Interview Meme, part two.
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totte. ;) Exchanging interview questions with the spouse was fun, but difficult, btw. (Grammatically, if nothing else. Do I address M, since he asked the questions, or everyone else?) As before, if you want to play, just ask.
1. What are you most looking forward to about the upcoming motherhood, and are you dreading the most?
I am looking forward to snuggling up with a teeny tiny cute baby, and watching it grow and change and learn new things and become a real person. I'm looking forward to seeing what the M and I look like when put together. I am really excited about seeing M as a dad.
I am not so much looking forward to the feeling of responsibility and worry over the safety and health of a tiny person that means everything to me, because...bad things happen to good people. Accidents happen to good parents. I am also not really looking forward to everyone having commentary about our parenting skills because we don't do things just like they did.
2. If it was all up to you, what would you name Ducky if it was a boy? A girl?
Ack! Am I even allowed to answer this? I thought we were keeping prospective name choices a secret until the big event. Perhaps I should use this space to launch a campaign about why we should name Ducky what I want to. :) Of course, I am getting feedback from M that my previously proposed name choices will not be the ones that we go with. Honestly, I don't know even if I did want to answer this. I have a boys name semi in mind, but it's not carved in stone in my head, even, so I hate to put it out there. As far as girls go, I don't think I have a single name fighting for prominence except for two impractical E names. (One of them is Emily. I think it's really cute, but it's also the most common girls name of the year, and I don't want to give my kid a name that common. The other is.. impractical, can we leave it at that until we make a decision on it? ha!)
3. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Oh, this is hard. I could go two ways--a physical thing or a personality thing. Physically, I'd like my lady parts to be less broken, please--but do I use that one thing up on that? Said brokenness has caused me a lot of drama over the last eight years, so maybe... especially if said fixed lady parts--the root of which is probably insulin resistance--allowed my other parts to function as designed, and hmm.. actually, wouldn't that ensure that I don't end up with diabetes, if my insulin issues were fixed? Which is an extremely high risk for me with my family background? Suddenly it feels somewhat less frivolous, so I think I'll go with that one. My personality has no flaws anyway. ;)
4. If you could change one thing about me, what would it be? And no cheating!
...and this one is even harder! Watch, as an established LiveJournal couple airs their marital grievances! Oh, wait, I know! I wish he was RICH.
Okay, I know him well enough to guess that he will count that as a cheating answer, but I have no idea how to answer this. It would be easy to be flippant, and list a bunch of things that drive me crazy. (Leaving the toilet seat up, refusing to put the vegetable brush away properly, leaving dirty clothes on the floor in front of the closet, etc.) Those things just don't matter, though, and if he stopped doing all of them tomorrow, I'd probably just find something else to get under my skin because that's how people are. We're different from each other, and we like finding things to complain about. Honestly, I guess I'd change his background. He is a born programmer, and it drives me crazy that he doesn't have the school education to prove me right. His brain works like a freaking flow chart and yet, I'm the one earning money for programming. It's dumb.
5. If there were no computers, what would you want to do for a living? For entertainment?
Uh... no computers? Would life actually be worth living? Actually, if there were no computers, I would probably have a degree in sociology and be doing something... sociological. See, that right there is why I don't actually have said degree. (Non-M people might be somewhat surprised to know how extremely close it was--I'm only missing one core class, actually, and I'd signed up for it in order to get my masters a few years ago, but I chickened out because as much as I do love it, what the heck am I going to DO with this degree? No one could ever really tell me.) As far as entertainment goes, I have a vague memory of life before computers in which I did things like read books and watch TV and be semi-social. Without computers in my life now, I guess I'd be doing some of the same things. And now I am going to have nightmares of such a horrible, horrible life.
totte. ;) Exchanging interview questions with the spouse was fun, but difficult, btw. (Grammatically, if nothing else. Do I address M, since he asked the questions, or everyone else?) As before, if you want to play, just ask.1. What are you most looking forward to about the upcoming motherhood, and are you dreading the most?
I am looking forward to snuggling up with a teeny tiny cute baby, and watching it grow and change and learn new things and become a real person. I'm looking forward to seeing what the M and I look like when put together. I am really excited about seeing M as a dad.
