Every once in a while, I like to jump on a bandwagon...careful, I'll start posting Quizilla results next...
Yesterday's Friday Five asks better questions than usual:
If you...
1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
More importantly, what type of beer would I serve? It would have to be a brewpub, of course. Anyway, I imagine I'd want to serve up my favorite pub grub, including a few that most Americans haven't had inflicted on them with beer, such as my Hamburg favorite of mussels in wine sauce. Then again, I'm not sure I'd want to run a brewpub in America, the drinking culture here is too weird.
2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
Used books. (This seems like a good time to mention that, after recently bitching about the lack of used bookstores in LA, I stumbled onto one. I think I was the only person to come in all day, the proprietor got so excited. He was also listening to the Pixies, which wins the store additional points.)
3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
Conveniently, I've already written some books. My dream book would be neither a computer guide nor a shoddy, unedited novel but travel essays. This would require more travel, which would be hard to do while running my bookstores and brewpub :)
4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?
Conveniently, I already teach...gosh, I'm feeling all life-experienced after these last two questions. Not sure about the acutal structure, but any school I ran would have to be public, and heavily invested in getting the kids who've fallen behind up to speed. Keeping the advanced kids from getting bored would be good, too. Small, carefully chosen classes, and teachers who give a shit, in other words.
A friend in LA, a former Kaplan tutor, once mentioned that maybe the career he does after science will be teaching SAT prep in the 'hood. I kind of like that idea, too.
5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
I'd secretly like to learn to play blues guitar. Besides, then I could use my self-assigned blues name, Broke Mama Jen.
Yesterday's Friday Five asks better questions than usual:
If you...
1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
More importantly, what type of beer would I serve? It would have to be a brewpub, of course. Anyway, I imagine I'd want to serve up my favorite pub grub, including a few that most Americans haven't had inflicted on them with beer, such as my Hamburg favorite of mussels in wine sauce. Then again, I'm not sure I'd want to run a brewpub in America, the drinking culture here is too weird.
2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
Used books. (This seems like a good time to mention that, after recently bitching about the lack of used bookstores in LA, I stumbled onto one. I think I was the only person to come in all day, the proprietor got so excited. He was also listening to the Pixies, which wins the store additional points.)
3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
Conveniently, I've already written some books. My dream book would be neither a computer guide nor a shoddy, unedited novel but travel essays. This would require more travel, which would be hard to do while running my bookstores and brewpub :)
4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?
Conveniently, I already teach...gosh, I'm feeling all life-experienced after these last two questions. Not sure about the acutal structure, but any school I ran would have to be public, and heavily invested in getting the kids who've fallen behind up to speed. Keeping the advanced kids from getting bored would be good, too. Small, carefully chosen classes, and teachers who give a shit, in other words.
A friend in LA, a former Kaplan tutor, once mentioned that maybe the career he does after science will be teaching SAT prep in the 'hood. I kind of like that idea, too.
5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
I'd secretly like to learn to play blues guitar. Besides, then I could use my self-assigned blues name, Broke Mama Jen.
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