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Just for fun....
Aug. 24th, 2011 11:56 pmI found these "Get to Know You" questions back when I was teaching Senior Seminar and I made them do classmate interviews and introductions to get them used to standing up in front of the class and presenting. They never seemed able to think of any questions to ask each other, so I sought these out. I thought it would be fun to post them up here and have my friends copy, paste, and answer them--either below in comments OR on their own livejournals, or heck! Both!
1. Why were you given your particular name?
My Mom told me she had picked out my name, Cheryl Lynn, when she was very young. She always planned to name her first daughter that. She did not get it from a book as she did my sister Kim's name (which came from an Edna Ferber book where one of the characters was named after the three rivers that came together where she was born...Kansas, ? and Missouri. I don't remember the third one.) I always thought that was a cool way to get a name, and I was always a little jealous that MY name didn't come from a book. ha ha.
2. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
Kimberly Kae, Joni Beth, Tammy Jo, and Jack Scott. Three sisters and one brother.
3. What is your favorite thing to do?
I have way too many things I like to do to choose just one. And they really do not fall into any order of preference. The things I do the most which are also things I love to do are: read, write, sew for my dolls, make quilts, bake, play with my cats, and sleep. Ha.
4. What is your favorite food?
Again, with the magnificent variety of foods available, how can just ONE be picked?
I like home-made vanilla ice cream, chocolate chip cookies that I have baked myself, coconut cream pie, honey crisp apples, roast beef with potatoes, onions, and carrots, baked squash with brown sugar and butter, meat loaf, banana pudding, tapioca pudding, baked chicken with stuffing, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, beets with butter and vinegar, avacados--just peeled and eaten, guacamoli with corn chips, egg fu yung, especially shrimp and chinese vegetable egg fu yung, broccoli, cauliflower, baked potatoes with butter and sour cream, waffles, buttermilk pancakes, strawberries, raspberries, peaches...gosh....how can anyone choose just one food.
5. What is your favorite book?
I can't possibly decide: Second Heaven, The Secret Garden, the whole series of the Lord of the Rings, the whole series of the Chronicles of Narnia, The Vision of Stephen, The Last Unicorn, Tex, the whole series of Inuyasha manga, most of The Dragon Riders of Pern series, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, The Handmaiden's Tale....there are soooooo many! Many more than this!
6. What is your favorite candy bar?
I like lots of candy bars, but Mounds and KitKats are probably the ones I most frequently buy. I used to love Chunky bars, which had raisins and peanuts in chocolate--but I never see them any more.
7. What is your favorite cookie?
Absolutely NOTHING can beat the homemade chocolate chip cookies which I bake myself. They are truly the best cookies ever made.
8. What is your favorite sport?
To watch: gymnastics.
To do: archery, even though I totally SUCK at it, and bowling
9. What is your favorite kind of music?
I have no specific favorite kind of music. I like just about everything except RAP. If I had to choose just one kind of music to listen to for the rest of my life, I would probably choose folk rock.
10. What is your favorite song?
Wow. Again...so many.... I will go with "Wayfaring Stranger," "I'll Fly Away," "Allelujah" (as sung by Rufus Wainright), and "Because of You."
11. What do you want to be when you grow up?
I am already grown up and have already had my successful career as an English teacher....right now I just want to be bringing in any kind of income. I'd love to be a published writer...
12. How many kids do you want to have when you get married?
Well, since I have had a complete hysterectomy, I will never have any kids at all...When I was young, I wanted 20. When I got a little older, I downsized it to a dozen. Now I just wish I had had a couple. I always wanted children.
13. What is your favorite temple?
I don't know if this question means a religious structure or just a place that makes you feel awe and inspiration...or maybe it is that spot on either side of your head where you have a pulse. Ha.
If it is a religious structure, I was incredibly impressed with the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York. I would love to see the Sistine Chapel in person.
If a place that is inspirational and awe inspiring, well, the Atlantic Ocean was amazing.
If the spot on the head, I like both of my temples equally. I don't like to play favorites with my body parts.
14. What place would you like to know more about?
The Great Barrier Reef
15. What place would you like to visit?
The British Isles.
16. What is your favorite thing about your mom?
Mom will almost always help people in need. She can be very generous and kind hearted. Also, I got my love of reading from her. For that I will always be humbly grateful.
