1. If you didn’t have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time?
Same **** I already do. I need time plus money for it to really be interesting.
2. What hobby would you get into if time and money weren’t an issue?
I’d travel to see live concerts and sporting events I’m interested in.
3. What fictional place would you most like to go?
Heaven (but just for a visit- I wouldn’t want to live there)
4. Who’s your go to band or artist when you can’t decide on something to listen to?
Beethoven (late string quartets)
5. What could you give a 20-minute presentation on with no preparation?
I probably have about 60 tucked in my memory banks leftover from teaching. Those are all history lectures. Probably another 60 on various musicians and genres. Japanese literature. The case for various causes like nuclear disarmament, moving past money, moving past democracy. Depression.
6. What amazing thing did you do that no one was around to see?
I failed algebra 2 and had to take summer school. It got out at noon and turned out to be great because it was full of awesome stoners from several high schools including a seemingly endless collection of new chicks. As usual a group of us gathered at someone’s house whose parents were perpetually absent. We’d get ****ed up as possible on weed and booze and make out and in my case mostly just pet on each other’s bodies - well one session got cut unexpectedly short and I drove home alone in Atlanta all ****ed out of my skull and this insane deluge of sheets of rain hit and my windshield wipers wouldn’t turn on. I ended up getting lost. I was in real heavy urban traffic and couldn’t see a thing. I couldn’t even see how to turn into a parking lot or anything. Eventually, I oriented myself and made it home without incident.
