1. Favorite Nickname: Steeltrap
2. Number of candles that appeared on your last birthday cake: 37
3. Date that you regularly blow them out: October 1
4. Pets: 10-year-old American Staffordshire bull terrier (that's a pit bull)
5. Height: 5'8" ish.
6. Piercings: Ears
7. Tattoos: None
8. How much do you love your job?: I love it because I teach through my writing. Health care is important, complex and I can teach my audience about it.
9. Birthplace: San Diego, California @ Naval Hospital
10. Favorite Vacation Spot: Bermuda.
11. Have you been to Africa?: No
12. Croutons or Bacon Bits: Bacon bits
13. Chocolate or Vanilla: How about chocolate/vanilla marble fudge ice cream?
14. 2 door or 4 door car: 4
15. Coffee or Coffee Ice Cream: Coffee.
16. Dumper or Dumpee: Two years ago, was the dumpee.
17. Salad Dressing: One I make with brown sugar, lemon juice, fresh basil and olive oil. Also balsamic vinaigrette.
18. Color of Socks wearing right now: Wearing nude stockings today.
19. Favorite Number: 8
20. Favorite Movies: Waiting to Exhale, Bridget Jones' Diary, Scarface, Paris Blues, Sweet Smell of Success lots of others.
21. Last Book You Read: BAP Handbook.
22. Favorite Holiday: Christmas
23. What is under your bed?: Bills, newspapers.
24. Favorite Food: Lots of things, particularly Italian and French.
25. Favorite Day of the Week: Thursday.
26. Song of the Moment: Look of Love by Diana Krall.
27. Favorite TV Show: Sportscenter, Laker basketball.
28. Toothpaste: Ultrabrite
29. Flower: Pink tea rose, other roses, orchids.
30. Scent: Current favorites include Marc Jacobs, Desnuda by Emanuel Ungaro and Michael by Michael Kors.
31. Favorite Scripture in the Bible: Ten Commandments (Exodus 20?)
32. Favorite Past times: Listening to jazz, GC, NPHC, cooking and getting my cocktail on.
33. Favorite Fast Food Place: Jack in the Box
34. Favorite Drink: Sparkling water for non-alcoholic. Gimlet, with Charbay Key Lime vodka, alcoholic.
35. How many times did you fail your driver's license test: 1.
36. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
In 2006, 42 years old
, hopefully still in California, perhaps being a copy or line editor at a newspaper. Maybe married. If married, one child.
37. Best Accomplishment: Sustaining a career in a difficult, not-so-great paying profession that is often misunderstood by many.
38. What do you do most often when you are bored? Surf the Internet.
39. What words or phrases do you overuse? "Damn, shack. S***." Low-budget. Mo-ron.
40. Bedtime: 9:30 to 10:00.
41. How many different cities or states have you visited?: Roughly around 20.
42. Where would you most like to live in the future? In California.
43. What are 4 words that best describe you? Smart, droll, persistent, kind.
44. Favorite Cartoons: Bugs Bunny, Archie, Josie & the Pussycats.
45. Favorite Subject in School: Physiology.
46. Lefty or Righty: Righty.
47. Favorite Color: Blue-violet.
48. Do you Yahoo, AOL or MSN: None.
49. GC member you MOST want to respond to this: dirtymike1906.
50. Favorite GC topic: How comes.