How agreeable are you?
I think very, unless something is wrong or is clearly being done incorrectly. That’s not about being disagreeable, it’s just wanting to get things right.
What is your middle name and what do you think of it?
My middle name is Padraig, and I love the extreme Irishness of Niall Padraig Sweeney. I also love my Confirmation name, my chosen other middle name, Sebastian, which definitely describes me and my life in some ways. I remember we were driving up the Dublin Mountains on a Sunday. I had to submit the name of a saint the next day at school, and I knew I didn’t want any of the normal names. There were various reasons why I chose Sebastian. One was that Brideshead Revisited was on television, so there was the character Sebastian Flyte; the other was that my older brother would wake me up late on a school night and bring me downstairs to watch alternative films, probably on Channel 4.
One of these was Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane, which, technically, is not something that somebody in school
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