First, I'd like to thank everyone who participated in my Johari window meme. If any of you want to contribute, but feel too inhibited to put your name on something completely honest, feel free to contribute and leave random letters rather than an LJ name - kjhsd will work just fine, and I'm just too much of a meme-geek. So, anonymous is fine.
Second, Esperanto is fun. I've gotten back into an Esperanto kick, taking the free 10-lesson course based on the Esperanto League's old postal course, as well as downloading the multimedia program Kurso de Esperanto (also free).
Kurso just rocks. Instead of all reading and writing, the course is innundated with people speaking (and singing) Esperanto, which seems to tap different neural pathways for me. After a half-hour lesson, I feel like I'm in a different space, my mind echoing changing phrases and flowing with different syntax. I feel like studying language engages parts of my brain that make me feel good, make me feel awake and creative. It may just be the stimulation that comes from trying something new, but then it may be something directly related to the language itself - some studies suggest that studying Esperanto first makes learning other languages easier -- I'm curious...
If there is someone (or if there are someones) on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
Interview questions from celticfeministw 1. All people have the capacity to be selfless and selfish. What do you consider to be one of your most selfless acts? What do you consider one of your most selfish? 2. Assuming one can truly what know his/her biggest fear is, what would you consider your biggest fear? 3. I quoted Mussolini in my journal once. He had said "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Do you believe this is true? Do you see it happening here in America? Provide an example to support either argument. 4. In your interests, you list "my cat." What interests you about your cat? How did you come to have your cat in your life? 5. Also in your interests, you list "chocolate." What's your favorite chocolate (i.e. white, dark, milk, etc.) Related to that - what's your favorite chocolate "dish"?
Next, interview questions from ghoulchick 1) So tell me more about this bookcrossing business. So you send a book out into the world and then... ? Is it supposed to come back to you? Is there some way you track what happens to the book, like they track dollar bills at Where's George? How does it differ from my field site, where they hand out books to kids at office visits? Also, have you met astrablue from my friends list? She's doing bookcrossings, too. 2) I've known you for a good while now. What don't I know about you that you wish I did know? Or that you think I ought to know? 3) What is your favorite thing about being married/handfasted/shacked-up with my lovely sister-in-law? 4) Would you be more interested in interviewing someone from the distant past, or the distant future? Why? 5) I know you love working for The Man. But if you were forced to switch jobs, what would your career path look like?
Interview questions from eirenraevall 1. What is your favorite movie and why? 2. What was the first thing that made you notice _lillassea_ ? 3. What is the first thing you would do if you won the lottery? 4. What does being Pagan Mean to you? 5. What is one lesson you would love to teach to the world?
Interview questions from athanasios 1. What is a source of inspiration for you? 2. Where do you stand politically? Socialist, capitalist, etc... 3. How do you connect with the Gods (Divinity in general)? 4. What is your ideal connection to nature. 5. What virtue do you hold in high regard, yet seem lacking in (and would like to improve)?
chronarchy's meme, it's part of the bargain that I should post this in my LJ:
amused
creative
grateful
chipper
accomplished
sleepy
contemplative