[Le Questionnaire de Bernard Pivot]

From Inside the Actor's Studio, I present the Pivot Questionnaire with my own answers:

1. What is your favorite word?
Incognito. I don't know why, I just like the way it sounds. It’s a fun word. Incognito…

2. What is your least favorite word?
I don't think it's my least favorite but I hate the word chimichanga. I know how to correctly pronounce it, but every now and again I slip up and say it wrong. It’s very embarrassing. Thanks a lot mom!

3. What turns you on?
Absolutely everything about my husband.

4. What turns you off?
I am not a fan of arrogance, ignorance, malice, or hippies.

5. What sound or noise do you love?
As an Oregonian, it is my duty to say the rain. There is nothing as soothing as the sound of raindrops hitting a metal roof. My step-mom and her family own a cabin at Diamond Lake. When I was young I used to spend a couple weeks there each year. We usually went in big groups: My grandma, grandpa, dad, step-mom, sisters, brother, and sometimes the cousins as well. The whole second story was a giant bedroom. Because I was the oldest I always managed to win top bunk. I loved it because it was close to the ceiling. When it rained it was so loud you couldn’t hear anything else. I’ve slept better at the cabin then anywhere else. I miss it. Oh and I also love the sound of waves crashing and thunder. :)

6. What sound or noise do you hate?
I can’t stand the sound of kids crying and whining. It reminds me of the terrible Baby Alive doll that I had when I was little. It was supposed life-like so the doll would cry, eat and poop like a real baby. To shut it up you had to feed it a doll food concoction by dumping it down her throat. There was a tube that went from her mouth to her butt, so that whatever you fed her came out in her diaper. She cried and whined about everything. “I’m hungry, Mommy” “I’m sleepy.” “Uh-oh, I made a stinky!” I couldn’t stand that doll. She always ended up in the very bottom of the toy box. It was the best way to muffle that terrible racket.

7. What is your favorite curse word?
Fffuuuuuudddgggeee!!

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Anything art or design related would make me very happy. I want someone to pay me for doing something fun… Like making comic strips! Or maybe a coloring book designer. Hey, someone has to do it ;)

9. What profession would you not like to do?
You know that show Dirty Jobs on the discovery channel? I would never want to be one of the cameramen on that show. Sure, Mike Rowe has to do all the crappy, yucky work but he also gets paid the big bucks and gets all the celebrity. His camera crew has to climb into those dirty, stinky places and get filthy too, but they do it without any of the perks. I would never want that job. I wouldn't want to mess with dead bodies either - so anything that has to do with mortuary science is also out.

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
“I really do sound like James Mason.”

(On a side note: Isn’t Saint Peter the one at the Pearly Gates?)