Interview Number 6
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1. You can send one, brief message back in time to your younger self. When do you send it to and what do you say?
STUDY ABROAD. It's the one thing that I very seriously regret that I didn't pursue more seriously when I was in school, and an opportunity that I'm not likely to ever get to do again. In particular, I wish that I had found a way to do the "summer session" in Luxembourg that my school offered. It was only 6 weeks, but designed to give you lots of opportunity to travel around and experience a bunch of different countries.
2. How did you and Wiley meet?
First week of college. The very first time, he and his friend Jesse were walking through our dorm introducing themselves to random people who had their doors open. I thought he looked like a guy I'd thought was crazy hott from my high school. He thought I was nuts, since I insisted on showing him a picture, and he didn't think he did. Saturday of that same week, I'd gotten dragged to a horrible frat party by some new friends who were trying to cure my homesickness. I didn't really drink, and all they had ws bad beer and horrible vodka punch anyway (bleah). Wiley and Jesse walked into the party with some yummy strawberry daquiri-esque drinks and my friends started talking to them. A bunch of us ended up sitting on the couch at the frat house watching bad movies until like 3 in the morning. Wiley walked me home since most of my friends had left, and I wasn't actually sure how to get back to my dorm. Once we got there, he insisted that I stay up with him, and we sat in the dorm lounge until 10 the next morning talking. The rest is, as they say, history.
3. What one thing (that you feel like sharing with the world) do you hold most sacred?
That everyone has the right to hold and express any opinion that they care to believe in, and my right to decide that they're complete idiots because of their opinions.
4. What's your ideal home? (i.e., where would you most like to live, discounting everything else)
Well, my favorite city is San Francisco, so ideally I'd live there. But, really, I think I've recently figured out that the most important thing to me about where I want to live is that I want to be able to step out my front door and be able to walk to at least half of the things I consider necessities. It doesn't have to be a big city at all, I'd be just as happy living near a decent downtown in a small city or even a small town. The things that I'd consider necessities are: decent coffee shop, at least 1 good restaurant, a decent sized convenience store or small grocery. If there was public transport available, I'd like to be near that. And in an ideal world, there would also be a bookstore, a movie theatre, multiple ood restaurants, and some good browsing stores.
5. What do you like the most about your present job?
Getting to go out and interact with the customers, doing installs and training. That's mostly because I very much like the newspaper environment. That's why I want to go back to school and get a degree that'll help me get a job at a paper. So, I guess technically, right now the thing I like the most is that it helped me figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life.
kaasirpent1. You can send one, brief message back in time to your younger self. When do you send it to and what do you say?
STUDY ABROAD. It's the one thing that I very seriously regret that I didn't pursue more seriously when I was in school, and an opportunity that I'm not likely to ever get to do again. In particular, I wish that I had found a way to do the "summer session" in Luxembourg that my school offered. It was only 6 weeks, but designed to give you lots of opportunity to travel around and experience a bunch of different countries.
2. How did you and Wiley meet?
First week of college. The very first time, he and his friend Jesse were walking through our dorm introducing themselves to random people who had their doors open. I thought he looked like a guy I'd thought was crazy hott from my high school. He thought I was nuts, since I insisted on showing him a picture, and he didn't think he did. Saturday of that same week, I'd gotten dragged to a horrible frat party by some new friends who were trying to cure my homesickness. I didn't really drink, and all they had ws bad beer and horrible vodka punch anyway (bleah). Wiley and Jesse walked into the party with some yummy strawberry daquiri-esque drinks and my friends started talking to them. A bunch of us ended up sitting on the couch at the frat house watching bad movies until like 3 in the morning. Wiley walked me home since most of my friends had left, and I wasn't actually sure how to get back to my dorm. Once we got there, he insisted that I stay up with him, and we sat in the dorm lounge until 10 the next morning talking. The rest is, as they say, history.
3. What one thing (that you feel like sharing with the world) do you hold most sacred?
That everyone has the right to hold and express any opinion that they care to believe in, and my right to decide that they're complete idiots because of their opinions.
4. What's your ideal home? (i.e., where would you most like to live, discounting everything else)
Well, my favorite city is San Francisco, so ideally I'd live there. But, really, I think I've recently figured out that the most important thing to me about where I want to live is that I want to be able to step out my front door and be able to walk to at least half of the things I consider necessities. It doesn't have to be a big city at all, I'd be just as happy living near a decent downtown in a small city or even a small town. The things that I'd consider necessities are: decent coffee shop, at least 1 good restaurant, a decent sized convenience store or small grocery. If there was public transport available, I'd like to be near that. And in an ideal world, there would also be a bookstore, a movie theatre, multiple ood restaurants, and some good browsing stores.
5. What do you like the most about your present job?
Getting to go out and interact with the customers, doing installs and training. That's mostly because I very much like the newspaper environment. That's why I want to go back to school and get a degree that'll help me get a job at a paper. So, I guess technically, right now the thing I like the most is that it helped me figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life.