do?
Anyway: Now that the music with rocks in mess is sorted out, Imp’s moved back into the flat with Morgan and is getting back to work. That boy did not want to leave the University at all, I can tell ya that (much as he knew he couldn’t stay forever). Despite only having been apart for a week, those two’re probably missing each other terribly, knowing their track record in that department. XD
5) What LJ meme did you enjoy most in recent months?
I liked pulling together lyrics for that guess-the-song thingy, but it wasn’t quite so fun after I posted ‘em. My music tastes are just way too crazy for most of you people, I guess (but I’m willing to share!). And the resurgence of the interview meme is brilliant, of course.
yakalskovich) now, and will post Frar's when they're ready to go. You lot know the drill with the interview thing by now, I think - comment and I'll think up questions. Evenutally.1) Is there anything about yourself that you absolutely hate despite other people expressing admiration or even envy towards it? Can be physical or personality-wise.
Hmm. I think the closest I get is... I speak my mind, on general terms, and for the most part like doing so. The problem is when I do, and it sounds bitchy, despite my best efforts not to.
Or there’s the people who say they want to have naturally curly hair. I usually tell them they wouldn’t want the bother of trying to brush this stuff (it tangles like there’s no tomorrow).
2) What is your favourite place in all the world, and why? (Another repetition; as I said to
teriel, I am a rather place-oriented person.)Oooh, one of the difficult questions (especially since I’ve been to most of the States).
Of the places I’ve been so far, either New York or New Orleans. Plenty to do and places to relax when necessary. (Interesting factoid: Mom’s ancestors owned at least part of Central Park before it was the park.) I’d love to go to Australia and England at some point, as much because they sound so cool as because of the people I know online who live in those areas.
3) Tell me a bit about that interminable kitchen revamp you keep mentioning, and for which I pity you deeply. Why are you inflicting that on yourselves? Why does it take so horribly long?
In a nutshell, because the kitchen design we’d been putting up with for the last 9 years sucked. Not enough counter space, stove and oven dying slow deaths, another oven we never used because Mom doesn’t know how to cook on electric, about zero cabinet space in the final analysis. And then when we got round to taking it apart, it turned out thelady who’d done the previous design had overconstructed like you wouldn’t believe. I was very much ready to throttle her at a few points in there, but she’s already dead.
Anyway, it’s mostly done now (and we started in... March? April?). We had to wait for the new cabinets to get here. Dad got hit with the kidney stone thing in the middle of all that. We had to wait on the new fridge. We had to wait for the countertop before the dishwasher and stove and sink could be fully installed, and the earliest date for that was in the middle of the parents’ vacation. We had to wait on drawer pulls. And now that that stuff’s done, Mom’s changed her mind about the green paint and wants to change the color. ::tears out hair::
4) RPage related question: what is happening between Ade and Imp at the moment? One hears hardly anything.
Would help if Celestina wasn’t swamped with school, but what can you do?
Anyway: Now that the music with rocks in mess is sorted out, Imp’s moved back into the flat with Morgan and is getting back to work. That boy did not want to leave the University at all, I can tell ya that (much as he knew he couldn’t stay forever). Despite only having been apart for a week, those two’re probably missing each other terribly, knowing their track record in that department. XD
5) What LJ meme did you enjoy most in recent months?
I liked pulling together lyrics for that guess-the-song thingy, but it wasn’t quite so fun after I posted ‘em. My music tastes are just way too crazy for most of you people, I guess (but I’m willing to share!). And the resurgence of the interview meme is brilliant, of course.
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Date: 2004-08-15 09:22 pm (UTC)The thing about Central Park is rather funny.
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Date: 2004-08-15 10:03 pm (UTC)Really, the worst of it was washing the disges in the bathroom sink for two months or so. ::stabbity::
Last time the Central Park thing came up, I also made a passing reference to the fact that somewhere in my family tree, there's a guy who's famous for cheating on a game show. And people went 'Charles Van Doren? Really?!' There's even a MOVIE about the guy (which I did not know before someone pointed it out in that comment-chat).
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Date: 2004-08-15 10:28 pm (UTC)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110932/
Ralph Fiennes!! Hah!!! Your relative was played by Ralph Fiennes!! What an honour. Oh, wow.
Van Doren. Sounds Dutch. Would that be ancient (well, comapartively, as we're talking America) New Amsterdam/Manahttan Dutch, and the same family that used to own parts of Central Park? Oh, wow again.
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Date: 2004-08-15 10:56 pm (UTC)It's definitely a Dutch name, as there were also bits of the family over there hiding Jews from the Nazis during WWII - not sure how long they've been here, though, or if the Central Park bit was even that branch of it. Wouldn't surprise me, though.
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Date: 2004-08-15 11:11 pm (UTC)However, looking up the key words in your tale at Google brings up so much material and history and whatnot it's too complicated to sift through just on the spot; you will have to do it yourself. The van Dorens do seem to be one of those old "New Amsterdam" Dutch families that came over at the very beginning and bought Manhattan off the Native American tribe living there, and there is a Van Doren Street somewhere in the area of Central Park, and it all seems to bear looking into at great length, and I'm sure there will be archives and whatnots. Do you need a research project for something? Cause this would be a beautiful one. Up to a PhD in history, if you ever aspire to such a thing.
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Date: 2004-08-16 09:53 am (UTC)Speaking of the parents, I looked at that IMDb page - if memory serves on the name front, they're both in it as well. MY WHOLE FAMILY IS FAMOUS AND NO ONE TOLD ME! (Except they did. You know.)
There was a documentary thingy we watched in 1945-Present that had bits of the game show. You can tell the guy's related to my grandfather. It's the ears.
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Date: 2004-08-16 09:57 am (UTC)