All the cool kids are doing it, so here's a 5 question interview courtesy of Beth. And the rules, if you would like to take part...

The rules:

1. Leave me a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I'll email you five questions of my choosing.
3. You update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. They will answer these questions. Because I said so.

1. Remember the movie Brewster's Millions? That happens to you, except on a smaller scale. You receive a million dollars that you must spend in 30 days. However, you cannot have any assets to show for the money at the end of the month (and you can't buy something and then destroy it), you cannot waste the money, you cannot give it away, and you cannot tell anyone what you are doing. How do you ditch the dough in a month or less?

First I would pay to have my driving instructor for 3 or 4 solid days, since I managed to have my first lesson without stalling the car and I'm convinced with some practice I might actually pass that darn test!

Then I would call up the Fat Duck (twice voted best restaurant in the world and serving the amazing and yet ridiculous food of Heston Blumenthal) and make a reservation for me and all of my friends. This would probably require renting out the whole place, which would require a massive bribe since they don't do that. I would also have to fly many of my friends over from various parts of the world, and the dinner would cost £250 a head. So, that might come close to blowing it all.

If not, I'd take an around the world cruise...or at least around as much of the world as I could manage in the last few days, and I'd buy expensive bottles of wine for people who looked like they were truly enjoying themselves at dinner, because it was so nice when that happened to Karen and I on our cruise.

2. You are locked in a toy store overnight, with no way out until it reopens in the morning. What do you play with all night?

Lego. Definitely. I'd find the biggest, most expensive kit there and I'd build it. Because I love Lego, but I never buy it because I don't have kids and it just takes up too much room in the house once it's built.

3. If you could have a dinner party with any three famous people, living or dead, you would be wasting your supernatural powers on hosting dinner parties. What would you do instead?

I'd like to talk to people from various points in history to clear up things we don't really know, that historians are just guessing at. Like this recently created portrait of Martha Washington that shows her all young and fresh faced and skinny and what not. Is that portrait accurate? Is that just someone trying to drum up press for Mount Vernon? These kinds of things annoy me because I'm nosy, and there's no way to actually know the truth since all the people who know are now dead.

4. What's the best thing since sliced bread? Now, sliced bread ain't all that impressive, so what's the best mediocre, hum-drum improvement or advancement that has made modern life just ever so slightly more convenient for humanity, along the lines of saving yourself five seconds every time you want a piece of bread.

The snooze button. Because, really, all it does is allow you to be lazy (a la not slicing your own bread), but I do so love being lazy. Some days I set my alarm just to snooze for an hour. Because, I'm unemployed, why get out of bed?

5. What's your best quality? The response to this question must be a simple declarative statement. You may elaborate on that statement, provided that your elaboration does not include the words "but," "however," or "although," or any other hedging, equivocating, back-sliding, gerrymandering (which is not at all appropriate in this context, but I think it should be, don't you?) or any other type of backing down from the simple declarative statement with which you began your response.

I'm organized. I may procrastinate, I may nag, I may be crap at keeping in touch with people, but if there is a list of things that needs to get done you can be guaranteed that I have that list in writing in at least 3 places, that I have a schedule for those things somewhere in my head, and that all of them will be done at least 2 days before they absolutely need to be. I used to annoy the crap out of my roommate in college because by 5 pm I'd be done with everything I needed to do and I could just hang out all night whereas she would be up until 2 am finishing homework.