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Naoko Fujimoto nfujimot@iusb.edu
Naoko Fujimoto (NF) Thank you for having an interview with me.
Naoko Fujimoto (NF) My pleasure. By the way, you look familiar. Have I met you in an English class?
(NF) I don't think so, but I know a Japanese girl whose pronunciation always switched "she" and "shi."
(NF) Then I don't know you. I speak perfect English. Let's start the interview!
(NF) I wrote all the questions on these papers.
(NF) Could you pass me a shi-t of paper?
(NF) Did you say sh*t?
(NF) Do you mean toilet paper?
(NF) Whatever…you wrote 50 columns over four semesters. How did you get a columnist position?
(NF) I got the opportunity from a former editor, Eric Gingerich. He read my blog and liked my diary-like short fiction stories. He's still reading my blog from South Korea. Current editors are looking for new columnist for the next semester. You may contact Brandi Miller
(NF) So your stories weren't non-fiction even though you wrote for the newspaper.
(NF) Why did I have to write truth? Every media lies, doesn't it?
(NF) Every reader expects you wrote truth because it's a part of the mission in a newspaper.
(NF) I'm not a journalist. I'm a poet with lots of imagination.
(NF) That's the reason you failed many English papers.
(NF) I don't find any connections between failing papers and writing poetry.
(NF) You just type words without thinking, do you?
(NF) I don't use my brain but I observe.
(NF) You don't observe! You only daydream. But, writing needs a brain.
(NF) Writing needs food from China House instead.
(NF) You wrote about China House quite often. Is it true you only order vegetable chow mein?
(NF) And do I write a column listing to "Suddenly I See" by KT Tunstall hundreds of times?
(NF) With the loudest volume; therefore, you lost thirteen roommates.
(NF) It's not true. I had seventeen roommates.
(NF) They left because you didn't share a spatula with them.
(NF) They left because I dipped their tooth brushes into the toilet.
(NF) They're not supposed to know that.
(NF) It should be off the record.
(NF) It won't be problematic if you speak the truth.
(NF) I'm still recovering from a bout of Cyanoccus Glycermic Impaction, so I cannot tell a lie.
(NF) It's impossible that you have the impaction. You haven't had too many blueberries and contacted a neurotic Blueberry dope pusher in the last two weeks.
(NF) Well, tell me about your next project after graduation.
(NF) When did you become the interviewer?
(NF) Actually I can answer the question…I'll keep writing.
(NF) Even though your stories are not going to be published?
(NF) Yes.
(NF) You're lying!
(NF) No, I am not.
(NF) The publishing world doesn't publish your stories like the Preface does.
(NF) But writing columns for the Preface is an absolutely necessary step for my writing carrier.
(NF) You misspelled career.
(NF) I'm deeply thankful to the editors who trusted and allowed me to write whatever I wanted. And I deeply thank the readers who looked for my stories every Wednesday.
(NF) Right, it was cool to see students who read my story between classes at DW next to me.
(NF) You didn't write columns. I did!
(NF) I proofread.
(NF) No. Amanda Groendyke proofread all my stories for two years.
(NF) So you didn't write any stories.
(NF) Yes, I did. Amanda is my proofreader.
(NF) What a coincidence! She is my maid of honor.
(NF) Can a writer get married without breaking salad bowls?
(NF) Of course. I'll write about my marriage life in my blog: naokofujimoto.blogspot.com
(NF) I just saw Naoko Fujimoto, who was chasing the king of centipedes with a half-shattered measuring cup.
(NF) Did you see a black cat following her?
(NF) Yes. I also saw her car wiper blades were replaced by black Twizzlers.
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