1. What is your favorite occupation?
I liked my little job at the newspaper in Craig and mostly the people I worked with. The publisher was a bit nuts and the small town politics were bothersome but writing up feature stories of the folks in and around the town was fun.
2. What is your current state of mind?
How. How the fuck did we actually re-elect that godless mad man again. I am currently searching all over Amazon for a chaos safety kit to use when the metaphorical shit hits the fan.
3. What is your most marked characteristic?
My quick wit.
4. When and where were you happiest?
In my 30s, freshly relocated to Denver and among old friends amid new beginnings. Broke as could be and happy.
5. What is your greatest extravagance?
I still pay for cable. It is so convenient to have all that stuff you want to watch in one place. I still have some streaming apps on the Roku but I still watch a lot of cable and network stuff.
Questions via Vanity Fair’s The Proust Questionnaire
1. I really enjoyed getting paid to do improv for awhile. Don’t know if that was ever an “occupation”, but I got a small check each month for f***ing around and making people laugh. Can’t complain about that.
2. Shut the f*** up already. Social media has enabled people to share every little nugget that comes into their heads, and now this has carried over into basic social interactions. People now feel that the world has to hear what they feel about EVERYTHING in order to get that validation. 95% of the thoughts that sit in your head shouldn’t be expressed; learn to filter and understand that not everyone is going to love you, acknowledge you and see eye to eye with you. So … shut up!
3. My very dark sense of humor.
4. Doing Improv and my time at Western State. I felt I was at my most creative during that time.
5. My books. I buy books even when I have hundreds I haven’t read yet.
1) I enjoyed my golf course maintenance gigs back in my 20s. Hard work , outside, making something look good and could spend my mental time on something other than work.
2) Limbo. So much is in limbo with the upcoming shift of our country’s governance and the state of my fellow citizens. It would be easy to either live in denial of what might be coming or be in a state of upheaval with what might be coming. I just want to start dealing with it, versus the waiting.
3) Sometimes it’s my humor, sometimes it’s my outgoing nature, sometimes it’s my climb over the dead bodies to get something done style.
4) My second stint at college was fun, but the years after graduation in Denver into my 30s were pretty damn entertaining.
5) Electronics of all kinds. I am not afraid to spend for the best and upgrade constantly.
1. Daydreaming. (Which is one of Marcel Proust’s original answers to this question oddly enough.)
2. Existential crisis. I can’t see light or a way forward in the world that we live in.
3. I’m the “quiet one” they warn you about. Given the opportunity I will tear you to shreds.
4. Either my college years, or the years when I first moved to Denver. Both times I struggled like mad to stay afloat, but was buoyed by new friendships and opportunities to learn like mad.
5. I say life is too short to wear cheap shoes or drink bad whiskey.
1) I’ve never been able to do it but I think my favorite “occupation” would be billionaire playboy philanthropist. Please let me know when they’re hiring.
2) Rage, Loathing, Depression, Fear, Anxiety, disappointment, Exhaustion.
3) My smart ass attitude.
4) My time at camp was pretty magical. I also think I enjoyed some of my time at Western.
5) My TV and Cable. I love having a big kick ass TV and access to various streaming and cable.