Okay, I'm going to jump on the trendy blogger bandwagon and do the Friday Five, even though it's Monday:

1. What did you want to be when you grew up? Well, when I was very young, Arthur Duncan from the Lawrence Welk Show. Then: a game maker (board games), a paleontologist, a librarian, and a computer programmer.

2. Do you have any nicknames? Not really, unless you count my POPnet handle, Ford Prefect. I was briefly called "Pearlman" by Raffa in high school.

3. If you could change something about yourself what would it be? I'd have a digestive system of steel.

4. Have you ever bought anything from an infomercial? Nope.

5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? Well, I'm cheating on this one since it's Monday. Friday night we saw Ocean's 11; Saturday was all about Christmas shopping and watching Chris make mince pies (do you know what mincemeat is? me neither) and Sunday we went to a friend's holiday party up in the hills, where said mince pies were consumed, though not by me.