{"id":1702,"date":"2006-04-19T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2006-04-19T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T12:42:00","slug":"5-question-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"5 question interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

asked me…<\/p>\n

1. One of the things that struck me about your user-info when I first added you was your statement “I talk to homeless people.” Any unusually-memorable conversation come to mind? And what are your thoughts on the way we handle\/deal with homeless issues in this country?<\/p>\n

2. When did you decide to become a vegan? I’m assuming that means no egg-products as well… but do you eat soy and tofu? (I LOVE soy and tofu…)<\/p>\n

3. I work with the government a lot as well… as a contractor. My biggest frustration is the speed (or lack thereof) at which projects get off the ground and get completed. What is your biggest frustration???<\/p>\n

4. Where do you see yourself in four and a half years???<\/p>\n

5. Art and I almost moved to Minneapolis actually… it was on the list along with Portland, San Diego and Austin. Portland was too rainy (and too long of a flight to DC where I fly often) and San Diego was too damn expensive cuz we wanted to own after a while, not rent. We ruled out Minneapolis cuz I have a driving phobia (since a bad accident) and can’t stand snow\/ice. It’s still, however, a beautiful city in my opinion. what brought you there and what do you like best about it???<\/p>\n


\n1. Particularly memorable experiences talking with homeless folks? I remember several, but none that stand out as terribly amazing or transformative. My point in including that line was that I recognize the humanity of homeless people, even those that are unpleasant, low status, and personally annoying. And, I don’t exempt them from basic considerations. And I think that we do treat our homeless folks as subhuman. And that’s a tragedy. I could get alot more specific, but that’s the basic point. Respect and care. No more and no less than the people with homes.<\/p>\n

2. Oh my yes, I eat soy and tofu. If you are what you eat, I’d be like 48% wheat and 50% soy. And yeah, no eggs. I’ve been vegan since January of 01, so a little over 5 years now. I’ve varied in my adherence to it, but it was a fairly natural progression for me. I was raised vegetarian with no eggs until I hit my teens. I went vegetarian when I started college, with vegan goals. I experimented briefly with veganism (5 months) in college, but gave up in frustration. In a dark mood early this fall, I flirted with dropping it, but but didn’t end up doing so. I may not stick to veganism while traveling through Europe. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

3. My biggest frustration with my government work to date has been inflexibility. In particular, their inability to hire me before I completed my master’s degree, despite their apparent, great satisfaction with my performance. I understand why (rules are there for accountability), but it still annoys the hell out of me. I viewed going to policy school as a necessary step to getting a job, because nobody hires policy analysts to learn on the job. If I could have, I would have started off making less and skipped the master’s degree. Alas, that’s not the way the game is played. I’m sure I’ll develop more as time goes on, but so far, I strongly prefer working for the government to working for private industry, based on my very limited experience.<\/p>\n

4. 4.5 years into the future is a rough call when I’m not sure what’s going to happen next week. However, I’ll take a stab. I’ll be comfortably ensconsed in a major city, working for the GAO, probably getting ready for the first promotion since my initial hiring on. I’ll be living with a friend or two in an apartment not far from downtown on a major rail line, or bus commuter line. Big uncertainties include whether I’ll move to work on the team I want, which team I’ll be working for, whether I’ll have met some guy(s) to settle down with, and if I’ll actually be ready to take care of a kid and still interested in that. Another big uncertainty is how much longer I’ll be staying at the job I’ll be at then. <\/p>\n

5. What brought me here was grad school. I was looking at several options. My first choice was UC Berkeley, which has an amazing reputation, awesome instructors, would have been cheap tuition, and was 5 minutes walk from where I was living at the time. Sadly, they didn’t accept me. Either time I applied. I checked out 7 schools, total. U Chicago (too expensive), U Wisconsin (too new\/unstructured a program, too small a town), U Vermont, U Illinois Chicago (my safety schools), Cornell (a long shot), UC Berkeley (*sigh*) and University of Minnesota. It was either or who put UMN on my radar. I chose UMN for affordability (readily available research assistantships reduce costs), and flexibility, in that it has 3 degree program options, all of which interested me on some level. My first interactions with the school suggested that the instructors didn’t engage the students very well and bureaucratic red tape covered everything. Those issues feature prominently in my impression of the school and program. Sadly, my impressions of minneapolis are dominated by my impressions of grad school. So, I’m tempted to answer that my favorite thing about Minneapolis is that I’ll be leaving it shortly. That may be excessively snarky, though. I have liked the people I’ve met here. The bike trails are pretty damn cool. My neighborhood is fairly pleasant. (“Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, How was the show?”)<\/p>\n

If you want me to interview you, just ask. Though if you’re going to make me come up with questions, I expect you to put it in your journal, too. =) I may not be speedy, but I’ll get around to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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