Crack For The Chatty Soul

Via Red and Right Thinking Girl, the weekly survey.

Oh, don't look at me that way. They're fun, in a wierd kind of way.

1. What is the best way to die?

I'm hoping for "Shot in the back by a jealous husband when I'm 95", but I'll settle for the way my grandmother died; in her sleep, more or less unexpectedly, after a great evening with her children.

2. What's the worst way to die?

Too many contenders; buried, drowning, bla bla bla.

I guess "in vain" is one that stands out.

3. What do you hope to hear God say when you reach Heaven?

"Mr. Berg, just this once I'm gonna let you slide through..."

4. True or False: What goes up must come down.

I'll bite into that when I see my stress level heading southward.

5. What are you wearing? (That's got to be the cheesiest and most asked question on the net.)

My favorite black jeans, my favorite black shirt.

6. What songs are you into these days?

• The Clash, Death Or Glory: I've been playing that one over and over and over lately.
• The new Aimee Mann song.
• Men Without Women, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul
• For some reason, a whole lot of Allison Krause.

7. What are you doing this weekend?

Early Saturday: Mow the lawn, do some show prep.
Noon: Do the show.
Four-ish: Head up to Saint Cloud for the MOB Party.
Sunday: Church, then probably start digging up the part of the yard I want to build a patio on later this summer.

8. Tell RTG readers something about yourself that you want us to know.

I miss having babies/toddlers. I love my kids - 12 and 13 now - but I get so wistful around the little ones. As much as I'm looking forward to being done with parenting, there are times I miss it soooo bad.

9. Parker Grace is now 15 weeks old.
Ibid.

Enjoy every moment of it.

10. Can you keep a secret?

Rigidly.

11. How often did you work out this week and what did you do?

I've been kind of a slob this week; I took a few walks, and do my morning pushups. That's about it.

12. Tell me an irrational fear that you have.

When my kids stand near a railing by a dropoff - scenic overlooks, bridges, etc. I get incredibly nervous - like, nothing I've ever felt in my life. I don't want to keep them from looking over the endge, but for whatever reason I feel like either the railing will give way, or that my son will start goofing around or their center of gravity is high enough that they can tip over. It's almost crippling, until I get them away from that edge.

13. What's the most important news story this week?

The NARN meeing Governor Pawlenty!

14. If you could be another person for a day (not a real person, more like a character), who would you be? What's the name, what does this person do and why do you want to be this person?

Tough one. I'm pretty wrapped up being me, for better or worse.

My name would be Thomas Paine Smyth, an independently wealthy but otherwise nondescript fella who made a good-sized fortune through semi-shady means, then dropped out of the rat race to become a free-lance modern-day Don Quixote, roaming the world looking for lost causes to redeem via whatever means - quirky genius, judiciously-applied carefully-focused violence. Sort of a cross between Batman, the Equalizer and McGyver, he's have a girl in every port and would leave the odd $1000 dollar tip.

15. Tell me a blatant lie.

Sure, I believe in soulmates.

Posted by Mitch at May 21, 2005 01:36 AM | TrackBack