Seven Things To Do Before I Die:

1. Visit Scotland
2. Visit Australia and New Zealand
3. Finish a novel
4. Write a feature-length script
5. Direct a feature
6. Run my own business-- sucessfully
7. Lose weight

Seven Things I Can't Do:

1. Edit film or video for a living. I might commit murder; I might commit suicide. But something would die, for sure.
2. Speak French. I cannot even come close to pronouncing it. When I see it on a menu and I want the item, I point.
3. Ski. And I never, ever, want to.
4. Convince PayPal that my Mail Boxes, Etc. address is a Confirmed Address.
5. Drive (or even walk across the street) without glasses.
6. Play the guitar.
7. Manage a project that wasn't my idea.

Seven Things That Attract Me To Blogging:

1. Comments.
2. Hit stats-- love those numbers!
3. Having an audience-- no matter how small.
4. Getting to have my say on whatever, with no interruptions.
5. Finding out that I'm not so unique as I sometimes think I am.
6. Publishing stuff-- my own, or quizzes, or whatever-- that people like.
7. Being in some small way useful, as with how-to-espresso or charity links.

Seven Things I Say Most Often:

1. Howdy.
2. Andrew, have you seen my [keys, purse, jacket, etc....]?
3. Crap.
4. Fucking alarm clock. Shut up shut up shut up.
5. Oh shit I'm gonna be late.
6. Double espresso, please.
7. Sorry, I got distracted.

Seven Books That I Love:

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein
3. The Last Herald Mage Trilogy, Mercedes Lackey
4. Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
5. Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison
6. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
7. Norstrilia, Cordwainer Smith

Seven Movies I Watch Again and Again:

1. The Lord Of The Rings, Peter Jackson
2. The Quiet Man, John Ford
3. Beauty and the Beast, Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
4. Howl's Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki
5. Waterworld, Kevin Reynolds
6. Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan, Nicholas Meyer
7. Holiday Inn, Mark Sandrich

Seven People I Want To Join In Too:

1. BloggingDi
2. Fabricati Diem
3. Fond of Snape
4. RagDoll
5. Jennifer
6. Citizen Gkar (as comment, or guest blog entry)
7. Susan