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Ask and you shall recieve. Who's next on the tag list? Ummm, how about whoever feels moved to do so. No pressure. Just let me know so I can go read your list, too.

1. If you could be doing what you really want to be doing for a living, what would it be?
I already do it. I love being a journalist. But I think if I could get paid to cook for fun, that’d be awesome, too. Grabbing the EVOO and chopping scallions for a paycheck – yeah, that’d be cool.

2. If you could slap the crap out of any famous person, alive or dead, who would it be?
Without getting arrested for treason or anything like that? George W. Bush.

3. What's the dumbest decision you've made in the past 5 years?
Wow, that encompasses all of college. We’ll skip over the nights of drinking and debauchery. I’d say not following my gut when it came to Young Gangsta. I could have saved myself a lot of energy and time if I had done so. Learned a lot, but it was still dumb.

4. Give up one for a year: (good) sex or (good) music.
Sex. Easy. Sometimes you need a good song to help you make it through.

5. Dudes, would you rather have a big dick or a great sense of humor? Ladies, nice tits & azz or common sense?
I say common sense. My body won’t really help me when I’m interviewing the chief of police on his department’s treatment of minorities during traffic stops. But then again…

6. So you've been invited to an all expense paid Blogger Prom in The Bahamas. You're sitting at the bar on the beach. Which blogger do you want to join you for hours of good convo?
I’d say I’d bring Hizzle, Kells and Velocity to get the party going. For some testosterone, I’d bring Jarrod – just cuz he’s hilarious. And he’d probably enjoy being surrounded by women in bikini’s on the beach getting liquored up.

7. Which blogger would you most like to cuddle with on the beach? (And don't defer to your current significant other either. Infidelity won't count against you. Duh.)
I’m still going to say the man-friend. Just cuz I like cuddling with him. With anyone else, it wouldn’t be so much as cuddling as it would be me using their body as my pillow to take a nap. Not the same.

8. You're going on a 5 hour road trip...which 5 CDs do you bring
Outkast – Stankonia or Love Below/Speakerboxx
Love Jones - the soundtrack
The Fugees – The Score
Jill Scott – Who is Jill Scott
One of my mix tapes with soul, reggae, jazz, hip hop and anything else I deem appropriate

9. Would you rather bury your children young or have your children bury you young?
Bury my children young. I wouldn’t want them to have to go through most of their lives without a mother. Also, I’d know they wouldn’t have experienced all the heartache and pain that comes with growing old, and they’ll be able to live the rest of their lives in heaven.

10. What's your biggest insecurity?
That I’m not living up to my potential and that somehow, I’m a fraud

11.What's the first blog you read every day...or however often you read them?
The Man-Friend. I check to see if he’s updated, then I check out Velocity. She updates fairly often and she always cracks me up.

12. When's the last time you peed your pants?
Ummm, honestly, I can’t recall. I remember one time I peed in the bed and I got the whooping of life. Don’t think I peed on or in anything besides the toilet beyond that. Unless you count those times when you hold your bladder so long a few droplets seep out. If you counting those, I plead the fifth.

13. Which was better, your first kiss or your first pay check?
LOL, first paycheck. I was working at Merrill Lynch in High School, getting paid $10 an hour. I thought I was PIZAID! First kiss was actually a make out session with this guy I knew the summer after my junior year. Mama wasn’t home and I thought I was grown…

14. Do you have kids? Want kids?
I don’t have kids and I wonder sometimes if I even want them. I’d love to have some grown ups. But I don’t know if I want or can handle the responsibility of molding another person’s life into something fantastic. I can hardly do it for myself. Shoot, some days I forget to eat. What I look like having some kids just so ya’ll can call “the people” on me? You got me bent.

15. You get dropped off at home after the office holiday party by your bitch azz boss that you can't effing stand...you exit the car and he peels out, runs a red light at your corner and rolls up an unsuspecting midget. The next day the midget watch groups are on TV outraged at the heartless hit and run, and are calling for any witnesses to please come forward...that half dead midget has a family at home waiting on C-mas presents. Would you take $1000 hush money? $500? $100? A six pack?
Alright, I believe I’d have to be a stand up citizen and squeal. Specially if my boss (a journalist no less!) isn’t coming forward. And bump job security – my work speaks for itself. Besides, who’s going to take the word of a guy who runs over midgets?

16. Live the rest of your life without your eyebrows or your fingernails?
Eyebrows. You can draw them on, but you need your fingernails for everything. I get mad when I get a hangnail and have to peel my nail down to the meaty part. That junk hurts. Eyebrows, I say.

17. What makes you angry?
Dismissal, people not living up to their potential and bills

18. What makes you horny?
The smell of my guy, a guy in the kitchen cooking up a fabulous meal, frank conversation, soft touches and long kisses

19. What makes you nervous?
Walking alone to my car at night, guys who make catcalls at me, weird sounds in my apartment, not hearing from someone once they’ve reached their destination, and in some instances, attention

20. What makes you smile?
Lunchables, food in general, the color green, my man-friend, reminiscing on good times, making new memories, photo albums, good books, great music, Flint, family, unexpected phone calls from friends, success, cool words like kerfuffle and spry, oh yeah - and gummi bears