One of Sarafina's Deep Memes
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femkes_follies* Leave me a casual comment of no particular significance, like a lyric to your current favorite song, or your favorite kind of sandwich, maybe your favorite game. Any remark, meaningless or not.
* I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
* Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
* Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
* When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
1. Where did you grow up?
2. Why did you decide to become a DVM?
3. Do you have any long term SCA goals? If so, what are they?
4. Are you going to try for more children?
5. Are you in your dream job? If not, what would you rather be doing?
1. I grew up in a small town called Swartz Creek, just outside of Flint. I spent a lot of the summers and vacation time in my parents' hometown of Charlevoix.
2. It was less "decide" than "fall into." I was intending to do a PhD in genetics. But the more I got into research, the less I liked it. Private research was so cut throat scientists at Dow lock up their notes at night. And I'm not really cut out for Academia - I'm much, much to conservative and would never toe the appropriate screamingly left-wing line of most Universities. At that point I had a couple of choices - A. continue and be miserable, as well as locked into a job that required me to live in or near a big city, probably on the East Coast; B. Quit at a Bachelor's and take a job as a nutritionalist for Cargill Feeds; C. Change directions completely - Eeeeek!!; D. Go with the Medical option. Still able to make a direct transition, but able to pretty much get a job anywhere. I had been determined NOT to for years, because my older sister had gone to Vet School, and I was well and truly sick of comparison. But it was the least evil of the options from where I was sitting.
3. Yes, I have some goals. A few are currently between Darling and I, as they are somewhat un-Humble and we choose not to share at the moment. A few are in my head, as even Darling wouldn't quite get it. Shorter term, I want to create and be a resource for Dutch costume. I'd like to get a web page up, and manage to create enough garb to be able to show what can be done with it. It's a BIG, BIG project, and I anticipate that it will take me years. I'll probably step down as Regional Signet within the next year, and maybe even take a brief or partial Scribal Sabbatical. I think that Scribes and Signets in the MK have the most thankless job in the society. Yes, they get called up at Court. But of the 60+ Court pieces I've done, I can count on one hand the number of actual "thank you's" I've gotten. Especially given the expense, hours, and sometimes lost sleep when the Crown is bad about getting lists out in a timely manner. So I need to step away for a bit and recover my love for it. I might get back into book heraldry. I've been neglecting the Academy of Saint Gabriel shamefully. I just don't have the concentration for report writing at that level at the moment. The whole peerage question is largely out of my hands anyway, so I don't worry too much about it.
4. Yes. I think there's actually a bit of divine intervention that's sort of prevented us before now (what with insurance lacks, and other more mundane things). We didn't know 3 years ago that Anneliese would still be so high maintenance. But that's the intention. Which will be another bit of a challenge for me SCA-wise. I don't quite buy the "pregnant women stayed home" line, and I think you ought to be able to make any era maternity-compatible. I shall make an effort to find out. ;-)
5. Nope. Boy do I need a sabbatical. But I couldn't tell you what my dream job IS. There are a lot of things that I like doing, that I would probably hate to do every day. I'm starting to think everybody has a gift. And sometimes that gift is the ability to HAVE a single, all-consuming passion for something. I do have some gifts, and that is not one of them. I did consider and discard a couple of careers Imight have enjoyed, but which were more difficult to find employment in: editor, and museum curator.
* I will respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
* Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
* Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in your own post.
* When others respond with a desultory comment, you will ask them five questions.
1. Where did you grow up?
2. Why did you decide to become a DVM?
3. Do you have any long term SCA goals? If so, what are they?
4. Are you going to try for more children?
5. Are you in your dream job? If not, what would you rather be doing?
1. I grew up in a small town called Swartz Creek, just outside of Flint. I spent a lot of the summers and vacation time in my parents' hometown of Charlevoix.
2. It was less "decide" than "fall into." I was intending to do a PhD in genetics. But the more I got into research, the less I liked it. Private research was so cut throat scientists at Dow lock up their notes at night. And I'm not really cut out for Academia - I'm much, much to conservative and would never toe the appropriate screamingly left-wing line of most Universities. At that point I had a couple of choices - A. continue and be miserable, as well as locked into a job that required me to live in or near a big city, probably on the East Coast; B. Quit at a Bachelor's and take a job as a nutritionalist for Cargill Feeds; C. Change directions completely - Eeeeek!!; D. Go with the Medical option. Still able to make a direct transition, but able to pretty much get a job anywhere. I had been determined NOT to for years, because my older sister had gone to Vet School, and I was well and truly sick of comparison. But it was the least evil of the options from where I was sitting.
3. Yes, I have some goals. A few are currently between Darling and I, as they are somewhat un-Humble and we choose not to share at the moment. A few are in my head, as even Darling wouldn't quite get it. Shorter term, I want to create and be a resource for Dutch costume. I'd like to get a web page up, and manage to create enough garb to be able to show what can be done with it. It's a BIG, BIG project, and I anticipate that it will take me years. I'll probably step down as Regional Signet within the next year, and maybe even take a brief or partial Scribal Sabbatical. I think that Scribes and Signets in the MK have the most thankless job in the society. Yes, they get called up at Court. But of the 60+ Court pieces I've done, I can count on one hand the number of actual "thank you's" I've gotten. Especially given the expense, hours, and sometimes lost sleep when the Crown is bad about getting lists out in a timely manner. So I need to step away for a bit and recover my love for it. I might get back into book heraldry. I've been neglecting the Academy of Saint Gabriel shamefully. I just don't have the concentration for report writing at that level at the moment. The whole peerage question is largely out of my hands anyway, so I don't worry too much about it.
