The Former Online Journal of Eric T. Marin
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Five Questions
Gwenda Bond asked me the following five questions:
1. Are there any authors that you thought were brilliant when you were 16 that you either suspect or know would be unreadable to you now, and why?
Answer: I'm not sure I thought many of the authors I read were brilliant when I was sixteen, but I really loved The Belgariad as a teen. Today, I find Eddings' work rather empty and less than imaginative.
2. Hawaiian shirts, Hawaiian shorts, or neither?
Answer: Neither. I did have some rather colorful jams as a teen though. I'm a conservative dresser nowadays.
3. If you had to choose a song or an album to be the soundtrack to your life so far, what would it be and why?
Answer: Sara Evans' Born to Fly album resonates with me the most at this point in my life, and that's amusing, as I'm not a huge country music fan (I prefer alternative rock).
4. Have you ever taken a trip that changed your life, in large or small ways? Where was it, how old were you?
Answer: Yes, I did. I spent my sophomore and junior years of high school living on a home-built sailboat with my family. We traveled and worked through the Caribbean before returning to our home state of Maine. It was a life-altering experience in many ways.
5. What's your regular source for news and do you trust it?
Answer: I used to read the Wall Street Journal, but I decided to let my subscription go, so I now get my news from online sources (Yahoo, Slashdot, etc.), CNN Headline News when I'm feeling lazy, and the occasional Austin-American Statesman. I don't trust any of them a whole lot.
INTERVIEW RULES:
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
1. Are there any authors that you thought were brilliant when you were 16 that you either suspect or know would be unreadable to you now, and why?
Answer: I'm not sure I thought many of the authors I read were brilliant when I was sixteen, but I really loved The Belgariad as a teen. Today, I find Eddings' work rather empty and less than imaginative.
2. Hawaiian shirts, Hawaiian shorts, or neither?
Answer: Neither. I did have some rather colorful jams as a teen though. I'm a conservative dresser nowadays.
3. If you had to choose a song or an album to be the soundtrack to your life so far, what would it be and why?
Answer: Sara Evans' Born to Fly album resonates with me the most at this point in my life, and that's amusing, as I'm not a huge country music fan (I prefer alternative rock).
4. Have you ever taken a trip that changed your life, in large or small ways? Where was it, how old were you?
Answer: Yes, I did. I spent my sophomore and junior years of high school living on a home-built sailboat with my family. We traveled and worked through the Caribbean before returning to our home state of Maine. It was a life-altering experience in many ways.
5. What's your regular source for news and do you trust it?
Answer: I used to read the Wall Street Journal, but I decided to let my subscription go, so I now get my news from online sources (Yahoo, Slashdot, etc.), CNN Headline News when I'm feeling lazy, and the occasional Austin-American Statesman. I don't trust any of them a whole lot.
INTERVIEW RULES:
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
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