Questions are asked and answered
There is a meme going around, as I’m sure you’ll have noticed, where bloggers interview one another, and end up giving really quite interesting (or in my case, really quite long) answers. I think the beauty of this meme is in the nature of who is doing the interviewing. It’s not people that the bloggers know in their day to day life, who would most likely be fishing for particular bits of information that they already know. It’s also not people completely disconnected from them, who would end up asking entirely generic questions. These are people who know their interviewees through the blogosphere, a curious form of social interaction which is simultaneously very open and very reserved, as each word can be chosen, pondered and held back. All of us leave a whole number of gaps in the narrative of our lives as we blog away, and many of the questions and answers I’ve seen have been filling in some of these gaps, which the blog authors may have been entirely unaware of.
So the meme has been floating around, and I’ve seen it whiz through the periphery of both the comics blogosphere and the theatre blogosphere, and now it has entered the realm of the blogs that I read more regularly. I finally decided to be brave and ask for some questions following the questions that Aphra posed to Reed. Reed, or possibly her ever-present Editor, posed five questions, and warned me that they “are all prompted by the fact I am a NOSY woman”. As a result, this is probably one of my longest posts ever. If you really don’t want to know about the real Singing Librarian, look away now and come back in a few days when I start wittering about something less personal.
The Singing Librarian Talks 