When you love, love, love in mad delerium

As I'm sure you know (whether you wanted to or not), yesterday was Valentine's Day, and bethje and I exchanged gifts in the evening. I gave her two CD's, and I'm still waiting on her last gift. From her, I received:

• Double Wonderful, a novel by Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder
  
• My Chartreuse Opinion, the only album that Scott McCaughey released under his own name
  
• The Sims 2, which I'd been wanting, seeing as how I'd been playing the original Sims when everyone else was talking about Part 2. I should be used to being behind the times by now, though. I mean, I can't remember how old I was when my family first got a color TV set, and I was born in 1977. So far, I've only started with the tutorials. When I start playing the actual game, I'm not sure whether I'll want to start making my own Sims, or try out some of the pre-made ones.
  

We didn't have time to go out for dinner last night, but we did go out tonight to Nifty Fifty's. Beth had been there before, but I hadn't. We had bacon cheeseburgers (which were pretty good) and chicken fingers (which weren't very good). I did appreciate the variety of sodas they had, though. I ended up having a strawberry-orange soda with dinner, and then a float with peach soda and strawberry ice cream for dessert. It wasn't a particularly romantic dinner, but it was fun. I sometimes find myself wishing I had more skill with the romance.

After dinner, I came back home and took a nap. I'm not really all that great with naps. When I go to bed, my body tends to expect that it's there for the long haul. I wish I could just go back to bed and get a full night's sleep, but I have to go to work in about an hour. (Why are so many of my recent entries centered around sleeping too little, or too much, or irregularly?)

Finally, dragonxbait did an interview meme, so I decided to participate. Here are the rules, as she listed them:

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me" or "my turn!" or "IT'S TIME, IT'S TIME, IT'S QUESTION...TIME!" or whatever.
2. I respond by asking you five questions of my choosing.
3. Post the answers to your LJ.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

I've done this a lot of times before, so it's okay if no one wants me to interview them. I think I might have run out of good questions anyway. Oh, well. Here's what I was asked:
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