4. Yes. I think there's actually a bit of divine intervention that's sort of prevented us before now (what with insurance lacks, and other more mundane things). We didn't know 3 years ago that Anneliese would still be so high maintenance. But that's the intention. Which will be another bit of a challenge for me SCA-wise. I don't quite buy the "pregnant women stayed home" line, and I think you ought to be able to make any era maternity-compatible. I shall make an effort to find out. ;-)
5. Nope. Boy do I need a sabbatical. But I couldn't tell you what my dream job IS. There are a lot of things that I like doing, that I would probably hate to do every day. I'm starting to think everybody has a gift. And sometimes that gift is the ability to HAVE a single, all-consuming passion for something. I do have some gifts, and that is not one of them. I did consider and discard a couple of careers Imight have enjoyed, but which were more difficult to find employment in: editor, and museum curator.
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Date: 2007-09-16 07:27 pm (UTC)2. Where do you want to be in 10 years?
3. How did you come to be so passionate about organic food?
4. Has your home-bodiness stemmed from a need to provide quality fooda dn things for your family? Or is it more for the personal satisfaction?
5. Have you ever thought about raising livestock and a hobby farm/cottage business lifestyle?
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Date: 2007-10-05 04:20 am (UTC)1. I spent awhile trying to think of one time where she was really cute, but I'm not sure that there's just one. There's the time she was at my mom's house and had to go to the hospital for stitches (cut on her forehead), and when she called me to tell me the story, she never mentioned the stitches and instead told me all about the red popsicle they gave her. There's the period of time when she decided that she was too old for me to help her take a bath (5 or so), so she'd bathe with the door open and I'd sit downstairs and fret. My way of checking on her without her getting mad about it was to sing the first line in a song and she'd sing back the second line. So sneaky. There was the time she begged to help me clean the bathroom because she loved me so much and wanted to do what I was doing... she even scrubbed the toilet. Lately, it's less "aww" and more proud moments where she stands up for someone when people are picking on them, or bakes cookies for her friends when they're sad or sick.
2. This is pretty much the Elephant in the Room question. I want to get married and have more kids (possibly adoption), but John doesn't... even though we've been together for 7 years and own a house together. He's committed, but somehow gun shy about marriage, and still unsure about kids even though he adores Lorna. So we don't spend a lot of time talking about that 'round these parts. Also, I'm hoping to find a new career that I really love and be doing that.
3. I used to garden with my grandpa and he used manure and egg shells and things so it's what I knew. Then when I got a house and wanted a garden I started looking at my options and it seemed like the better choice. Less danger to my pets, less worry about inhaling the chemicals, or hurting my skin with it. Plus, I'm still a bit of a treehugger. I don't wear hemp clothes or refuse to flush my toilet, but I do pay attention to the reports about the chemicals that they find in the lakes and things. It just makes more sense to me.
4. I wish. In fact, I got so fed up at my last job (as the design lead on some high level Ford website junk) that I'd come home and cry or sulk. I was miserable, and making my family miserable. My entire department was full of men, and my boss was a jerk. Since I was the only girl, it was my job to do things like clean the office, organize the file cabinets, water the plants, and the occasional baking of cookies or babysitting the clients children (I wish I was kidding), on top of my normal work load... among other issues. So I decided to quit and spend the summer with Lorna. And then I developed IBS and Anxiety at the same time. They feed off each other, so most days I felt so nauseous or anxious that I couldn't even leave the house. Several daily panic attacks and the whole works. I'm doing WAY better now. I've learned to control the anxiety through healthy eating and breathing exercies and stuff, so thankfully I didn't have to go on any serious meds. And the IBS is still an issue, but I mostly control it through diet, and it never gets as bad as it was in the past.
BUT, I also love being at home with Lorna, and spending the day gardening and canning and baking and doing that homemaker type stuff. It's strangely rewarding. Still, now that things are better-ish, I'm thinking about finding some kind of job. I feel like a mooch living off John. Even if I work part time at the LYS or something, I'd feel better earning my own spending money. I just need to decide what I want to do. I'm not excited about design anymore at all, so I've been looking around at all the schooling options, and keeping my eye out for a help wanted sign at the LYS.
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Date: 2007-10-05 04:21 am (UTC)5. Definitely. John's a vegetarian, so we'd be doing somthing with gardening or possibly eggs or fiber animals vs. raising meat animals. I really want chickens and maybe alpacas, and it'd be great to have a stand at the weekend farmer's market or something. My big dream is to own a teahouse/yarn shop combo, and come home to a small hobby farm (full of my adopted children) at night, but that's so far from possible right now that I'm trying to be realistic and think a bit smaller.