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       # September's five questions
       
       Poking around the Tildeverse gopherholes, I dig reading different people's answers to these monthly questions. Here's my first go at joining in.
       
  TEXT Christina's September questions
       
       1. If you had the ability to compete in the Olympics, what event would you want to compete in?
       
          Reflexively my answer is skateboarding, though throughout its whole arc of becoming an Olympic sport, I held different kinds of doubt: whether it would actually happen, whether it would be good for skateboarding, or whether it would be good to even watch.
       
          I'm not into skateboard competitions. I entered them as a kid in the 80s and early 90s. That era of skateboarding was a low point for skateparks -- skating happened in the streets, or in private backyards. Contests were as much about competing and moving forward in skating and sponsorships as they were irregular events where you'd get to see people from the surrounding region -- friends, familiars, and people who you heard about that ripped. But today's competitions, even the ones modeled on street, are skatepark events.
       
          Anyway. Two paragraphs in and I feel like this is a topic I'll need to revisit and expand on. Thanks for this prompt, Christina! Anyway, the other sport would be biathlon. I cannot ski nor shoot well, but what a crazy combo sport.
          
       2. Growing up, what was your favorite comic strip?
          When I was very little, Blondie held prime real estate in our local paper, top of the daily section and front page of the Sunday pullout section, in color, and I loved it. Also on Sunday afternoons, one of the TV stations would play the old B&W Blondie films, making a twofer.
       
          I was also fascinated by Dagwood's sandwiches. Even though I'm not all that hype on sandwiches in general, his spirit spoke to me.
       
       3. Have you dreamed of flying, falling, or running? Describe your most vivid memory of one of these dreams.
       
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