johnnysorrow | Survey Says........

THE RULES:
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. Include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.

karlht Asked me.

1. Does it feel excessively formal/distant to you when I call you 'Robert' rather than 'Bobby'? Which do you prefer, specifically from me? Any idea why that is?

Not really. I used to and it drove me nuts, and to a certain extent still drives me to twinge. I left for the Military about 12 years ago with most of my friends knowing me as Bobby. When I came back I started meeting new friends and had started going by Rob. Well old friends meet new friends and the mixing of the new friends calling me Bobby and the old friends occasionally calling me Rob tends to happen. I am over that. The thing that really twinges me is when my last name or Robby refers to me. I cannot really stand either of those as a social able reference to me.

2. Is living at HODO harder or easier than you thought it would be? Why?

No its actually both in this context. Its easier in that I don’t have to worry about things such as food and noisy roommates. It gets harder in that I now have to be mindful that I am no longer a guest and need to keep the common areas more clean and make a diligent effort to become a more effective unit of the house. Better living through communal living and all.

3. Where would you go on vacation if money were no object? Who would you take with you, if anyone?

If money were no object, I have been told that I should Say Disneyworld with S, but I’m going to go and say Ireland. It was quiet and peaceful and people were in awe that I was an American, but not so in awe that I wasn’t left alone. I’d like to live the European lifestyle for a while.

4. What's the thing you like the most about living in northern California? The thing you like the least?

The thing I love about Northern California is the atmosphere. There is so much history and culture in the region that I am hard pressed to find another micro chasm of this type anywhere. You just can’t seem to find a place where every possible aspect of the world lives and cohabitates and gets along. There is no outlying racism like you have in the South, or Religious zealotry in the Midwest. The thing I dislike about this area is the cost. I’d really love to be able to buy a home on 40k a year salary and not be riding the rails something fierce.

5. What, if anything, do you miss about military life?

The easy paycheck for what I was doing. The fact that I could survive on what they paid me, and still have the allusion that I was living like a king. There is a social disconnect that I feel with my service in the Navy, but that slowly disappears over time. I’m getting better.