Resistance is Futile Meme: 5 Questions

[learnteach]

Leave a response saying "Resistance is Futile" and I'll ask you 5 questions. Answer in your journal, inviting others to be asked questions by you, if you wish.


Responses to allergicone

1) resistance isn't Feudal... or virtually any other form of governance. What is resistance good for, aside from keeping us from colliding at random moments far more often?

Resistance is what you need to work against to strengthen yourself. You can't grow without overcoming boundaries; they resist you, and you push against them.

2) Why do you love to dance?
Looks good, feels good, I want to Move it Move it, and it is one of the marks of a true Gentleman.

3) What is your favorite pastime?
By analysis, procrastination. By predilection, reading. By preference, teaching...really teaching, not kid minding in school.

4) Who would you most like to meet, past or present personage?
The circumstances of the meeting make a great difference, and how long I would get to converse, and what limits are on our interaction. Do I get to look through their sketchbook? Am I allowed to record any of the meeting, or is only a true dream for me? Is there real risk for me? Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespear (we know so little about him), Sue when she was alive--what color was she? (Sue the Tyrannasauros Rex).

5) What is your favorite music to sing and why?
Anything I can. Whatever catches my fancy at the moment. But...It's got to have a bass part in it. Favorite song is probably Willin'; favorite to sing solo (or drunken) would be "Barrett's Privateers"

Comments

[redsquirrel.livejournal.com]

Oui, monsieur le chevalier, la résistence é futile, c'est vrai.

Oui!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

1. The French Foreign Legion accept you and send you to one of their past colonial posts as a Mata Hari. Where?
2. What is your favorite SCA music to sing?
2. Accounting, sewing, singing: small details done right. Singing, SCA office, School--big sweeping things. How do you end up doing both?
2. Favorite Pennsic Food?
2. Been in any hottubs recently?

Re: Oui!

[redsquirrel.livejournal.com]

1. The French Foreign Legion accept you and send you to one of their past colonial posts as a Mata Hari. Where?

*makes face* All the places I can think of are either hot, sunny, and sticky or hot, sunny and arid. In the days before commonly available air-conditioning, not something a redhead fond of her creature comforts exactly favors. Eh bien, if I must, an island outpost in French Polynesia would perhaps be bearable. I believe my choice assignment, however would be at headquarters in Paris ferreting out moles and traitors. :-D

2. What is your favorite SCA music to sing?

Late 15th/early 16th c. period polyphony, in or out of the SCA. Well, out of the SCA it has to compete with Mozart and Puccini, so perhaps not as much of a slam-dunk, but it's up there. When a group singing it really clicks...ah!

Three more question #2s? Oooo-kay.... :-D

2. Accounting, sewing, singing: small details done right. Singing, SCA office, School--big sweeping things. How do you end up doing both?

I think it's that my brain is quite happy using different kinds of information processing. Detailed work is very much a result of my conscious brain in ADHD hyper-focus, where my attention is totally on what I'm doing in the moment. I'm extremely aware of the work and the rest of the world gets tuned out. Big picture stuff, in contrast, is almost all sub-conscious, intuitive processing. I collect the information, let it float around for a while on the back burner while I pay attention to other stuff. I keep adding in stray bits of info without necessarily being aware of them and eventually the answers just kind of emerge. It's a very organic process and pretty much the way I process all my major decisions. It's useful having the ability to do both.

2. Favorite Pennsic Food?

Is, alas, a thing of the past. The Battlefield Bakery, run by Marian of Edwinstowe, the proprietress of the former Sated Tyger Inn, sold these totally yumalicious pasties - meat, chicken, vegetarian, and sweet. She'd make them up all year, haul a freezer full to Pennsic, and then bake them in convection ovens and sell them out of a booth on the food court. I think the PA food handing regulations drove them out of business, sadly, although Mistress Marian also had a spell of ill-health that probably contributed. Their standards of sanitation and the purity of their ingredients were actually far superior to many of the current vendors but the cost and aggravation of getting this Officially Certified was likely just not worth it.

2. Been in any hottubs recently?

Only with family. And not since last winter when I visited my sister in CT. She has a lovely one and she, my niece, and I had a hen party in it while my brother-in-law cleaned up after supper. :-) He joined us once he'd finished. Hot tubs on frosty nights are fun! I'm due for another visit this winter. Just have to work out the scheduling. So there is Hot Tub in my future.