Ooh, friday five has very good blogging prompts. Thanks, somebody! (Probably Conuly?) https://thefridayfive.livejournal.com/164807.html
1) If you could be either a fish or a bird, which would you be, and why?
Bird! I loooove swimming, and being in the water. But flying has got to be *even better* and many birds can swim really well too.
Look at me answering a question in a simple spirit and not massively drilling down into painful details :)
2) Would you rather it be 10 degrees too hot or 10 degrees too cold? (Does your answer change if that’s indoors or outdoors?)
My temperature preference seems a bit weird. I seem to have a fairly wide range where I'm happy. if there's even a little bit of sun, I'm often walking around in a T-shirt at 10c, and if there's even a little bit of a breeze, the same in 30c in direct sun. So 10 degrees from my ideal temperature might often be equally good depending on circumstances.
But sometimes I tip just a bit outside my comfortable range and then I find it really hard to ignore it, I'm "must fix it".
But if you mean "10 degrees beyond where I'm comfortable", I'm probably safer and more productive at 10 too low, but happier and more comfortable at 10 degrees too high (especially if I can just lie there :))
3) What is the best thing that happened to you today?
Well, it's only about 11 am, but:
* feeling sufficiently optimistic about work to leave the house on time without having to push myself
* successfully dealing with a whole lot of important but nebulous fact-finding and feeling optimistic about the rest of the day
* being excited about playing stellaris
4) Is youth wasted on the young? (Follow-up: are you old or young?)
Ooh, controversial. My interpretation mainly focuses on life experience. Where I've got a lot more optimistic about this. I used to feel "I wish I knew then what I knew now" and like I was playing catch up. But now I feel like that's part of the process: I know it now BECAUSE I tried it then and muddled through badly. And it just doesn't make sense to try to put that maturity before those learning experiences.
But there's two other ways I might consider it. One is, the way our life is structured we often go through a lot of changes when we're young, and naturally have (for social or physiological reasons) a lot more impetus to try new things. I am trying to recapture that rapid growth, but if I knew then what I knew now, I would probably have taken better advantage of it.
The other is, would people benefit from/enjoy life more if their bodies were strongest/most resilient/most conventionally-attractive later on instead of early on? I'm really not sure.
I am, however, trying to take advantage of whatever is good about my life *now*, rather than dwelling on whether or not I'd done so earlier :)
Am I old or young? I think I'd have to say "somewhere in the middle" :)
5) Pasta salad or potato salad?
They fulfil a very similar niche for me. Starch with good flavouring. So I'd be happy with either. But I do admit, I like a wide range of pasta salads, even mediocre ones. Whereas *good* potato salad is great, but if not done well, I don't like the "hard lumps of potato" or "slimy lumps of mayonnaise" versions :)
1) If you could be either a fish or a bird, which would you be, and why?
Bird! I loooove swimming, and being in the water. But flying has got to be *even better* and many birds can swim really well too.
Look at me answering a question in a simple spirit and not massively drilling down into painful details :)
2) Would you rather it be 10 degrees too hot or 10 degrees too cold? (Does your answer change if that’s indoors or outdoors?)
My temperature preference seems a bit weird. I seem to have a fairly wide range where I'm happy. if there's even a little bit of sun, I'm often walking around in a T-shirt at 10c, and if there's even a little bit of a breeze, the same in 30c in direct sun. So 10 degrees from my ideal temperature might often be equally good depending on circumstances.
But sometimes I tip just a bit outside my comfortable range and then I find it really hard to ignore it, I'm "must fix it".
But if you mean "10 degrees beyond where I'm comfortable", I'm probably safer and more productive at 10 too low, but happier and more comfortable at 10 degrees too high (especially if I can just lie there :))
3) What is the best thing that happened to you today?
Well, it's only about 11 am, but:
* feeling sufficiently optimistic about work to leave the house on time without having to push myself
* successfully dealing with a whole lot of important but nebulous fact-finding and feeling optimistic about the rest of the day
* being excited about playing stellaris
4) Is youth wasted on the young? (Follow-up: are you old or young?)
Ooh, controversial. My interpretation mainly focuses on life experience. Where I've got a lot more optimistic about this. I used to feel "I wish I knew then what I knew now" and like I was playing catch up. But now I feel like that's part of the process: I know it now BECAUSE I tried it then and muddled through badly. And it just doesn't make sense to try to put that maturity before those learning experiences.
But there's two other ways I might consider it. One is, the way our life is structured we often go through a lot of changes when we're young, and naturally have (for social or physiological reasons) a lot more impetus to try new things. I am trying to recapture that rapid growth, but if I knew then what I knew now, I would probably have taken better advantage of it.
The other is, would people benefit from/enjoy life more if their bodies were strongest/most resilient/most conventionally-attractive later on instead of early on? I'm really not sure.
I am, however, trying to take advantage of whatever is good about my life *now*, rather than dwelling on whether or not I'd done so earlier :)
Am I old or young? I think I'd have to say "somewhere in the middle" :)
5) Pasta salad or potato salad?
They fulfil a very similar niche for me. Starch with good flavouring. So I'd be happy with either. But I do admit, I like a wide range of pasta salads, even mediocre ones. Whereas *good* potato salad is great, but if not done well, I don't like the "hard lumps of potato" or "slimy lumps of mayonnaise" versions :)