Tag: dailyprompt

List your top 5 favorite fruits.

Pineapple

Cantaloupe

Cherries

Red Grapes

Strawberries

Not too much to say here. The list is the list. Watermelon is a very close runner up.

Have a great night!

What public figure do you disagree with the most?

There are a lot of interesting answers about non-political figures, some addressing particular things the person said. There are also a fair amount of political responses.

In any case, it is basically impossible to answer this question, especially in the current day and age of PR firms, speech writers, and people who give “talking points” to these public figures. I don’t know, nor have I had a conversation with, any of these people. I don’t know what they truly think or what their reasoning is, or the motivation behind their public actions.

Give me a topic, and I can tell you what I do or don’t agree with. But a person…? No. I can’t make that kind of statement without knowing them or their logic.

What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?

This one is so tempting.

I’m going to make the assumption that I will magically have any and all knowledge necessary to not hurt someone out of ignorance about the job or task at hand. That said….

I would choose to be a trauma/emergency surgeon for a day. That was my initial dream career when I graduated high school, so I’d spend a day doing that to gain some insight as to what my life may have been like.

Some honorable mentions:

– Researcher at CERN (for obvious reasons)

– A think tank staff member – that has to be an amazing learning experience!

There are others, but it would take more than a day to see results or have a truly meaningful experience.

List the people you admire and look to for advice…

These two things are not necessarily the same. I can admire someone and still have reasons not to look to them for advice on certain topics. I can also appreciate someone’s knowledge of a particular subject, seek them out for advice on that topic, but not necessarily admire them in a general sense. That said, here is my list of those I both admire and seek advice from:

My father

My grandmother

My husband

My dear friends, whom I will call T and M.

My mentor

As a side note, I feel compelled to speak specifically to the admiration portion of this, as I believe it carries more weight. I admire any person who struggles with and/or wades through piles of shit and does not allow that shit to contaminate their spirit. I admire anyone who has wrestled with their own darkness and come out shining brighter than before. I admire those who can start with nothing and build their dreams from a foundation of tenacity and grit.

And that, my darlings, is that.

Have a great night!

When do you feel most productive?

At work, I feel most productive when left alone with the data, my thoughts and music. Give me the problem details, the parameters for the solution, names of who to contact if I have questions about the data, and then leave me alone.

In my personal life, again, I feel most productive when I am left alone with music to get whatever task done.

Collaboration of any kind is fine, I can play well with others. Team player and all that jazz. But, if it’s crunch time and shit that I am responsible for needs to happen asap? Just leave me be – whatever needs to happen will happen.

What topics do you like to discuss?

Anything math or science related, essentially. I’m not keen on politics or history, but just about anything else is fine.

My favorite topics are physics/astronomy, philosophy, or human biology/medical stuff.

And as a side note, I like to discuss these topics, not listen to someone spout about why their views are right and everyone else who doesn’t share those views is wrong. I aim to understand things, not to blindly accept someone else’s truth. If you’re not willing to entertain questions, I may not be the person to talk to. Just sayin.

How do you unwind after a demanding day?

A few different things can help me with this.

Music

Writing

Dogs

Sit outside and listen to the birds (weather permitting)

A fire pit

Reading

Basically, any activity that doesn’t involve people, especially any people who are expecting shit from me.

Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.

Where does the word “jot” even come from, and how did it come to mean anything having to do with writing?

If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?

I would be Morgaine (Morgan le Fay) from The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I read this book for the first time one summer when I was 13 or 14, and I fell in love with that character. She was immensely strong, followed her own path, and was able to accept things for what they were. She recognized her flaws and vulnerabilities and worked to conquer them, or at the very least, not allow them to defeat her. I wanted to be that strong and that disciplined and that dedicated to myself.

What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most?

As an adult? None, really. Sports have never really been my thing.

As a kid? I loved watching figure skating with my mom. She got really into it. I thought she was amazing because she could ice skate backwards and I could barely stay standing. We watched Scott Hamilton, Brian something or other and the whole Tanya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan thing. My mom loved the couples skating too. That’s really the only Olympic sport I ever really watched/followed.