Well, It's A Friday Five, Anyway

This week's Friday Five turns out to be all about one's memories of the past week, which, frankly, just isn't something I much want to dwell on right now. But it occurs to me that I never did do last week's, so, hey, why not answer that one instead?

1. If you had the chance to meet someone you've never met, from the past or present, who would it be? I like to meet Farscape's writer/producer David Kemper, and make him explain to me all the stuff that still doesn't make sense from this season and tell me where the story was supposed to have gone next season. And to buy him dinner and thank him for making such a cool show. Alternatively, I'd like to meet a Neanderthal (it hardly matters who) and find out whether they could talk or not. Not that we'd be able to understand each other even if they could, but I bet it'd be interesting, anyway.

2. If you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be? The past might be a great place to visit, if and when I ever get my hands on a time machine, but I sincerely doubt I'd actually like to live there. I hate to sound like I'm engaging in some sort of temporal jingoism, but I truthfully do believe that, on the whole, this is the single best time in all of history to be alive, what with modern medicine and the internet and all. So, if I had to live somewhen else, it's definitely the future for me. There's no guarantee, of course, that things will just keep getting better from here, but I like to think they will. And I'm definitely curious about the future. I've read enough 1950's science fiction novels to be utterly confident that, whatever it's like, it'll be nothing like anything anybody's ever predicted.

3. If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be? Vancouver, British Columbia. I paid a brief visit there a couple of years ago and fell instantly in love with the place.

4. If you had to be a fictional character, who would it be? I always hate these kinds of questions, because they make no logical sense. If I were a fictional character, I wouldn't be me, by defintion. It's like saying "if the number two had to be some other number, what number would you like it to be?" If two were three, it wouldn't be two; it'd be three under another name! But I guess I tend to overthink these things. So, OK, I'll say the Doctor. Among other cool things, then I'd have a TARDIS, and I'd be able to visit the past and see the future and meet neaderthals and all kind of interesting things.

5. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be? As long as they don't have some sort of horrible skin disease or something, who cares?