{"id":394,"date":"2007-03-16T12:09:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T19:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=394"},"modified":"2007-03-16T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T19:09:17","slug":"ego-boosting-five-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Ego Boosting: Five Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I volunteered for this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.titledeleted.com\/current\/clearancelevel\/mission_log\/five_questions\/\">Laughing Muse<\/a>&#8216;s place, who in turn, found out about the meme at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/ego\/2007\/03\/post_3.html\">Ealasaid<\/a>&#8216;s place.<\/p>\n<p>Meme rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leave me a comment saying, &#8220;Me, Me!!!&#8221; while waving your hand in the air.<\/li>\n<li>I will respond by asking you five questions.<\/li>\n<li>You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.<\/li>\n<li>You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>So tell us, Maritimes-gal: is it properly &#8220;Newfoundland&#8221; or &#8220;Newfoundland and Labrador&#8221; (Or &#8220;who cares, I&#8217;m from New Brunswick&#8221;?)<\/strong> I believe the proper term is &#8220;The Rock&#8221;.  Actually, growing up it was &#8220;Newfoundland&#8221; but rumour (and the CBC) tells me it&#8217;s now &#8220;Newfoundland and Labrador&#8221;.  The Newf&#8217;s I&#8217;ve known have always considered Labrador as part of their province.Technically, &#8220;Newfoundland and Labrador&#8221; aren&#8217;t part of the Maritimes &#8211; that&#8217;s limited to NB, PEI, and NS for some strange reason &#8211; but is included as part of the Atlantic provinces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You&#8217;ve been reading a lot lately, as part of 52 books in 52 weeks. What two books from your list would you like to revisit later, and why?<\/strong> I know I&#8217;ll read almost all of these books again at some later date.  Unless I&#8217;ve passed on the book to friends, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcrossing.com\/\">Book Crossing<\/a>, donated it or dropped it off at a used book store &#8211; about 25% of my books end up out of my house this way &#8211; I re-read my books every few years.  Of the list I&#8217;ve posted since the beginning of the year, none has stood out as one that I have to go back and re-read immediately.  I usually have to wait until after I&#8217;ve forgotten most of the good details before I can re-read a mystery or crime novel.I have a few books on my &#8220;to read&#8221; list that I know I&#8217;ll end up re-reading within a few months. Most of those books are the ones related in some way to adult learning and instructional design.  I know that those written by Paulo Freire, Malcolm Knowles and Robert Mager will rank high on the re-read list. Since there&#8217;s a new Harry Potter due out this summer, I&#8217;ll need to re-read the rest of the series before July. And of course, when I need to smile, I&#8217;ll be reaching for Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore&#8217;s books.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where would you love to travel, that you haven&#8217;t yet been? And why?<\/strong>  I&#8217;ve always wanted to go to Russia, or more specifically, to take one of the tour trains &#8211; I think it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allrussiatours.com\/orient-express1\/program.html\">Orient Express<\/a> &#8211; and explore the country.  I think a lot of the allure is that the hubby and I have never really gone on vacation by ourselves and so this has become our &#8220;dream vacation&#8221; where we get to travel the world together.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How did you get into instructional design? I read the Wikipedia entry on I.D., but it just confused me more (or perhaps that&#8217;s the caffeine deficiency)<\/strong> Some days I wish I knew the answer to this.  I was not-so-happily trudging along in computer support (software, hardware, networks, internet) and filling occasional training and content development slot as it came up.  I had what my boss (at the time) called a &#8220;gut instinct&#8221; for developing training materials and knowledge sharing. I took a position in our Training department, went back to school, and found that I adored Instructional Design.  Granted, there a some parts I love more than others &#8211; needs analysis and evaluation are my passions &#8211; but I think that&#8217;s true of any field of work or study.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You just resigned from your job. Even with the worries of job-searching&#8230;have you stopped smiling yet? \ud83d\ude00 <\/strong> When I&#8217;m not busy rolling through a giant host of emotions &#8211; happiness, sheer joy, fear, worry &#8211; I&#8217;m still busy doing my happy dance and smiling like a fool.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Okay &#8211; who&#8217;s next!?!?? 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