You, only better

My best friend's adorable mom (hi there!) once announced that she would like Will Smith to play her in the movie version of her life. That hilarious bit of casting serves as the inspiration for today's tag. So here we go:

1. Who would you like to play you in the movie version of your life?
   Parker Posey, because I'm totally tall and sassy like that. And plus I've always got a home at the Dairy Queen. I've actually been told that Anne Hathaway would make a good RCH -- maybe she's more appropriately mousey? -- but eh. Parker Posey is quirky and cool, the way I picture myself (whether it's true of me or not, lol), while Anne Hathaway is bland and has oddly exaggerated features that creep me out.
   
   
   
   Ooh, and while we're casting, Ed Norton can play my DH! :-)
   


2. Let's say you're in alternative therapy for past life regression. Just who do you think you are?
   Can I be a nun? Ever since watching Agnes of God and reruns of The Flying Nun on tv as a young girl (yeah, I know they couldn't be more different depictions of the vocation), I've wanted to run off and join a convent. That life of complete withdrawal into devotion -- whatever weird spin you put on it (secret dead babies; miraculously aerodynamic habits) -- appeals to me. If only I could be so single-mindedly holy.... Of course, you don't have to be Roman Catholic to devote yourself to your faith, and I could certainly do a much better job attending to my own religious practices than I do, but somehow my faith doesn't seem as romantic. Oh well.
   
   Anyway, that's my answer: In a past life, I bet I was some obscure nun hidden away in a convent reciting the rosary. It might explain some things.
   
   (Modified to add: This question inspired by this bloggernacle post, which I only just found again.)
   


3. If you could switch genders for a week (or even a day), would you?
   For a day, maybe, just to say I did it -- but honestly I like being a girl. I think a week with boy parts would be too much, lol.
   


4. What is your ideal age, the one you think of yourself as regardless of how much time has passed since then?
   I still think of myself the way I was at 23 or 24, as a freshly minted grownup with a real job, real bills and responsibilities and high on the adrenaline of my independence. I had energy then, lol. Nearly ten years have passed and I'm in a much different stage of life -- decidedly more grown up, blah -- but in my head I'm still that young Mary Tyler Moore throwing her hat in the air and freezing in mid spin.
   
   
   
   (A note for ANTM watchers: That's one of the few pictures I like of myself because I think it captures my newfound confidence -- thanks for the photo shoot, seester! -- but I can see now that it would have been much more fierce if I'd left my eyes open, regardless of how bright the sun. LOL.)
   


5. Finally, a question inspired by my crazy kids: If you could pick one super power, what would it be?
   Invisibility, hands down. I love being the proverbial fly on the wall, stealthily spying on everyone. (Woo-ooh-ooh-wah-ah-ah!) But I promise I'd use my powers for good and not for e-vil. ;-)

Okay, that concludes the You, Only Better tag. Now it's your turn, whoever wants to! Go.


~RCH~