Question a Day: August 2-8

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I swear I’ll get back to these daily.

 

2 Was there a toy you really wanted as a child, but never got?

Typically, I got the toys I wanted, even if it wasn’t right away.  I was taught from an early age that commercials were only trying to sell you things and were generally lying, so I never really went that into toys, unless they were really special.

3 What hobby or activity would you do more if the internet and TV went down for a month?

Cry, probably.  It’s not that I couldn’t handle it, but that’s where all my friends are.  Assuming I could still checkin on them, I guess I’d just read and write more.

4 Are you a Baby Boomer, Generation Jones, Gen X, Millennial, or younger? What’s a generalization people make about your generation cohort that’s all wrong?

I’m a millennial, going on 30.  I think the biggest generalization is that we’re all teens/college students who don’t understand the world and have never had significant trauma in our lives.  Like, bruh.

5 Would you rather be the main character in a fantasy story, a sci-fi story, or a horror story?

Honestly, probably sci-fi, but nothing dystopian.  I like fantasy, but what I’d love is a cross between fantasy and sci-fi.  I don’t like the typical “ancient/old England” tropes, but I love dragons.   I’m chronically ill, so I’d rather have the helpful tech, but nothing that seems destructive.

6 Did you choose your current profession/job or somehow just end up in it?

Basically I fell into it when my other job laid me off, but it’s goid, because temping gives a lot of varied experience.

 

7 Whether you grew up any sort of religious or not, do you, now on an adult level, still share the same faith or lack of one/attend the same church or denomination/practice the same spiritual system that you had growing up?

I wasn’t raised as anything as a kid, but I have gone through lots of religious phases.  I started with Wicca, but the emphasis on sex bugged me (turns out I’m asexual) and the focus on the Divine Feminine also displeased me (turns out I’m trans).  The I went for Hellentistic Polytheism, but again, too much focus on strong gender roles (as if gods have use for such things).  I have a bit of a pash for Catholic trimmings and trappings, but too much historical knowledge to take Christianity as fact.  I rather like Santa Muerte, but I’m more in my own mix of things now.  Death is truly the ultimate and I have a thing for Death as a mothering figure (she takes all her children in the end, good or bad or neither).  So, I have an altar I’m going to put up with Hestia (goddess of the hearth and home), Demeter (powerful goddess of seasons and harvest), La Virgen de Guadalupe, and Santa Muerte.

8 If money, time, and energy were no object, what university degree would you go back and get, just for fun?

Honestly, I really want to go back for linguistics and study that, bit I’m worried I’ll never have the time or money again to really devote myself.  But that’s what I’d do.  If the above was true for any amount for a degree, I’d become a forensic pathologist.  I’ve always been fascinated with death and we really need for FPs to cut down on our backlog of autopsies.