Back Fence Ramblings

• 10:49 Layoffs at a village library leads to socially conscious youth browbeaten by arsehole lawyer in front of whole village: bit.ly/1HY4MV #
• 10:50 Telling an 11-yr-old to 'put [her] money where [her] mouth is' to rehire three librarians? Srsly? And in what world do librarians make 100k? #
• 10:51 Choice quotes 1: "He said Oak Brook had to "stop indulging people in their hobbies" and "their little, personal, private wants."" #
• 10:51 Since when is literacy and education falling under 'hobbies' or 'little, personal, private wants'? #
• 10:54 About his successful campaign against subsidised seniors housing to the town: "I don't want to live next to poor people." ...Gah. #
• 10:56 @shoepixie There are no words to describe that man. I like various comments about how far he'd have got on his law degree w/out a library. #
• 10:59 Sorry, US of A, but you have to admit, your vocal minority is still doing you no favours at all. #
• 11:48 @Omejikat Bomb? Maybe. Invade? I'd bring up Vietnam and, nearly 200 years ago, Canada. (Yay War of 1812!) #
• 12:21 @Omejikat Not in 1812. Pres Madison decided to invade Canada, Canada invaded back. Torched the White House, went home & partied. :P #
• 12:36 RT: @tomlenk: A reason to march in DC this weekend: bit.ly/2vZDsv Gods, that's just sickening. #
• 12:40 Boils down to: Hospital ignores civil partnership in case of critical illness decisions. Family sues. Judge dismisses suit. #
• 12:43 Well, hospital ignores power of attorney documents because couple involved was lesbian, which is worse. #
• 14:31 @MitchBenn The original is very much worth a watch. The sequels ... you can take or leave. #
• 14:32 Saw 6 - saw it advertised on a bus and couldn't quite believe it. But nope. Saw. VI. Six. I MISS THE ORIGINAL! #
• 14:34 James Wan and Leigh Whannell came up with a really intense psycho thriller and now it's just more gore-strewn franchise shlock. *sob* #
• 19:05 Agh, bork. Reboot immintish. #
• 22:34 Nervous nervous nervous nervous nervous nervous nervous... #
• 22:52 @AlasdairStuart Thanks. I know. I like nervous. Keeps me humble. And I've been researching for a week. I've planned. I'm good. Just nervous. #
• 22:56 @dodgyhoodoo NEW Nightmare on Elm Street? You mean, AGAIN?!? #
• 23:18 @dodgyhoodoo That actually looks ... pretty good. #
• 23:22 @dodgyhoodoo Definitely a want-to-see, at least to compare to the original. Hrm. #

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How Did I Get Here?

(Anyone who responds to my title line with 'public transport' or any variation thereof gets summarily shot. Just sayin'.)

Seriously, of all the places I expected to be at twenty past two on a Friday afternoon, three blocks from a studio in Battersea to do an interview with a bona fide "Hey It's That Guy" was not one of them. Not, mind you, that I am complaining. Please don't think that I am complaining. I'm ... actually just trying to get the babbling out of my system.

But yeah, twenty minutes before interview time, less than a five-minute walk from my destination, I think now it's safe to say that holy hell I'm interviewing Colin Ferguson.

No, I don't have a dedicated list of questions that I am going to ask him. I know along what lines I will be asking questions but after thinking about it, I realised that interviewing is a lot like STing, at least insofar as you're not interviewing for a job or something. Sure, you can start off knowing exactly what you're doing, but if you try too hard to keep things on a particularly narrow course, you may end up losing out. So I have a general game plan more than an actual question list. This should work out fine - I'm good on the fly. I also have a little digital Dictaphone (I have no idea what the facilities are like and I don't handwrite that fast, so a recording device was a must) and ... going on fifteen minutes. I should get out of here. If I don't get a cigarette before I get into this, I am going to go insane.

Wish me luck!