If for some reason you were ever to spawn, what traits would you like to pass on?

From Escarey.

Do I have to phrase my answer in rhymed couplets? Because I don't think I can.

I think I tend to see the good things in people, and ignore the bad. This makes me an unreliable judge of character, but I don't think it's ever hurt me. I'd like an offspring to behave similarly, and I hope they have as good luck with it.

With a worshipful obsession with Robin Williams and Eddie Izzard and the privilege of knowing people like Forest, Sean, and Clay, I've come to believe that the highest form of human interaction is extemporaneous stand-up comedy, and I think that making people laugh is the most noble of all civilizations endeavor. If I can make my friends laugh, it feels like my place on this planet is justified, in some small fashion. I'd like my child to feel the same way.

What's the best thing about being you?

Klae asks.

What I like best about being me is that, for whatever reason, I enjoy a certain amount of goodwill from most people I know. Hell, even some people I don't know seem partial to my company. It makes me feel like what I assume my born-again Christian sister means when she talks about being "truly blessed".

what is your next Big Plan(tm)

Brigid wants to know.

Like Travel Plans? Well I've had my big jetset vacation to Costa Rica so I might not do anything else world-travelley this year. But I'd love to travel with you guys if y'all go back to Iceland or something. My ludicrous job situation makes difficult planning the two-week roadtrip with Cris, though I'm not counting that out. Toronto in the fall, maybe? Whatever holiday's I'm trying to plan I'll have to maneuver around my 15-year high school reunion Thanksgiving weekend, and LA for Christmas. I really wanna go to SanFran to bother John Adams, Thomas and Alison.

What other Plans might be Big? I dunno. Job? Whatever. School? As if.

I need to start practicing my swimming, so I have a hope of making it across Walden Pond in a couple months.

what's your favorite cuss word and why?

From Sadira.

Balls.

I like the word cuz it's funny. It can sound uncomfortably evocative and squeamishly personal. I don't say it very often, maybe that's why I like it so much; it's unusual, it catches my attention so much more than the ubiquitous "fuck". "Balls" takes more time and energy to say, it somehow seems a larger word than "fuck", though you can say both through gritted teeth, which seems important.

Balls.