More Memery!

Tania Pinks tagged me with a sort of interview/meme. She asked some great questions, too.

Here they are:

1. If you could be a character in any novel, who would you be? Why?

This is a hard one, just because there are so many great books out there, but some of my favorite characters have been a bit unsavory. But, if I choose someone virtuous like Frodo Baggins or Aragorn, then the nerd alert rings out rather loudly (what do you mean it's too late?).

So...there's Milo Minderbinder from Catch 22. He was the supply officer whose commercial side-dealings (the syndicate) became so powerful that eventually he had the whole American and German armies working for him. But then he took a beating on Egyptian cotton, so maybe not.

Milo is more ambitious than I really want to be, so instead, I'll take Grandpa Joad from The Grapes of Wrath. All he wanted from life was to sit naked in a tub of fresh-picked grapes and squish around in them.

2. What do you like best about Arizona?

I love Arizona for the hiking. The landscape is so varied: there are deserts (of course) but also 12,000 foot snow-capped peaks, volcanoes, canyons, forests of both the pine and deciduous varieties, high plains and rolling hills. We got it all. Except an ocean. An ocean would be nice.

3. If you had to come back as an animal, which one would it be?

I'd say a Bonobo Chimp (a particularly promiscuous variety of primate), except that monkeys disgust me. It would be nice to run as fast as a Cheetah, but they actually have rather difficult, short lives.

Some sort of large bird would be nice. A soaring bird would be cool, except I don't want to eat carrion. That's worse than being a monkey. An owl, then. They are big, quiet and have great night vision.


4. You have the chance to go on holiday alone, where would you go and what would you do?

I would want to go on a world tour, visiting my blog friends. I would start in London and walk Battersea Park with Pinks, then go people-watching in Piccadilly Circus with Missy. Then on to drink too much in the cafes of Paris with Winters. Then it's on to perving at Bondi beach with Chickybabe in Sydney and renting movies with M in Melbourne. On the way home, I'd have to go pub crawling with Kat in Toronto and then get some gumbo and distribute some beads on Bourbon Street with Tildy.

Then I'd sleep for a week.


Addendum: But before I did any of that, I'd have to hit Niagara Falls with Les. But I'm NOT going to any bars with you, unless you promise not to hang with other guys! ;-)



5. What would you like for your next birthday?

See above.

I'll set up a Paypal account for those who want to contribute to the Bugwit World Tour.



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