"Q&A" with Myrto

Greetings from rainy Athens!

So today we’re having a “Q&A” session of sorts; we’ve been meaning to do one for quite sometime now, since it’s quite common for collaborators to ask each other questions and answer them in public.

The trouble was that, because we know each other quite well, we couldn’t think of any questions to ask each other (and if I wanted to know some of Eirini’s secrets, or vise versa, we wouldn’t be asking each other over the internet :-p ), so we decided on a different approach.

There’s this book called: “The Complete Book of Questions: 1001 Conversation Starters for Any Occasion”; we picked a few questions from there and we’re both answering them.

So here are my answers; Eirini, I hope you’ve learned something new about me and I am looking forward to reading yours! ;-)

  

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “fun”?

Being with good friends, having a long conversation about all topics imaginable.

What’s something about yourself that you hope will change, but that probably never will?

My stubbornness; I don’t think any further explanation is needed. :-p

What big challenge have you taken on recently?

The projects we are working on at the moment; all ambitious and challenging, each in its’ own way.

If you could make one character from any work of fiction come to life, what character would you select?

Charlotte, the main heroine from our victorian project; I’d sit her down and talk to her for days, until she was tired of me. :-p

Of course I am already talking to her in my head 24/7, but wouldn’t it be cool talking to her in person?

If you were able to retrieve only one item on the way out of your burning home, what would that be? Explain.

Since it’s a given that my family (our dog included) would all be able to walk out safe and sound, I would probably grab my external hard drive; all my artistic work is stored in there and I wouldn’t want to lose that. Everything else, I could buy anew.

If you could ask your future self one question what would it be?

“Am I happy?”

Or, on a more superficial level, “How did the whole artistic/book writing thing turn out after all?”


How has your birth order/characteristics of siblings affected you?

Let me start by saying I love my sister to bits; I don’t think I would enjoy being an only child. Sure, growing up, we had to share our parents’ attention and all that, but then again, I got to have someone to tease and annoy for forever :-p, so I think I got the best part of the deal.  

Now personality wise, as you may have guessed already, I hold many of the traits psychology suggests that older siblings possess; at least I think so.

I am independent, overprotective, bossy, ambitious, I am very serious about everything I do, I have high expectations both from myself and others, I have a  perfectionist streak that I am constantly trying to tame, and lastly I am loyal -even to a fault.