The Sheila Variations

Weekend survey

So much to say ... no time. So I'll do RTG's survey.

1. What is the best way to die?

Surrounded by family, holding your hand, encouraging you, telling you they love you.

2. What's the worst way to die?

Randomly by some psycho off his meds - pushing you in front of a train, or something like that.

Or being buried alive. I have nightmares about being buried alive all the time. It stems from this absolutely horrifying Twilight Zone I saw years ago. Horror.

3. What do you hope to hear God say when you reach Heaven?

Your Mummy Gina and Pop, your Uncle Jimmy, your Grandpa, your Uncle Mike, your Uncle Angus are all waiting for you. Oh, and we saved you a seat in between Marilyn Monroe and Cary Grant. Welcome. I know you did your best, Sheila. I always felt that you were doing your best, even when you sucked.

4. True or False: What goes up must come down.

As far as I understand, yes.

5. What are you wearing? (That's got to be the cheesiest and most asked question on the net.)

Brown velour jacket. Tight black skirt. My fabulous new shoes: brown fancy-schmancy platform flip-flops with turquoise beads.

6. What songs are you into these days?

Rufus Wainright: I Don't Know What It Is
Queen: Good Company
Metallica: Sandman (always)
Green Day: Extraordinary Girl

7. What are you doing this weekend?

My 3 best high school buddies - Beth, Betsy, and Mere - are all driving down for a house party as we speak. They should arrive in a couple hours. We will hang out all weekend. No set plans yet, but I am sure we will do a lot of GABBING while lolling about in our pajamas.

8. Tell RTG readers something about yourself that you want us to know.

My thought-process going on during my first kiss (sitting on a bench on the local college campus, autumn night - I was old, too - 18!!!) was: "Hmmm. I wonder what the big deal about this whole kissing thing is. It's not all that great." Suffice it to say, my views soon changed.

9. Parker Grace is now 15 weeks old.
Yay!!!

10. Can you keep a secret?

No. If you are planning a surprise party, do not tell me until the last minute so I don't blow the whole thing.

11. How often did you work out this week and what did you do?

Three yoga classes.

12. Tell me an irrational fear that you have.

"S"s.

13. What's the most important news story this week?

The opening of the final installation in the Star Wars series. (Kidding.) No. Not really kidding, actually.

14. If you could be another person for a day (not a real person, more like a character), who would you be? What's the name, what does this person do and why do you want to be this person?

I'd like to be one of those people who travel to anarchic crazy countries and bum around, chatting up the people, living in a yurt with a wind-swept family, eating the local food, driving in a jeep across the Kara Kum Desert and stuff like that ... and then write insightful funny books about my experiences. I'd like to see the world, and not from the carefully constructed view of a tour bus. I'd like to be like VS Naipaul or Robert Kaplan or Rebecca West. Not go to these places on a political mission or to confirm what I already know. But to just see WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE. My name would be Moira Fitzpatrick.

15. Tell me a blatant lie.

I don't want to get married.

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