March Questions Day 19-26
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bearshorty19 How do you think your life would have worked out if you had married your childhood sweetheart, or how did it work out if you did?
I didn't really have a childhood sweetheart. There was a boy who lived on the fifth floor of my building and who was in my class in school that maybe, possibly could have been more but I left for America when I was almost 13. If I stayed in Belarus it would have been a completely different life - I would have gone to college for math probably or teaching. And I can't really say how it would have worked out with him since I don't know him as an adult other than he is married now.
20 Were you ever in a fan club?
I don't think so. Do online forums and participation in fanfic fests count?
21 What was your worst work-related screw-up?
When I was in grad school I was once a TA for a Global history class. I had to teach one section a week before the kids went to the main lecture twice a week. One day I was busy in my office in the history building doing something when I thought to myself, "Why do I have so much time this morning?" And I realized that it completely slipped my mind that I had a class to teach. I rushed to the next building where the class was but it was 15 minutes into the class so everyone has left. I went to the Professor who taught the class to let him know what happened. During the lecture later that day, my students came to me to ask what happened and I told them that I had an unexpected emergency - sorry about that. Not that they were sad at all to miss the class.
22 What is your favourite unsolved crime?
I'm not a big giant crime fan so I don't know that many of them. I guess a definitive answer to the Princes of the Tower would be nice.
23 If only one artefact of human civilisation were to survive to be discovered by future aliens what do you think would be the funniest/most confusing human-created object to sum us up as a species?
I once read either a story or something where the aliens found a toilet and thought it was a temple. So that probably would be my choice.
24 Have you ever seen a famous TV animal in real life?
No
25 Have you ever seen a famous TV vehicle in real life?
No
26 If there were a dream police force - a crime-fighting unit that investigated illegal things that happened in dreams - would you join?
Illegal things that happen in dreams? What can possibly be illegal in dreams? And if one dreams of something illegal, it's not real and people are entitled to their dreams. So I would join the protest movement against such a police force.
I didn't really have a childhood sweetheart. There was a boy who lived on the fifth floor of my building and who was in my class in school that maybe, possibly could have been more but I left for America when I was almost 13. If I stayed in Belarus it would have been a completely different life - I would have gone to college for math probably or teaching. And I can't really say how it would have worked out with him since I don't know him as an adult other than he is married now.
20 Were you ever in a fan club?
I don't think so. Do online forums and participation in fanfic fests count?
21 What was your worst work-related screw-up?
When I was in grad school I was once a TA for a Global history class. I had to teach one section a week before the kids went to the main lecture twice a week. One day I was busy in my office in the history building doing something when I thought to myself, "Why do I have so much time this morning?" And I realized that it completely slipped my mind that I had a class to teach. I rushed to the next building where the class was but it was 15 minutes into the class so everyone has left. I went to the Professor who taught the class to let him know what happened. During the lecture later that day, my students came to me to ask what happened and I told them that I had an unexpected emergency - sorry about that. Not that they were sad at all to miss the class.
22 What is your favourite unsolved crime?
I'm not a big giant crime fan so I don't know that many of them. I guess a definitive answer to the Princes of the Tower would be nice.
23 If only one artefact of human civilisation were to survive to be discovered by future aliens what do you think would be the funniest/most confusing human-created object to sum us up as a species?
I once read either a story or something where the aliens found a toilet and thought it was a temple. So that probably would be my choice.
24 Have you ever seen a famous TV animal in real life?
No
25 Have you ever seen a famous TV vehicle in real life?
No
26 If there were a dream police force - a crime-fighting unit that investigated illegal things that happened in dreams - would you join?
Illegal things that happen in dreams? What can possibly be illegal in dreams? And if one dreams of something illegal, it's not real and people are entitled to their dreams. So I would join the protest movement against such a police force.