THAT’S AWFULLY PERSONAL – WEEK OF MAY 28

Posted on May 28, 2004 by Dave Pollard
that's awfully personalWelcome to the first edition of That’s Awfully Personal, an opportunity for blog writers and readers to reveal a little more about themselves than might normally happen during the daily blogging process, and hence get to know each other a bit better. It’s a little like the late, great Friday Five, but more challenging. Each week our Awfully Personal Panel will post one or more new questions for you to answer on your blog, or in the comment space below if you don’t have a blog.

For more on how That’s Awfully Personal works, please see the How to Play section below. Here are this week’s Awfully Personal Questions:

1. The very attractive spouse of your good friend comes on to you, gently but persistently, at a garden party. How do you deal with the spouse, and what, if anything, do you tell your good friend, who gets jealous easily, about the incident?
2. Your home is aflame and burning out of control. All living creatures have been safely evacuated. You have time to go back in quickly and save one possession from the flames. What would it be, and why?

How to Play “That’s Awfully Personal”:

  1. Subscribe to (i.e. join) this Yahoo group to get the weekly question(s) sent to you automatically by e-mail each Friday.
  2. On Saturday, or whenever you get around to it, post one of the questions and your answer to it on your weblog or web site.
  3. Then come back here (you may want to bookmark this site) and click the ‘comment’ button under the question(s) of the week. If it’s your first time, you’ll be asked to enter your e-mail and the URL of your blog or website. Then just note that your answer is up. Other readers will then be able to read it on your site by simply clicking on your name in the comments thread. You can check out other people’s answers at the same time. Or, if you don’t have a blog or website, you can post your answer right in the comment box.
  4. If you have questions or observations about “That’s Awfully Personal”, or would like to become part of our Awfully Personal Panel that selects the weekly questions, e-mail us.
  5. If you have a suggestion for Question of the Week, e-mail us and our Panel will review it and, if selected, they will acknowledge you as the author with a link to your blog. Questions should ideally be challenging, so that the answers will be revealing (when answered honestly). But this isn’t Truth or Dare — we want people to want to answer honestly and to have to think a bit before they do.
  6. “That’s Awfully Personal” was developed when The Friday Five closed down. The questions are more thought-provoking and, well, more personal than most Friday Five questions. If they’re too serious for you, here’s a group that is resurrecting The Friday Five, which you might enjoy instead.

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3 Responses to THAT’S AWFULLY PERSONAL – WEEK OF MAY 28

  1. linda says:
    May 30, 2004 at 12:39

    I answered, hope others do too. you can find it herelinda

  2. linda says:
    May 30, 2004 at 12:57

    oops – wrong day. it is really here.

  3. gail says:
    June 6, 2004 at 20:48

    i am going to start doing “that’s awfully personal” later this week. more power to those behind it! i’ll surely spread the word about this site!

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