blogging meme response #2

[rose_griffes]

pataka02 asked three questions. I would call foul, but I did poke her and tell her she had to participate. *g*

Why did you want to become a teacher?
My father's a college professor. My mother has a degree in elementary education (though she didn't work outside the home while I was growing up). My grandmother was a schoolteacher, as were her sisters, my great-aunts. So what was my attitude toward teaching when I was growing up? "I don't want to be a teacher. Ever." Seriously, if my college had offered a major in 'not a teacher' I would have chosen it. I had no idea what else I wanted to do instead, just... not be a teacher.

So what happens when I'm twenty-two? I discover I'm good at teaching and I like it. Hah.

Pretty much everything I've ever said about life and what I will/won't do has been turned upside-down, though. Isn't life fun that way?
insert half-sarcastic, half-appreciative tone

If you could be anything else, what would you be?
After all that whining about not being a teacher, you'd think it would be easy for me to list another profession, right? Eh... not so much. Maybe a pharmacist? Except that I might have to work by myself a lot, and that would probably make me crazy. I like working with other people... mostly.

Who's your favorite character on BSG? (I know you love them all)
KARA KARA KARA! Strange but true, considering I'm not at all like her, and wouldn't want to hang around her much. (Also strange if you haven't been around here much and have only seen all my crazy posts about Leoben. Hee!)

General tendency--I love female characters. It's not a conscious choice on my part, but I've always felt more compassion for/more interest in the female roles. Very few shows break this pattern for me. I tried watching Due South for a while (what?! I can't help my weird attraction to CKR now, I'm stuck with it!), and while it was fun and interesting, I didn't really make a strong enough connection with any character to keep watching. It's a show that lacks a leading female. There are good, strong females on the show, but they aren't the main characters.

Back to BSG: I loved Kara in the mini-series--her bravado, her 'end of the world, Lee' moment, her short hair. (I'm allowed to be shallow on occasion, right? I like it when shows break the super-feminine mold; plus Katee looks good with short or mid-length hair, so there. *sticks out tongue*)

And then there were these awesome season one episodes, like Kara by herself on a barren planet? moon? whatever... and she gets that stinky, goo-filled Raider to give her oxygen and let her fly back to Galactica. And then there was this fantastic episode wherein a wacky cylon tells her stuff that she already knows about her mother and I probably should shut up now before I go off on a Leoben tangent.

Comments

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

had no idea what else I wanted to do instead, just... not be a teacher.

So what happens when I'm twenty-two? I discover I'm good at teaching and I like it. Hah.

Heh - that is sort of funny, but great that you discovered it before you had to go through all that mid-twenties flailing before finding you vocation. *cough*

Yeah, I'm with you on usually identifying with the female characters, too. Though it's interesting that we both seem to go for characters who are very different from ourselves, even though we like them to be same gender.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with you on usually identifying with the female characters, too. Though it's interesting that we both seem to go for characters who are very different from ourselves, even though we like them to be same gender.

*nods* It's a tendency that's much stronger in TV shows for me, by the way. Maybe because of the ongoing nature of it--I have to have a reason to tune in over and over again, and I want someone who has at least started, physically, at the same place as me. I dunno.

Bottom line--Kara's awesome.