Patrick's Saturday Six, Episode 85

1. Have you ever had a dream that you felt was a message from some "higher power?" Do you think it's possible to receive such messages through dreams? A couple of weeks after my mom died, she "appeared" to me in a dream, and said, "I just wanted to tell you that I'm OK; I feel really good now and I don't want you to worry." Then she added, "I can't stay", and disappeared. I think it was a message from my subconcious because of course I'd been thinking about her. No, I don't believe we receive messages from a higher power through dreams.

2. How much does a person's musical preference tell you about them? In my experience, it tells LOTS. In terms of romance, I don't do well with people who don't have fairly sophisticated taste in music.

3. What time did you get up Friday morning? Were you part of the shopping madness? I was still in Chicago yesterday and we slept in because we did not participate in the shopping madness. We got up at about 9:30 and eventually walked around the University of Chicago campus, where I saw that my old dorm (Flint) has been torn down and a beautiful new building for the B-school constructed in its place.

4. Take this quiz: What religion do you fit in with?
You fit in with:SpiritualismYour ideals are mostly spiritual, but in an individualistic way. While spirituality is very important in your life, organized religion itself may not be for you. It is best for you to seek these things on your own terms.80% spiritual.60% reason-oriented.

5. Is the answer you received the religion you feel you really do fit in with? Yes.

6. READER'S CHOICE QUESTION #77 from Globetrotter2: Do you have any special nicknames for your significant other when you're annoyed or irritated with them? If so, give us a few of them (NO PROFANITY, please). I have just one, and this is reserved for reference, not as a form of address: my pet expression for a sweetheart with whom I'm currently irritated (yep, it's been consistent over the years and applied to a number of guys) is "His Nibs". So, for example, if one of my girlfriends asks, "So, what's going on with----" my reply might be "His Nibs wants me to become a vegetarian but it's not gonna happen..."