Sometimes writing a blog can feel like throwing tales out into the void. I’m lucky in that people do comment on my blogs, but that just gives me a tantalizing glimpse into your minds. So this is to expand on that. I welcome anyone to answer, whether you’ve ever read my blog before or not.
Tell me about you…
- What are the 3 best things that happened to you this week?
- What are the 3 worst things to happen to you this week?
- What secret skills do you have?
- What would your superpower be?
- What would you like to change about yourself?
- What would you like to change about your life?
- You have a time machine, you can use it three times, when would you go?
- What subject do you wish you knew more about?
- What do you think of as your job? Do you like your job?
- What is in your pockets?
- What is your favourite TV program/ magazine/ book?
My answers
What are the 3 best things that happened to you this week?
In no particular order
- I finished rewriting my book, which is why I have time to cogitate on blogs like these.
- My boss liked how I pruned a fig tree, said it was perfect.
- A good friend of mine is getting married! She’s dreading it!
What are the 3 worst things to happen to you this week?
- Had an argument with a colleague, I think because he didn’t like how I pruned my fig tree and so he picked a fight over something else.
- I had one of those uneasy dreams, where people close to me are acting weird as if they’ve been taken over by aliens. Spent the day feeling nervous.
- I’ve got this new niggling pain in my back, I think I may have started sitting wonky.
What secret (useless) skills do you have?
I can write backwards, upside-down and then backwards and upside down at the same time.
What would your superpower be?
The ability to show people how others see them. I have a suspicion that nastiness is often a result of people not realising they are being nasty; that anxiety comes from believing other people actually notice and care about what you do when they don’t; and people I love don’t seem to have a clue about how much everyone else respects them. So I’d want to solve all these problems with my truth lasers.
Either that or really springy feet that I could use to leap my way around buildings and up trees.
What would you like to change about yourself?
It’s a dull answer, but I’d just like to get rid of anxiety and stress-based exhaustion. They taint friendships, adventures, hobbies, work. They improve nothing.
What would you like to change about your life?
To have some success with writing. To own a cat. Or a dog.
You have a time machine, you can use it three times, when would you go?
- Assuming my time machine has a few attachments that allow me to survive in inhospitable landscapes and translate speech into something I understand. A few hundred million years into the past to see all the bizarre ocean animals, the first plants and fungi to evolve.
- Ancient Greece, the time of Aristotle. It seems such a sophisticated time, but with many curious twists to their politics and morals.
- The future – I’d probably regret it, but the curiosity would be too much. Are we heading for the destruction of the human race? Will the changes to our environment lead to an evolutionary burst of new animals?
What subject do you wish you knew more about?
History. I have only fragments and no way of holding it together, because my knowledge is so patchy.
What do you think of as your job? Do you like doing it?
I added the first question for people who do a job that means nothing to them, but do something else that’s very important. Or people not currently employed, who of course still have passions and labour that occupy their time.
For me, I think of work as the thing I get paid for. I’m a gardener, I love it, but the place I work is unusually complicated and competitive for gardening and I find that stressful sometimes.
What is your favourite TV program/ magazine/ book?
Currently Community (although in the past it was 4400 and Red Dwarf)
New Scientist
I’m not a great reader these days, back when I was smarter it was Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington and The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts by Louis de Berniere.
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