Comments on: Serves me right for volunteering

By: A Deserving Round of Applause « Midlife Slices™

A Deserving Round of Applause « Midlife Slices™ — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:21:12 +0000

[...] Moving right along, the next interview went to Tessa of Nuts and Mutton. One of the questions I asked her was: [...]

By: The Poet Laura-eate

The Poet Laura-eate — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:49:10 +0000

I really enjoyed your answers Tessa (and myself know a charming Canadian, more English than any Englishman, much though it’s a friendship rather than anything else) but am not glutton enough for punishment to volunteer myself, despite not having been an ‘army brat’

Thank you, Laura. Beware those charming Canadians … that’s how I found myself trucking child and worldly goods across the Atlantic at the age of 40. Talk about life beginning at that age …

By: marylou

marylou — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:30:25 +0000

If you can get “naked”, so can I…
But please be “kind” with your question choices!!!
PLEASE INTERVIEW ME…
(and just keep in mind that, up to now, I do quite admire and adore you!!!)

Good for you, Marylou. I will formulate my questions and send them along by email. And I’ll be gentle …

By: JES

JES — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:06:05 +0000

Great questions and great answers. I wouldn’t've minded if Janie had snuck in a bonus question or two. (You yourself might not have been so open-minded about the long count, of course.)

Oh heck. I won’t be able to get to them until next week (going out of town in a couple days), but if you’ve had no other takers then okay, Interview me.

Thank you, John. I will need a few days to formulate my questions, and I shall shoot them along to you by email.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:54:16 +0000

Good responses! And you got off easy here. I would have asked tougher questions…LOL

Damned if I know how you could have made them tougher …

By: C'est La Craic

C'est La Craic — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:15:59 +0000

It sounds likea a cross between a chain letter and a pyramid scheme. Was it how an interview technique developed by Wall Street?

I see where you might get that idea, Craic. But nobody derives any monetary benefit from it, unlike chain letters (the Post Office) or pyramid schemes (the deviant at the pointy bit) and it really is quite therapeutic – for the interviewee. As for the interviewer, I guess if you read someone’s blog regularly, it’s nice to get to know more about the person. What I really HATE HATE HATE are those fracken “circulate this email to twenty of your nearest and dearest friends or your knob will fall off” type emails, especially when the nice sender includes all the email addresses, just to make it easier for phishing apps.

By: conortje

conortje — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:54:06 +0000

Great interview – left me wanting more

MORE? You want MORE? What are you? Oliver Twist or a sadist?

By: Midlife Slices

Midlife Slices — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:38:21 +0000

ROFL…..”toenail-puller”. That made me spit my water all over my laptop.

hahah…toenail-puller……I can’t stop laughing and I’m NOT showing it to HBL because he might agree.

All great answers and thanks for playing along.

Thank you for the great questions. Despite all the grumbling and mumbling, I quite enjoyed the exercise. Did I ever mention my masochistic tendencies?