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PROMPT: Out of Place

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Tell us about a time when you felt out of place.
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I feel out of place in social settings pretty much everywhere and always. This, perhaps surprisingly, has made me an excellent and avid traveler because I feel the same level of out of place among a group of people who speak a different native language, practice an unfamiliar religion, and who have different skin and hair characteristics as I would with a group of people who share a common ancestry, went to the same school, and grew up with the same cultural trappings. This creates an internal pressure to go to unfamiliar places, because familiar places offer the same anxiety with none of the learning opportunities, whereas the unfamiliar always offers new lessons.

PROMPT: Sans Computer

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Your life without a computer: what does it look like?
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Less productive but more peaceful… Except, perhaps, for the cursing every time I chiseled a typo into the granite.

PROMPT: Skills

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What skill would you like to learn?
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There are so many. Life is short and there’s so much to learn. There are swim strokes (and related skills) I’d like to pick up, including drownproofing. I never learned to drive a proper motorcycle. Archery would be nifty.

PROMPT: Tomorrow

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What’s your #1 priority tomorrow?
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To live in the now.

PROMPT: Trait

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What’s the trait you value most about yourself?
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Unconventionality.

PROMPT: Three Jobs

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List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.
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Poet, Philosopher, Philosopher-Poet.

PROMPT: Cultural Heritage

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What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?
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It’s not something that I’ve thought of much. In my youth, I was attracted to most every culture but that of my own ancestry. In my late teens and early twenties, I visited Liverpool two or three times (just across the Irish Sea from my ancestral homeland,) but (sadly) never made it to Ireland. I’ve been to over 40 countries, but not yet my ancestral homeland. I think that’s not so uncommon to come around to an interest in such things later in life.

But the answer to the question is certainly to be found in the literature. Yeats is among my favorite twentieth century poets (if not my favorite,) and Seamus Heaney is certainly in the running. Of late, I’ve gotten on an Oscar Wilde kick, and his work definitely appeals to my ornery yet thoughtful nature. Even Joyce, who I had trouble getting into in his role as novelist, is a writer whose use of language I love.

PROMPT: Brands

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What brands do you associate with?
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None whatsoever. I have no loyalty to a logo. If you want my business, you need to provide a product or service that I need at a price &/or quality better than the competitors — every single time.

PROMPT: Advice

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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

Use free writing to break through writer’s block.

PROMPT: Album

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What’s your all-time favorite album?

I couldn’t even begin. I have favorite albums of some particular acts (e.g. “Let it Bleed” Rolling Stones; “Born to Run” Springsteen; “Rumours” Fleetwood Mac; “Sgt. Pepper’s…” The Beatles; “Toys in the Attic” Aerosmith; etc.) but not overall.

I think MIPSO’s “Dark Holler Pop” is pretty much a perfect album, and I’m quite fond of Ben Sollee’s “Learning to Bend.”

But I have no favorite album.