Marie Monday

@jwb that whale story is gorgeous

I'll just answer all of them:
1. Do you talk/walk/snore/anything else noteworthy in your sleep?
I don't walk, talk, or snore, but I make little sounds, I think they're similar the short 'hm.' you can use as a verbal nod in conversation (but apparently it souds a bit more troubled than that). Sometimes they're loud enough to wake me up.
2. What is/are your favourite Shakespeare play(s)? (splitting between comedies/tragedies allowed)
tragedies: Macbeth is my second favourite because it's just so gothic and atmospheric, but King Lear wins because it's the most moving one that I've read.
comedies: I think Much Ado About Nothing is the wittiest one, but Twelfth Night is my favourite because: 1. the quasi-lesbian tension (and Sebastian and that captain are pretty ****ing gay too) 2. my namesake Maria is a bad bitch 3. I'm a twin so even though me and my sister are very non-identical I still ****ing love the twin identity switch trope, and when it ALSO adds gender bending it's even more delightful. As You Like It also has a few of those elements but somehow it doesn't quite feel quasi-lesbian there
3. What sports have you played?
Football (what you Americans call soccer), horse riding (my sister went along with the football thing for me and I went horse riding with her) and a few tennis lessons at which I was incredibly bad and I hated it
4. What is your most memorable wild animal encounter?
1. A bear on the side of a highway while on vacation in Canada; one of the people I was with was a reckless manchild who jumped out of the car to take better photos even though the bear wasn't that far and we all freaked out.
2. One time I was cycling back to my village from Amsterdam at night and I came across a barn owl: it sat in the middle of the road in the light of a street lamp. It just kept sitting still very calmly and looked at me as I cycled past it (pretty closely). It kind of gave me My Neighbor Totoro vibes
5. Who is your favourite Spice Girl?
sporty spice of course
6. How adept are you at carpenting/woodworking?
Not at all, unfortunately; I never learned but really want to

1. What level of education did you attain/Are you still in education?
masters degree, phd student now
2. What is your opinion of schools in general?
school is a good thing and I'm glad it exists, but like pretty much any other kid I didn't enjoy it and school as it is needs a lot of improvement: better payment for teachers and a less suffocating environment with more attention to students as individuals
3. What is/was your favourite subject at school?
history. I had very good history teachers who taught their classes university lecture style, it was the only subject that never bored me and where I actually paid attention and took notes
4. And your least favourite?
PE by far, but if I have to choose a theoretical subject then economics
5. What do you think was the most important life lesson you learned in school?
how to deal with people and be adapted to society well enough to function (although my sister deserves the credit for that, school was just the necessary environment)
6. What is your favourite song about/against education?

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