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juliet1. What is your middle name?
Patricia, after my mother (at Dad's insistence, apparently)
2. If you had been born the other sex, did your parents tell you what your name would have been?
My parents deliberately didn't name me unti l was born - I think Mum thought it would be unlucky. Also how could they name me before meeting me?
3. Do you have children and if so, what are their names?
Nope.
4. If you were to ever have a child or more children, what would you name them?
Don't intend to have children, ever. Anyway, I don't see how you could name a child before you met it. I suppose maybe you could construct a longlist of decent names.
5. Most people know their mother's maiden name, but do you know your grandmother's maiden name?
No, but I'm going to have to find out now!
6. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?
I had imaginary pets, instead. Notably an imaginary fox, for a good couple of years. I remember imaginary squirrels, as well. I think the fox may still be here, in fact, if I concentrate for a bit.
7. What was the name of your first pet?
Hickey. A retired greyhound we had when I was tiny (before I was born). He was lovely.
8. What was the name of the first person you ever kissed?
Stefan Viggiani.
9. What was the name of the school you attended as a child?
Clare House (primary), Newstead Wood (secondary)
10. What was/is the name of your English teacher in high school?
Mrs King, then Mrs Gay. Mrs Gay was the Best Teacher Ever, by a very long way. She rocked. She had a wide variety of entertaining insults for when she was annoyed with you, and Took No Shit under any circumstances. She was also our form tutor in 2nd year, and on the first day back, our head of house wandered in & said something like 'be nice to her' to us, in jocular fashion. "Why?" asked Mrs Gay. "I'm not going to be nice to *them*." Then she told us that she didn't care if we ate our lunches in the classroom (strictly banned), but if we were too damn stupid to hide the evidence, e.g. in the bin, then she suddenly *would* start caring, as she had no patience with stupidity. I liked this as an attitude.
1. Do you name your vehicles? What are the name(s)?
I don't name them; but I do talk to them.
Patricia, after my mother (at Dad's insistence, apparently)
2. If you had been born the other sex, did your parents tell you what your name would have been?
My parents deliberately didn't name me unti l was born - I think Mum thought it would be unlucky. Also how could they name me before meeting me?
3. Do you have children and if so, what are their names?
Nope.
4. If you were to ever have a child or more children, what would you name them?
Don't intend to have children, ever. Anyway, I don't see how you could name a child before you met it. I suppose maybe you could construct a longlist of decent names.
5. Most people know their mother's maiden name, but do you know your grandmother's maiden name?
No, but I'm going to have to find out now!
6. Did you have an imaginary friend as a child?
I had imaginary pets, instead. Notably an imaginary fox, for a good couple of years. I remember imaginary squirrels, as well. I think the fox may still be here, in fact, if I concentrate for a bit.
7. What was the name of your first pet?
Hickey. A retired greyhound we had when I was tiny (before I was born). He was lovely.
8. What was the name of the first person you ever kissed?
Stefan Viggiani.
9. What was the name of the school you attended as a child?
Clare House (primary), Newstead Wood (secondary)
10. What was/is the name of your English teacher in high school?
Mrs King, then Mrs Gay. Mrs Gay was the Best Teacher Ever, by a very long way. She rocked. She had a wide variety of entertaining insults for when she was annoyed with you, and Took No Shit under any circumstances. She was also our form tutor in 2nd year, and on the first day back, our head of house wandered in & said something like 'be nice to her' to us, in jocular fashion. "Why?" asked Mrs Gay. "I'm not going to be nice to *them*." Then she told us that she didn't care if we ate our lunches in the classroom (strictly banned), but if we were too damn stupid to hide the evidence, e.g. in the bin, then she suddenly *would* start caring, as she had no patience with stupidity. I liked this as an attitude.
1. Do you name your vehicles? What are the name(s)?
I don't name them; but I do talk to them.
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Date: 2004-04-01 02:40 pm (UTC)That's the tack most people adopt - not doing ANY pre-thinking leaves you with a nameless infant while you and partner have conversations along the lines of "what do you mean you think Euphemia is a cool name?" and "no, I'm NOT naming her after your secret lover/accountant/dog". We had a shortlist (whittled down the long list to things that didn't offend, clash with our surname (Colin Oliver?), remind us of someone terrible, belong to another family member or close friend) and then planned to look at the child before deciding. As it is I knew the hot-favourite-on-the-boy-list name was right the instant I saw
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Date: 2004-04-01 04:01 pm (UTC)You're joking, right? I never realised you were from my neck of the woods. (OK, so I didn't go there - I didn't like it when I went round, though I did the entrance exam and got a place if I wanted it.) Which years? (Or tell me less publically if you prefer)
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Date: 2004-04-02 10:00 am (UTC)10. What was/is the name of your English teacher in high school?
Carol Finnegan was excellent. I remember reading SF short stories in her English class (Asimov and Clarke of course). She was inspiring.
Antony Finkelstein was almost an Oscar Wilde type figure - very concerned with the beauty of English
At least one person in my class is now a professional journalist so they must have done good jobs as English teachers.
Finkelstein became a headmaster, and Carol married another teacher thus dashing the hopes of a generation of schoolkids.
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Date: 2004-04-02 02:49 pm (UTC)Where did you go, then?