Knitting Therapy

The Interview Meme
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your LJ.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on.....


1. You're the Amazing Spying Nun ;) and you've done so well on your first 10 misions that you get to pick your next one. What do you pick and how does it go?
(for those who don't know: the spying nun comes from my grandmother's insistence that, since I was majoring in religious studies, I must be bound for the cloisters... and the whole CIA thing.)

I'd definitely choose to go undercover in a nunnery in Jerusalem, perhaps to keep an eye on the Christian community in Israel. I"d want to see how the communities (especially the orthodox and catholic) try to influence what's going on there. Perhaps in my chosen mission, I'd discover a plot to off the Palestinian president - and, of course, I'd manage to stop it and expose the horrible element clogging the path to peace.

2. What is behind the veil?

The veil is clearly a doorway into a different dimension - not death, something else entirely. It's not a bad place - but, perhaps it's a place without magic. That's why noone's ever returned from beyond... they simply can't.

3. Describe yourself as if you were a Mary Sue (any fandom.)

(Harry Potter fandom)

The empty chair at the head table must be for the new DADA teacher, Harry mused. Before he could consider any longer, the doors of the Great Hall swung open and the silhouette of a woman appeared. Harry supposed this must be the new DADA teacher, then. He only hoped she wasn't like Umbridge! However, as she stalked down the aisle between the Hufflepuff and Gryffindor tables, Umbridge was the last person on Harry's mind. The newest teacher for the cursed position was shorter than average - certainly shorter than Hermione, even, with curly honey-brown hair that bounced as she made her way to the table. Her bearing made her stature irrelevant as even the Slytherins ceased their chatter as she passed. Ron leaned over and whispered to Harry, "I hope that isn't who I think it is."

"Who?" Harry asked. Her black formal robes were reminiscent of Snape at his worst, and even her nod to Professor Dumbledore seemed stiff and unwelcoming. Harry didn't think Defense would be helpful this year, either.

But Ron had something else to say as she rounded the table. "I think that's Sarabeth Walton, the famous Auror! She's a separatist - after the last war, she went undercover in the Muggle world! I thought she'd renounced magic!"

From the woman's attire, Harry thought Ron must be wrong. However, Professor Dumbledore stood and lifted his hands for silence. The new first years were the last to be quiet; Hermione had to hush them all before Dumbledore could begin. "I'd like to welcome you all to another year at Hogwarts. Before we begin the feast, let me give a few announcements. First of all, I would like to introduce our newest Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Some of you may know her name - she is an Auror of some repute, and joins us after some ten years in retirement. Please welcome Professor Sarabeth Walton."

Or, were my intro to be written a la last year's Mary Sue disasters...
Once upon a time, there was a beauuutiful princess named Sarah! And she was a witch, and she had a wand, and a cat, and purple eyes! ANd one day she fell through a magical portal and met Remus Lupin, and they both liked teaching, and fell in luuuv and kissed and had wolfie babies THE EnD!1!!11!one!!

4. If you could make one myth, legend, or fandom world (Potterverse, Buffyverse, Middle Earth, Star Trek, etc. ad finitum) real, which would it be and why?
Definitely Star Trek. Not because it's my favorite fandom - that would be Potterverse - but because if Star Trek were true, there would be real hope for curing the ills of humanity. We'd know that we don't blow up the planet, because it'll still be here in 2374, or whatever.

5. If you were president, what would you do on your last day in office?
Depends on who my successor is! If it's another Democrat, I think I'd write a letter to leave in the Oval, imparting a bit of wisdom gained over the past four/eight years (you know, never start a land war in asia, etc). If a Republican, I think I'd help the staff pull a prank on them, a la Clinton's staff removing the W's from the computers. Maybe I'd have the famous paintings of presidents temporarily replaced with Star Trek posters, or something. That'd be amusing. Lastly, I'd tour the white house one last time. I'd let it be a day for the family, rather than a day of state. A time to let me and the rest of the staff get ready to move on to something else.


Okay, I'll try to come up with good questions...

ALso, I can read a whole sentence in Harry Potter in Arabic! Wooooot!! It's about Dudley. BUT, it's a sentence of more than 10 words!