New interview meme

[sally_maria]

Because I'm naturally nosy.

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. If I already know you well, expect the questions may be a little more intimate! (but not that intimate ;-D)
3. You will update your lj with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.


suekay_87 asked me

1.What other sci fi shows do you love?
Doctor Who, Firefly, Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9), Babylon 5.

2. How long have you been going online?
Since 1998 - pay by the minute dial-up.

3. What's your favourite food?
Sweets? Plain chocolate. Real food? Roast beef.

4. Who's the most famous person you've ever met?
Er.. it depends on the value of famous. Jenny from Atomic Kitten, Dickie Bird the cricket umpire, Alan Titchmarsh or Terry Pratchett. We have signing sessions at work with these people, so I often wind up saying hello, at least - Terry Pratchett, I queued for an hour to get an autograph from.

5. Money aside, what would be your dream job and why?
I really enjoy training - teaching adults who are interested in learning, as opposed to the lion taming which school teaching so often seems to be. And I enjoy doing things with computers, so maybe training relating to that. (As opposed to my current job, where I train people to use tills, which may run on top of Windows but don't really do anything exciting.)

wellinghall asked me:

1. Have you lived anywhere apart from your current home town?
I was born here, but I lived in Portsmouth for three years or so when I was doing my degree. (Economic History, for a bonus point. :-D)

2. How did you first encounter Tolkien?
I have very vague memories of an LP of readings from the Hobbit or LotR, when I was at infant school. My first real encounter was with LotR when I was nine or so and read it from the school library. I got bogged down in the Dead Marshes at the end of term when I had to give the book back, and didn't come back to it for a year or so. (The same thing happened to me a year or so later with the Silmarillion, I got stuck in the middle of Turin - I think I was 13 when I finished it.)

3. How did you first encounter the Tolkien Society?
My Dad worked with a guy called Rick Crosby, back when I was a teenager, and he mentioned that there was such a thing - but I never got up the nerve to contact them. Then back in 1996 I was reading SFX and there was a mention that you could get the 1992 Proceedings cheap if you joined for a year. I thought, why not, and wrote to Salesman - who sent me a very nice reply. Within six months I was volunteering to be Librarian (all those extra books to read) and my downfall was complete.

4. What do you enjoy most about your work?
Using what I know to help people find what they want - whether it's the right invitations for their wedding or just the right pen refill.

5. How did you encounter Live Journal?
I joined Live Journal pretty much just to follow a WIP (Work in Progress - a long fanfic being posted in parts), it was the easiest way to make sure I didn't miss a part. It wasn't until I met elanor_isolda that I really started using it to interact with people and actually posting myself.

alitalf asked me

1. Apart from Tolkien, what book(s) / writer(s) have had the greatest influence on you?
That's a really difficult question - so many to choose from. Maybe Rosemary Sutcliffe, for inspiring my love of history, and Terrance Dicks, for my love of sci-fi - Doctor Who has a lot to answer for. :-)

2. What is your favourite; type of music / band / singer?
I like a really wide range of music, but most often with female voices. My favourites at the moment include Nightwish, Sarah McLachlan, Loreena McKennitt and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

3. What kind of things do you like to do on holiday?
Visiting places of interest (mostly historic). I don't mind sitting on a beach for a couple of hours - provided I have a book - but I couldn't imagine spending a whole holiday doing it.

4. Who is your favourite Tolkien character?
Eowyn. As a young reader I admired her heroism, but as I've grew older I came to appreciate her as a more complex character, who learns and grows in the course of her story. I also have a strong soft spot for Faramir.

5. What is your favourite drink?
White wine, probably, though I enjoy cider on a hot day, provided it's not too sweet. Oh, and coffee, which I drink a lot more of than any alcoholic drink.

Comments

[sally_maria]

Oh and thanks for playing. :-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

No problem!