16.) What is your favorite wild animal? Okapi. They look like an other worldly mix of giraffe and zebra, though I believe they are cousins of the giraffe and have no zebra in their bloodline. They are shy and modest -- very rarely are mothers seen nursing their calves -- and herbivores. I'm crazy about them. They "talk" to each other, making a happy chuff noise to one another in greeting. (They don't communicate with us, just each other.)
I learned about them at Brookfield Zoo here in Chicagoland. Brookfield Zoo has had great luck in mating okapis and perpetuating this endangered species. Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo has a great okapi exhibit, too. I've read that they are also at Disney's Animal Kingdom. If you get a chance to observe an okapi, you won't forget him.
17.) Name 3 of your favorite childhood shows: Batman, Bewitched and The Monkees
18.) If you could live as a character in a movie who would it be? Jo from Little Women. Any of the three versions -- and I hear a fourth is one the way. I would love to share an umbrella with Professor Bhaer.
19.) Favorite vegetable? Corn
20.) Favorite Fruit? Banana
21.) If you had a dragon what would you name it? Puff. And I'd be much nicer to my dragon than that little bastard, Jackie Paper, was to his rascal Puff.
22.) What do you put on hotdogs? Ketchup and atomic green relish.
23.) Do you play online games? Yes. Farmville 2.
24.) What's your favorite way to get inspired? A shower.
25.) Do you have a middle name? Yes
26.) If you had to order from a kid's menu, what would you get? I wanted to on Saturday! A local restaurant has a mac/cheese/barbecue sauce dish on the kid's menu I would have liked to try.
27.) Do you speak any other languages? No.
28.) Do you use Twitter? On occasion.
29.) Do you go onto YouTube? I watch, but don't post.
30.) Do you play Angry Birds? I played with my nephew about a decade ago.
