If money and ability were no obstacle, what would be your dream occupation? Something to do with journalism. I would love to be a political journalist, but I wouldn't mind being a critic, either. Also, I'd teach one class per semester at a college of my choosing.
What was your childhood ambition? For as long as I can remember, I've always wanted to write.
What is your best or favorite personality trait? Least favorite? Best: I can be a very patient person.
Worst: I can also lose my temper and become quite unagreeable.
What would the child you once were think of the adult you have become? I'm probably the reverse of most people: I was a very reserved child, and as I've grown up, I've become friendlier and easier to get along with. So, I hope that the child that I was would see me today and recognize that I've grown as a person with each passing year.
If you could script the basic plot for the dream you will have tonight, what would the story be? In my dream, I would be living out the perfect day that I described a few posts ago.
What is the best advice you've ever heard and who gave it to you? I wish I had an answer, but I won't lie. I can't think of a certain piece of advice that I consistently live my life by.
What keeps you awake at night? The little things. If I don't do well on a test or I turn in an article that I know isn't my best work, it will bother me to no end.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 5/24/07 at 10:41 PM
