My parcel didn’t arrive today. I am so dispirited that I could not summon the energy to take a photograph. And anyway, taking a photo of a parcel not arriving is quite hard.
So my advent colander is officially dead. I lasted eleven days before I got bored and moved on. Still, that’s about as long as regular advent calendars last before they are strip mined for their chocolate so I suppose it’s fair enough.
Anyway over on his blog SingleParentDad is taking part in the five questions interview meme. I’ve done this twice before, but I enjoyed the process and thought I’d have another go. So Mr ParentDad very kindly provided me with some questions:
Are you still nervous about the decision to be more a stay-at-home dad?
I must admit that all the media coverage of the various financial crises going on in the world makes me a little anxious about my recent decision to go part time. To actively seek a reduction in household income when everyone else is panicking about money feels slightly counter-intuative.
However, that feeling is pretty much countered by the fact that, you know, I don’t have to go to work as much and can spend more time with the kids. And Kerry’s recent promotion means that it doesn’t have quite the financial impact that it would have done a year or so ago.
Have you ever laughed inappropriately at situations you come across in your work?
My job can sometimes be pretty intense; and you’ll find that all but the most poe faced of psychiatric nurses use black humor as a way of coping with the stressors of the job. Our handovers (daily meetings where my team discuss our patients) are often rather inappropriately jocular.
I’m not sure I’ve ever actually laughed out loud when talking to a patient however, although I’ve been pretty close a few times. When someone suddenly discloses a bizarre sexual disfunction without any prior warning it can be quite hard to keep a straight face. I’ve developed a pretty effective “professional mode” that I can slip into which protects from blurting out laughter. It protects me from the tragic aspects of the work as well, which is probably just as well.
Have you ever been to Ossett? And if so, how was your experience?
I’ve a vague feeling I once took Amy to a playgym in Ossett, but I could be wrong.
If it was then my main impressions were that it seemed very well padded, had some good slides, and the chips were cheap.
What do you feel your children might end up doing?
I have absolutely no idea. If current trends are anything to go with then Amy will be a writer and Evan some sort of professional mucus producer.
Whatever they chose to do is fine. However I do sort of hope they will follow in the Hughes family tradition of working in some sort of woolly liberal type job however (although they never seem to be paid all that well).
If Coca-Cola announced it was ceasing production of Diet Coke how hard would this hit you?
They wouldn’t do that, would they??
Actually I can just about get by on Diet Pepsi, although I’m convinced it doesn’t have the same caffeine hit as coke. If however some governmental body decided that all fizzy carbonated drinks were to be banned outright then I probably would die of thirst.
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And that’s about it. If you would like to be interviewed yourself then leave a comment here saying something like “interview me” and I’ll send you some questions. Oh, and go over to Avitable’s blog and ask him to interview you too. He’s already done 58 sets of questions and I want to see how many more it will take before his head explodes.
Here’s the cut and paste bit:
Interview rules:
1. Leave me a comment saying “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the
questions.
3. You will update your blog with a post containing your the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
