This week’s Sunday Stealing is from WTIT: The Blog. Cheers to all of us thieves.
1. What are the 3 most important things everyone should know about you?
I’m pretty easygoing. So if you ticked me off, it was likely something egregious and/or repeated. I think in numbers; I might remember your phone number before I recall your name. I think in music, so I often quote or modify a musical phrase.
For example, my cat Midnight is a greedy eater, butting Stormy away. So I sing to him, “Midnight, don’t be a dipwad” to the tune of Billy, Don’t Be A Hero. My wife thinks this is funny because she knows I HATE Billy, Don’t Be A Hero.
2. What is the strangest thing you believed as a child?
I don’t think it’s that strange, but based on my dreams, I figured I’d figure out how to fly. No plane, just me. Sometimes, I still do.
3. Thinking of school classes, which were your favorite and least favorite?
I was very good at spelling. Math, up to trigonometry, was great. History, especially American history, I liked.
I was terrible at art. And I sucked at shop class; see question 8.
4. What is your favorite fast food?
A Friendly’s Strawberry Fribble. It’s like a milkshake.
5. What song comes closest to how you feel about your life right now?
It’s Too Darn Hot. This is Ella Fitzgerald because it’s Ella.
6. Have you ever taken martial arts classes?
Once or twice, I think, but never seriously.
Getting Better
7. Does your life tend to get better or worse, or does it just stay the same?
This is a complex question. In the main, I was probably getting better emotionally on a personal basis. Still, I fret about global warming, economic inequality, political insanity, et al., in the world my teenage daughter will inherit. Also, myopic news reporting describes triple-digit temps F in the southern and western US, often without mentioning similar European conditions (above 40 C).
8. What arts and crafts have you tried and decided you were bad at?
Any and all. I was terrible at making anything in Cub Scouts. Creating a bookcase or pottery in shop class in junior high school was disastrous. My father was incredulous that I got a B in art in 7th grade, but the teacher said I did my best. In the 1990s, the people in my book group were doing origami; I sucked at origami. You do NOT want me on your Pictionary team.
Quid est veritas?
9. What is the truest thing that you know?
Sometimes BOTH things are true.
10. Are you more of a giver or a taker?
I try VERY hard to be a giver. One has to be intentional about these things.
11. Do you make your decisions with an open heart/mind?
Ditto. I try extremely hard to make decisions with an open mind. But I’m convinced when I’ve seen so much evidence, real evidence, not just conjecture or rumor, that a path is wrong.
12. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you?
The first root canal. Oddly, the second one wasn’t so bad.
13. What is the most emotionally painful thing that has ever happened to you?
Undoubtedly, something involving affairs of the heart, fortunately not in this century.
14. What is your favorite line from a movie?
“That’s part of your problem: you haven’t seen enough movies. All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.” It is SO self-referential. From Grand Canyon (1991)
15. Can you eat with chopsticks?
Not well.