The return of the "5 Questions" meme

varina8 asked me five questions. The answers are below. If you would like five questions, let me know in comments. If you have comments about my answers, let me know in comments. In general, commenting is encouraged all around.

1) You’re snuggled under the covers and the radio alarm goes off, what song is playing?
"Sleep All Day" by Jason Mraz. Why? Because, mainly, this year, it seems like I want very much to be hibernating. Which is what I may do over the Christmas weekend. When I'm not attending gatherings, that is. (Funny, reading the lyrics, I realize this song is bleaker than its happy-go-lucky melody and performance would suggest. I'm going to stick with it, though, because what has always stuck out about it to me was that happy-go-lucky chorus and it's appropriate right now.)

2) If you were given $35 to go to the grocery and buy whatever ingredients strike your fancy, what would you make?
Lasagna. Comfort food. Mine's pretty good. Those ingredients are inexpensive enough that it'd leave me money for a not-half-bad bottle of red.

3) Knowing that you’ve traveled extensively, which destination is highest on your wish list and why?
My wish list. Hm. I have to pick just one? Lately I've been obsessing about Bucharest, where my paternal grandmother was born. But I'd like to see more of the ancient world, which has interested me since childhood--Greece, Italy. Someday, Macchu Pichu, Angkor Wat. I'd love to go back to France because there's so much history there and because I'd like the opportunity to learn and speak more French than I have. I'd like to see Morocco for the architecture and culture. Yeah, picking just one? Impossible.

4) Do you have a favorite Chanukah book for children?
"The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming" by Lemony Snicket

5) If you could take a whole year off work with no penalties to learn something new, what would it be?
Something new. Hm. Sculpture, maybe. I've been thinking that I need to get out of my intellect for a while and into my visual life more lately. Sailing might be a thing. It involves physical activity and travel, both of which appeal. Making movies. Or maybe--diving into my intellectual life even more--rabbinical study, not so much because I'm so very religious (I'm not), but because the discipline and the tradition of challenging and debating ideas appeals so much to me. Which makes me think about studying law and civics. What? You thought this was going to be a simple answer? Have you met me? :-)