I've gotten my questions for this week's Blogger Insider from this week's interrogator, Susan. Oddly enough, we both sent each other our questions at the same time. So here goes...

1. What's your favorite book?
Hmm... I've got a few. I think my absolute favorite, though, is Radio Waves by Jim Ladd, a Los Angeles disc jockey. It's the story of FM rock radio in its prime.

2. What really chaps your hide?
Rudeness. Inconsiderateness. Egotism. Plastic people. Snobbyness. Unnecessary stupidity, especially when it's mine.

3. Name your favorite charity and why.
Umm... not really sure I have a favorite. I think that most of them are extremely worthy of cash, time, materials, effort, etc. Doctors Without Borders is among my top favorites though, since I think they're not only trying to cure people, they're occasionally putting themselves in dangerous situations to do it.

4. Have you ever had an embarrassing drunken moment?
Throwing up on the train on my way home after getting absolutely completely blitzed at a bar. Details shall remain hidden, though this is the first time I've admitted to it.

5. If you could choose what you'd be doing at this time next year, what would you be doing?
Writing for the alternative department at Radio & Records Magazine, living in Los Angeles.

6. Have you ever had a strange neighbor?
Not really. Though in college, my next-door neighbors were on the crew team so they got up at 5AM every morning to go out in the freezing cold and row boats on the Charles River. That's strange enough for me.

7. The best advice anyone's ever given you is:
Do what makes you happy, but realize that you'll probably have to compromise.

8. Name some of your guilty pleasures.
"Blind Date," abjectly stupid humor, "Star Trek," skeeball, video games.

9. How much did high school suck for you?
Moderately. Was well-known but kind of in an off-beat sort of way, like I wasn't part of the in-crowd but most people still knew who I was. Got made fun of a bit, was considered "cool" and fun to be with by a decently-sized group of people. All in all, kind of a mixed bag.

10. What's your favorite song, or your "theme song"?
I could sit here all night answering this question. It really depends on what's going on in my life at the moment.

11. What's the nicest thing someone's said to you, or the worst?
Uhh... it's been a while since I've been outrightly complimented or insulted. I think being told I'm fun & interesting was one of the more recent compliments, being told I'm a fucking self-centered baby was one of the more recent insults.

12. If you were a cow, what kind of cow would you be?
Norman from City Slickers.

13. What's your favorite curse word?
I go for the gusto. Let's go with "fuck."

14. Describe a happy moment from your past.
Well, let's go back to high school, since I seem to have given it not-so-rave reviews. I was drum major of my high school's marching band my senior year, which basically means I was one of three people in charge of the 130 member band. At the end of the year, we had a "Band Banquet" where people were given awards for certain things and certain members were honored. Of course, the drum majors were honored. So the other two people got their awards and people clapped. But when the band director called me up, the other band members gave me a standing ovation. I was really touched, I didn't think they cared that much.