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9. Have you ever been on a journey and been held up for a long time? What happened and how late were you at your destination?
Yes, the most memorable was when coming home for Christmas from Ohio State one December. It was snowing that evening in St. Louis and our plane was diverted to Kansas City. They put us up in a hotel for the night, and gave us a voucher for some dinner. They put us on a bus and the hotel was very far from the airport, if there were more flights diverted from St. Louis that was understandable. The voucher wasn't enough for much of the things on the menu at the hotel restaurant. I felt a little cheap ordering the least expensive meal, but I was a grad student and couldn't afford a lot. We got up fairly early the next day and caught a flight back to St. Louis (In those days St. Louis was a hub airport, so there were lots of flights from KC.) We were probably no more than 12 hours late, but it seemed like a very long time.
10. Do you enjoy salad? What would be in a typical salad that you would serve/eat?
Yes. I like mixed salads with iceberg lettuce, carrots and whatever is handy like celery, spinach, green or black olives, radishes, green onions, raw turnip, cheese, etc.
11. Have you ever used an old-fashioned typewriter? Can you touch type (type without looking at the keys?)
Yes. I learned how to type on one in junior high. Our family business had a big old manual typewriter, which I used as the default secretary when we didn't have a full time secretary, off and on for many years. My sister-in-law gave me a German keyboard, full-sized manual typewriter for Christmas one year when I was in college. Can't say I got a lot of use out of it, but I liked having it for a while. In graduate school, I didn't like using the Cyrillic keyboard typewriters in the department office (to type up my weekly tests) with everyone I knew hanging around. A store close to campus advertised that they had foreign language keyboard typewriters on sale, so I went there and bought one with a Cyrillic keyboard. It was a portable manual. The joke was that the high school graduation present I'd asked for was an electric portable typewriter, which was a lot more advanced than the foreign keyboard models I got years later. I used that for papers in English through college and grad school.
Yes, can touch type, but that mostly came after I traded my typewriters for computer keyboards. Yes, I can touch type in more than one language now.
12. Do you like sushi?
I don't know, never had it, probably never will. I'm not a big fan of Japanese style food. Chinese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese and Indian, yes. Japanese, not so much.
13. Have you ever tried Tai Chi?
No, but one of my nieces has taught serious Tai Chi classes.
shadowkat9. Have you ever been on a journey and been held up for a long time? What happened and how late were you at your destination?
Yes, the most memorable was when coming home for Christmas from Ohio State one December. It was snowing that evening in St. Louis and our plane was diverted to Kansas City. They put us up in a hotel for the night, and gave us a voucher for some dinner. They put us on a bus and the hotel was very far from the airport, if there were more flights diverted from St. Louis that was understandable. The voucher wasn't enough for much of the things on the menu at the hotel restaurant. I felt a little cheap ordering the least expensive meal, but I was a grad student and couldn't afford a lot. We got up fairly early the next day and caught a flight back to St. Louis (In those days St. Louis was a hub airport, so there were lots of flights from KC.) We were probably no more than 12 hours late, but it seemed like a very long time.
10. Do you enjoy salad? What would be in a typical salad that you would serve/eat?
Yes. I like mixed salads with iceberg lettuce, carrots and whatever is handy like celery, spinach, green or black olives, radishes, green onions, raw turnip, cheese, etc.
11. Have you ever used an old-fashioned typewriter? Can you touch type (type without looking at the keys?)
Yes. I learned how to type on one in junior high. Our family business had a big old manual typewriter, which I used as the default secretary when we didn't have a full time secretary, off and on for many years. My sister-in-law gave me a German keyboard, full-sized manual typewriter for Christmas one year when I was in college. Can't say I got a lot of use out of it, but I liked having it for a while. In graduate school, I didn't like using the Cyrillic keyboard typewriters in the department office (to type up my weekly tests) with everyone I knew hanging around. A store close to campus advertised that they had foreign language keyboard typewriters on sale, so I went there and bought one with a Cyrillic keyboard. It was a portable manual. The joke was that the high school graduation present I'd asked for was an electric portable typewriter, which was a lot more advanced than the foreign keyboard models I got years later. I used that for papers in English through college and grad school.
Yes, can touch type, but that mostly came after I traded my typewriters for computer keyboards. Yes, I can touch type in more than one language now.
12. Do you like sushi?
I don't know, never had it, probably never will. I'm not a big fan of Japanese style food. Chinese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese and Indian, yes. Japanese, not so much.
13. Have you ever tried Tai Chi?
No, but one of my nieces has taught serious Tai Chi classes.
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