Only eight weeks in, and it's already shaping up to be a long 2007. Groan....

Time to take a break.

I was perusing the erudite Grand Admiral Sean's blog, when I came across this killer time-waster! I'm a sap for these snarky surveys every now and then. They can be neat, sometimes embarrassing, time capsules.

Naturally, a Star Wars one was just too hard to resist....


Full name: Abel Gustavo Lopez Peņa IV

Rank: Grand Vizier

Affiliation: The good side

Level: Gamemaster

Favorite Saga movies: Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith

Subtly wave my fingers every time I approach an automatic door? Hell yeah.

Age before discovering that the Fox drumroll plays before other movies? Pretty early. I kept getting faked out that Star Wars was on TV.

Occupation: Star Wars author

When I'm not writing, I'm... reading, working out, having a good time with friends, pondering.

Lightsaber Form? Vaapad (Mace Windu). Alternately, Soresu (Obi-Wan).

Best advice ever given me? "Do or do not; there is no try." Alternately, "Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

Personality: Machiavellian with a heart of gold.

Official diagnosis: Philodoxer

Cool autistic attributes: A nose for evil.

Weirdest encounters with "normal" people? Los Angeles nightlife.

People I'd prevent from reproducing if I were a eugenicist: Clones.

First encounter with Star Wars: Star Wars on VHS, 1981 or 1982.

Coolest real-life Star Wars moment? Becoming Halagad Ventor.

Most embarrassing Star Wars admission: Arrived home one drunken night, watched the Star Wars Kid 2.0 video, and cried.

Creed: Philosophical Taoism comes closest.

One-line theology: "Infinity and negation, fool ... kriffing forget about it."

Seminal writing influences: Plato, Dante Alighieri, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Alan Moore, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino.

I read... a lot. Currently...

Favorite original novels: The Divine Comedy, Pedro Paramo, From Hell, Old Man and the Sea, The Alchemist, Labyrinths, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Lone Wolf and Cub, Frankenstein.

Favorite Star Wars novels: The Thrawn Trilogy, Dark Empire I, New Jedi Order: Traitor, Darksaber, The Han Solo Trilogy, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Jedi Vs. Sith, Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire, Shatterpoint, Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina.

If I was an alien, I'd probably be... Ubese. Or Kaleesh.

Cases of life imitating Star Wars: Are there cases where it doesn't?

If I was a starship, I'd probably be... the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.

If I could have one Force-empowered object, it would be... the Kaiburr Crystal, nach.

My lightsaber is... green. I'll follow you anywhere, Luke.

Trivial pursuit: Star Wars stories doomed to oblivion.

Number of point-defense laser cannons on a Venator-Class Star Destroyer? Slumber of joint-reference razor canons on a senator glass car restorer.

Younglings think I'm a... cool adult.

Favorite collectible: My Wicket Attakus statue.

I'm anti-materialist, but... it's an epistemological inevitability.

Best part of Hyperspace: Jumping to it.

Opinions on Celebration IV? I'm just happy I can sleep in my own bed each night for a change. ~ Abel G. Peņa

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