shower meme

So I got this meme from corivax, first, and I think anoisblue must be credited with inventing it. I've also solicited interviews from other people, because I'm a question-glutton, and I shall be posting answers to those questions under separate cover.

Here's the deal:

If you want me to interview you--post a comment that simply says, "Interview me." I'll respond with questions for you to take back to your own journal and answer as a post. Of course, they'll be different for each person since this is an interview and not a general survey. At the bottom of your post, after answering the Interviewer's questions, you ask if anyone wants to be interviewed. So it becomes your turn-- in the comments, you ask them any questions you have for them to take back to their journals and answer. And so it becomes the circle.

Answers for corivax:
( I gotcher answers .... RIGHT HERE! )

contentment, an aside

I realized the other day that while I often describe myself as 'supremely content' with my life, I may not be using the word normally.
Many people I know seem to see contentment as relatively passionless, a quiet, uneventful, 'settling for' sort of emotion - the maturation of, or resignation from, joy.
Let me serve notice that that is not my definition.
When I say I am content, I mean that I spend more of my time than not immersed in a bubbly foam of bliss. I mean that the bleak desolation which still visits me occasionally is both easier to meet and less world-obliterating, and that it has become a distant cousin who comes around once in a blue moon, instead of being that annoying room mate I could never seem to avoid for long.
Remember with me for a minute. You know the last time you felt so purely and steadily happy that you might breach the limits of your skin? How you couldn't keep from humming, and laughing, and caressing random objects? That's what I mean by contentment, these days, and that's how I normally feel, these past few years.
It's true that I sometimes have to filter it in order to function as a normal person, and it's true that I sometimes lose track of it under all the filters, and have to dig around for a while to get it loose. However, it remains my fundamental tone.