Teresa sent me this, so I figured I’d post here instead of emailing the whole world. 
Welcome to the 2008 edition of Getting to Know Your Friends. What you are supposed to do is copy (not forward) this entire e-mail and paste it onto a new e-mail that you will send. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to your friends including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends that you might not have known!
1. What time did you get up today? 5:15 am CST.
2. Diamonds or pearls? Both.
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? I Am Legend.
4. What is your favorite tv show? MythBusters, Dirty Jobs, CSI, Animal Cops, Smash Lab, The Closer, Saving Grace, Inuyasha, Futurama, … I have several more
5. What do you usually have for breakfast? Either a biscuit or a protein bar.
6. What is your middle name? Nicole.
7. What food do you dislike? Ooh, I have a lengthy list … I’m a picky eater
8. What is your favorite cd? Right now it’s a mix CD of Seether and Three Days Grace songs.
9. What kind of car do you drive? Hyundai Santa Fe.
10. Favorite sandwich? Either a BLT or turkey and provologne.
11. What characteristic do you despise? Deceit.
12. Favorite item of clothing? My new ‘Bama jersey.
13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Ireland, Japan, Galopagos…
14. What color is your bathroom? Mostly blue.
15. Favorite brand of clothing? Right now, Chicos.
16. Where would you retire to? Nowhere. The South is where it’s at!
17. What was your most memorable birthday? Last year’s.
18. Favorite sport to watch? Football. ROLL TIDE!!
19. Furthest place you are sending this? The internets. 
20. Favorite saying? WTF?
21. When is your birthday? April 15th.
22. Are you a morning or night person? Definitely a morning person.
23. What is your shoe size? Don’t you know never to ask a woman that?
24. Pets? Not anymore. 
25. Any new and exciting news you would like to share with us? I’m in the middle of fscking up my website, isn’t that great?!!? 
26. What did you want to be when you were little? A teacher.
29. How are you today? Can’t complain, and yourself?
30. What is your favorite candy? Oh, I have many favorites. Let’s just say chocolate … that should cover most of them.
31. Your favorite flower? Roses.
32. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Saturday.
33. What is your full name? Are you a census taker?
34. What are you listening to right now? The Essential Ozzy Osbourne.
35. What was the last thing you ate? A piece of Altoids gum.
36. Do you wish on stars? No, I leave that to Jessie now.
37. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Flame red.
38. How is the weather right now? Kind of soggy.
39. Favorite soft drink? I dumped soda … but he still calls sometimes.
40. Favorite restaurant? Oh, I have several! Cajun Steamer, Bento, BK, Doodles, El Carreton, China One, Styx, … there are several more, but can’t think of them at the moment.
41. Siblings? One brother.
42. Favorite day of the year? Any of the “eating” holidays. 
43. What was your favorite toy as a child? My NES.
44. Summer or winter? Definitely summer!
45. Hugs or kisses? Both.
46. Coffee or tea? Tea is my poison of choice.
47. Chocolate or vanilla? What kind of question is that? Chocolate, fool!
48. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back? Sure if they don’t wanna comment.
49. When was the last time you cried? This morning.
50. What is under your bed? Dust bunnies, a baseball bat, and probably the odd sock or two…
51. Who are the friends you have had the longest? Let’s see … Big Jim, Teresa, Mara, Jeff, John, … I’m sure there’s a couple more…
52. What did you do last night? Vegged out.
53. Favorite smell? Lavender.
54. What are you afraid of? Why do you need to know?
55. Salty or sweet? Definitely sweet.
56. How many keys on your ring? 10.
57. How many years at your current job? Not quite 1 year yet.
58. Favorite day of the week? Payday.
59. How many towns have you lived in? 5.
60. Do you make friends easily? Usually, yeah.
61. Many people will you send this to? The whole internets.
62. How many will respond? If I lie and say ‘10,’ will you come back later to check?
1. The Prime Directive is just a suggestion. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Enterprise wasn’t as swashbuckling as he predecessor Captain James T. Kirk, simply because he actually wrestled with breaking the Prime Directive instead of ignoring it entirely. The Prime Directive states that humans shouldn’t involve themselves in the affairs of less developed planets, for fear of messing up their cultures with ultra-advanced tech. While Picard often considers the importance of the Prime Directive in his decision-making, he refuses to be bound by it. Lesson learned? Rules are made to be broken.
2. Always shoot first. Every good leader should be willing to do what he or she asks of her team. One of the reasons for the loyalty of the ragtag crew of Serenity, the ship Malcolm Reynolds captains in Firefly, is that Mal will throw himself into battle to protect his team. Whenever he has a crazy scheme or rescue mission in mind, he takes the first plunge. Lesson learned? Show your crew that you’re willing to take a bullet for them, and they’ll do the same for you.
3. Don’t be afraid to hook up with a cute spaceman. We love Leela on Futurama not just because she’s the only person on her ship with any kind of sense, but because she also lets her long, purple hair down once in a while. She’s always tangling with spacemen and getting mixed up with strange alien pets. And that’s one good reason why her goofy crew would follow her to the ends of the galaxy — well, if she had enough beer. Lesson learned? A good leader has to get laid once in a while, and she shouldn’t be ashamed of it.
4. When you’re about to go genocidal, get a second opinion. Admiral William Adama from the new Battlestar Galactica is one of the best leaders we’ve ever seen. He’s gotten a group of a few thousand humans halfway across the galaxy, despite the fact that they’re being pursuit by a group of homicidal, erotically obsessed cyborgs. He’s had to deal with incredible loss and sheer terror, and he always keeps his head. He is also truly humane. How does he keep it together without going all Admiral Cain on everybody’s ass? By sharing his power with President Roslyn as well as his circle of trusted officers and advisers. Without their guidance, the Galactica and its fleet might have turned into a bloodthirsty military fleet, instead of what it is: a mostly-civilian group with a (sort of) free press and even elections. Lesson learned? True leaders do not ever make decisions alone.
5. Just because you have a crappy ship doesn’t mean you’re a loser. Everyone knows that Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars, is piloting a souped-up bucket. And yet his seemingly-crappy ship is probably the very best thing for helping out a group of covert resistance fighters like Obi Wan and Luke. Plus, he knows his ship so well that he can totally slam those Stormtroopers in their McFighters. Lesson learned? Every crappy PC is a lean, mean Linux box waiting to be born. Oh, and in case that didn’t make sense: It’s not the tools; it’s what you do with them.
6. Freedom fighters make good teammates. Say what you will about Captain Janeway on Voyager, but she made a smart decision early on to integrate her Federation team with a group of subversive Maquis who got stuck with them out in the Delta Quadrant. Another captain might have kept the Maquis separate from the Federation types, but Janeway integrated them and gave them Federation ranks — much to her good fortune. She got a great Chief Engineer and First Officer out of the deal. Lesson learned? A little subversion goes a long way.
7. There is always somebody out there who can bend spacetime better than you can. In Iain M. Banks’ novel Excession, the Ship Sleeper Service (which is an AI that captains itself, thank you very much) discovers that its amazing, human-dwarfing brain is nothing compared to the “excession,” a phenomenon that none of the Ships can understand. The excession exists in subspace, and looks like a giant something that could be a gateway to another dimension, perhaps, or a ship from the edges of the universe. Meeting the excession, for the Ships, is a very humbling experience. They realize that they are not as omnipotent as they realized, that that there are intelligences out there far more profound than their own. Lesson learned? No matter how in control you are, always be ready for something for which you’re completely unprepared.
