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Josh asked me five more questions...

1 - What is your favorite theatrical experience? Not necessarially a show, but it could be.
Interesting question. I think my favorite moments onstage come in improv, when all of a sudden you realize, this is good. And there's a chemistry and a magic and a knowledge that you are completely in tune with your scene partner and doing something amazing. And you just remember those moments forever. It's always hard to reiterate what happened in an improv scene that made it so good, but trust me. It's good.

2 - You've recently gotten married. What is the best part of marriage? What is the worst?
The best part of marriage is knowing that at the end of the day, I always have Rod to go home to. There's a hug waiting for me, and an ear to vent to, and a support system. What's wonderful is that every day, I fall in love with Rod a little more.
The worst part of marriage is that while I am a very messy person, Rod is among the messiest people on the planet. Thus our house is a shambles most of the time. Sometimes you just want to be somewhere that has some order to it, and neither of us is really good with keeping things in order.

3 - What would you considered your highest-ranking geek-cred?
I got five varsity letters in chess in high school, including being the captain during my senior year.

4 - You are a very politically minded individual. What would your consider the biggest problem with the current political process? (Not the people involved, ala "the president" "the congress" "the little ladies who work the tables at voting centers", but in the actual process of politics/elections/laws?)
I'm going to take this question and answer it in a whole separate post, because I'm all sorts of miffed today.

5 - Favorites:
(you said favorite, not best, so that's what I'm going with)
- movie, comedy - The Princess Bride
- movie, tear-jerker - Return to Me (Really, I kind of can't think of anything, but this works.)
- movie, drama - American History X
- movie, other - The Breakfast Club
- book, comedy - The Socratic Method (Michael Levin) - It's out of print, but it's funny.
- book, tear-jerker - A Prayer for Owen Meaney (John Irving)
- book, historical - historical? erm, I don't read a lot of histories, but I have to go with either The Source (James Michener) or Guns of the South (Harry Turtledove). THe latter of those is "alternative history" - which posits "what if X had happened; how would that have changed things?" In the case of Guns of the South, it asks, "How would the Civil War have turned out if someone had traveled through time to provide the South with AK-47s?"
- book, other - toss-up between The Stand (Stephen King) and Beach Music (Pat Conroy)