January 23, 2004

All About Andy

Kristi from Incoherent Babbling (were it a religious blog, that would translate as Evangelical Speaking in Tongues) was kind enough to contribute to meme-blog-land by sending me five questions to answer. So, here are the answers - it's my way of letting you get to know me, because I know you're dying to do just that. Although not Biblically, probably. Well, maybe a handful of you, but I'll have to run it by the wife first.

So, um, anyway...

1. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

   In general? I could probably use a little more patience. OK, a lot more. Maybe it's the temperment of the what's-left-of-it redhead, the Scorpio, the Irish, or some other equally irrelevant factor that we use to justify our behaviors, but I've been known to not just fly off the handle, but to use it as a diving board, launch myself several feet in the air, and come crashing down on others like a ton of bricks. Verbally, that is. I'd not lay a hand on anyone unless they went about the laying of hands first.

   So, patience. I'm sort of the grasshopper in that regard.

2. What's the worst high school experience you can remember?

   The day that winter arrived and Mrs. Mullins quit wearing her sun dresses. Seriously, that would be the time when my best friend of five years decided - for no apparent reason - to turn against me, and also worked diligently to turn our "shared" friends against me as well. It worked for a while - eventually, some of the others apologized for being assholes and we patched things up. However, I still make a point of passively hating my former best friend out of principle. On the bright side, that whole episode resulted in me finding some great, new friends too.

3. What are some of your favorite summertime activities?

   Periodically driving up into the foothills of the Rockies to sight-see, walk a bit, stop at the Tommyknocker for beer and cheese fries. Sitting out back with my guitar and a beer. My activities really don't change much from season to season - music, reading, writing, etc. Of course, the newest one is prepping the World Wide Runt, the most adorable Fiona, for her role as Benevolent Ruler of the Universe.

4. If you could live a day in the life of one other person, who would you
   choose?

   I honestly don't know. My life alone has enough drama to keep me occupied, although there are plenty of people whose brains I'd like to pick just to tap into their experience and knowledge.

5. What's one of your happiest childhood memories?

   Just one? I don't really have any standout events it seems, but I have good memories of sitting in my grandmother's kitchen drinking Sanka Instant Coffee laden with sugar, of getting this huge plastic aircraft carrier toy with rubber-band powered catapults and airplanes that flew across the room, of picking out my first dog, of using water to "paint" the wooden patio furniture with my friend Leigh Ann (~age 6), of summers spent at Six Flags Over Georgia, and on and on.

So, there you go. I trust this has given you keen insight into the working of my mind, into the history of my life, unless I've just been making up all these answers as a defense mechanism to make myself seem less interesting so the hordes of fans will quit knocking on my door at all hours.

Anyway, if you want to be interviewed similarly by yours truly, here are the rules:

THE RULES!

1. Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
   
2. I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
   
3. You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five
   answers.
   
4. You'll include this explanation.
   
5. You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

Of course, if you don't want to be interviewed, that makes my life considerably easier. It's up to you.