yakalskovich | Adult meme, snagged from wanderlustlover

1. What bill do you hate paying the most? Taxes!!!

2. The last place you had a romantic dinner? I have no romantic dinners.

3. What do you really want to be doing right now? What I am doing, but already having done my weekend shopping...

4. How many colleges did you attend? One. I was sedentary that way.

5. Why did you choose the shirt that you have on right now? It looked so delightfully Edwardian.

6. What are your thoughts on gas prices? I have no car; all in all, as they are rising, they will encourage more environmentally friendly technology.

7. First thought when the alarm went off this morning? No alarm -- it's Saturday!

8. Do you miss being a child? No! Now, I can do what I want, dictated only be necessities I have chosen, not other people.

9. Get up early or sleep in? Sleep in. OMG!

10. Have you found real love yet? No. Am not looking for it.

11. Favorite lunch meat? Chicken

12. What do you get every time you go into Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart Germany went bust and sold out to Metro Group. Neener!!!

13. Beach or lake? Beach, please!

14. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual? No, it provides economic security for the children, if there are any.

15. Sopranos or Desperate Housewives? Supernatural or Torchwood, please.

16. What famous person would you like to have dinner with? Grigori Rasputin. Yes, really!

17. Have you ever crashed your vehicle? My Peugeot bike, against a non-indicating middle aged woman from the county where the Miserable Village is. But that was in June 1992, and I didn't know about people from there not indicating yet, so I didn't think to say that she hadn't, and it was deemed my fault.

18. Ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose? Nope.

19. Ring tone? Something Bollywoody I made myself on the phone's ringtone generator.

20. Strangest place you have ever brushed your teeth? The youth hostel in Japan that was a sports stadium.

21. Somewhere in California you've never been and would like to go? I have never been to California!

22. Do you go to church? Every few months, to the Greek Orthodox one, even though I am nominally Lutheran.

23. At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or a new relationship? Career, please; see question ten.

24. How old are you? 42

25. Do you have a go-to person? No. Depending on what the problem or the issue is, I might consult with the Nazgul, one of the Metropolitans, my mother, or my sister.

26. Are you where you want to be in life? No. I would want to earn more money with writing.

27. Growing up, what were your favorite cartoons? Smurfs.

28. What about you do you think has changed the most? I have learned to get along with people with different political or philosophical views, even very different ones.

29. Looking back at high school were they the best years of your life? No!!!

30. Are there times you still feel like a kid? Oh yes; my mother makes sure of it, in a good way as well as a bad.

31. Did you ever own troll dolls? No.

32. Did you have a pager? No.

33. Where was the hang out spot when you were a teenager? The alternative café cooperative half a kilometre from my school; we went there instead of class sometimes.

34. Were you the type of kid you would want your children to hang out with? Nope

35. Who do you think impacted your life the most? Mrs. Albrecht, the old lady who edited the posthumous works of Paul Tillich and came for long sessions with my grandfather, who was the only person who could reliably read that man's handwriting. She took me under her wings, taught me to sail a boat, drive a car, be irregular and daring and bold. She died in February 1992, from a heart attack while swimming at a beach in Gran Canaria, aged 83; a very fitting end!

36. Was there a teacher or authority figure that stood out for you? The history teacher that had gone to Greece with us and calmed the waves when there had been wank; a few days on, he stayed behind while I was painting, never showing himself, until I was done and then casually walked to the beach with me where the others were. Legally, we were all of an age where we were allowed to move freely; he did not hurry me on, there by myself at the Aphaia temple in Aigina, he just did not abandon me to my own recklessness. Such quiet dedication to his job inspired instant dedication in return, so for the last 2 1/2 years known as 'college stage' in German higher education, I picked all his classes first and arranged the rest of the courses around them. I was furious when I disovered I was required to take Social Sciences and had to drop his Religious Education class.-