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The Interview Game

// March 29th, 2005 // Personal

The first meme of the evening comes courtesy of Jim over at SnoozeButton Dreams.

The idea is that one gets interviewed and then has to interview the first 5 commenters to the original answers… or something.

The Rules

1. Leave me a comment saying “interview me”. The first five commenters will be the participants.

2. I will respond by asking you five questions.

3. You will update your blog/site with the answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. (Write your own questions or borrow some.)

Mine are in the beyond… get commenting!

1) What was your last brush with greatness?

Always with the tough ones first huh?

Actually that’s harder than it looks. My last brush with greatness was … when … nope … drawing a complete blank here. I mean I can think of a great many brushes with mediocrity but actual true greatness is not something that has been overly prevalent in my life.

The best example I can come up with that really fits the bill would be a friend of mine who has recetntly overcome a serious problem. I can’t go into more detail than that but suffice to say it took great strength and effort but they still managed it and are a better person for it.

I think in this day and age it is all too easy to forget that the hardest thing a person can do is not to climb a mountain or make a billion but is to change themselves for the better. Corny I know but it’s the best I’ve got… well except for the Petanque match we won – that wasn’t just great, that was bloody brilliant!

2) If you could have any superpower what would it be? How would you use it? How would you mis-use it?

Easy… I’d like to have a serious variation on telepathy. I could use it for great and compassionate things including counselling the traumatised, brokering agreements between governments (they couldn’t hide anything from me) and being a general power for truth and honesty in this world… and I’d never need to be uncertain about picking up chicks ever again! It would also be the ultimate in practical jokes. I could just throw a random thought into the head of the guy sat on the bus who’s contemplating letting a stinker drop and blaming it on the little old lady behind him… “THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS – DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT STINKY” … heh.

3) What sport shouldn’t be in the Olympics?

I think they all belong in their own way. What I would like to see is a little more positive motivation in the events. Lets take a couple of examples:

Pole Vaulting – this also applies to the high and long jump (the triple jump by the way is just silly and could have been a perfectly straightforward answer to this question). Rather than just jumping over a bar or sand pit stick a snake pit or a moat full of crocodiles in there. I’m pretty sure we’d see some new world records PDQ.

Javelin – lets get back to basics. For hundreds of years throwing a big pointy stick was a defensive necessity rather than a sport… so stick the javelinists on two at a time… at opposite ends of the pitch…

I think you can see where the rest of this is going.

4) What was the last thing you were really looking forward to that ended up not being at all what you’d expected or hoped for?

Erm. Again not such an easy one to answer. I suppose it would have to be a social event as they have the greatest potential to be disappointing. I think the last one was New Year’s Eve 2004 / 2005. The dinner sucked, the music was bad and the company (above and beyond the people I went with were awful)… in short an all round suck fest.

5) What are the best and worst things about living on an island?

The best? I am never more than 2.5 miles from the sea. I’m not a great beach goer but I do adore being able to just head down to the coast or the cliff path whenever I need to clear my head about something. Ideally the North West point because there is nothing between me and the US asides from large quantities of water.

The worst? It’s going to sound silly but the insularity of the place really gets me down sometimes. Almost everyone who lives here will know what I mean when I speak of the need to get “off-rock” at least once a year. It’s the ideal of the island. The world seems constrained to this 9×5 mile blob and sometimes I just want to scream and throw the curtains wide and show Jersey that there is a whole world out there… but the feeling normally passes pretty quick and I can always head down to the coast if I really need to chill out.

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So that’s my 5 done. If you’d like me to interview you then hit the comments and I’ll be in touch!