17. What is your favorite thing about your dad?
Dad was very funny and creative. Sometimes his humor and creativity were cruel, but he could be very amusing too. I got my wild humor and creativity from him, I think. Both of my parents were very intelligent as well, though neither of them ever went to college to develop their brilliance.
18. What is your favorite thing about yourself?
No matter how hard life kicks me in the face or how many times it knocks me down and stomps on me, I always find the strength of will to get back up and keep trying, even when I really want to just lay down and die. Also, I like my creativity and my ability to work with almost any type of person. I am usually able to find some goodness in everyone I know.
19. Do you like to sing?
I LOVE to sing. It's a pity I have no talent for it. I do it anyhow though. Mostly when I am by myself, but I did enjoy singing silly songs that I made up as I went along to my students. LOL. I think they enjoyed it.
20. Do you like to dance?
I like to hop around and shake my booty. I wish I knew how to ballroom dance. Unfortunately, with my knees being so crippled up, I can't even hop around any more.
21. Do you play a musical instrument?
I have never been able to take lessons. Before I die, I would like to learn to play the guitar and/or the piano.
22. What is your favorite type of art?
I like most kinds of art. To look at, I like everything--oil painting, acryllic painting, watercolor, pastels--chalk and oil, pottery, sculpture, carving, you name it. To DO, I like to draw with pencil and charcoal. I like to paint ceramics. I like to make things with fimo. I loved to weave on the big loom, but sadly, I have no access to a loom any more. I like to do just about any kind of craft--but usually I find a way to use the craft to make things for my dolls. Ha. I love my dolls.
23. Do you like theater?
I love the theater. Even if it is just community theater. I have been lucky enough to see several plays at the Guthrie in the Twin Cities. It's a pretty darn good theater for a desolate place like Minnesota. Ha ha. I wish I could go several times a year instead of only occasionally.
24. Do you like building things?
Usually, I build things for my dolls. I wish that I could learn to do wood working to build all sorts of things--but especially lots and lots of doll houses.
25. What would you like to learn about cars?
How to make them go 200 miles per gallon of gas.
26. What would you like to teach others about?
What I LOVE teaching others about is writing well. I am quite good at it, if I do say so myself. I also love helping kids learn to see the potential and the best things about themselves.
27. What three adjectives describe you?
Creative, talented, intelligent.
28. How would your friend describe you to someone who had never met you?
As someone who was funny, caring, organized in a messy way, and a great teacher.
29. In five years, what kind of person will you be?
If I have any luck at all, I will be retired and doing all the things that I love to do.
30. In ten years, what kind of person will you be?
Hopefully, still healthy, vigorous, and doing what I love to do.
31. What are your favorite subjects in school?
Obviously, English and Art. But I also really like Social studies and Science. Math can SUCK IT. Ha ha ha.
32. When you have an hour of free time, what do you like to do?
Read, sew, make things for my doll collection, bake, talk to friends, play Scrabble...
33. What is your favorite movie?
Again, so many....one of my favorites of all time is the original The Day the Earth Stood Still. Also, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was so beautiful that I wept during the whole thing. And finally, Avatar was awesome.
34. What is the strangest thing you ever did?
Feh. I have done so many strange things. I guess the one that comes to mind right now was getting drunk and climbing the grain leg that was across the street from my apartment. It was high. I was stupid to do it. But at the time, it seemed like a great idea.
35. What is the strangest food you ever ate?
Black pudding. It was disgusting.
36. Are you working in your chosen profession?
I was...and I was good at it. Now, I am unemployed--very unfairly unemployed.
37. How many hours a week do you work?
At this time, none. Well, I work, but not as an employee. I work on my own stuff now.
37. What is your dream job?
Writing one best seller after another.
38. What is your retirement plan?
Well, it was to hit the rule of 90 (or beyond) and retire on my pension. Since I have been cheated of that, I am going to attempt to survive the four years it will take me to AGE to rule of 90 and go from there. With any luck, I will find some means of making enough money to survive on until then.
39. What do you plan to do when you stop working?
Learn stuff I always wanted to learn, like how to play guitar and piano.
Sew for my dolls. Make miniatures to use with them. Share pictures and stories with like minded folks.
Read.
Write. Try to publish.
Perhaps get my knees repaired and travel.
