New car!
It's a 2000 Subaru Outback. Don't worry, I took those yellow stickers off.
Also there's a survey inside!
Questions from learntoflyrar:
1. Did I just go there?
Well, the way I asked you to interview me was by saying "Do me!" so I'm pretty sure you did.
2. If I'm baking you cookies, what kind am I making?
Oatmeal chocolate chip, I hope! They're my favorite.
Let me just step back here to mention that even though the cooking world has positively exploded and is evolving in extraordinary ways, some things will never go out of style. One of these things? The Joy of Cooking - don't get the newly updated 75th anniversary JoC, or the original 1931 JoC (which apparently has recipes for cooking, like, weasels and stuff) - I'm talking the standard edition here. While some of the main dish stuff has maybe gone out of style, the desserts (in particular the oatmeal chocolate chip cookie and fruit pie recipes, in which she presents separate recipes for making fruit pies with frozen and fresh fruit) and side recipes are excellent.
Okay, moving on. But seriously, that JoC oatmeal chocolate cookie recipe's the best cookie recipe ever. Okay, really, moving on.
3. Who is someone you admire greatly, and why?
Stewart Brand started the Whole Earth Catalog (and the seminal BBS-turned-online community the WELL), jump-started the organic foods movement, wrote one of my favorite books ever, turned me on (when he was guest-editing Kevin Kelly's awesome Cool Tools) to the joys of ultra-light backpacking, and he's trying to make applied history a freaking academic concentration (!!!). This man is amazing. If I could eat dinner with one person, it would be him right after Jesus. 'Nuff said.
4. Would you rather leave an great, lasting impact on the world, or be happy?
I want to say I'd rather leave a lasting impact but if actions speak louder than words it would appear I'd rather be happy, at least at this point. Hopefully I will not have to choose.
5. Congratulations, you are now the mayor of Flagstaff. What's the first law you're going to push? (hypothetical because I know mayors can't just make laws willy nilly)
Oh, man, I'm so painfully ignorant of local politics...I think water is going to be a huge issue in the southwest in the next 25 years and anyone who's not dealing with it now is going to really pay when crunch time comes, so that's what I guess I'd like to see. Also, sustainable energy - not sure how much a city can help/make people do this kind of thing, but at the very least the city buildings could have solar panels on them. Flagstaff is wide open to the south, and lord knows we get enough sun.
Okay, now it's your turn. Post a comment and I'll ask you five questions.