I decided to interview my wife at 11:00 o’clock at night as she was trying to fall asleep.  She may not allow this post to go uncensored, so you’d better read it fast.  For keystroke brevity, I am T and she is C.  It’s very simple really:

T: What is the best thing that has happened to you this week?
C:  This week just started! 
T:  OK, what was the best thing that happened to you last week?
C:  We started class with our new teacher who is a really, really good teacher.  And Sarah liked school!  And I got to talk to Deena for a long time…
T:  What was the funniest thing the girls have done recently?
C:  Funniest?
T:  Yeah, or cutest?
C:  I like hearing them play together when they don’t know that we are listening to them.  That and they both think they are professional ballerinas. (Ha-ha)
T: If you could wave a magic wand and change something about Xining (to go into effect tomorrow) what would it be?
C:  That’s a big question.  Do I think spiritual, physical, or material?  What are you getting at?
T: I don’t know.  I was just trying to think of an interesting question.
C:  I can think of lots of things.  That tomorrow would be summer.  No one would smoke cigarettes anymore.   People would care about the environment here.
T:  Let me rephrase the question.  What one self-gratifying thing would you change about Xining (i.e. not spiritual)?
C:  I don’t know.  That they would have a Red Robin here (laughing).  With real beef!  Not tainted with mutton.
T: If you could listen to any song from the 80s right now, what would you listen to?
C:  That’s hard, too.  Because I’m about ready to go to sleep.
T:  99 Luftballoons?
C:  No.  (After a long pause.)  Cyndi Lauper’s Girl Just Wanna Have Fun.
T: Can I ask why?
C:  Because I’m a girl and I wanna have fun and I’m not having any fun right now.
T:  Oh, you don’t want me to put that down.
T:  What do you love most about your husband?
C: That’s a hard question.  I just love everything about you.  I love who you are.  I love how you think about life.  That’s really kind of a hard question.
T: Why?
C:  Because you make me say one thing.  I can’t think of just one thing.  You’re putting me in a box.
T:  You’re almost 33 years old now.  What would you like to accomplish in your 33rd year?
C: I’d like to do more than survive.  I’d like to accomplish enjoying.  If that was a wish question, I would be fluent in Chinese in my 33rd year.
T:  If you could go into the show Lost at the beginning of season 3 (because we’ve only seen the first two seasons) knowing what you know, what would you do or try to do on the island?
T: (After a really long pause)  Fall asleep?
C:  No.  I’d probably want to collect a lot of information from everyone on the show because a lot of people know things.  If it doesn’t produce a way off the island, it might make some more discoveries about the island.
T: So you wouldn’t try to save Jack and the other captives?
C:  People are going to try to do that and there’s not going to be anything there.  They’re not going to find them.  [I’d collect information] Cause wouldn’t that be so boring to be living on the island with nothing to do.  You have to do something.
T: If you could only take one book to the island (and it can’t be the Bible) what book would you take?
C: You keep giving me all these one questions?
T:  Two books.  I’m not going to give you five.
C: How about a really good book on Island survival?
T: You sound like Dwight!  (From The Office.)
C: Hey, that’s not fair.  Why?  Is that what he said?
T: Yeah, something like that.
C:  Gosh, what story would I want to hear over and over.  Why what would you say?
T: Lord of the Rings would be one of them.
C: Yeah, but that’s…
T:  That’s one book!  Tolkien never called it a trilogy.
C: Then that’s what I want.
T:  What’s your other book?  You wanted two.  The Harry Potter books?
C:  Hey, I was going to say that, but you said I could only get two.  Can I take that?
T:  (Deliberating in my head for a while.)  Ummm, I guess.
C: I don’t know…big huge book of world history because I like history.
T:  Good choice.
T: Thanks for the interview.  Is there anything else you want to tell the readers?
C: Do they know that it’s late at night and that I’m tired? (She talks too fast for me to keep up with.)
C: Hey, don’t embarrass me.
T:  I’m not!
C: If I don’t like it, it’s going to be another disappearing post.
T:  You’ll love it.  Goodnight.
C:  (Silence.)