This is the final Monday Mission. Unfortunately my answers are a little bit more terse than they usually are, but I just didn’t have much to say in response to these questions. Promo always served up quality fare, though, and I usually said a lot more while doing Monday Missions.

1. In the last week, what happened that made you feel loved beyond your wildest dreams?
This is probably too much information for a lot of my readers, but it made me feel so very loved that it’s the only answer I can give. I made love to my girlfriend and she called out my name.

2. What was the last audio CD you paid money for?
I purchased Once More With Feeling, the Buffy musical soundtrack, a couple of weeks before Xmas. I love it!

3. Has someone you know ever told you they had a terminal illness? What was it like for you when you found out. How did that change your relationship with them?
I’ve been lucky in that I’ve never known anyone with a terminal illness personally. My first stepfather died of leukemia, but I was not quite five years old and I don’t remember him at all.

4. Do you have an accent? Are there any phrases or words you say that tip folks that you aren’t from around these parts?
If anything, I would have a Mid-Atlantic accent. I personally don’t hear one at all, though - I sound like pretty much everybody else around here. When I was younger, some friends of my mother came down from Brooklyn and brought their two sons, one of whom asked me if I knew I had an accent - of course he said so in what sounded to me like a thick accent, so I thought it was hilarious.

5. What’s the difference between being a Father, and being a Daddy?
I had a little display plaque in the room where I grew up that read Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a daddy. My interpretation of this is that a father donates sperm, while a daddy takes an interest in the life and development of his child. (And although I am familiar with the use of Daddy in sexual contexts, I’ll leave that part out of my response!)

6. What is the most recent thing guilt has motivated you to do?
I think it would probably be my trip back to the American Girl store to get the traveling dress (which they didn’t have, even on the next day). It wasn’t my fault that I didn’t get it the first time I was there - they simply didn’t have it - but I felt bad that I didn’t get it, so I went back the next day.

7. How do you feel about tips and tipping? Do you feel obligated to tip even if your service is bad because you know the servers don’t get paid much? If you’ve ever relied on tips for your income, how do you feel when you don’t get any?
I do try to tip pretty much all the time. I’m bad at math, so I usually tip around 20 percent because even I can handle figuring out those numbers. Sometimes if the service is bad, I do tip less, but never ever less than 10 percent. If it’s something like pizza delivery because the weather’s too bad for me to go grocery shopping or whatever, then I do tip extra because the driver had to journey through the rain/snow/etc. because I didn’t want to.