{"id":243,"date":"2008-09-05T11:32:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T10:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2010-05-08T21:55:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:55:33","slug":"one-one-one-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/one-one-one-three\/","title":{"rendered":"one + one + one = three"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moblog <\/a>user are taking part in a project “Interview52<\/a>” inspired by Nige<\/a>, Each week a different moblogger will have to post a photograph and answer a series of questions about themselves.<\/p>\n

This week was my turn and here’s my entry:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An old picture but one that sums me up, Converse and my family!<\/p>\n

*Where does this find you? Tell us the story of how you got there.* <\/em><\/p>\n

Well right now as I’m writing this it’s Thursday evening and I’m at home, But
\nby the time it’s posted it shall be Friday morning so I’ll be at work in
\nWolverhampton City Centre and I shall have arrived here on the bus from my
\nhome 20 minutes away in the area I grew up in. I’m a yam yam born and bred,
\nI have lived in other places (Lichfield (too pretentious)and Wigan (Too
\nRough)) but I returned “home” when I realised there really is no place
\nlike it!<\/p>\n

* Why do you moblog?* <\/em><\/p>\n

I started moblogging as a way to pass the time when I was a poor lonely
\nsingle girl living alone with no one but the blonde kid for company.<\/p>\n

James introduced me to it before “we” were “us” taking me into Birmingham
\nwith a selection of Spied cards and I was hooked straight away, It’s so much
\nfun, kinda combining social networking with a hobby! Along with TBK telling
\neveryone we were getting married before we’d even smiled at each other in
\nTHAT way maybe moblog was party responsible for the creating of James and me
\nas “us”?<\/p>\n

* What were you hoping not to be asked for interview52?* <\/em><\/p>\n

The typical Interview question used in lots of job interviews, Describe
\nyourself in 3 words….
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

* Now answer it!* <\/em><\/p>\n

DOH! shoulda seen this coming. I’ll use the answer i gave in my last job
\ninterview<\/p>\n

LOUD, TALKATIVE and TENACIOUS – and they still gave me the job!<\/p>\n

* What question would you like to ask the next moblog interviewee?* <\/em><\/p>\n

I’m not going say now as with the new interview 52 rules I’m going to get
\nthe chance to ask what I want! –<\/p>\n

oh new rules everyone says what are they??<\/p>\n

WELL:
\nThe week after the last interview with FF when there was no interview I
\nthough hmm thats strange, then the week after that when again there was
\nstill no interview i though hmm even stranger It’s not like Nige to start
\nsomething and not finish it, so I emailed him something along the line of
\n“Oi you, giving up already?” and it transpires that Nige is a busy busy bee
\nand time had just ran away with him.
\nOrganising questions and participants whilst running around the Notting Hill
\nFestival and generally having much fun was a time consuming thing so with
\nrevised rules and with me being next on the “hit list” and silly enough to
\nwonder why he’d stopped he sent them to me….<\/p>\n

From hence forward the interviewee will become the interviewer for the next
\nwilling victim….So once you’ve read this today I will be on a hunt to find
\nsomeone to take part next . Then I will forward the list of questions and
\ninstructions how to post on BUT<\/p>\n

I will have to CHANGE AT LEAST ONE of the questions in the list<\/p>\n

And so it will go on – my interviewee will become the interviewer, finding
\nthe next participant and again changing AT LEAST ONE of the questions before
\nthey forward it on. So taking the onus off Nige, continuing the project and
\ngiving it a life of it’s own!<\/p>\n

So who want to be next use email\/text\/contact button to get in touch<\/p>\n

* What do you think your job was in your previous life? Tell us why..*. <\/em><\/p>\n

I think I must have been a psychologist\/guidance counselor in a previous
\nlife, for some reason I’m usually the Agony Aunt, Dishing out advise to all
\nand sundry my friend Nicky seems to seek my advise on everything and even my
\nlocal shop keeper stops me in the shop and asks for marriage counseling –
\nAnd I’ve never even been married.<\/p>\n

James reckons I was Pippa from Home and Away. I love kids and we’ve usually
\ngot a houseful of TBK friends, I’ve worked as a youth worker, I’ve helped
\nout at school, taking part in sleep overs, & going on trips, He thinks
\n(quite rightly) that I’d have a horde of my own given the opportunity<\/p>\n

*Whats the story behind your moblog username? Why did you choose it?* <\/em><\/p>\n

Oh everyone knows this as I answered it on spikes moblog ages ago:<\/p>\n

Essitam is Matisse backwards, It’s been my online name since school when in
\nan IT class the teaches asked us to think of a username.All the “cool kids”
\nwere calling themselves “Sexygal1994” or “hotchick” and as I was neither a
\ncool kid, sexy girl or an hot chick I wanted something different.
\nInspiration was at hand with a huge Matisse display on the wall i was
\nsitting next to. I wrote it down, I then rewrote it backwards and is stuck!
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

* What was your childhood obsession? What happened to it?* <\/em><\/p>\n

I didn’t have one – seriously. I even called my mom when I read this
\nquestion to find out if she could remember something I’d forgotten, The only
\nthing she could come up with was I used to like emptying ashtrays into the
\ndustbin, Which apparently amused her no end as neither of my parents smoked
\nand my dad only ever threw loose change in there and according to her I just
\none day stopped doing it aged around 3.<\/p>\n

*Where do you go to my lovely, when you’re alone in your head? (Filbert
\nFox’ question)* <\/em><\/p>\n

I try not to spend too much time alone in my head I find it a pretty
\nworrying place at times!<\/p>\n

That’s not avoidance either, I’m being serious. I suffer autophobia
\n(J.F.G.I.) as a symptom of stress\/depression caused (according to the people
\nin the know) by the sudden death of my Dad when I was just a little Steph.
\nSo I avoid being left alone for too long when I can help it. I’m better now
\nthan I used to be. At one point the panic attacks were so bad I would be
\nphysically sick – now I just sulk lots and get snappy if I’m left alone for
\ntoo long!<\/p>\n


\n*If you had to draw a moblog family (and friend) tree, who would you be
\nlinked to, and how?* <\/em><\/p>\n

Oh now this could be quite interesting, If i were to be literal about this
\nthen there is:<\/p>\n

James
\nTBK
\nGoonflower
\nNickyC
\nMiguel Sanchez
\nStato
\nHippyJack<\/p>\n

Who are all really (or via James) related to me in some way and registered
\nmobloggers and then real life friends (as in people I see in the flesh with
\nthe family mobloggers)<\/p>\n

Dicko – although I’m sure he should fall under family
\nhighwirer
\naj1905
\nRich (not the one with Elvis)
\nshrontthebaron
\nbaronshubby
\nGhostMonk08
\nSpongvid<\/p>\n

Then there are the mobloggers who I’ve met in person purely through moblog,
\nat meets, if cafes (Dhamaka) in shopping centres (Nige) etc. I’m not going
\nto list them all as I’ve already rambled on too much but my ultimate moblog
\nfamily are my ultimate real life family:<\/p>\n

Me + James + The Blonde Kid<\/p>\n

—
\nSteph xxx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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