Sunday Stealing

I've missed a few of these, so here's a new Sunday Stealing quiz.

1. If you could interview anyone on your blog (alive or dead) who would you chose and why?

This is a common question, so I'll try to give an answer I haven't given before. Leonard Bernstein.

2. What do you feel is your strength as a blogger?

An almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

OK, that's actually one of the secret weapons of the Spanish Inquisition. I like to think I can string words together in a way that expresses the jumble in my head in a way that doesn't suck.

3. Can you share a little bit about yourself that you have not already mentioned on your blog?

You know, once you've been doing this almost nine years, it's hard to find anything like this that I'm still comfortable mentioning here! I suppose that the pies in my face in the post two down from this one might qualify, but it's there, so...if I haven't mentioned it yet, I'm not likely to!

4. If you were forced to change the name of your blog, what would you change it to? Why?

Opinionation in Overalls. Or Blatherous Babble in Bibs. Or Droning in Dungarees.

5. What do you think is the most fulfilling part of being a blogger?

I love the writing, and when I write a post that I particularly like, I dig the feeling of satisfaction I get as I click "send". But the nature of blogging is the interaction, really. I like it when I get good, thought-provoking comments or links back from other peoples' blogs.

6. What would you do with your last day if you found you had only one more day to live?

Find a bakery and start the biggest pie fight I could.

7. You’ve been doing medical research for decades and have finally found a cure. What was it that you found a cure for and why did you choose this particular ailment?

Oh, man...that's a tough one. Cerebral palsy, which took my son? Or pancreatic cancer, which took my mother-in-law? or could I widen my scope out far enough to eliminate all cancers?

8. What is your most guilty pleasure?

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. I freely and openly admit to liking all of the things I like.

9. Answer only one. What is your favorite book, movie or TV show?

OK, fine, I'll play by the rules, despite my instinct to cheat on questions like this.

Book: The Lord of the Rings
Movie: Star Wars: A New Hope
Teevee Show: Firefly

10. What do you think is the very best smell in the world? The one smell that can take you back to a time and place of a very vivid memory in your past?"

OK, I didn't cheat on the last one, so I'm cheating here.

Pizza baking. I love the smell of a cooking pizza, and it invariably reminds me of the good times I had working at Pizza Hut. Now, there were some bad times there too, and in no way would I ever want to go back to that part of my life, but I do fondly recall some of those times.

Roasting turkey. This reminds me of holidays in my home as a kid.

And then there's that "city smell". If you've ever walked down a busy street in a vibrant city with lots of restaurants and cafes and whatnot, you know that smell. It's a thousand different food smells and urban smells and other smells wrangling together. Whenever I smell it, no matter what city I'm in, I'm whisked away to the first time I recall really noticing that smell, when I was walking along Yonge Street in Toronto with my sister one winter.