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Interview questions
1. What is the most challenging aspect of returning to school at this point in your life?
Taking courses that scare me, like Chemistry, but knowing that if I look at the bigger picture, that I'm doing this to become an acupuncturist, I'll get through it.
The whole being a poor student thing again is not fun. I graduated college 11 years ago. Ramen noodles have been replaced with Thai rice noodle soup, but you know, it's still the same thing basically.
Getting to morning classes on time is a challenge, definitely!
2. What has been the most rewarding aspect of returning to school, specifically THIS school, at this point in your life?
THIS school was started by a family with 38 generations of acupuncturists. So, it's amazing to be around that energy and history.
I'm also happy that I've found a life path that I'm happy with - mind, body and soul. It's really a lot of work, and I don't see much of my friends or family because I'm studying most of the time, but I know it's all worth it.
3. What three things do you wish for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stevefava?
1 - a career that he can be happy with.
2 - another significant other who is not a flake (he has experienced a high flake factor in LA).
3 - a long, happy, healthy life (with me!)
4. What inner strength have you discovered since you packed up and moved across the country to follow your school dream?
I think my force of will is a lot stronger. I'm not necessarily more stubborn, but I'm a lot more determined.
I also discovered on our trip out here that our marriage will probably survive anything, given that we survived being irritated with each other in a car without air conditioner and a fan that broke in 100+ degree weather in Texas in August. I was interested to see what we would do cooped up in a van with each other for 2 weeks straight, and we survived!
5. What does photography feed in your soul?
When I take photos, my heart and my eyes are filled with color and light and joy. When I work on photos in the darkroom or in Photoshop, I feel like I am giving birth to something and it's just so inexplicably wonderful. Someone once said to me, in Austin many years ago, that artists do what they do because they have to. I feel that way. I have no choice but to make art. I guess it's your muse who makes you do it.
My email sig file (I've had it for years) is a quote from the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson which sums it up:
"To take photographs means to recognize-simultaneously and within a
fraction of a second-both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of
visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head,
one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
1. What is the most challenging aspect of returning to school at this point in your life?
Taking courses that scare me, like Chemistry, but knowing that if I look at the bigger picture, that I'm doing this to become an acupuncturist, I'll get through it.
The whole being a poor student thing again is not fun. I graduated college 11 years ago. Ramen noodles have been replaced with Thai rice noodle soup, but you know, it's still the same thing basically.
Getting to morning classes on time is a challenge, definitely!
2. What has been the most rewarding aspect of returning to school, specifically THIS school, at this point in your life?
THIS school was started by a family with 38 generations of acupuncturists. So, it's amazing to be around that energy and history.
I'm also happy that I've found a life path that I'm happy with - mind, body and soul. It's really a lot of work, and I don't see much of my friends or family because I'm studying most of the time, but I know it's all worth it.
3. What three things do you wish for
stevefava?1 - a career that he can be happy with.
2 - another significant other who is not a flake (he has experienced a high flake factor in LA).
3 - a long, happy, healthy life (with me!)
4. What inner strength have you discovered since you packed up and moved across the country to follow your school dream?
I think my force of will is a lot stronger. I'm not necessarily more stubborn, but I'm a lot more determined.
I also discovered on our trip out here that our marriage will probably survive anything, given that we survived being irritated with each other in a car without air conditioner and a fan that broke in 100+ degree weather in Texas in August. I was interested to see what we would do cooped up in a van with each other for 2 weeks straight, and we survived!
5. What does photography feed in your soul?
When I take photos, my heart and my eyes are filled with color and light and joy. When I work on photos in the darkroom or in Photoshop, I feel like I am giving birth to something and it's just so inexplicably wonderful. Someone once said to me, in Austin many years ago, that artists do what they do because they have to. I feel that way. I have no choice but to make art. I guess it's your muse who makes you do it.
My email sig file (I've had it for years) is a quote from the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson which sums it up:
"To take photographs means to recognize-simultaneously and within a
fraction of a second-both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of
visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head,
one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."