Usually, I don't do this
but I'm on vacation and am wont to do things I don't normally do.

And Ann's a good friend from back in my days of being a 2100 Productions Intern.
And she called me out in her post.
And she linked K&K in her blogroll.

So, here we are with Seven Things . . .

I want to do before I die:

Learn to read Greek (classical & the other one).

Be fluent in Spanish.

Be conversant in French. (Fluency would be nice, but I've only got one life here.)

Read all of Church Dogmatics, by Karl Barth. (He hasn't been mentioned here in a while, so it's good to drop his name again.)

Read all of the Great Books. (As many as I can in the original languages.)

Achieve and maintain a second degree rank in Okinawan Goju-Ryu, a first degree in a Jijutsu style, and be conversant in a style of KungFu (perhaps White Crane, the predecessor of Goju).

See Aidan grow to love the Lord Jesus.

Things I cannot do:

Keep my mouth shut after Midnight + 1 beer.

Understand the attraction of shows like "Dancing with the Stars!"

Make Aidan sleep past 6am, even if I move him to an earlier time zone, where he really ought to have slept past 6am!

Stop the thought that pops up periodically: "What if the Catholic Church, for all its mess, really is the one true church?" (flame away!)

Convince the main women in my life (Kellsey, Mary, Carol) that I really should have and drive a motorcycle.

Keep up with Walter when it comes to sheer tenacity.

Stop my love for Miami and North Carorlina, regardless of where we live.

Things that attract me to the opposite sex:

Well, there is a certain je ne sais pas about them. (See, I'm well on my way! I can also use the terms, croissant, and triage at will.)

Mysterious not-qute-brown, but not-quite-hazel, with green, grey, & blue flecked eyes.

Women whose coloration is categorized by CMB as "Deep Winter".

Video gamers.

A stubbornness to match my own.

Being tall.

Knowing that it's as important to me that you recognize the brilliance of my joke, even if you don't think it's funny. (In leiu of "brilliance," I'll also accept, "wittyness," &/or "creativity". "Quickness" will also do in a pinch)

Things I say most often:

"Interesting"

"Awesome"

"Heh"

"Heyyyyyyyy, Aaaiiiiidannnnn"

"Dude"

"That's so crazy, it just might work"

"If by that you mean . . ."

Celebrity Crushes Anti-Crushes:

Britanny Spears

Jessica Simpson

Jessica Simpson's Sister

Madonna

Hillary Clinton

Madeline Allbright

Ozzy Ozborne's Wife

People I want to do this:

Walter

Mary

Sean

Alex

Scott

Paul

Kellsey
(One always risks offending the non-listed in a list like this. Though, in this case, I fear that the offense comes when you are actually on this list.)

(NB: This list was accurate at the time posted. The list is subject to change without warning and probably will in the next five minutes. But five minutes later, I might change my mind again.)