oh, I am fortune's fool!

1. Is the light that people see when they die the random firing of electrons or is it something more? by definition, that's impossible to know
2. Do you ever step back thinking of life's inner meaning and your latest fling? what a strange question
3. Can anyone guess what band/song you are listening to right now? no music, just watching TV
4. When was the last time you were embarrassed? earlier today, meeting the new boss for the second time, I'm pretty sure that I didn't acquit myself well
5. If you were going to have a mural painted in your bedroom what would you want it to be of? uh, no. That would never happen.
6. Is sex more about fulfilling a need or giving yourself? definitely not public business
7. Do you like your belly? inside is fine
8. Do you think more or act more? think
9. Do you ever think about the price of gasoline? only when I'm buying it
10. What is the healthiest food to eat? apple, every day
11. Have you ever read:
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull? no, but someone in the house owned a copy when I was a kid
12. Ender's Game? no, but it's been urged upon me many times
13. Memnoch the Devil? ugh no
14. Should there be a mandatory retirement age? what a ridiculous idea. Unless that's going to be funded with some miraculous money from another planet, declaring the mandatory age is pointless--the whole point of retirement is whether you can afford to live on it, not whether you want to do it. Seriously?!
15. What's the craziest thing you've ever done on impulse that worked out well? law school, I guess?
16. List everything you have eaten in the past 24 hours: cereal, raisins, apple, muffin, chips & salsa. And about 8 migraine pills.
17. Do you listen to your intuitions, feelings and tingly sensations? all the damn time
18. Do you know a lot about the city you live in and do you think it's important to know a lot about it? yeah, I know a lot about it. Whether it's so important, I can't really say--it's a habit, more than anything, by this point!
19. If you were at the Everything in the Whole Wide World museum what would you want to see first? so there's this guy...
20. Have you ever read:
    Lost Souls? nope
21. The Shining? ugh no
22. Damnation Game? no
23. Pearl Harbor? not
24. Do you have any exercise tapes or DVDs? a surprisingly large number, considering my utter laziness!
25. Do you own a pair of lucky underwear? not as such
26. You've been feeding a wild cat but it's annoying your neighbors. You cannot adopt it but you must get rid of it. Which is kinder, taking it to a no-kill shelter that will keep it in a cage for the rest of its life or having it put to sleep? what's the point of being a wild cat if you're gonna live in a cage? Don't f'ing feed it in the first place!
27. Can you spell "mouse" without singing it (at least in your head)? yep, I've aged past the digits on a single hand
28. What's a word people should use more often? please
29. What is the longest word you can type using only the top (letter) row of the keyboard? prettier
30. Do you listen to other people's advice? depends on the other person
31. Would you ever consider putting your entire CD collection on your hard drive and then selling the CDs? nope, that's theft
32. Does 'liberty and justice for all' mean for all Americans or all people? just Americans, man
33. What do you believe that you think EVERYONE should agree with? absolutely nothing
34. Does the sound of crickets bother you? only inside the house
35. Is the sound of a fan on at night soothing? gaaahhhh, no
36. How do you feel you will likely die? not sure, but it's looming
37. If you were going to run away, where would you go? not telling!

[From the 5000-question meme; this is the third third of the twenty-fourth part (questions 2267-2300). The title quotation is by William Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet]