I had this grand plan of taking 10 interviewees and asking these deep, probing (hee, am 12) questions custom-tailored to each person that would cause them to produce the most amazing, thought-provoking posts ever authored and possibly cause them to re-evaluate their entire lives to boot. But then I kept getting volunteers, and they were people I really wanted to interview and my resolve began to weaken and I wanted to interview everybody. Then I remembered that I have two sick kids and two deeply-neglected freelance jobs and that I couldn't possibly come up with fabulous interviews for twenty-some people before the pool opens this summer and so I sent them all the same questions. Which sucks and is a total cop-out and I am sorry.

Then I figured that as long as I sent everyone the same questions anyway I may as well post them and that way anyone who is interested or wanted to be interviewed but didn't volunteer because I already had more than ten and they wanted to play by the rules could answer them. Which I think means that I am making a meme, and I despise memes, so I am ashamed of myself. Shame doesn't have much impact on me, though, so I am doing it anyway.

To play, answer the following five questions on your blog (or in the comments if you don't have a blog). A link back to me so I can come read your answers would be awesome, that plus a note in the comments that you are doing it would be even better since sometimes links slip through all my fancy-dancy filters and I miss them. When you post your answers, include the instructions from this post so you can then go forth and interview your own readers for fun and profit. Ok, for fun.

Ready? Here we go!

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?

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.