Rule 1: always post the rules.
Rule 2: answer the questions the person who tagged you asked, then write 11 new ones.
Rule 3: tag 11 people then link them in the post.
Rule 4: tell them you tagged them.
Rule 5: tell the person that tagged you when you’ve answered the questions.
I was tagged by Bridget (bridgetthemagnificent) who is extremely lovely and will be understanding about how I'm too lazy to make up new questions or answer hers in a timely manner.
You’d still have your own brain, but for 48 hours you could have someone else’s body [and you can do whatever you want], who would you choose? - My gut says Terry Crews, but I think I'll go polar opposite and say Prince George. I want the royal lifestyle but without the pressure to perform.
Where do you see yourself in five years time? - Wondering if I'm too old for tumblr. But actually, I suppose I'll be 27, so hopefully, I'll have found a position in a museum. Perhaps I'll have found out which branch I want to pursue, and have some training pertaining to that. If not, I'll be back in school for something with more practical applications. So dull.
You have the opportunity to be a founding member of a colony on Mars, but it would mean never coming back to Earth. Would you go? Helllllllll no. I've read too much Cold War sci fi, I've seen too much Doctor Who. I don't want to be part of anything that isn't tried and tested. Plus I've devoted myself to the past. There's no past on Mars.
You can have dinner with your favourite female author [dead or alive] who do you choose? I think I choose E. Nesbitt. She wrote a book called The House of Arden. It was published in 1908, but the characters went back in time 100 years, then 200 years, except they had an added 100 years for me because the book was already a century old. I feel like she and I could have an interesting conversation about that.
What was your favourite toy when you were a kid? I liked Beanie Babies. We lived on a farm, so my sister and I only had each other to play with. We did amazing things with Beanie Babies. We had a soap opera using the McDonalds miniature Beanies. It was like, "Our baby is a hippo, but I'm a dog! IT'S NOT MINE, IS IT, SHARON?!" We put on plays, but we had to audition the Beanies, and it was incredibly tough breaking it to them that they didn't get the part. Once we staged the French taunters scene from Holy Grail with a castle of kleenex boxes and filmed it.
What literary character would you marry? I could happily spend the rest of my life with Nanny Ogg from Discworld. It's an odd choice, as I am relatively straight and young, and she is old and female, but you can't tell me that that woman wouldn't take great care of me and love me fiercely. And I bet she's dynamite in the bedroom.
If you could buy or build your dream house, what would it look like? I want a small stone cottage partially covered in vine, located in a grove of trees down a hill from the road, out of town. Of course, it can't be located in a place with ice because I wouldn't be able to drive out of it. I want a few rooms, an aga to cook with, a working fireplace, a clawfoot tub, a bookshelf, and a cat. And just to make this dream fully impossible, I want the best wifi possible.
In Emma, Jane Austen wrote, ‘One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other’ - do you think that’s true? If I'm understanding it correctly (which I'm fairly certain I'm not) it reminds me of this tenant of anthropology called cultural relativism. It states that you cannot study a culture in relation to another, including your own, and you cannot deem it better or worse. It's obviously just good academic policy, but I like it in the sense of appreciation. You cannot understand something unless you've lived within in (walked a mile in their shoes, so to speak) but you can appreciate it within the context of other peoples' lives.
What movie do you like, that most people hate? Pulp Fiction. It was overhyped, it was disturbing, it was self-congratulatory in its weirdness. I feel like lots of people claim to like it just so they're not left out of the indie loop. Nope.
If you were kicked out of your own country and never allowed to return, which country would you choose as your new home? Oh man, I would hate to never see Canada again. Maybe I would go to Australia, because it's similar to Canada in its post-colonial colonialism, but I wouldn't go near it so long as Abbot's in power. Harper is bad enough. So I think I'd go to Sweden or Norway. They've got some of the highest quality of life, some of the most beautiful geography (have you noticed my always-reblog-Scandi rule?) the sweetest, most beautiful people, are largely peaceful, and have fantastic histories.
Do you have a favourite saying? I like "l'esprit de l'escallier", which translates to staircase wit. It refers to thinking of a perfect comeback too late. Like, reaching the bottom of the stairs and going "THAT'S what I should have said".
