Better Late than... well, you know.

Well, in defiance of my profile as an "early adopter," I am only now getting around to doing the "survey thing." I can't make any promises, but I hope it was worth the wait.

Five things I want to do before I die:
1) Live in another country for at least a year. OK, I actually want to live in more than one country for at least a year -- Iceland, Scotland, Slovakia... the list keeps getting longer.
2) Publish
3) Read at least 2500 more books.
4) Own a house that has a nice kitchen (with an island and double oven) and a walk-in closet that I can convert to a chapel.
5) Become a whole lot more like Jesus.

Five things I can do:
1) laugh
2) see beauty
3) cook
4) put words together
5) cry

Five things I can't do:
1) be patient with Microsoft Windows.
2) conceal my feelings.
3) settle for bullshit answers.
4) keep my hair.
5) math.

Five little-known facts about me:
1) I used to have a pet snake. An Argentine Boa named Lucy. I miss her.
2) I was once the proud owner of a 1988 Yugo.
3) I need lots of alone time.
4) I've had dinner with a Bond girl.
5) I occasionally wear pajamas as if they were regular clothes.

Five (living) people I'd want to have with me if stranded on a desert island:
1) Bono - OK, so I'd be depriving the world -- shoot me. Good heart, great music, plus a mind that would produce some great conversations.
2) Janeane Garofalo - cute, sassy, an appropriate companion for my more bitter moments of tropical exile.
3) Billy Collins - witty, imaginative, could help me see the situation in unusual and delightful ways.
4) Anne Lamott - ditto on the witty, earnest, self-aware, and a bit neurotic. Imagine she and Janeane chatting it up...
5) Brian Greene - I've never really had time to learn string theory, not to mention basic physics in general, so his presence would be instructive.

Five (dead) people I'd want to have with me if stranded on a desert island (provided they weren't dead and all...)
1) Audrey Hepburn - Most beautiful woman EVER. Great accent, too. From what I've read she'd also be inclined to pitch in with huts and latrines.
2) Vincent VanGogh - Another one who could see beauty in unusual ways. Crazy is good on a desert island. And he'd always be up for lending an ear...
3) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - An appetite for fun, plus I'll bet ya anything he'd be coming up with Bamboo Concertos in short order.
4) Martin Buber - Someone to talk deep with. I have a few questions to follow up on both I and Thou and Good and Evil and we'd have nothing but time.
5) Flannery O'Connor - Wicked-sharp sense of humor, great perspective, deep faith, and imagine how she'd push everyone else's buttons... never a dull moment with Flannery around.

Five people I want to see do this next:
Anyone (if such a person exists) that hasn't done it already.

There ya go. Hope you all are blessed and enriched by the experience.

More blogging now -- Quad One is over. Come back soon.