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Welcome to our weekly Boredwalk Community series, where we ask Boredwalk fans fun questions! This week we're talking to Amy W., showing off a Caffiend shirt.

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?

I'm a payroll accountant for feature films, but my dream job is cake decorating without having to deal with customers.

2. What's the most useful piece of advice you've ever received?

"All the could haves, should haves, and would haves in the world won't bring back a missed opportunity." But it's said like "couldas, shouldas, and wouldas." (Ed. note: Carpe that diem!)

3. What's a book you think the Boredwalk community should read?

Anything by Jasper Fforde or Jonathan Carroll.

4. If you could have any super power what would it be and why?

Teleportation so I could just be where I want to be without having to get there.

5. You can curse your nemesis with a minor annoyance for eternity; what do you choose?

Doors that don't shut unless you fiddle with them just right. (Diabolical!)

6. What experience do you most want to cross off your bucket list?

Traveling to all 50 states. I'm missing Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and possibly Delaware.

7. Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?

On Instagram @AmyMadeCake

Welcome to our weekly Boredwalk Community series, where we ask Boredwalk fans fun questions! This week we're talking to Mikey B. of Rockaway NJ, showing off a Don't Grow Up It's a Trap shirt.

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?

Currently "in between jobs" as they say, but I was a litigation support manager for a court reporting firm. I emailed transcripts to attorneys; not fun. Dream day job = music producer. (Ed. note: yeah, that sounds better.)

2. What's your biggest pet peeve?

The rapid loss of driving knowledge when it happens to rain during your commute. (The struggle is real...and annoying.)

3. What's the most useful piece of advice you've ever received?

Play chess, not checkers. (Dad, is that you?)

4. If you could have any super power what would it be and why?

The amount of times I’ve debated this question with friends always seems to create a different answer. To stray away from the usual, I’d love for my super power to be able to eradicate disease. (You'd never pay for drinks on this planet again!)

5. You can curse your nemesis with a minor annoyance for eternity; what do you choose?

The pain of stubbing your toe...doesn’t matter which toe.

6. What experience do you most want to cross off your bucket list?

Travel to every continent.

7. Clear up a misconception (about your job, where you are from, some other topic you know a lot about).

I’m sure this gets hammered home enough, but being from New Jersey, NO we aren’t all like the Jersey Shore cast (they’re not even from Jersey), we don’t all have links to the mob, and we have THE best pizza. Don’t @ me.

8. What's a life pro tip the Boredwalk community needs to know?

Just breathe and get those creative juices flowing!

9. Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?

On Twitter @whereyabeen

If you’re of the musical variety please spin some of my tracks here: https://weusetolove.bandcamp.com/

Welcome to our weekly Boredwalk Community series, where we ask Boredwalk fans fun questions! This week we're talking to Paige C. of Marianna FL, showing off a Shirley Temple shirt.

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?

My Brand! New! Day! Job! (Thanks a lot, COVID-19) is distance learning with my incredible students. We are learning new things every day, to say the least. My dream day job? I'd like to be a professional sea glass gatherer or a mudlarker. (Ed. note: I definitely had to look up mudlarking just now because I am an uncultured troglodyte.)

2. What's your biggest pet peeve?

Super-relevant — and I think it's the teacher in me: folks not complying with social distancing and hygiene guidelines even when it's in the best interest for everyone involved. For example, wearing a mask when you are around others. My stepmom made me my excellent mask! I am in a rural community where there is still a very low number of COVID-19 cases. I want to help keep it that way. (The rest of us aspiring curve-flatteners salute you!)

3. What's a book that you think the Boredwalk community should read?

Well, I fall in love with books fairly regularly. I recently read Emily McGovern's Bloodlust and Bonnets and really enjoyed that. I'm a big fan of her webcomic "My Life as a Background Slytherin." She makes me snort-laugh. (I just checked out her comic, and it IS really good! Maybe I'll link to it in Wednesday's email...)

4. What experience do you most want to cross off your bucket list?

Hiking out to The Old Man of Hoy, in Orkney. Did you know that is where they filmed part of the video "Here Comes the Rain Again" by The Eurythmics? True story: went to Orkney and did an archeology tour. On the first night there, we went around the table and introduced ourselves and gave a reason for why we were there. Answers ranged from being interested in Neolithic structures to studying the "in between" spaces of mystical places. My answer? "Well, when I was a teenager I really loved the landscape in this one particular music video..." The tour guide didn't miss a beat, and for the rest of the week she would point out places that didn't make sense to anyone else but me. "That's the window where Dave was videoing Annie," and "See that beach? The boat wreck used to be there." I didn't make it out to the Old Man of Hoy that time, but I REALLY hope to return! (This resonates with me! The only reason I'd ever really go to Manchester is to have my photo taken in front of the Salford Lads Club because of The Smiths, so I totally get this.)

5. If you drink, what's your go-to drink? If you don't drink, what's your go-to snack?

Please see my t-shirt. The more cherries, the better. I also love nachos. (Right?! A good bartender knows they will ALWAYS get a nicer tip if they don't skimp on the maraschinos.)

6. What's a surprising fact about you?

I got my first tattoo at age 50. Then I immediately got a second one. I can't wait to get my third one. I was all ready to go, but had to cancel once the Stay in Place order went out.

7. What's the most useful piece of advice you've ever received?

The 5 P's: Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance! And then this one: what you think of me is none of my business. That one is still a struggle for me sometimes.

8. What's a life pro tip the Boredwalk community needs to know?

Don't be afraid to reach out to people you find interesting.

9. Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?

Paige didn't answer this one, so I guess she doesn't want anyone to find her. Unfortunately for her, though, I am a master amateur sleuth and discovered she's talented photographer who's sold some of her work in the past on Etsy! You should go marvel at her sold works here.