Lisa is the Associate State Director at Indiana Small Business Development Center Network.
1. What is your most marked characteristic? My laugh, insouciance, and free spiritedness.
2. What is the quality you most like in a man? Self-assurance.
3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? A fierce independent streak.
4. What do you most value in your friends? Ability to make me laugh.
5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Lack of patience, but others tell me it is self-centeredness.
6. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Contentment. A cold beer on a sandy beach on a hot day is also pretty good.
7. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Extended self-pity. I am all for a pity party, but eat, drink, mope and then be merry.
8. Who are your favorite writers? F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Jodi Picoult, Agatha Christie
9. What is your current state of mind? My mind is always in the State of Texas.
10. What is your motto? Two wrongs don’t make a right but it might be fun to keep trying.
11. What is your greatest fear? So cliché, but heights
12. What is your greatest extravagance? Snuggling in for hours in my pajamas with a good book.
13. On what occasion do you lie? Why would I actually tell you?
14. What do you dislike most about your appearance? Profile of my face. Indivdiually, I like the parts that make it up, but when put together…..blech.
15. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Rinky dink, f***, Holy Cannoli (last Lent I gave up swearing and this is what I started saying and it stuck), and conjure (my new 2010 word)
Lisa, I’ll have you know that I had to look up what insouciance means. (Not that you care.)