Moi?

I borrowed this from Liberal Thoughts who borrowed it from someone else. Here's how it works:

1. If you want to participate, leave a comment below saying "interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions -- each person's will be different.
3. You will update your journal/blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

So here are Liberal Thought's questions to me:

1.If there was one place in the world that you could visit (but haven’t yet), where would it be and why?
There's a woman I know in Hyderabad, India. She's an activist--the best kind, the historic kind. We met because she was working to shut down intercountry adoption from India, and, well, she pissed me off. Tracked her down, and now we've been corresponding for two and a half years. To say that she's totally upended my worldview would be putting things mildly; our life experiences are so different--hers is so alien to me. Last month, for instance, she was working to try to organize local scavengers. Know what scavengers are in India? They're the people who go to the public bathrooms--essentially concrete slabs--scoop up the shit with bamboo leaves, toss it into porous baskets, and then onto their shoulders, and walk it out of town. They earn about two bucks a week for this work, and when exposure to the shit makes them sick, as it almost inevitably will, they pass on this work to their children. Right down the road are the offices housing all the workers who are on the other end of the line when you call the HP help desk. Two handshakes away, my friends. I'd go and visit Gita, if I could go anywhere.

2.What made you decide to adopt and specifically internationally?
http://www.wooster.edu/magazine/spring2002/liam.html

3.Do you have any regrets in life and if so what?
I wish I'd told Jim I loved him. I know he knew it, but I was so clogged up--so afraid of who knows what--and I never said the words. And then he died.

4.What is your idea of a perfect mate?
My knee-jerk thought was that I don't have space for a mate in this life: that the kids suck up so much time and energy, and that I crave the little bit of peace and solitude I get. I don't want a partner badly enough to give that up. (Plus, I'm too afraid of fucking up the kids by dating. So I don't.) But: I miss sex--the kind you have when you've been with someone a long time. I miss smoky nights in jazz clubs in Manhattan. Maybe I just miss being young--I don't know. Some day the kids will be older, and I'll have to turn to this more seriously, I guess.

5.If you could spend the day with any famous person (living or dead) who would it be and what would you do?
I'd go on a date with Albert Camus. What smoking eyes, not to mention his political essays make me weep.