Hannah is our second interview and I think ought to be very interesting, considering she lives in the Netherlands but hails from New York. Some herring with attitude, it strikes me.

I will ask her five questions below and she will respond on her blog, let me know, and I will link to her answers. Actually, though, I'm posing six questions in case she doesn't want to answer any one question. So, Hannah, you can pick and choose or answer them all. I leave it up to you, entirely.

Anyway, here are the questions and a link to the rules, which Hannah has to include on her page:

1. How many magazines do you subscribe to? Which one is your favorite and why? Which one is your guilty pleasure?

2. How old were you when you moved to the Netherlands and what was the process of cultural adjustment like for you? The biggest shock?

3. If you went skydiving, would you jump or would they have to push you and why?

4. Why do you blog? What do you get out of it?

5. What is the biggest risk you've ever taken and how did it turn out?

6. What piece of literature has had the greatest impact on your life and why? Should I read it, too?

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1 Hey, I'm not from New York! I've been there exactly once: when I stopped in La Gaurida (sp?) airport! :-P Going to answer questions!

Posted by: Hannah at March 31, 2005 11:37 AM (0tNIc)

2 Oops, my bad. Sorry about that. I wonder why I thought you were from NY?

Posted by: RP at March 31, 2005 01:24 PM (LlPKh)

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Indigo has answered her interview questions and I highly recommend going to read them. At a minimum, you will learn something really cool about traditional Indian dance.

Thanks, Indigo!

Tune in tomorrow for the next subject.

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1 Nice questions for Indigo... can't wait for the next subject. Wait a sec - that's me, isn't it?

Posted by: Hannah at March 31, 2005 08:51 AM (zr6mn)

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Indigo boldly stepped up to the plate for the first interview. I will ask her five questions below and she will respond on her blog, let me know, and I will link to her answers. Actually, though, I'm posing six questions in case she doesn't want to answer any one question. So, Indigo, you can pick and choose or answer them all. I leave it up to you, entirely.

The Questions:

1. What was the biggest surprise to you about coming to NY? What do you miss most about Hawaii?

2. You are a dancer in a particular field I am only a tiny bit aware of and thatÂ’s only because of you. Can you explain the field and what you derive from it?

3. Have your politics changed since Sept. 11? If so, how?

4. Has the internet brought people closer together or made it easier to maintain isolation?

5. Why do you blog? What do you get out of it?

6. What bad habit do you have that you wish you didn't?

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So, this should be fun. Our interviewees have been (self)selected and include, in the order they responded:

1. Indigo

2. Hannah

3. Dee

4. Angie

5. Helen

and because he asked so nicely to be included

6. John.

These people represent a really interesting cross section and I think it will be great fun to interview them. Stay tuned as I invent some questions for their amusement.

The rules are that you answer the questions on your site, include the rules as I did in my link, and I will link to your responses here on my blog.

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Kathy, at Cake Eater Chronicles, has kindly consented to interview me and even more kindly did not impose any time limits on my answers. So, a day later than I would have liked, I herewith reply below the jump. Here are the questions:

1. You're a corporate litigator. The lawyers I used to work with would occasionally become tired of cleaning up other people's messes---and would whine about it. If you could, what would you say to a particularly idiotic client if you didn't have to fear the loss of their billable hours?

2. You live and work in the NYC metropolitan area. For those of us who have never been, explain the pros and cons of living and working in that city.

3. If you could become a cat burglar, and were able to access (albeit illegally) any musuem in the world, knowing that a. what you're choosing to steal is for your personal pleasure and b. you wouldn't be caught, what piece of art would you choose to steal and why?

4. You're an anonymous blogger. Why did you choose to blog anonymously? Do you feel it gives you more leeway to write certain things than if you attached your name to your work? Do you ever feel the compulsion to fib to your readers, knowing full well that they'd have no idea if you were telling the truth or not?

5. Name your all-time favorite book. Why do you love it so?

By the way, this is part of a meme (a concept I find fascinating, like the way a bad virus takes over the body) and here are the rules:

Leave me a comment saying “interview me”. The first five commenters will be the participants. I will respond by asking you five questions. You will update your blog/site with the answers to the questions. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. (Write your own questions or borrow some.)

If you're interested in my answers to Kathy's excellent questions, read on in extended entry below:
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1 And thank you for answering them so well! Great job!

Posted by: Kathy at March 29, 2005 11:10 AM (Tosbv)

2 i wouldn't mind an interview considering i've been plum out of inspiration for weeks.... perhaps you could jumpstart somethin for me.. (?) =) indy

Posted by: Indigo at March 29, 2005 02:07 PM (5PkrR)

3 ooooh, me, me, me! And I loved reading your answers!

Posted by: Hannah at March 29, 2005 02:09 PM (0d7ig)

4 I loved it! Great idea!

Posted by: dee at March 29, 2005 02:46 PM (sZnML)

5 I'm game too.

Posted by: Angie at March 29, 2005 02:55 PM (FlWAT)

6 Count me in

Posted by: Helen at March 29, 2005 03:25 PM (1i2pB)

7 And I was sure you'd pick the Laughing Cavalier as your 'stolen pleasure'. Thanks for sharing your answers!

Posted by: GrammarQueen at March 29, 2005 04:48 PM (XzHwx)

8 Excellent interview. Yep, the architecture in the city is great. And yer a Munch fan! Kewl!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 29, 2005 11:01 PM (shq3M)

9 Interesting answers. Too bad I'm the ninth commenter; I would have been interested to see which questions you would send my way.

Posted by: JohnL at March 30, 2005 01:06 AM (gplif)

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