Prying Into My Already Too-Public Life...No Secrets, But Some Lies
Jul 23 '03
The Bottom Line Is there no end to Prelude's prying? I hope not. This is kinda fun.
Okay, because I'm a sucker for these things, and because I've got writer's block in my usual categories, I'll take some of my valuable time in my office to write a little something more about myself. Because
1) I'm very self-absorbed.
2) I really like the questions that Prelude99 comes up with.
As a prelude (ha) to this write off entry, let me give a plug to myself that if you missed my "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" appearance, you can view the whole damnable fiasco on my silly website, here: http://www.quinnarama.com/videos.html
There are few other videos there, from a few years ago, interviews about my Fisher Price Little People. I crazy like dat. But I look darn cute. If I do say so myself.
Anyway, ON WITH THE SHOW!
1. Approx how big (sq feet) is your house/condo/apartment, etc?
Right now, and for the next year, we're in a three-bedroom 1500 square-foot townhouse. It's big enough for us, we like it, enjoy the neighborhood, but detest the neighbors. Hopefully fall 2004 we'll be moving into a house. It's better than living in a tuff shed, and it's a nice place, and there's a room just for my toys, but it's time to move on.
2. What is the coolest thing YOU think you own and would like to share with us?
The coolest thing I own is a scrap of Gonzo's fur (Gonzo the big-nosed whatever Muppet) that a set designer from "Muppets From Space" sent me. I've got things that are more valuable, things that I'm more attached to (although I can't say I "own" Rubber Duckie), but that's probably the COOLEST thing I own.
3. Do you have any undiscovered or hidden talents? If so, what?
I'm inferring that the talents in question have been discovered by me, but remain undiscovered to the world at large? I'm surprisingly accurate at throwing balled-up scrap paper into wastepaper baskets from across the room.
4. Using no more than 10 nouns, and ONLY nouns, describe yourself. You may explain your choices or not as you see fit.
Melissa
Miles
Man
Books
Power
Art
Toys
Utah
Kermit
School
5. What was your first car?
A silver Plymouth Horizon named "Albie." I'm uncertain of the year, but I'm sure it was early 80's.
6. Do you have any pets? If so, what?
I have a Rubber Duckie, and a 15-month old son. Other than that, no wildlife. When we move into the house, I'm sure we'll get a largish dog, possibly a white labrador. My favorite pet was a Siberian Husky/German Shepherd mix named Sasha. He was a good dog. Bit lots of people. I miss him.
7. What's your favorite restaurant?
Cafe Rio. It's a generic name, but is a growing chain of restaurants in my neck of the woods. Best burritos ever. Huge, messy, yummy, worth giving up an ugly baby for. But not Miles. He's too cute.
8. If you could have plastic surgery right now and change anything about yourself, what would you change?
Hurm. I'm also content with who I am, and my genetic lot in life. If there were anything I'd change, I should just get off my lazy bum and change it. There is the whole "double chin when looking down thing" but all in all I'm dead sexy.
9. What is the most you've ever eaten in one sitting?
It's a toss-up between 28 pieces of French Toast at a boy scout camp when I was 15 and an all-you-can-eat Pizza Hut gluttony fest in Heidelberg when I was 21 after hiking all over the Heiligenberg. Can't do that anymore. The hiking or the eating.
10. What has been your most scary moment in life?
Besides being a new father? Nothing else compares.
11. Do you follow trends?
Sometimes I would like to. But I always seem to be either too clueless or too indifferent to really get on board with most of them. I usually do things because I like to do them. Sometimes that coincides with trends, but other times I'm just a Rubber Duckie adopting, Muppet-Loving, Fisher Price Little People-making fool all on my own. And that's okay.
12. If you were told right now that you've won a 70 million dollar lottery, how would you spend the moolah?
Save most of it. Pay off our debts. Finish school. Keep my current dead-end job long enough to finish school and rub in my good fortunes. Get my job as a teacher, and travel to amazing places every summer with my family. I've actually thought about this a lot. Who doesn't. I really do think I'd finish school and keep my job. I'd go quite crazy if I didn't.
13. Have you ever gone toilet-papering? If so, tell us:
The summer I turned 17 was my third year working at Baskin-Robbins. My co-workers and I started a toilet-papering war that at it's height was really vandalism of a highly edible degree. The worst was when we poured out an entire can of Marshmallow Creme Topping all over Heidi's front porch, and it congealed...it's probably still there. And we filled Nick's VW vents with Vienna Sausages. And we "plastic forked" the bosses lawn. I'm sure this all culminated in **** being arrested two years later for arson, but I was already out of the country and couldn't be charged as an accomplice.
14. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?
I would love to visit every continent; big cities, vast wastelands, underwater...I love to travel, and don't get to do enough of it. If I have to name one place, I'd have to say Australia. It's far enough away that I'll probably never really get there, and it would be nice to be upside down.
15. Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?
Teaching history in a high school classroom, wondering why I ever wanted it as a career...secretly writing a book of some kind, making toys and drawing cartoons, still having fun with my wife and three pups.
16. Ever gotten ultimate revenge on someone?
I've wanted to. My girlfriend in our freshman year of college was raped. That may be the only person I've never forgiven, and maybe never will. Sometimes I relish hatred. It feels good. But all my other hates I've learned to let go of. Even the circumstances that got me fired two years ago I've learned to forgive. Not this guy. I'll never be able to avenge that, and that's difficult to accept. Maybe forgiveness will bring some sort of catharsis, but I'm not ready for that yet. And it'll be a while.
Sorry to end on such a downer, but you're the one who ended with the revenge question!
If there's a Part III to all this madness, include something a bit happier, eh?
Here's Part One, written last May. Has it already been that long? Yup.
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