Put on your copy of the Backdraft soundtrack and remember back when Iron Chef wasn’t Americanized into banality. Time for the friday5.org Friday Five.

1. Who lets you have your way more than you should?
Mom has always been far too subservient to pretty much everyone in her life, but especially me. I’ve tried to be more conscious of this since Dad’s death, but I still don’t feel like I’m as good at this as I should be.

2. According to the cliché, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but what’s the way to yours?
My brain. I don’t plan on ever being anything but single again in my life, but if I ever do decide to look for a partner again, I want someone who is at least my match intellectually, if not more so.

3. What’s something that should have been put away but hasn’t been?
My boxes full of paperwork and portfolios of my first year of teaching at MCCC. Those should really be taken down to the garage soon, because they’re taking up space in the hall outside my room right now.

4. When did you last weigh yourself?
Years ago; even when I had that long string of dieting from the start of 2007 until Dad’s death, I wanted to go more by how I felt than numbers on a scale, since those numbers can vary so much. The worst part is that I paid a lot of money for a good scale a year and a half ago, but I still haven’t used it.

5. What do the cops in the donut shop say?
First of all, it’s doughnut (donut is a Dunkin Donuts creation), and secondly, that’s horribly stereotypical. (Yeah, I’m being anal about political correctness here, so what?)