A quiz! A quiz! My kingdom for a….

Here we go! Via Sunday Stealing (and in turn via Roger):

1. Describe your favorite cake.

Chocolate cake is always lovely. So is vanilla cake. Cake is generally lovely…but my favorite? Carrot cake, with tons of cream cheese frosting. My favorite carrot cakes have golden raisins in them. And if I’m not sharing the cake with The Wife? Walnuts! (She hates walnuts and pecans. I do not understand this.)

2. Think of the best party you’ve ever attended. Were you a host or a guest?

Huh. I don’t think I’ve been to a non-work related party since my college years. I remember some lovely parties back then…well, parts of lovely parties, I suppose…but as far as I can recall, we were never the host, though. Always guests.

3. When you choose a greeting card, do you pay more attention to the words or the pictures?

Pictures. The fewer words, the better. I’m going to write something myself. (Unless it’s a genuinely funny card.)

4. What’s your favorite holiday?

They all have their charms…but in my head Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years all pile together into a five-to-six week long festival. I love the entire time of year.

Also Halloween. Halloween is cool.

5. Who is your favorite character on your favorite TV show?

Hoo-boy…I’m not sure what my “favorite teevee show” even is! I mean, all-time, Star Trek (original series) is probably in that mix, in which case obviously my answer is Captain James T. Kirk. But if I limit myself just to shows we’re watching right now (several of which have already ended), I’ll go with Asta from Resident Alien. If you haven’t watched that show (which is now complete and ended after four seasons), an alien crashes to Earth near a small town in Colorado, where he kills and assumes the identity of a reclusive doctor named Harry Vanderspiegel. Hilarity ensues. (And lest you feel sorry for the reclusive doctor, the show quickly establishes that he wasn’t a good guy at all!) Anyway, our alien hero becomes the town’s doctor, even though he’s really an alien (disguised as human, obviously), and he forms a friendship with the nurse at the small practice, a Native American woman named Asta Twelvetrees. Their relationship informs the show, and actress Sara Tomko plays Asta wonderfully as a woman with real emotional issues to deal with and a complex inner life, into which suddenly arrives this very strange man who is really an alien. The show is a terrific balance of real emotion and comic absurdity arising from very weird situations, and I love when good actors convincingly play a person who is trying to navigate a really strange situation. Tomko’s Asta is the straight woman to Alan Tudyk’s Harry, and they’re a delight.

And in a bonus, the second season expands Asta’s wardrobe to include overalls!

So, there we are. Yay, quizzes!