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May 15, 2006
Monday’s a Bitch: Touchy Feely
My Friday Five group is pretty much dead, and I missed the regular excuse to blog aimlessly. Well, thanks to Red Tanya, I’ve found a new group: Monday’s a Bitch. Instead of asking a question and expecting five answers, they just ask five related questions.
Here we go...
- If you could make $100 a day by avoiding physical contact of any kind with another human being, how much money do you think you’d be able to make before you cracked?
It depends when you caught me. When I go to California, there’s virtually no contact. I’m with coworkers, and I could forego the occasional handshake. It might even come close to covering my hotel bill. But if you caught me in my natural habitat, I’d be doing well to pay for a twelve-pack of Coke.
- How much do the words "I love you" mean to you? Do you throw the word "love" around a lot? For example, if someone made a hilarious comment, might you exclaim "I love you!" while laughing, or are those words more sacred?
It’s strange. The word “love” itself isn’t that sacred to me. I love pasta. I love my new widescreen monitor. I even love watching Battlestar Galactica. However, the phrase “I love you,” is harder. I can say it to MAW and my kids without hesitation, but it gets hard beyond that, even (or perhaps especially) when it is truly felt. It’s even much easier to write than to say. It’s just something about rolling those words out of my mouth that’s hard for me. I have no idea why, so insert Freud here.
- If everyone of your preferred gender suddenly disappeared from the face of the planet, would you prefer to switch teams or become celibate?
I’d probably switch teams mostly because I’d go nuts without the physical contact. I just wouldn’t be happy about it. Instead, I think I’d spend most of my time checking to see if my preferred gender was perhaps hiding on the ass of the planet.
- Would you be willing to donate your sperm/eggs for money, or just to help out couples who are unable to conceive? How would the knowledge that you might have offspring somewhere out there effect you?
I wouldn’t do it in an anonymous way. I have a few genetic abnormalities – nothing earth-shattering – that I would want to tell them about. I also think I’d like to be a part of the kid’s life, but at a minimum, I’d want to make sure that once reaching adulthood, this offspring would have full access to my part of his family medical history.
- Do you think you could be genuinely happy being single for the rest of your life? (This is assuming that you just never meet/met mr./ms. right, not that something awful happened).
There are parts of it that might actually be nice. No, I’m not divorcing MAW, not even close. Mostly it’s that I never got to live alone. I went from my parents’ home to the dorm, and then to an apartment with a roommate, and then straight into marriage. I had a total of about three weeks on my own. Heck, I think I had longer than that when MAW went to help her mother move years later. I never got to have my place, just our place. So, yeah, it would nice to have a place of my own. But, I would go nuts without the regular contact, both physical and emotional. So, I only think I could do it if I had a like-minded female neighbor to be single with. Even then, I think it would get old pretty quickly.
Meme by Dan at May 15, 2006 10:10 AM