*Precursory note: This is part of something Scott and Co. started i their journals-- the idea is people come up with five interview questions for their friends to answer, the interviewees post the questions and their responses in their journals and then ask five questions of the former interviewer. It's like the grown up version of those "Would you rather..." games kids play in middle school. Anyway, if anyone has questions for me, post them in the comments section of this post and I'll answer them and come up with questions. Scott, you questions will be in this comment section as well)*
Scott's interview with Jen (Jen's answers in italics)
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Damn! I missed the rumor mill!!!! Now I'll have to settle for giving you these interview questions!!!
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1.) What is your dream? (note: I didn't say goal. I want your dreams.)
Many of my dreams are goals in disguise, and I think the opposite works as well. But one in particular, something I'd love to do but never will for reasons that are pretty obvious, is I'd love to just run away and disappear for a while. Just get in the car early one morning and leave everything behind, run away to somewhere I've never been before, see where the road takes me. To me, that's the ultimate adventure: just go to some random place entirely different from anywhere you've been before, to strip yourself of the comfort of familiarity and really experience life. Obviously, this will have to remain a dream, just because people would go totally ballistic and panic if I actually carried through on this. I couldn't do that to the people I care about.
2.) Have you ever had a recurring dream? If so, what did it entail and what possible meaning could it have?
I often have recurring dreams, and recently did a journal post on one. Sometimes they're things that actually happen in waking life later; I get those sorts of dreams a lot. But some are more symbolic: one recurring dream I've had since I was in high school always started out with me sitting with my friend Rob (B) in the front pew of this huge, immaculate church. I mean, this place is like a richly done cathedral- polished hard wood pews, black marble floor, gigantic stained glass windows with sunlight just pouring in. I'm happy about something and chattering away, but he's sitting silently next to me and not responding to a word I say. He's looking sullen at first, then more and more sad until finally tears start coming out of his eyes. I ask him what's wrong, but he just shakes his head and says nothing. I get the feeling he can't even hear me. So I start looking around, I notice other friends sitting solomnly a few pews away, but they don't hear me either. I feel very confused as to why everyone is so sad when I'm so happy. Someone is talking at the pulpit, my high school physics teacher, but I can't make out his words. The smell of flowers is almost overwhelming now, I go to a highly polished mahogany casket and read the brass plate: Jennifer Kalgren, aged 23 years. This is where the dream changes slightly- sometimes the script is curly, and then I wake up. Other times, the letters are in a block-like script, and I turn around to find the whole church filled with ghosts of the already dead before I wake up (they all look solemn, too). It's pretty creepy. Anyway, I like to think that this dream is symbolic of change in my future (marriage maybe? The death of the single Jen as the new Mrs. Jen is born?), rather than a premonition, though the "age 23" thing is weird because I've been having this dream since I was a senior in high school.
3.) Is there something or someone you wish you regretted but don't?
I wish I regretted my actions in regards to two people formerly regarded as friends, because in both cases they involved breaking promises of secrecy and I don't often do that.So I want to regret that, but I don't because in both cases those secrets were about them actively engaging in activities to hurt other people I care about. The question is which would be a bigger break of loyalty: breaking my promises to them, or if I'd have kept those promises knowing that my other friends would be hurt as a result? While I'm not proud of my actions, I still feel I made the right choice, so I don't really have any regrets about my decision.
4.) If Mr. Johnson leaves his house at 2 pm and is driving at 25 mph, and his friend Bill lives 30 miles away, leaves at 3 pm. and is traveling at 35 mph, what time will they pass each other on the street? (I have always been curious how you solve problems like this)
I'm going to make some assumptions here and say that Johnson is traveling toward Bill and Bill traveling toward Johnson on the same road (otherwise they might never meet each other), that the rates of speed are constant, and that we don't have to worry about other traffic considerations like stop signs and the like. The question really deals with what happens in two separate segments of time: How far Johnson gets in the first hour, and then what happens from that time until the two friends meet. Since Johnson is moving 25 miles an hour, at 3 pm he his only 5 miles away from Bill's home (30mi-25mi = 5 mi). Now, as Johnson is moving at 25 mph, that means he's traveling (roughly) .417 miles each minute (25/60 = .417), and by the same idea Bill is traveling .5 miles per minute. At 3:01, then, Bill is .5 miles from his home while Johnson is 25.417 miles from his and there are 5-.5-.417= 4.083 miles between Johnson and Bill. At 3:02, by same idea, there are now 3.166 miles between them; at 3:03, 2.249; at 3:04, 1.332; at 3:05, .415; and finally, at 3:06 they'll pass each other. If you want to be more specific, it would be at about 3:06 and around 27 seconds, since they'd pass each other not quite halfway through the minute.
5.) What are the top five things you want to do before you die?
Wow, the top five? Hmm...in no particular order...I want to travel the world, become a semi-famous writer (i.e. people read my stuff and think and grow from it, but without scrutinizing my every move), become one of the premier historians of my day, hang backstage at a Sister Hazel concert, and learn to play the piano.
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