Questions from Katie.

Finally, I've gotten around to answering Katie's questions! Here they are.

1. Either you have gone to art school and become a successful animator, or your writing degree has paid off, but you have managed to land a job as one of the essential creative minds behind the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. You've been doing this for several years, and really enjoying it, when the executives come saying that to boost ratings, they are going to kill off one of the major characters (ie, one of the Turtles; and with no Star Trek miraculous reasurrections, or soap opera this-all-took-place-in-a-dream sequences). You have to pick which of the Turtles is going to die. Who do you pick? Why?

-My God, what a dramatic question! This is really quite difficult. My first thought, though, is that it would have to be Leonardo. Which might backfire, because he's a really popular character. But his role in the ensemble, in my opinion, is basically as the leader, the one who mostly knows what's going on, and who makes the decisions. I think it would be the most interesting for the plot, and for the other characters' development, if that role was taken away, and they had to somehow try to fill it. I think, actually, that's the only role that could be taken out and still be semi-replaced by the remaining three... as opposed to the angry one, or the smart one, or the funny one. ;)

2. Choose your totally useless super power!
a. the ability to speak only in commercial jingles
b. the ability to accurately, to the last jelly bean, predict the number of jelly beans in contests
c. the ability to change the song stuck in your head, but only to our high school alma mater

-Haha! Definitely choice B. It could win me lots of prizes. Anyway, I know enough commercial jingles to put them in my daily conversation, and that often makes other people irritated.... And I don't really want our alma mater stuck in my head

3. A mysterious epidemic is sweeping the globe, but you are somehow immune (gee, I guess your parents' genes were good for something!) Would you rather have everyone else in the world go color-blind or tone-deaf? Why?

-Oh my, this is related to Becky's question.... Well. I think that's extremely hard, because I value other people's opinions oh my art and my singing... But maybe people could still appreciate good music even if they were tone-deaf, whereas it would be harder to appreciate good art if they were all color-blind. So, I think I pick tone-deaf. Also, that would mean I was the only person in the world who would be a singer, so I'd get lots of jobs doing that. *laughs*

4. If an attractive, pleasant, and financially well off gay (male) friend wanted to marry you for convenience, and offered you a substantial financial incentive (such as paying off all your student loans and giving you a generous fund to draw from) for doing so, would you? What if it would keep him out of the army, where he would be certain to go to the front lines in Iraq? What if he decided, somewhere along the line, that he wanted to consummate the marriage?

-Well, maybe this says something about me, but I would say yes for sure on the first and second. If money's involved, I would actually love a marriage of convenience.... ;) But I'd probably also do it to keep him out of the army, if he was a good friend, and didn't want to be drafted. The only problem with these two answers comes up when (God willing) the US makes gay marriage legal. In which case if I wanted to get married to a lover, I'd have to divorce the friend first. Which would be fine with me, I'm sure it could be worked out peaceably. The third question is difficult. I think it would depend on my relationship with him at that point along the road, really, and whether or not I had a lover outside of this convenience marriage. But my guess on that is no, I don't think I would sleep with him just because we're married.

5. Robert Jordan finds time to write a book focusing on just one character. Who would you want it to be, and what sequence of events/point in his or her life do you want it to cover?

-Oh my, this is hard.... I would have said Moiraine or Siuan, but he already did that. ;) So, maybe my next choice would be Perrin. Young Perrin, before he turned into Faile's lapdog.... :P