Thank you, Carla from Little Hummingbird! I was so happy to receive your nomination! I love your blog and am so glad to have connected with you!
Here's how this award works:
+ Thank the amazing blogger who nominated you
+ Answer the 11 questions the nominator provided
+ Nominate a few bloggers who have less than 200 followers
+ Post 11 different questions for your nominees to answer
+ Contact your nominees to let them know you've nominated them
So here go the answers:
1. Favorite song?
Oh, gosh, this is an extremely hard one. I like all kinds of music (i.e., Beethoven, My Fair Lady, Coldplay). This week's favorite is "Long Way Off" by Gungor.
2. Winter, spring, summer, or fall?
Definitely spring. Nature bombards my senses with freshness and vitality. I love watching the greens, pinks, purples, and yellows coming back to life . . . and then there's the air. Here in the Arkansas backwoods, every breath is scented with rain-kissed forests and blooming wildflowers. I never get enough of that air.
3. Top five places you want to visit in your lifetime?
*London . . . I've been in love with the place ever since I discovered Austen and Dickens at the age of 13
*Israel . . . I mean, it's the Holy Land!
*Geneva, Switzerland . . . to see the Large Hadron Collider (I'm a physics nerd.)
*Route 66 . . . does that count as a "place?"
*Alaska, Australia, Antarctica, or some other extreme, adventurous, edge-of-the-world place
4. Favorite book genre?
Classics. Preferably, 19th century British novels.
5. Least favorite dessert?
Cherry pie--all the gelatin and mush and red and . . . yeah.
6. Poetry or prose?
Prose? I think.
7. Ideal summer vacation?
Sun, heat, green, water . . . family, friends, heaps of food . . . bicycling, reading, laughing. So a week or two at the lake or a cross-country road trip?
8. Favorite subject in school
Physics, by a long shot. You get to understand how the world works! How exciting is that?! No long, analytical papers on the symbolism of rain in One Hundred Years of Solitude. No dreadful lectures on the convoluted politics of Ludwig von Mises. Physics is just you, Creation, mathematics, and your curiosity.
9. What is one thing you're looking forward to this year?
My sister's betrothal ceremony!!
10. Who/what are you a huge fan of? Why?
British culture. They eat fish and chips! They talk like they know what they're talking about. BBC period dramas rock, and no one else can claim giants like Christopher Wren, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Horatio Nelson. Brits have been around for centuries. There's so much to their culture! How could I not love it?
11. If you had to describe yourself in seven words, what seven words would you choose?
keen, generous, quirky, critical, hesitant, passionate, quiet
Okay, here are my nominations! Congratulations, guys!
Kelsey at Kelsey's Notebook
Caity at 1 Day in the Life Of…
Questions:
1. Favorite place to eat?
2. Do you like Shakespeare? Why or why not?
3. Apple or PC?
4. What is one thing you love about yourself?
5. What's the craziest thing you've ever eaten?
6. What are 3 skills you wish you had?
7. Favorite movie?
8. Best winter memory?
9. Would you go skydiving with me?
10. If you could say 10 words or less to Elvis, what would you say?
11. What's one of the best things about being alive?
Never thought about Physics that way… beautiful description! I have to admit, Math and I don't play together too well, so I'll probably just stick to English & Lit. :)
ReplyDeleteA love for Jane Austen blossomed pretty recently. I saw Pride and Prejudice (2005) first, and was compelled to read the book. That was amazing, of course, so I'm trying to figure out which of her works to read next. What would you suggest?
Thanks so much for the kind words. I'm glad we were able to connect as well!
Well, I understand. Math can be a hard player. But as for Austen, I'd suggest reading "Sense and Sensibility," "Persuasion," or "Northanger Abbey." I've read all those and enjoyed them, but I have to admit a secret: except for "Pride and Prejudice," I like the movies better. (Isn't that horrible?)
DeleteI'm glad to have seen your blog, Rachel! Thanks for tagging me. I'll have to answer your questions in another post. What a coincidence we did it at nearly the same time. : )
ReplyDeleteI loved reading your answers to these questions. They let us know so much about you. I agree with you about spring! Very beautifully put. And I think I mentioned in my post how much I like British classics, too. I liked how you described physics! But I'm with Carla in that I don't get along well with math (and science) ... but it's so interesting how you have a passion for both physics and English literature. Your sister is getting betrothed!!!! How wonderful! Those are great, poignant words to describe yourself ... character descriptions are the best, and we don't often get to hear people's self-descriptions.
You came up with fantastic questions; I can't wait to answer them.