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1) I have to ask: Curling and Due South fandom-- which came first?
in terms of interest: curling. in terms of involvement: DS.
i'd been interested in curling for years. i only became aware of due south about three years ago, and i held out for a long time before giving in -- it's only been a little more than a year (like, last february?) since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emrinalexander kindly sent me her season 3 tapes, and less (last april) since i got the tapes of seasons 1 and 2. and it was last march that i learned my friends datlowen and jgesteve had joined this curling club, and you could do this where i lived, and i said "i wanna!", and i did. which is how i met darthrami, incidentally. so. short answer: no, i didn't get into curling because of Due South. :-)
2 If you could go back and relive one year of your life, with the chance of getting it right this time, which year would you choose?
freshman year of high school. it wasn't so much that i did everything wrong, but things sure didn't go right for me, either.
3) Tell me about the worst teacher you ever had.
that's a tough one. hmm. i'm going to go with my spanish teacher from my junior year of high school -- probably a very nice woman, but bland and uninteresting in every way, and utterly ineffective at getting the stuff taught. she also taught french, although i didn't have her for french; her accent was appalling, and i had it from native spanish speakers that her spanish accent was no better. her grasp of the grammar and vocabulary may have been excellent, but she never committed to it in the classroom, so her students had no real incentive to learn. "tienen Uds. your homework?" isn't the way to teach the spanish language, if you ask me. not to a roomful of kids who already know the word tarea.
but i can't believe i never had a worse teacher than that. i can't have been that lucky. i must have blocked the rest of them out.
4.) If you had to spend a month listening to the music of ONE composer/musician/group 24/7, who would you choose, and why?
a month? i'm just ... god, i don't know. i've certainly spent lots of time listening to the beatles. there's enough variety there, the early stuff is different enough from the later (also called "good" [g]) stuff, that it might not get too monotonous. i'd even let you throw in the two german-language recordings, "sie liebt dich" and "komm gib mir deine hand". [g] (i'm not at all confident about the accuracy of my german.)
5.) It's been asked, but I'm curious-- how did you get into linguistics?
i started out as a french major, and there was a two-semester linguistics requirement for majors in modern languages. and my intro to linguistics class was fabulous, and i loved it, and after that one semester i switched my major -- to where there was an eight-semester language requirement for majors in linguistics. :-) but i was so tired of the french department that i talked them down to six, a regular minor in french. best decision i ever made.
so who's next?
in terms of interest: curling. in terms of involvement: DS.
i'd been interested in curling for years. i only became aware of due south about three years ago, and i held out for a long time before giving in -- it's only been a little more than a year (like, last february?) since
emrinalexander kindly sent me her season 3 tapes, and less (last april) since i got the tapes of seasons 1 and 2. and it was last march that i learned my friends datlowen and jgesteve had joined this curling club, and you could do this where i lived, and i said "i wanna!", and i did. which is how i met darthrami, incidentally. so. short answer: no, i didn't get into curling because of Due South. :-)2 If you could go back and relive one year of your life, with the chance of getting it right this time, which year would you choose?
freshman year of high school. it wasn't so much that i did everything wrong, but things sure didn't go right for me, either.
3) Tell me about the worst teacher you ever had.
that's a tough one. hmm. i'm going to go with my spanish teacher from my junior year of high school -- probably a very nice woman, but bland and uninteresting in every way, and utterly ineffective at getting the stuff taught. she also taught french, although i didn't have her for french; her accent was appalling, and i had it from native spanish speakers that her spanish accent was no better. her grasp of the grammar and vocabulary may have been excellent, but she never committed to it in the classroom, so her students had no real incentive to learn. "tienen Uds. your homework?" isn't the way to teach the spanish language, if you ask me. not to a roomful of kids who already know the word tarea.
but i can't believe i never had a worse teacher than that. i can't have been that lucky. i must have blocked the rest of them out.
4.) If you had to spend a month listening to the music of ONE composer/musician/group 24/7, who would you choose, and why?
a month? i'm just ... god, i don't know. i've certainly spent lots of time listening to the beatles. there's enough variety there, the early stuff is different enough from the later (also called "good" [g]) stuff, that it might not get too monotonous. i'd even let you throw in the two german-language recordings, "sie liebt dich" and "komm gib mir deine hand". [g] (i'm not at all confident about the accuracy of my german.)
5.) It's been asked, but I'm curious-- how did you get into linguistics?
i started out as a french major, and there was a two-semester linguistics requirement for majors in modern languages. and my intro to linguistics class was fabulous, and i loved it, and after that one semester i switched my major -- to where there was an eight-semester language requirement for majors in linguistics. :-) but i was so tired of the french department that i talked them down to six, a regular minor in french. best decision i ever made.
so who's next?