a wolf angel is not a good angel

1. What do you see as the biggest difference between Canada and the United States?

Well, probably it would be that Canada tends more towards worrying about the group, the US towards the individual.

2. What would your ideal vacation look like?

Hmm. I think I’d be in a nice city — right near a lovely beach (with water warm enough to swim in, so at least 13C/55F). You could walk a lot; there’d be good coffee. I’m not sure who I’d be travelling with, if anyone.

3. How did you choose the line of work you’re currently in? (Feel free to be as vague as you like given that you don’t really identify what it is you do on your blog.)

Well, essentially, it’s the main employment for linguists who are not in academia but still working as linguists. So it was really the only job I could have gotten. I chose linguistics through a combination of luck, interest, and desperation.

4. If you had to choose a favorite author, who would it be?

Well, favourite for what? That question is way too broad. I think I’ll give Jeanette Winterson that honour, though.

5. If you had to boil down your philosophy of life into one line, what would it be? (I know, isn’t this lame and Oprah-esque? But I would like to know! Pretend it’s worded in a less afternoon-talk-show fashion.)

It’s the same as my mother’s, actually (though she does not get depressed like I do): things get worse.

These are from New Kid.

Fair is fair, so I will ask people questions too. Also I will answer more.

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