| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- questions and answers The wonderful Myra-Lee left some questions in my guestbook on Friday and at long last, here are my answers: (If you would like me to leave you similar questions in your guestbook, then leave me a message): 1.If you could go back and do something differently in your life, would you? Oh definitely. If I could relive the years of my life, ages 18-21 I definitely would. If I could go back and live those years with more confidence, more self-esteem, more self-awareness I think that my life would be so different now. And while I�m almost mostly content with my life there are things about it I wish I could change and those things always seem to date back to those particular years when I was an emotional Etch-a-Sketch at the hands of my first major relationship. Sometimes I just wish I could travel back in time and throttle my younger self and tell her: Get out! Get out! There�s this whole world awaiting you, so many opportunities. You don�t have to be with this loser. And actually, I stayed with the loser for many years beyond age 21 � but I think if I could have throttled me during that particular time period, things would be a lot different. Then again, I am who I am because of it all, so what good is it to dwell on the what-ifs. Which isn�t to say that I don�t occasionally dwell, because I do. 2.What one person has had the greatest influence on you? Hmmm. A very tough question. In many ways I suppose it was my mother � the adoptive mother � for better or for worse because she was/is the parent who�s been there for me the whole time (well, almost the whole time �at least since I was four). But the Ex (see above) definitely had a lot of influence during my 20s (although I cringe at using the word "great" to describe his influence � let�s just call it "significant") and I feel as if I�m still shaking a lot of that off. Right now I�m trying to be my greatest influence. Which is a lot harder than it sounds. 3.Name three people you consider geniuses. Just three??? Where to start? Since I�ve been concentrating on my writing so much lately, I�ll stick to that field: Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood and David Sedaris come immediately to mind. I wish that I could write like all three of them wrapped up in one lovely literary package. 4.Who do you think is the most overrated person of our time? I can�t think of just one person � so I�ll go with a group of persons: rich people. Rich people are over-rated. Somebody has money and we automatically award them power and influence, admiration and respect. Which I think is a crock of sh*t. 5.If you could suddenly acquire any one skill or ability, what would you like it to be? To sing and play guitar. I wouldn�t even need to have a great voice � if I could sing/write/play like Liz Phair circa Exile in Guyville or Whipsmart - I�d be happy. 10:43 am - 09.01.03
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