40. What is one of your favorite quotes?
"Education is not the filling of a bucket. It is the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats
"Do the best you can and don't take life too serious." Will Rogers
"There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading. The few that learn by observation. The rest ofthem just have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." Will Rogers.
1. Why were you given your particular name?
My Mom told me she had picked out my name, Cheryl Lynn, when she was very young. She always planned to name her first daughter that. She did not get it from a book as she did my sister Kim's name (which came from an Edna Ferber book where one of the characters was named after the three rivers that came together where she was born...Kansas, ? and Missouri. I don't remember the third one.) I always thought that was a cool way to get a name, and I was always a little jealous that MY name didn't come from a book. ha ha.
2. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
Kimberly Kae, Joni Beth, Tammy Jo, and Jack Scott. Three sisters and one brother.
3. What is your favorite thing to do?
I have way too many things I like to do to choose just one. And they really do not fall into any order of preference. The things I do the most which are also things I love to do are: read, write, sew for my dolls, make quilts, bake, play with my cats, and sleep. Ha.
4. What is your favorite food?
Again, with the magnificent variety of foods available, how can just ONE be picked?
I like home-made vanilla ice cream, chocolate chip cookies that I have baked myself, coconut cream pie, honey crisp apples, roast beef with potatoes, onions, and carrots, baked squash with brown sugar and butter, meat loaf, banana pudding, tapioca pudding, baked chicken with stuffing, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, beets with butter and vinegar, avacados--just peeled and eaten, guacamoli with corn chips, egg fu yung, especially shrimp and chinese vegetable egg fu yung, broccoli, cauliflower, baked potatoes with butter and sour cream, waffles, buttermilk pancakes, strawberries, raspberries, peaches...gosh....how can anyone choose just one food.
5. What is your favorite book?
I can't possibly decide: Second Heaven, The Secret Garden, the whole series of the Lord of the Rings, the whole series of the Chronicles of Narnia, The Vision of Stephen, The Last Unicorn, Tex, the whole series of Inuyasha manga, most of The Dragon Riders of Pern series, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, The Handmaiden's Tale....there are soooooo many! Many more than this!
6. What is your favorite candy bar?
I like lots of candy bars, but Mounds and KitKats are probably the ones I most frequently buy. I used to love Chunky bars, which had raisins and peanuts in chocolate--but I never see them any more.
7. What is your favorite cookie?
Absolutely NOTHING can beat the homemade chocolate chip cookies which I bake myself. They are truly the best cookies ever made.
8. What is your favorite sport?
To watch: gymnastics.
To do: archery, even though I totally SUCK at it, and bowling
9. What is your favorite kind of music?
I have no specific favorite kind of music. I like just about everything except RAP. If I had to choose just one kind of music to listen to for the rest of my life, I would probably choose folk rock.
10. What is your favorite song?
Wow. Again...so many.... I will go with "Wayfaring Stranger," "I'll Fly Away," "Allelujah" (as sung by Rufus Wainright), and "Because of You."
11. What do you want to be when you grow up?
I am already grown up and have already had my successful career as an English teacher....right now I just want to be bringing in any kind of income. I'd love to be a published writer...
12. How many kids do you want to have when you get married?
Well, since I have had a complete hysterectomy, I will never have any kids at all...When I was young, I wanted 20. When I got a little older, I downsized it to a dozen. Now I just wish I had had a couple. I always wanted children.
13. What is your favorite temple?
I don't know if this question means a religious structure or just a place that makes you feel awe and inspiration...or maybe it is that spot on either side of your head where you have a pulse. Ha.
If it is a religious structure, I was incredibly impressed with the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York. I would love to see the Sistine Chapel in person.
If a place that is inspirational and awe inspiring, well, the Atlantic Ocean was amazing.
If the spot on the head, I like both of my temples equally. I don't like to play favorites with my body parts.
14. What place would you like to know more about?
The Great Barrier Reef
15. What place would you like to visit?
The British Isles.
16. What is your favorite thing about your mom?
Mom will almost always help people in need. She can be very generous and kind hearted. Also, I got my love of reading from her. For that I will always be humbly grateful.
17. What is your favorite thing about your dad?
Dad was very funny and creative. Sometimes his humor and creativity were cruel, but he could be very amusing too. I got my wild humor and creativity from him, I think. Both of my parents were very intelligent as well, though neither of them ever went to college to develop their brilliance.
