12:48 p.m. - 2005-06-23
Cat, Cat, she's a law school maniac.
Cat, Cat, she's a law school maniac. This is an interview with Cat. Cat and I have moslty gotten to know each other over Instant Messenger. Ah, the internet, you have brought me so many good things...And Cat, yes, well, Cat is a good thing, or rather a good person even though there's really no such thing as a good person. But if there was, she would be one. She is honest and sensitive and smart and a hard worker. Very amusing conversationalist. Highly adept at the whole humor thing. Easy going and agreeable. Allows friends to be jerks occasionally and still loves them well. Patient. Willing to do the hard thing if it's the right thing. Yes, my friends, you can get all of these impressions over the internet. It's amazing, really.
How do you know me?
i know you because you are friends with a katie meyer and a robert cantoni, and you went to ohio university with them. i went to high school with them (but we weren't friends until college, even though i went to ohio state. skip that part of the story, catherine, just stick to the facts! this is going badly already). maybe i should just say "through mutual friends." is it too late?
we really got to know each other through the dark and mystical power of the internet, just before you left seattle for michigan, beginning with our invention of diapers for hipsters, which i believe are called something like "Just Go...or Not!" and has a marketing campaign centered around apathy.
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> Where do you live and with whom?
i live in the approximately three or four blocks of akron, ohio worth living in, known as highland square. the apartment building where i reside is also called "the highland square," so i don't get confused. mine is a corner apartment i like to call "302." there are no other persons, living or dead, who live in the apartment with me, to the best of my knowledge.
How do you spend your time?
i'm on my third and last year of law school at the university of akron. as a result, i spend a lot of time sitting down. i also spend a lot of time losing my eyesight and ensuring that i have plenty of back problems when i get older, through reading heavy books and carting around a laptop. maybe you should pass out some kleenex for the pity party.
once a week i work at the summit county prosecutor's office, juvenile division, as a traffic prosecutor. i get to talk to a lot of angry moms and dads. they also ask me to train interns sometimes, which is fun and also probably irresponsible of them. i'm also working as a research to two professors, who are both clinically insane. one of them is writing a book about elizabeth cady stanton, who i now know an awful lot about. the other professor is writing a book about felony murder and YOU! no really.
i also i like to read real books sometimes, play video games, and spend time with friends.
What is your favorite thing to do?
i have a lot of favorites. i really enjoy going to the grocery store. and i'm trying to make film a hobby, but isn't that everybody's hobby? right. i love being alone in a public place, because i always seem to meet all kinds of interesting people. i also love to cook.
What is most annoying about your life?
doubt. self-doubt, God-doubt, friends-doubt, spelling doubt.
What is your greatest strength?
probably my sense of humor. i also try very hard to be
honorable.
Lamest weakness?
believing that weakness is lame.
Who is the most important person you've met?
hmmm. i've never met anyone famous, but i don't really go in for that sort of thing anyway. there are a whole string of people it's been my absolute honor to have in my life at various times...i don't know if i could list them all, but i'm sure they would know who they are. a lot of my close friends have shaped my life in
so many ways, as well. it's hard to name just one out
of all that.
What makes you super-extra-specially happy?
making someone i love laugh. especially when it's that unique, honest laugh that each person has. that's the
best.
Favorite writer?
oh geez. john steinbeck? i have a lot of favorite writers. my favorite book of all time is anna karenina, if that means anything. i also really like
thomas hardy and raymond chandler. and let's throw flannery o'connor in there too.
What is your most prized possession?
a cross necklace formerly worn by my uncle jim, who i never really knew but have been told would've gotten along famously with. i wear it always. i like to think he's watching over me.
What are you afraid of?
too much. rollercoasters, parasailing, bungee jumping, and other things of that nature, for one. and spiders,
for two. and scary movies.
Favorite web site to visit?
either television without pity or tomato nation, hands
down.
What is something you've learned in the last year?
that i am made up of many individual parts of a whole person rather than one personality trait, moment, or action being defining, immediate, unchanging.
Tell us about the most romantic moment of your life.
wow. i absolutely loved mae's answer, so it's difficult to top that, but how about: once i went to lunch with a guy i had a big crush on, and i thought he was angry with me over something, so i went all prepared to have this big argument, but when he got
out of his car he had six white roses for me. they were really very beautiful and stayed that way for a
long time.
little did i know he was a douchebag. but that's not
very romantic, now is it? next question, please.
What is one thing you know for sure is true?
that God really does do so many great and wonderful
and astonishing things that i would believe it if
someone told it to me.