I am not so much looking forward to the feeling of responsibility and worry over the safety and health of a tiny person that means everything to me, because...bad things happen to good people. Accidents happen to good parents. I am also not really looking forward to everyone having commentary about our parenting skills because we don't do things just like they did.
2. If it was all up to you, what would you name Ducky if it was a boy? A girl?
Ack! Am I even allowed to answer this? I thought we were keeping prospective name choices a secret until the big event. Perhaps I should use this space to launch a campaign about why we should name Ducky what I want to. :) Of course, I am getting feedback from M that my previously proposed name choices will not be the ones that we go with. Honestly, I don't know even if I did want to answer this. I have a boys name semi in mind, but it's not carved in stone in my head, even, so I hate to put it out there. As far as girls go, I don't think I have a single name fighting for prominence except for two impractical E names. (One of them is Emily. I think it's really cute, but it's also the most common girls name of the year, and I don't want to give my kid a name that common. The other is.. impractical, can we leave it at that until we make a decision on it? ha!)
3. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Oh, this is hard. I could go two ways--a physical thing or a personality thing. Physically, I'd like my lady parts to be less broken, please--but do I use that one thing up on that? Said brokenness has caused me a lot of drama over the last eight years, so maybe... especially if said fixed lady parts--the root of which is probably insulin resistance--allowed my other parts to function as designed, and hmm.. actually, wouldn't that ensure that I don't end up with diabetes, if my insulin issues were fixed? Which is an extremely high risk for me with my family background? Suddenly it feels somewhat less frivolous, so I think I'll go with that one. My personality has no flaws anyway. ;)
4. If you could change one thing about me, what would it be? And no cheating!
...and this one is even harder! Watch, as an established LiveJournal couple airs their marital grievances! Oh, wait, I know! I wish he was RICH.
Okay, I know him well enough to guess that he will count that as a cheating answer, but I have no idea how to answer this. It would be easy to be flippant, and list a bunch of things that drive me crazy. (Leaving the toilet seat up, refusing to put the vegetable brush away properly, leaving dirty clothes on the floor in front of the closet, etc.) Those things just don't matter, though, and if he stopped doing all of them tomorrow, I'd probably just find something else to get under my skin because that's how people are. We're different from each other, and we like finding things to complain about. Honestly, I guess I'd change his background. He is a born programmer, and it drives me crazy that he doesn't have the school education to prove me right. His brain works like a freaking flow chart and yet, I'm the one earning money for programming. It's dumb.
5. If there were no computers, what would you want to do for a living? For entertainment?
Uh... no computers? Would life actually be worth living? Actually, if there were no computers, I would probably have a degree in sociology and be doing something... sociological. See, that right there is why I don't actually have said degree. (Non-M people might be somewhat surprised to know how extremely close it was--I'm only missing one core class, actually, and I'd signed up for it in order to get my masters a few years ago, but I chickened out because as much as I do love it, what the heck am I going to DO with this degree? No one could ever really tell me.) As far as entertainment goes, I have a vague memory of life before computers in which I did things like read books and watch TV and be semi-social. Without computers in my life now, I guess I'd be doing some of the same things. And now I am going to have nightmares of such a horrible, horrible life.
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Date: 2007-01-09 08:31 am (UTC)And I'm glad you held out on the name question :)
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Date: 2007-01-09 04:15 pm (UTC)You're right, I forgot about the crafting. I'd probably be doing more of that, especially because I'm kind of bad at watching TV for very long without something to do.
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Date: 2007-01-11 09:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-09 02:59 pm (UTC)How is your family taking the decision to not spill the name?
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Date: 2007-01-09 04:25 pm (UTC)They're taking it pretty well, but possibly just because it hasn't come up a whole lot yet, and during the first half of the pregnancy, it's been pretty easy to put them off by saying we just don't know yet. (Which is also true.)
p.s. After you mentioned it, I (jokingly--I won't steal your name!) tried to talk M into Kai, but he wouldn't go for it either. *laugh* ;)
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Date: 2007-01-11 09:02 am (UTC)