[Medusa]

What is your idea of perfect happiness? --Being right where I am in life right now. Great life, great relationship, great job, great friends, great hobbies, and coming home every day to a house I love.

What is your greatest fear?--Losing Jackhammer.

What historical figure do you most identify with?--A little bit of Ayn Rand, a little bit of Marlene Dietrich, a little bit of Ann Frank, and a lot of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

Which living person do you most admire?--I admire a lot of people. My Pops for one, but also Maya Angelou, Dorothy Allison, Michelle Obama, and Pema Choudron.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?--Second-guessing myself, being neurotic

What trait do you most deplore in others?--Manipulation, Thievery, Behaving without a conscience

What is your greatest extravagance? -Books, Starbucks, Tech gadgets

On what occasion do you lie? - I don't but I would if it would save someone unnecessary pain

What do you most dislike about your appearance? - I have an ugly toenail.

What is your favorite journey? -- Getting to know other people

What do you consider the most overrated virtue? -- Purity.

Which living person do you most despise? - Sarah Palin and that Fred Phelps person are pretty high on my list but there are a couple more.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse? - "REALLY?" and "OMG!" and "FUCK!"

What is your greatest regret? - I don't really have any but maybe it would be making space for bullshit for just a bit too long

What or who is the greatest love of your life? -- Jackhammer is my love, my true soulmate.

When and where were you happiest? -- I'm honestly the happiest I have been in my life in just the last couple of years.

Which talent would you most like to have? -- Oh, I would LOVE to be able to sing and play guitar - The ballads I would write!

What is your current state of mind? -- I'm peaceful and tired and mentally checking off lists of things I need to do this week

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? -- I'd probably get a lot more motivated than I am already about a few projects I want to do

If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be? -- I would force my Dad to go to the Doctor about his skin cancer and I would force my sister to evolve into understanding that there is more world out there than just her hometown.

If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what would it be? -- I'd want to be a bird for a little bit, then an octopus, then a Princess

What do your consider your greatest achievement? -- I broke the cycle.

What is your most treasured possession? -- My wedding ring and 20 years worth of journals.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? - Hurting someone you love and not being able to fix it

What is your most marked characteristic? I talk about shit incessantly and I laugh almost constantly

What is the quality you most like in a man? -- Honesty, Intelligence, Loyalty, A GREAT Sense of Humor

What is the quality you most admire in a woman?-- Honesty, Intelligence, Loyalty, A GREAT Sense of Humor

What do you most value in your friends?-- Honesty, Intelligence, Loyalty, A GREAT Sense of Humor

Who are your favourite writers?-- Ayn Rand, Dorothy Allison, Dave Sedaris, Sun Tzu

Who is your favourite hero of fiction? - Dagny Taggert, Scout, Joe from Little Women

Who are your heroes in real life? - Maya Angelou, Gloria Steneim, Chaz Bono, Barack Obama, People who give of themselves to help other people in times of poverty, hunger, or pain

What are your favourite names? I always said if I had a girl, I would name her "Josephine" or "Magic" or "Bliss" and if I had a boy, I would name him "Braveheart" or "Denver" or "Jesus".

What is it that you most dislike?-- I despise Root Beer, Assholes, Grown adults who act like children, dirty butt smells, licorice, dirty teeth, and people touching my food

How would you like to die?-- Not any time soon, but when I do I hope Im incredibly old and next to Jack.

What is your motto?- What I do is under my control, what you do is under yours.