some monday babbling

[ontology]

Feeling mostly less horrible today, although physically it has not been good at all. Hurrah, more random nausea! And a headache, which hasn't quite gone away yet. I don't mind headaches so much, though, as I've been dealing with them for years, and anyway the caffeine in my headache medication makes me clear-headed and rather cheery for a while. (This also means I will be up late. How unusual.) Mum has been shopping, so there are chocolate chips in the freezer. I dropped off a couple of job applications this afternoon, tried on a dress I may purchase (it is blue-green and knit with buttons and pockets), bought a pair of orange button earrings, and dropped by the Nielsons, where I hung out with Victoria and Jonathan, and received word that there is indeed hope for my computer.

Eventually I need to post about SPN and why I heart it. Er...I could open the floor for Sam-and-Dean-related questions? (That is half serious, mind you.)

Speaking of questions, a meme from lightofjudah

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a very personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed you will ask them 5 questions.

1. Do you prefer being called Banui, Jo, or Jolene?
Honestly, I don't even know. I could probably make a long meta-tastic post about the psychological implications of my name juggling.

2. Tell me about Vienna Teng, anything you like.
Dreaming Through the Noise is my favourite album for starwatching. I have played it alone under the skies twice -- once, far away from any electric lights, huddled on a picnic table with a quilt wrapped all around me. I snuck inside and made a cup of cocoa and stood in front of the cathedral-like window of the lodge we were staying in. There's something about the ephemeral nature of those songs, the way each of them offers a glimpse into someone's story.
 

3. What's your ideal job and why? What did you major in during college?

Oh dear. I have changed my Future Career constantly since I was old enough to know that one was supposed to want to do something when they grew up. When I was five, I wanted to be a missionary-vetrinarian; that quickly gave way to running a house for unwanted animals. These jobs were given up fairly quickly when I realised that I didn't actually like animals all that much. Mostly I've wanted to be a writer, but quite suddenly a few years ago a hunger for filmmaking took hold of me and hasn't let go. When I realised that the things I most want to do with my life are the most unstable, potentially low-paying jobs IN THE UNIVERSE, I desperately began hunting for something I could do that would actually make money while I try to get my foot in the door, and realised that very few things would please me more than being a librarian. (I already have the glasses.) Books! Interaction with people, but not too much! But not too little, or too insignificant! Archiving! Organising! (I like setting things in order, even if my bedroom tells a wholly different tale.) Possibly reading books before they come out! Planning library-related events! Deciding what books to buy! And oh, the courses I would take in librarian school! HISTORY OF PRINTING, I CAN HAS? So, when I go to school next year, this will most likely be the focus of my studies. (Though I am thinking I will just take four years of regular college with emphasis on literature and history, and then a year of graduate school for library science so I can get my degree and be a qualified librarian.) I would also enjoy running a bookshop, possibly baking, and professional free-lance photography.
 

4. What's your favourite book by Madeleine L'Engle?

Two-Part Invention, her autobiography about her marriage. It's one of those books that has changed my life and ways of thinking and percieving and looking-forward in some infinitesimal, incalculable, fundamentally important ways: and it was also the first book to make Madeleine L'Engle real to me. She'd been a favourite writer before; after, she has become my hero. Because of this book I wept when she died.
 

5. Why does your vocabulary sound British?

*laughs* Partially because I am a desperate Anglophile and at least half -- likely more -- of the media I consume is either British or features prominent British characters, and also because most of the books I grew up with were not only British, but half a century old. Even now I keep finding out that certain things that were vicariously huge parts of my childhood no longer exist, no longer exist in quite the same form, or are called by different names. It's only gotten worse since I started reading Harry Potter and watching Doctor Who -- now I'm picking up current English slang, and, because I write fanfiction, I've gotten very good at mimicking it convincingly. It's so fresh and invigorating and fun, the words are, that I can't relegate them only to my writing. :D

Oh dear, the slightly giddy bit of the post-headachey-ness is settling in. I should stop typing before this post becomes very absurd.

Comments

[windandtherain.livejournal.com]

I'm going to look for that book by L'Engle - it sounds very good! :-)

[charismitaine.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'd like to be interviewed, please!

Supernatural = love. Only ten days until the new season!

[everydayjoy.livejournal.com]

Please interview me?

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

Hm. Maybe I should look into library science for grad school. Seeing as I also have NO EARTHLY IDEA what to do with myself, and I truly don't want to go after a PhD in English, which is where my professors are nudging me.

Ooh ooh, pick me! Interview me! ...Not that I can promise to answer in anything resembling a decent time, but. >_<

Heh, I've meant to do a post about Supernatural for ages too, mostly about why I watch it and heart it even though certain elements disturb me, but as with anything else that promises to be long, I haven't.

[suangelita.livejournal.com]

Started S5 of Angel. Wow. At least that b*****d Connor is gone. I. Hate. Him. :P And I <3 Angel, and I <3 Spike, and I <3 Wesley, and I <3 Lorne, and Fred's awesome.

[greyeyedpixie.livejournal.com]

You can interview me if you'd like. :)
I highly recommend studying library science. I love it...my classes are wonderful. :)
English & History are definitely good places to start in your first four years.

[cherise.livejournal.com]

FIRST OF ALL. First of all, I totally thought you were 22-ish and out of college, please excuse my panic attack, I just backtracked through "history of Banui" and you are EIGHT DAYS YOUNGER THAN ME. WOW. Okay.

It's just that last week Ren said you had lived in Boston so I automatically assumed that you had lived there for college and was out, because you were looking for a job, and hi, you sound so mature. And you are so unpretentious.

Anyway. That would be why #3 is worded the way it is. >.>

I'm going to call you Jo! I'm rather fond of a Jo at work, and you have the same spirit she does. though I do like Banui. Where's it from?

That's exactly what I wanted to know about Vienna Teng. ah, thank you.

I'm reading A Circle of Quiet and I love it. I've said before that it's like she encapsulated my soul and all the things I've been going through. :)

On the British thing, I was curious cos I started using British spellings and sayings cos of Harry Potter and Doctor Who got me really familiar with it. :D

Yay, I love these questions! You can ask me if you want -- I know it can be hard seeing as I'm new, so don't feel obligated to. :)

[bonny-kathryn.livejournal.com]

I want to be interviewed, please.

[wanderlight.livejournal.com]

OK, we definitely need to have a talk soon about librarian-ness, 'cause romancandle_ also made a post about it recently, which spurred me to get the contact information for the grad advisor for Library Sciences at my university. (The Library Sciences department is at the top of the Rutherford library, which is this lovely library with four floors of books and a wonderful Reading Room which makes me feel like I am in a proper Old University!) But, um, yes.

I am never really sure whether I should call you Banui or Jolene. ;)

[take-a-sadsong.livejournal.com]

I want to be interviewed! :)