I have an interview tomorrow. It's for a production company. It's the one who did that cool AOL commercial. Now, I know you're thinking cool and AOL and certainly commercial do not belong together in the same sentence. But it was that commercial where the little AOL symbol was in a kind of movie promotion, doing action sequence type things. That has been the only acceptable AOL commercial ever made. And the company is looking to hire an office manager. And they're looking to interview me tomorrow. I am trying to prepare for the interview. You know, doing the usual: Researching and reading about the company, trying to think about questions that could possibly be asked, and thinking about answers that I could possibly give.


But the one I've had the most trouble considering is: What is your biggest weakness?


Would it be appropriate to say, "Well, I would consider my biggest weakness to be the fact that I can't hold a conversation with my father without it erupting into a screaming match. You know the kind of conversations... The kind where I haven't seen, or heard from, or talked to, my father in 4 years. You know, because he used to beat the fucking crap out of me, my brothers and my mom. So when I left 4 years ago, I thought going across the country would rescue me from his influence. But I was sadly mistaken. I probably should have just fled the country, period. And that's my biggest weakness: I am a sucker. That's a right. A sucker. I'm a sucker because I always try to believe the best of everybody. But I should have learned by now to never trust a man who's threatened to kill you and your family, chop you up into little pieces and scatter you around the country so no one will ever find your bodies."


Yeah. That's my biggest weakness, Mr. Interview Man.


I'm a big fat sucker.



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