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MarieMarion

@ MarieMarion @literature.cafe

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  • How do you learn new things? (How do you pick what to learn? How do you start? How do you stay motivated?)

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  • I pick whatever interests me the most at the time. I get books from the library and buy the cheapest, most basic, necessary tools. My goal is to finish a project. If it sticks, I find a mentor / teacher. People love to share their niche skills.Recently, there was basket weaving (needed a good knife), then food fermenting (needed jars and salt, which I had), then kombucha and kefir (needed a mother and grains, which I just had to ask around in my community for), then Láadan (a conlang for women, there's a free online course), then 3D-printing (my neighbor builds his own printers, he's been teaching me stuff).

  • Which fictional universe do you wish you lived in?

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  • I want to live in Gorjo City. Post stipend, please.

  • Does anyone here want / already have children?

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  • Wanted kids, got one. She's 10 now. She's smart, independant, cuddly, hilarious, curious. She's awesome, as in I'm in awe of her. I loved every stage except the first 5 months, which I hated.We geek out together. Helping her spread her wings is the most wonderful feeling.

  • You find yourself teleported onto the stage of a TED talk right NOW with a large audience. What topic do you speak about?

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  • Would you consider a marriage proposal by a language geek in her forties? By which I mean, thank you, that was really rabbit-hole-opening.

  • You find yourself teleported onto the stage of a TED talk right NOW with a large audience. What topic do you speak about?

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  • Thanks for giving your Ted Talk! It was fascinating. If you waned to discuss the 5 common 1st-person pronouns in more details, I'd be thrilled.

  • You find yourself teleported onto the stage of a TED talk right NOW with a large audience. What topic do you speak about?

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  • I'm listening.

  • [Serious] What are some advantages of being over 40 years old and getting older?

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  • The absolute absence of shits I now give.

  • What does 4th July mean to you?

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  • My old ballet teacher's birthday.

  • Delicious

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  • I'll be cautious and not eat the brain or marrow.Big ask, since I'm French, but hey.

  • Can someone who works in an industry or for an employer with clear negative impacts on society/the world maintain a clear concience?

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  • I can't. I'm almost 50, and back then I deliberately picked a major that would lead to a career with a neutral or good impact. I make half the money I could have made, I enjoy my job, and I'm not part of the problem (well, or only as much as we have to, living under capitalism.)

  • let's get controversial with the holiday question's.

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  • Hmm. But you eat them both with a fork and knife. (And a panaché bien blanc, it's law.)

  • let's get controversial with the holiday question's.

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  • Si tu me demandes de lister 100 sandwiches différents, jamais je ne citerais le croque-monsieur. Je crois que c'est parce qu'il ne devient croque-monsieur qu'une fois chauffé.

  • … HA

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  • Oh.

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  • ... I don't get it.

  • Do you have an enemy?

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  • Oh dear. Had this friend, J. She was an artist and taught classes for kids. My kid started her class when J and I were already friend.A few months later we were supposed to co-host a big New Year's Eve party for a bunch of our friends. J was moving, had job troubles, she bailed on the party the week before--didn't help, didn't even come. I was annoyed but I could understand.In the same time period my kid decides she won't re-enroll on J's class because... well, because she's 7 and she got bored. I try calling J to let her know. 15 times as I recall it, let's say 7 times because I may be wrong. She doesn't return my calls. I have other things in my mind and eventually forgets about it.Two weeks later, first art lesson of the new year, Kid doesn't go. Two minutes after the lesson ends, J is calling me screaming that I forbade Kid to come back because I was angry about the misses New Year's Eve party.Nothing I said could convince her otherwise, and my numerous "I should have told you, I tried to, I called you 10+ times and you never called me back, and then it was the holidays and it slipped my mind" could have been in Ancient Greek for all the good they did.It's been 4 years. Small town. To this day she crosses the road to avoid me. She's telling people I'm a terrible mother and person.

  • [QUESTION] What are your favorite vegetarian meals?

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  • Lentil dahl. It's... perfect.

  • French omelettes with goat cheese

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  • For those who don't know: Stinging nettles are edible, too. And delicious.

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  • 30 years later and I have absolutely no idea. As I rubbed shoulders with her (small department) for the next 3 years I could tell she was self-centered, vain, and sure of her own wonderfullness, but it still doesn't compute. Well. My nose and I only remember her when somebody ask a question like OP's.

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  • I need to start by stating the fact that I have a perfectly normal nose in a perfectly normal face. At 18 I was a pretty young woman.

    Ages ago, first day in university, first lecture. 400 students listening to the professor. A random girl is staring at me for most of the lecture. Afterwards she runs through the crowd in the hallway, catches up to me and says: "Just had to tell you that you rock. You're an inspiration to me. Looking so happy and carefree, with that nose of yours! I don't know how you manage."

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