interview?

So my friend Amanda had to interview one of the contestants in a recent literary contest as an assigment in her journalism class. I was the interviewed party. I liked my answers, so I have decided to put them here. Enjoy.

1. How long have you been writing?
My first attempt at creative writing was in second grade. I went to a private school at which the teachers would read to us for about forty minutes each day after lunch. After having been inspired by a reading of Sheila Burnford's The Incredible Journey, I attempted to write an adventure about a pack of domestic dogs braving it in the wild. I finished the first chapter and, deciding that my story sucked entirely too much to warrant finishing, promptly abandoned the project. My class assignments through sixth grade included alot of creative writing, but that well dried up shortly after I entered the world of public school, where creativity is largely discouraged. It wasn't until the advent of my college career, which I began at age twenty five, that I resumed creative writing (outside of writing song lyrics). I'm thirty one now. I'm not a math major, so you'll have to do the calculations.

2. Is this the first writing contest that you have entered? If no, what others have you entered? Won?
This is the first contest I've entered. I did not win it. Again, I'm no math major, but, according to my calculations, I now have a 0% success rate.

3. Where are you from?
I'm from all over the Southeastern United States. I've resided in fourteen or fifteen different locations, having lived in all of the following states: Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee, Colorado, euphoria, and severe depression.

4. What clubs and organizations are you involved in here? Major?
I am a recent addition to both Sigma Tau Delta (English) and Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish). I barely have time for anything extra-curricular, because I'm so far in debt that I have to work a career-type job to pay the bills. This butt: property of The Man. Oh yeah, and the English department.

5. How long have you been at Montevallo?
Let's see, I began in the Fall 2004 semester, and I put my college career on standby from Summer 2006 until the beginning of the Fall 2007 semester. I'll bet you didn't know that word problems would be involved, did you?

6. What inspires you to write?
I have to always be creating something, or else life begins to overwhelmingly suck. If I slow down, creatively speaking, the gravitational pull of all the heavy, depressing stuff in my head defeats inertia and begins collapsing my thoughts in on themselves. So I always have to keep creating, be it poems or songs or short stories or sketches or blog entries or playfully outlandish sentences constructed in colorful, plastic magnet-letters on the side of mom's refrigerator. And Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. And CS Lewis.

7. What poems did you submit to the BACHE?
"Landfill," "Black Ice," "Georgia Mist," and "At Sea."

8. What are your plans after you leave Montevallo?
I haven't thought that far ahead. And I graduate in December, following a one-class fall semester. I probably need to get on that.

9. What are your long-term goals?
Forty two. I've spent alot of time in deep thought over that one.