Ainsi va la vie.
001. Real name: Jean.
002. Nickname(s) - Frenchie.
003. Zodiac sign - Sagittarius.
004. Male or female - Old fart.
005. Elementary Who cares.
006. Middle School Don't have Middle or High School in Québec, just Secondary and who cares.
007. High School See 006.
008. Hair color - White, falling off, goddammit!
009. Long or short - Long.
010. Loud or Quiet - A quiet man with a loud voice.
011. Sweats or Jeans - Jeans. You won't catch me dead in sweats.
012. Phone or Camera Neither.
013. Health freak No.
014. Drink or Smoke? Smoke.
015. Do you have a crush on someone? I always have a crush on someone. I crush easily. And the older I get the funnier it is.
016. Eat or Drink Well, both, what do you think?
017. Piercings No.
018. Tattoos No.
HAVE YOU EVER?
019. Been in an airplane Yes.
020. Been in a relationship Yes.
021. Been in a car accident Yes.
022. Been in a fist fight Yes.
FIRSTS:
023. First piercing None.
024. First best friend Pierre Lachance.
025. First award - None. Been on two literary award shortlists though.
026. First crush Rachel Rocher, a redhead. We were six. Back in 1958. We spent most of the summer of that year walking hand in hand in the backlanes, playing together at the park, drawing and coloring side by side in our sketchbooks. We were the "Aww! They're so cute!" of the neighborhood. We were seriously in love with each other. A pure, innocent, crystalline love.
028. First big vacation - La Gaspésie. It's in Québec. By the Atlantic Ocean.
029. Last person you talked to My neighbor. On the phone. We've known each other for quite a while. I've always been attracted to her. Never hid it, never pushed it. And now she tells me that she's been attracted to me for a long time as well and maybe we could get intimate? I love it when women do that.
030. Last person you IMed - IMed?!? What's that?
031. Last person you watched a movie with - Well, my daughter and I watch two episodes of the Looney Tunes and two of Invader Zim every night. Okay, that's not a movie. Fine. So. With a friend of mine. She works as a host on a radio station. One night we watched the four Pirates of the Caribbean back to back.
032. Last food you ate - A sliced banana in a bowl of yogurt topped with two spoons of liquid honey. Hmm.
033. Last movie you watched Breach.
034. Last song you listened to Machine Gun, Jimi Hendrix.
035. Last thing you bought - Cat litter for the two cats.
036. Last person you hugged My daughter. Every day.
FAVES:
037. Food Spaghetti Bolognese. Chocolate cake.
038. Drinks Coffee. Water. Juice. A beer once in a while.
039. Clothing Jeans, t-shirt, jacket. That's about it.
040. Books Baudelaire. Henry Miller. John Le Carré. Michel de Montaigne. François Villon. Charles Bukowski.
041. Music Jimi Hendrix, Hawkwind, Ofra Haza, Handel, Headless Chickens. Ha!
042. Flowers Roses.
043. Colors Blue. Black.
044. Movies - Apocalypse Now. Le Magnifique. 2001: A Space Odyssey. La Dolce Vita. The Wings Of Desire. Slaughterhouse-Five. The Usual Suspects. Le Père Noël est une ordure.
046. Subjects Linguistics. Astronomy. Philosophy.
CURRENTLY:
067. Eating - Nothing.
068. Drinking - Water.
069. I'm about to Keep on filling this questionnaire.
070. Listening to - Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited.
071. Plans for today First to a Theatre School to register my daughter for another session. Then to my friend the radio host to help her on her computer.
072. Waiting for Godot.
YOUR FUTURE:
073. Want kids? Already got kids.
074. Want to get married? - Yeah, right.
075. Careers in mind - I'm a writer.
WHICH DO YOU LIKE MORE:
076. Lips or eyes - Eyes.
077. Shorter or taller? - Doesn't matter, really. Well, okay, taller.
078. Romantic or spontaneous - Spontaneous in real life, romantic in my writing. Or is it the other way around?
079. Nice stomach or nice arms - Nice arms. Nice legs.
080. Sensitive or loud Sensitive.
081. Hook-up or relationship Lasting hook-ups in real life, broken relationships in my writing. And it is not the other way around.
082. Trouble-maker or hesitant - In between. A bit of this, a bit of that. That's the age.
HAVE YOU EVER:
083. Lost glasses/contacts NEVER. My glasses are my eyes. You don't touch my glasses. I don't lose them.
084. Ran away from home - Yes. I was 15. With a friend. He was 16. Not because of any problem at home. Just because. We were young, immortal and daring. We left in the afternoon, ready to take the world. We came back that same night. Home sweet home.
086. Killed somebody No.
087. Broken someone's heart - Yes. A few times.
088. Been arrested Yes. A few times.
089. Cried when someone died Yes. A few times.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
090. Yourself Yes.
091. Miracles - Well, a Time Lord's body is a micracle, even a dead one, so...
092. Love at first sight Always. I fall in love very easily and I love forever.
093. Heaven - No.
094. Santa Claus - Like I'd say to the kids at school where I worked: I'm Santa Claus' Evil Brother. I don't give gifts. I steal them. They loved the story.
095. Sex on the first date No.
096. Kiss on the first date Depends. A light kiss, maybe?
ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
097. Is there one person you want to be with right now? - Right now? No. I enjoy my solitude.
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life? Yes.
099. Do you believe in God - No.