18. What is your favorite thing about yourself?
No matter how hard life kicks me in the face or how many times it knocks me down and stomps on me, I always find the strength of will to get back up and keep trying, even when I really want to just lay down and die. Also, I like my creativity and my ability to work with almost any type of person. I am usually able to find some goodness in everyone I know.
19. Do you like to sing?
I LOVE to sing. It's a pity I have no talent for it. I do it anyhow though. Mostly when I am by myself, but I did enjoy singing silly songs that I made up as I went along to my students. LOL. I think they enjoyed it.
20. Do you like to dance?
I like to hop around and shake my booty. I wish I knew how to ballroom dance. Unfortunately, with my knees being so crippled up, I can't even hop around any more.
21. Do you play a musical instrument?
I have never been able to take lessons. Before I die, I would like to learn to play the guitar and/or the piano.
22. What is your favorite type of art?
I like most kinds of art. To look at, I like everything--oil painting, acryllic painting, watercolor, pastels--chalk and oil, pottery, sculpture, carving, you name it. To DO, I like to draw with pencil and charcoal. I like to paint ceramics. I like to make things with fimo. I loved to weave on the big loom, but sadly, I have no access to a loom any more. I like to do just about any kind of craft--but usually I find a way to use the craft to make things for my dolls. Ha. I love my dolls.
23. Do you like theater?
I love the theater. Even if it is just community theater. I have been lucky enough to see several plays at the Guthrie in the Twin Cities. It's a pretty darn good theater for a desolate place like Minnesota. Ha ha. I wish I could go several times a year instead of only occasionally.
24. Do you like building things?
Usually, I build things for my dolls. I wish that I could learn to do wood working to build all sorts of things--but especially lots and lots of doll houses.
25. What would you like to learn about cars?
How to make them go 200 miles per gallon of gas.
26. What would you like to teach others about?
What I LOVE teaching others about is writing well. I am quite good at it, if I do say so myself. I also love helping kids learn to see the potential and the best things about themselves.
27. What three adjectives describe you?
Creative, talented, intelligent.
28. How would your friend describe you to someone who had never met you?
As someone who was funny, caring, organized in a messy way, and a great teacher.
29. In five years, what kind of person will you be?
If I have any luck at all, I will be retired and doing all the things that I love to do.
30. In ten years, what kind of person will you be?
Hopefully, still healthy, vigorous, and doing what I love to do.
31. What are your favorite subjects in school?
Obviously, English and Art. But I also really like Social studies and Science. Math can SUCK IT. Ha ha ha.
32. When you have an hour of free time, what do you like to do?
Read, sew, make things for my doll collection, bake, talk to friends, play Scrabble...
33. What is your favorite movie?
Again, so many....one of my favorites of all time is the original The Day the Earth Stood Still. Also, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was so beautiful that I wept during the whole thing. And finally, Avatar was awesome.
34. What is the strangest thing you ever did?
Feh. I have done so many strange things. I guess the one that comes to mind right now was getting drunk and climbing the grain leg that was across the street from my apartment. It was high. I was stupid to do it. But at the time, it seemed like a great idea.
35. What is the strangest food you ever ate?
Black pudding. It was disgusting.
36. Are you working in your chosen profession?
I was...and I was good at it. Now, I am unemployed--very unfairly unemployed.
37. How many hours a week do you work?
At this time, none. Well, I work, but not as an employee. I work on my own stuff now.
37. What is your dream job?
Writing one best seller after another.
38. What is your retirement plan?
Well, it was to hit the rule of 90 (or beyond) and retire on my pension. Since I have been cheated of that, I am going to attempt to survive the four years it will take me to AGE to rule of 90 and go from there. With any luck, I will find some means of making enough money to survive on until then.
39. What do you plan to do when you stop working?
Learn stuff I always wanted to learn, like how to play guitar and piano.
Sew for my dolls. Make miniatures to use with them. Share pictures and stories with like minded folks.
Read.
Write. Try to publish.
Perhaps get my knees repaired and travel.
40. What is one of your favorite quotes?
"Education is not the filling of a bucket. It is the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats
"Do the best you can and don't take life too serious." Will Rogers
"There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading. The few that learn by observation. The rest ofthem just have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." Will Rogers.
