New Interview

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being loved.

2. What is your greatest fear?
Pain. Just pain.

3. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Ghenghis Khan. That’s right. I said I’m a Mongol raider. Just deal with it.

4. Which living person do you most admire?
The man who struggles to feed his family every day and never complains. The one who has time for his kids at night and creeks a little when he gets in to bed. That guy. Every single one of them. And Lisa.

5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My need to be loved. I hate that. I would be so much more stable if I didn’t behave the way that I do when I think that someone loves me. Good God, it’s like that famous hedgehog on crack…

6. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Hypocrisy. Fuck that. Seriously.

7. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Kindness. I know, that sounds really off, but if more people were concerned with honesty instead of kindness, the world would be a much better place. And kindness wouldn’t be nearly as necessary because we wouldn’t look for validation from the wrong people.

8. What is your greatest extravagance?
Um…random. Really. I tend to get focused on one thing that I really, really want. I research it to death, and just buy it, regardless of cost. See the $300.00 vacuum cleaner.

9. On what occasion do you lie?
I always lie. And I always tell the truth. Hmmmmmmm…that seems wrong…

10. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
I’m a fat girl. It leads to irritation at most things physical.

11. When and where were you happiest?
Good God, there have been so many! The best day I had was a surprise trip up the Oregon coast with my ex. It was beautiful and we were happy, if only for a moment.

12. What is your greatest regret?
I have loved men and let them go. But it doesn’t make me sad anymore, except on Tuesdays... and other days.

13. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My family (and my friends are my family) and the one that got away.

14. What is your current state of mind?
Reflective…manic…happy…terrified…laughing…mostly the way it is every day.

15. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Supporting myself and moving. Trust me, I move a lot.

16. What is your most treasured possession?
Pretty much everything my dad has made for me.

17. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being left alone. We can survive anything as long as we are together. Seperate us from each other and we are lost.

18. Where would you like to live?
Savannah, northern California coast, Ireland, New Zealand.

19. What is your favorite occupation?
Favorite like makes me laugh every time I think of it, or favorite like I want to be that? Hmmmm? OK, both. Midget ninja rodeo clown. That’s just fucking hysterical. Wanna be that would have to be something with the UN…ambassador or trouble shooter, or whatever. I just want to blue helmet.

20. What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty above all other things, loyalty, acceptance, and love.

21. Who are your favorite writers?
Charlaine Harris, Anne McCaffery, Holly Lisle, Evan Wright, Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis, Steven Brust

22. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Vlad Taltos

23. Who are your heroes in real life?
My mom, my dad, Mike, Kris, and of course, Lisa.

24. What are your favorite names?
James, Eli, Ahern, Bridget, Fiona, Izzy

25. What is it that you most dislike?
Cruelty, pettiness, backstabbing, molly-coddling, indecision, and rank idiocy.

26. How would you like to die?
Having sex. No, seriously, right in mid coitus. Preferably somewhere outdoors and in public. Like a national park.

27. What is your motto?
You do your thing. I’ll do mine. As long as your thing doesn't fuck up my thing, you can do what you want.