Maverick

If you had to pick a character from Top Gun that best describes yourself, who would it be? For me, the easy answer would be Viper, for obvious reasons. Yep, he and I are both pretty kick-butt. However, if I look really hard at myself, I think I'd end up being Goose. He wants to be the best, but not at the sacrifice of other things that are important to him. He knows when to keep things light, and when it's time to be serious. Sometimes he gets by on someone else's coat tails. He doesn't mind singing badly in front of a large group (You know you're singing it in your head right now. You've Lost that lovin' feeling/now it's gone, gone, gone/whoa oah oah bum, bu dump, bu dump...). The comparison isn't perfect, though. He flies cutting edge fighter jets to their limits, while I sit in a big office moving numbers around. He's good at volleyball, and later goes on to be a doctor in the busiest and most drama-filled emergency room in the country. I'm awful at volleyball, and I will later go on to a bigger office with a window to move more numbers around, with no drama at all. And hopefully I won't smash my head on a jet canopy while trying to eject from a brutal horizontal spin, leaving a grieving Meg Ryan to support our kids by her cute lonesome self. But all in all, I think I'm not a bad Goose. Wish I could say I'm Iceman, but it just isn't there... Darn that Val Kilmer...

These are the things that keep me up at night...

Viper

Goose and Maverick