1. Fictional characters. Who was your favorite when you were a child. And now?
I always loved Nancy Drew when I was younger. She was so sure of herself for a young woman. I secretly wished I could start solving mysteries like her. Now, I would sadly say Bella from the Twilight Series. I love her character and the love she has for Edward.
2. Name a movie scene you love.
There's a scene in The Fountain with a tree of life that is surrounded with a golden luminescent sheen. The graphics throughout the whole movie blew me away.
3. If you could adopt a highway, what would you name it?
Annabel Lee Highway...named after the poem written by Edgar Allan Poe.4. Name a scene in a book that you love.
I love every scene that is described in John Steinbeck novels. He describes and personifies California like no other.
5. What are some funny incidents from your life, that you can never live down?
(What happened to 6?)
7. Have you ever invented anything? It doesn’t have to be mechanical!
I've "invented" recipes and some drinking games.
8. Name a vivid childhood memory.
I remember my dad letting me accompany him for a day when he was the maintenance guy for Pickwick Place apartments. I felt like "one of the guys" because I got to help him pull up carpet and use a carpet cutter. We even found some money!
9. What sort of food did you grow up with?
From what I remember it was a lot of Southern style food. Fried chicken, beans, casseroles, and then the simpler things like hamburger helper, meatloaf, and macaroni and cheese.10. Where are your family’s roots?
My mom was born in Kentucky, but I'm not sure about my biological dad. Mostly from the South...
11. What smells do you love?
There are so many! The lingering smell of rain after a downpour, burning leaves, the crisp smell of autumn, clean laundry, Chase, new pages of a book-and old for that matter, gasoline, auto shops, woods, nature, fresh baked bread and cookies, gardenia and plumeria, cinnamon, cilantro...
11. What one thing in your life did you do that nobody else understood but that you are happy you did.
I'm glad that I have stayed true to myself and not given into other people's judgments against me. I have dated girls and find nothing wrong with same sex relationships or same sex marriages for that matter.
13. Just pick an older relative from your past, and describe them best you can.
Mike Roser. He had been my dad's best friend since they were kids. He, like my dad, was very tall, lean, and was very caring. I remember once proposing to him when I was little. Also, though I'm not sure why, I always called him by his first and last name. He was never "Mike" but always Mike Roser.
14. Do you know anyone famous?
I was acquaintances with Sasha Cohen the figure ice skater. She attended the same high school as me for a short amount of time, and we occasionally studied together in the library.
15. Has anyone done anything recently that hurts?
Lately it seems as though the only person I can count on is Chase. My friends, though very nice, are very flaky, and I seem to get stood up a lot or even just used to help them when it's convenient. I'm tired of people asking me to do things for them just because I don't have a job. This doesn't mean that I don't do other things. It does hurt, however; I do rather enjoy being a recluse with Chase in our own little world.
16. Has anyone done something overly kind lately?
My mother, her husband Morgan, my aunt Martha, and her boyfriend Jeff all recently bought me a sweet ass bike to replace my previous cruiser. I love it!
17. What is your favorite beverage, outside water?
There are different categories for this question. If we're talking non-carbonated it would be sweet tea, but not the kind you buy...the kind made at home with a ton of sugar. Carbonated would have to be Barqs Red Cream Soda (which I still have never seen in California, sadly). And for alcohol it would be Jagermeister or Margaritas.18. If you could invent a pie, what would be in it and what would be the name of that pie?
It would consist of graham cracker crust, with hardened chocolate coating the crust, then banana pudding mixed with cool whip as a filling, cool whip on top of that, with fresh strawberries and preserve on top, finished off with chocolate drizzles and shavings. The Ultimate Banana Split Pie.
19. You are in marketing at a soda pop corporation. What is the flavor and name of your new product?
I think some sort of cream berry soda would be good...like acai berry, strawberry, and blueberry. I would call it Berry Creamy. I crack myself up.
20. What sort of world mythology is interesting to you?
I love greek mythology. I was so excited to go to school when we were learning about it in high school.
21. What world crisis is most scary to you?
I fear that our economy will hit a new low, worse than the Great Depression.
22. What part of your cultural history has changed in the last few years?
I think for the most part it would be holiday celebrations. Growing up, my family was always near and we always celebrated at the grandparent's "blue house." Now, as an adult living in California, Chase and I celebrate on our own and have started our own traditions.