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pdragon76's LJ. She asks some really brain-hurty questions.
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
1. Why are you not back in theatrical performance?
Two years ago, my husband and I moved from a small/medium sized city in Ohio to a small/tiny town in Virginia. Our previous city of residence supported two community theater groups, and there was a community college with an active theater department. I worked at the theater of this college as the Assistant House Operations Manager, and I averaged one show year in the performance or production end of things. *pulls out resume, shows you it*
The town we moved to does not support theater. We have no active theatrical performance group, and of the two shows I was able to audition for, one I had a scheduling conflict and the other I didn't make the final cut because I choked at auditions. Also, people around here don't know what I'm capable of. (Does that sound like a threat?)
Geo and I are currently part of a group that's working to get an active community theater troupe started.
I have been very active in the skits at our new church, so I'm still keeping a toe in it, but I'd like to get back to doing something really well-written as well as meaty, ya know?
2. If the boys were played by different, just-as-capable, equally pretty actors, do you think you'd be this invested?
Hm . . . If I came to know about the show in the same manner, quite possibly. It was the storytelling that hooked me first. Though admittedly it was a combination of Geo's affinity for a hidden arsenal in a classic car and rock music that got us the DVDs. And ultimately? It was Jensen's portrayal of Dean that ultimately sunk me. So if there was someone as capable as Jensen, then yeah, probably. And since you've stated that these hypothetical actors are equal in capability and pretty, then . . . yes, I'd still be invested.
3. If you were born a boy, what would be different about your life now?
I'd be even more like Dean Winchester than I am now (minus, you know, the running-from-the-law demon hunter thing *handwave*). I'd be a big brother with a ridiculously smart little brother. I'd probably have gotten a car sooner than I did. I'd most likely be the bread winner in my family and therefore be in a steadier job than I am now. I'd have a rougher edge on one side of my personality.
Obviously, I wouldn't be married to my husband, but we might have grown up being buddies. Maybe.
I'd have been the first boy in the extended family and outnumbered by girls. Therefore, I would probably have grown up equally comfortable around both genders.
I wouldn't be as hypersensitive as I am . . . or at least I'd be better at hiding it.
And I wouldn't have near the amount of competition when auditioning for shows.
4. Overseas travel. Have you done any? If so, where? If not, where would you like to go and why?
Honduras counts, yeah? With a plane change in Belize (not the tourist part where Jensen went on vacation).
As far as where I'd like to go, New Zealand and Australia top the list, followed by Scotland and Ireland--and England, while I'm there.
5. You have to fall into a pit of snakes or a pit of spiders. Which do you choose?
Kittens. I prefer kittens.
pdragon76's LJ. She asks some really brain-hurty questions.1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
1. Why are you not back in theatrical performance?
Two years ago, my husband and I moved from a small/medium sized city in Ohio to a small/tiny town in Virginia. Our previous city of residence supported two community theater groups, and there was a community college with an active theater department. I worked at the theater of this college as the Assistant House Operations Manager, and I averaged one show year in the performance or production end of things. *pulls out resume, shows you it*
The town we moved to does not support theater. We have no active theatrical performance group, and of the two shows I was able to audition for, one I had a scheduling conflict and the other I didn't make the final cut because I choked at auditions. Also, people around here don't know what I'm capable of. (Does that sound like a threat?)
Geo and I are currently part of a group that's working to get an active community theater troupe started.
I have been very active in the skits at our new church, so I'm still keeping a toe in it, but I'd like to get back to doing something really well-written as well as meaty, ya know?
2. If the boys were played by different, just-as-capable, equally pretty actors, do you think you'd be this invested?
Hm . . . If I came to know about the show in the same manner, quite possibly. It was the storytelling that hooked me first. Though admittedly it was a combination of Geo's affinity for a hidden arsenal in a classic car and rock music that got us the DVDs. And ultimately? It was Jensen's portrayal of Dean that ultimately sunk me. So if there was someone as capable as Jensen, then yeah, probably. And since you've stated that these hypothetical actors are equal in capability and pretty, then . . . yes, I'd still be invested.
3. If you were born a boy, what would be different about your life now?
I'd be even more like Dean Winchester than I am now (minus, you know, the running-from-the-law demon hunter thing *handwave*). I'd be a big brother with a ridiculously smart little brother. I'd probably have gotten a car sooner than I did. I'd most likely be the bread winner in my family and therefore be in a steadier job than I am now. I'd have a rougher edge on one side of my personality.
Obviously, I wouldn't be married to my husband, but we might have grown up being buddies. Maybe.
I'd have been the first boy in the extended family and outnumbered by girls. Therefore, I would probably have grown up equally comfortable around both genders.
I wouldn't be as hypersensitive as I am . . . or at least I'd be better at hiding it.
And I wouldn't have near the amount of competition when auditioning for shows.
4. Overseas travel. Have you done any? If so, where? If not, where would you like to go and why?
Honduras counts, yeah? With a plane change in Belize (not the tourist part where Jensen went on vacation).
As far as where I'd like to go, New Zealand and Australia top the list, followed by Scotland and Ireland--and England, while I'm there.
5. You have to fall into a pit of snakes or a pit of spiders. Which do you choose?
Kittens. I prefer kittens.
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I wouldn't be as hypersensitive as I am . . . or at least I'd be better at hiding it.
LOL. Flips and I beg to differ on this point. We work in a warehouse full of big tough truckie guys and I swear to GOD they are the hugest drama llamas I have ever seen. And they think CHICKS are the moody bitches. Hooooooooly dooooooly.
I can highly recommend most of Australia, and JD married a kiwi, so they must breed them freakin' tough in New Zealand. I've never been, but I can vouch for that. No one should have to be married to my brother. *is sorry for her*
YOU CHEATED ON THE LAST QUESTION.
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I prefer to think of it as thinking outside the box.
Besides, those tiny claws is sharp. *shows you tiny claw marks* And they gnaw on you fingers. And then they cry pitifully at you and make you feel all guilty and stuff for leaving them.
But. If I must choose between snakes and spiders, some questions must be answered first. How big are the spiders? How big are the snakes? Are any of either poisonous? So many variables to consider, you see. But in the end, I'm not sure it would matter, because either way I would quite possibly pass out or have an anxiety-induced coronary before hitting bottom. So there is that.