The Famous Friday Five

1. Who is your favorite celebrity? I don't think I actually know any celebrities.

2. Who is your least favorite? See question #1.

3. Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life? Umm... I assume this means in a context other than "they were giving a performance/concert/talk and I was in the audience." So, let's see... Several Star Trek actors, briefly, in autograph lines back in my teenage convention-going days. (Come to think of it, somewhat more recently, I went to a (rather lame) Trek con in Albuquerque with a friend, who shook hands with George Takei and apparently caught his cold. I teased her for days about having been infected with "celebrity germs.") Oh, and I don't know if it counts as "real life" or not, but I got flamed by Damon Knight once on usenet! Well, all right, it wasn't really a flame, just a disagreement (and, for the record, I still maintain that I was right and he was wrong: top-posting sucks). But I couldn't help but think it was kinda cool. I mean, a Grand Master of science fiction actually typed my name!

4. Would you want to be famous? Why or why not? I don't have much interest in being famous, and I certainly wouldn't want to be famous to the extent that tabloids started taking an interest in me and random strangers felt compelled to walk up to me in restaurants. I like my privacy, thanks. On the other hand, there is something very satisfying about doing something that's appreciated by people who don't personally know you... even if it's only a very small group of people.

5. If you had to trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why? Somebody who didn't have to work today and could lie on the couch watching Blackadder DVDs, 'cause that's what I feel like doing right now.