i'm sure that i'll wind up napping at some point today (or at least i'll entertain the notion of it, anyway), but i woke up at 8:30 and could not fall asleep again. aurgh! figuring that this is the one day that i COULD sleep in and i'm wide awake, you know that all this work week, i'll be wishing and hoping that i could sleep in ... always works out that way.

so i'm sitting here watching the war coverage (as i always have been lately) and realize that once again, i forgot to do the friday five on friday ... and since i'm working to make sure this is a weekly feature for me (and i really don't understand why i'm so hellbent on this, but you know, whatever), here is my friday five on sunday (which i'm sure is more likely to become a weekly feature than the friday five on friday -- heehee):

1. if you had the chance to meet someone you've never met, from the past or present, who would it be?
i always hate the various forms this type of question take, because trying to limit it to one person is so frustrating ... looking at the overall world perspective, part of me would lead towards shakespeare, so i could finally sit there and answer the question of "did he really write all of the work attributed to him?" and because i find the work he did in his lifetime to be absolutely amazing. not to mention how much that work has come to influence my life and all ... but on a personal level, i think i would go with either my grandfather (on my mother's side, who died of a heart attack when my mother was four years old) or my grandmother (on my father's side, who died of a heart attack when my father was seventeen). but, since i'm demanding, i'd add the condition that when i met whichever grandparent, my parents and brother were with me. that way whichever parent who was the child of that grandparent could meet him/her again as an adult and fill the grandparent in on his/her life, the other parent could meet the grandparent, and my brother could at least meet him/her.

2. if you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be?
ah, that one's easy. past. elizabethan times. preferably elizabethan england.

3. if you had to move anywhere else on earth, where would it be?
england. london, to be precise.

4. if you had to be a fictional character, who would it be?
ooooh, this is a good question! that opens up so many possibilities ... i think, without thinking about it too much, i'm going to go with marianne from "sense & sensibility" -- to live in those times and whatnot as well as have such a romantic and passionate outlook on life would make for a pretty happy me.

5. if you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
now, this raises a few very important questions/considerations. is it just the person's face, or can it be the person's head or entire body? because even the head thing is critical -- think about it -- just as a random example (not someone i'd want to share faces with or anything), norah jones. if i had her face and still my hair, that would look weird. know what i mean? if it was entire body, the whole damn package, i'd go with nicole kidman or kate winslet (from about the time of "sense & sensibility -- i think she looked gorgeous in that film). for just the head, i'd go with kate hudson (although don't get me wrong, i would be a very happy girl to wake up one morning and just look like kate hudson from head to toe -- things would be very good in vickie land).

last night provided fine quality times. our group trapsed into adams morgan, made our presence known at roxanne's (where i'd never been before -- how glorious it was to be able to sip drinks on a second-floor patio area and enjoy the relative warmth! hurrah!) and millie & al's, where were were able to swoop in on a perfect location/perfect size booth and meet up with the double trouble of erica and keri. how lovely to be laughing and hanging out with friends and then hear, "vickie! VICKIE!!!" and look up to see more friends -- and how out of the ordinary!

pizza mart can be consumed favorably, i rediscovered -- just blot the slice, avoid most of the cheese (which cuts down on the size of the slice like you would not believe!) and sprinkle on the crushed red pepper flecky stuff. mmmmm ...

ok, if i'm awake, i might as well start the day -- HAPPY OSCAR SUNDAY!!!!!!!! not to mention happy howie sunday!!!!!!!!! but before i go, here are my picks for the big categories tonight (i haven't been doing too well with the award show picks as of late, yet i'm hoping i bounce back with tonight's festivities -- we'll see!). keep in mind that these aren't necessarily who i think should win, but who i think will:

best picture: chicago
best actor: daniel day-lewis
best actress: renee zellweger
best supporting actor: john c. reilly
best supporting actress: catherine zeta-jones
best director: stephen daldry
animated feature: ice age
art direction: lord of the rings: the two towers
cinematography: chicago
costume design: chicago
documentary feature: bowling for columbine
documentary short: twin towers
film editing: lord of the rings: the two towers
best foreign language film: the crime of father amaro
makeup: frida
adapted screenplay: the hours
original screenplay: my big fat greek wedding
original score: far from heaven
original song: the hands that build america by u2
short - animated: mike's new car
short - live action: i'll wait for the next one...
sound: chicago
sound editing: lord of the rings: the two towers
visual effects: lord of the rings: the two towers