Joanne is one of the nicest people I’ve never met. If you’re on Twitter, you know what I mean. Twitter friends are real.

Joanne, a lover of corgis and the Detroit Pistons, and I first connected thanks to NBA Twitter, but now she feels like a real life buddy.

One day soon, I hope, we’ll get to meet. For now, we’ll make do with a Twitter Spotlight.

OneChicklette: Your favorite qualities in a love interest

@JoannePistonFan: Dog lover, sports fan, and I love when people are able to laugh at themselves when something goes wrong.

OneChicklette: Your chief characteristic (one word)

@JoannePistonFan: Pragmatic.

OneChicklette: What you appreciate most in your friends

@JoannePistonFan: My friends allow me to feel okay being myself–my weird, WEIRD self–, and will listen to anything from a serious rant to me giggling like a fool over an episode of Archer.

OneChicklette: Your idea of happiness

@JoannePistonFan: I love the thought of an evening with my husband and dog, good food, and watching a Detroit sports team win.

OneChicklette: Your idea of misery

@JoannePistonFan: Being stuck in traffic.

OneChicklette: Your favorite fictional character

@JoannePistonFan: Arya Stark from Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire series.

OneChicklette: Your favorite thing to eat, and also to drink

@JoannePistonFan: Fajitas and coffee, but not together. I would prefer a margarita with fajitas.

OneChicklette: Five tangible things you can’t live without

@JoannePistonFan: My iPhone, lip balm, DVR, coffeemaker, and does my dog count as a thing? It feels bizarre calling my dog a thing, so I will add my Pistons hat.

OneChicklette: What’s the number one item on your bucket list? (question via @SaraLang)

@JoannePistonFan: Probably more of a fantasy than bucket list material, but learning martial arts.

@OneChicklette: Who do you know via social media that you’re dying to meet in real life? (this question came via @Tammy)

@JoannePistonFan: They tell me @coffee­_dad isn’t actually a real person (haha), so I would choose @dmbmeg and @JebusHChrist. They are married to each other, hilarious, and let’s face it, I want to play with their dogs.

@OneChicklette: How many days do you think you would you go without speaking a single word, if you were being paid $100,000 a day for every consecutive day you didn’t speak? (this amazing question came via @BrianSpaeth)

@JoannePistonFan: Oh lordy, could I tweet? I would try to do at least 5 days, but WOW, would I fail.

OneChicklette: via @AndiLavs What was the last kind thing you did?

@JoannePistonFan: I try to generally be a kind person as much as I can, but to name something specific, I gave valentines to my nieces and nephews.

OneChicklette: A question I should ask the next participant

@JoannePistonFan: If you had the power to cure the common cold or add 6 hours to every day, which would you choose?

OneChicklette: Random shout out (can be a person, your business, a web site, a favorite product or brand…anything)

@JoannePistonFan: Need4Sheed.com…best Pistons content online, and Natalie, the woman who created the site, is an even better human being.