Memed


Tagged by Catherine at Povertybarn (you can see her answers here).

What were three of the stupidest things you have done in your life?

1. Driving while intoxicated (nothing ever happened, but sometimes I feel like I'm living on borrowed time).
2. Pushing away a friend for no good reason other than that they had moved away.
3. There's a clear #1 answer to this question, but I can't bring myself to write it. Suffice it to say that I've done at least one very stupid thing in my life that I can't utter to even one person, let alone to the 'net at large. (No one was hurt; it's not like that.) Why mention it at all? Probably because I hope I'm not alone in feeling that way, and to remind anyone else who feels that way that they're not alone and that life goes on.


At the current moment, who has the most influence in you life?

I think the best answer to this question is that I do, but that I often don't appreciate the extent to which that is true.


If you were given a time machine that functioned, and you were allowed to only pick up to five people to dine with, who would you pick?

I'm assuming that I have some sort of universal translator and that each of my guests would be willing.

1. Mohandas K. Gandhi
2. Siddhartha Gautama
3. Queen Elizabeth I
4. Dorothy Parker (probably just for drinks)
5. Isa ben Yusuf, the Nazarene, a citizen of the Roman Empire around 2000 years ago...just to see what all the fuss was about


If you had three wishes that were not supernatural, what would they be?

1. A great deal more clarity of thought, for me personally.
2. Some confidence that a private citizen can really make a change in the world.
3. One. Million. Dollars. :-)


Someone is visiting your hometown/place where you live at the moment.
Name two things you regret your city not having, and two things people should avoid.

I'm answering this question like I still live in San Francisco, which I feel like I do even though I sleep in Oakland and work in Berkeley.

Regret not having:
1. A serious newspaper.
2. Actual diversity, instead of the ghettoized, neighborhood-by-neighborhood patchwork of ethnic and cultural differences.

Avoid:
1. Getting a parking ticket (this might count as a "supernatural wish")
2. Buying a house at these prices.


Name one event that has changed your life.

In some ways that I've known all along and in other ways that I'm just beginning to realize, the death of my father in 1998. I still miss him a lot.


I'm not going to pass this meme on. Answering the questions made me feel sad. If you like it, pick it up and trackback and thereby tag thyself.

Posted: Tue - July 5, 2005 at 08:12 PM   | Category:     |   |   | |


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