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If you...

1. ...owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
Hmmmm. A "family" restaurant I think; not a high-brow one. Stuff I liked eating, but with a healthy slant. As my father would say "simple but nourishing". And fresh. So, like there would be a salad bar, and all the dressings would be separate and have low-fat versions too (though I generally hate salad dressing). The salads would be things like real garden salad (not that five-kinds-of-lettuce and two cherry tomatoes type), and Greek salad, and low-fat potato salad, and, um... tabuleh and...
And with the salads there'd be nice grills, like grilled beef, fish, chicken with exotic seasonings (but not too spicy). And eggs + bacon any time of day. (Okay, so bacon isn't healthy -- so sue me)
And also fresh-baked bread of different kinds, with lots of spreads and a dozen different kinds of cheese.  And things like ham and mustard for the bread as well. (Five different kinds of mustard)
And soups, and hot vegies, just stuff that's simple and nice and fresh, but also some interesting things as well, like borsch or orange-pumpkin or baked mushrooms, not just the same tired things you get in cafeterias like roast pumpkin,roast potato,peas,carrots and cheesy cauliflower (shakes head). Not that I have anything against peas and roast potatoes. Just the sameness of it all.
Also I'd like to have "bush tucker" in the menu too, at reasonable prices, just to support native foods and get a bit of excitement in the menu, so, for example, one of the grills would be Roo (but not crocodile because it's a rip-off), and include native pepper and similar things in the condiments and so on.
And probably have things like pasta, stir-fry, quiches... I guess I'm thinking of this as a "lunch" restaurant.

2. ...owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, with maybe some Historical and Mystery as well, plus gizmos, greeny and geeky things, like a cross between an SF bookstore and the Australian Geographic Shop -- that is, science kits; gizmos like magnetic floating imagers and perpetual motion dolphins; pretty polished stones; handcarved wooden things; handpainted silk scarves, geeky and greeny T-shirts and so on.

3. ...wrote a book, what genre would it be?
SF&F. Not sure whether I'd go for more sciency or more fantasy, or something SF with a fantasy feel (like one of those "lost colony" novels)

4. ...ran a school, what would you teach?
Computer science and art. To start with. And maybe creative writing. Except I'd probably stick with just the comp. sci. because I don't know how I'd actually teach the other things.

5. ...recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
Probably depends on who I was working with, and what instruments we had access to. I'd like to be able to have a mix of folk, pop, electric and classical, all with a Christian slant, but more realistically, we'd have my brother's songs, my sister's songs, one piano, three guitars and four singers. With me singing backup alto harmonies and playing the tamborine. And my sister as lead singer, as she's the only one with voice training. So it would probably have a folky feel. With nice harmonies - yum.

Introduction Box meme

Gacked from mistraltoes.

So, say you were meeting a new person - blind date, new friend, who knows. And you wanted them to have some idea of what kind of person you are, and who you are. But you can't actually tell them in so many words. Instead, you have to give them a box, with a dozen things in it for them to ponder over.

What would you put in the box?

( in the box )