Starting in our June magazines, we’ll have a new section called “On Advocatemag.com …” In it, we’ll expand on popular blog posts and let you know what the top posts of the month were, give notice of upcoming web-related contests (and there are some really great ones coming up), profile Advocate bloggers, run great reader comments and more.

This month, we kicked off the new section by profiling a Facebook fan from each neighborhood. We couldn’t run all the questions we asked them — and there were some great answers we had to cut for space reasons — so we thought we’d run each interview in its entirety here on our blogs.

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If you want to be the subject of a future Facebook fan profile, go to our Facebook page, fan us if you haven’t already, and just post “I want to be a Facebook fan profile.” We’ll take it from there.

And now, our inaugural Facebook fan profile:

Photo by Caity Colvard

Andrea Eberle, 29, is a non-profit marketing and events manager who lives near White Rock Lake with a bright blue beta fish named X (pronounced “ten”). If she could eat at only one neighborhood restaurant for the rest of her life? Starbucks, she says, because then she’d “be forced to spend time really learning to cook.”

What’s a little known fact about you?
One of my great-grandfathers was working on the Manhattan Project at the same time the other was a missionary in China. So really, the fact that I exist at all is pretty random.

What’s your most embarrassing moment?
I’m just hoping it’s not when this article gets published.

What would your career be if you could do it all over again without consequences?
I’d love to host a show on the Travel Channel. I wouldn’t want to be the guy who eats all that nasty stuff, but any other travel show would be great fun to host.

What’s the one thing you wish you could do but are reasonably sure you never will?
I’ve seen so many TED talks on the web and I’m in awe of those people. Doing that would mean I’d have done something truly epic and original in my life. Anyone reading this who hasn’t heard of TED should go check out TED.com right away. Seriously, it’s wonderful stuff… better than grad school.

What makes you laugh out loud?
Way too many things to list in a limited space. I laugh a lot.

What’s your most treasured possession?
A signed program from David Tennant’s Hamlet with the RSC in London. It’s a reminder of a fun trip/crazy adventure with one of my best friends. We bought tickets six months in advance and a continent away. Then we showed up the night of the show to discover an error in our order. Our tickets were for the wrong month! The show was sold out months in advance and fake tickets were being sold on Ebay for 10 times the ticket price, so the woman at the counter was skeptical of our plight and none too helpful. But we’d come too far and waited too long not to find a way to see the show. So we spent a freezing cold night camped out on the street in London’s West End in order to be the first in line when day-of-show tickets went on sale the following morning. Aside from almost having frostbite, it was an awesome experience. A few cast members even stopped by to chat with us that night and we wound up with front row seats for the next day’s show, which turned out to be the best live performance I’d ever seen. It was epic 🙂

What’s your strangest or most random Facebook Friend connection?
I try to limit my Facebook Friends to people I actually am friends with.

What did you want to be when you grew up?
Lots of things: princess, scientist, singer, actress, supreme court justice, and of course, C. J. Craig from “The West Wing.”

What’s one question you think other Facebook Fans could help you answer?
Here’s a technical question. I use Mailchimp a lot for work. I can get a Mailchimp newsletter to publish directly onto Facebook. But everytime I do, it goes to my personal page. I’d rather publish directly to my organization’s Facebook fan page. Is there anyone out there who can tell me how to fix that?

How would you explain your neighborhood to someone living in, say, Newfoundland?
Lakewood is the Dallas version of that neighborhood in “The Gilmore Girls.” It’s the closest thing to a little east coast town you can find  … no ocean, but at least we’ve got the lake.

Whole Foods, Central Market, Kroger, Tom Thumb or somewhere else — where do you grocery shop and why?
Whole foods when I feel like walking to the grocery store, Central Market when I’m looking for inspiration, and Tom Thumb when I’m stocking up on the basics because I’d usually rather spend money on things more fun than food.

What brings a smile to your face every time?
Joy

What item in your closet is most humiliating?
When something starts to be humiliating, I either donate or toss it. Life is too short and my closet is too small to keep regrets hanging around.

What do you miss about the you from 10 or 20 years ago?
I loved the 9 and 19-year-old versions of me, but I don’t miss them. In all the important ways those girls are still who I am. The things I do miss from those ages are all about other people. I’ll miss my mom who passed away seven years ago, or I’ll miss the dogs I had back then, or sometimes I’ll even miss having an obnoxious little brother running around playing make believe, because now he’s grown into this massive football coach who’d never be caught dead wearing something out of grandma’s closet with a grey wig and pillbox hat.

What do you love about the age you’re at now?
I love that most of the time now I feel capable. I feel like I have the skills to figure out what I need or want to do at any given moment. And when I don’t, I have a pretty good idea of where to go to find help. I didn’t always feel that way. So that’s a nice place to be.

What are some jobs you’ve held in the past?
I did a lot of random things before falling into the great gig I’ve got now.
I’ve been a bookseller, drugstore cosmetics counter clerk, Luckytown lottery ambassador (one of 15 college kids riding around in a van all summer giving away free stuff and occasionally wearing a giant Lotto ball costume), personal Assistant for a lunatic in California who shall remain nameless, marketing analyst for a promotional materials company … And I’ve even been able to intern at some really wonderful organizations like The Dallas Opera, Dallas Children’s Theater & The National Endowment for the Arts.

What celebrity would you most like to meet for coffee and why?
Bono, because he’s my hero. (see hero question for details)

Do you have a favorite quote?
How can you pick a favorite quote? That’s like choosing a favorite breath, a favorite note or a favorite moment. If you’ve only got one, you haven’t been paying enough attention.

What are you afraid of, rationally or irrationally?
I’m afraid that too many people are giving up on trying to understand people that aren’t like them. When communication shuts down — that frightens me.

If you could import the brain of any person, living or dead, into your own noggin, whose would it be?
I like my own brain… not sure I’d be comfortable with someone else knocking around up there. That’s totally creeping me out now. Couldn’t I just talk to whoever it is instead?

Who is your hero and why?
Bono. I totally respect how Bono lives out his faith in actions without being “all-churchy.” I also love how big issues are wrestled with so much in U2’s music. I think both he and The Edge are brilliant but I tend to remember lyrics more than guitar riffs, so Bono gets the “my hero” title. They aren’t hypocritical. They don’t try to come off as perfect or seem to expect anyone else to be. They’re just genuine guys who happen to be in a position that affords them this incredible influence. And they choose to use that influence for good even though they totally don’t have to. In my book, that’s pretty darn heroic.

Would you skydive in the most beautiful place in the world? Why or why not?
Is skydiving the only way I’d be allowed to see this “most beautiful place in the world”? If not, I’d rather see all that beauty up close. But if that’s the only option and if I’d be diving tandem with a nice, competent, possibly handsome, skydive instructor whom I trust, then sure. Why not?

Do you have any benign confessions to make?
I don’t understand why so many Texas companies feel compelled to put “Texas” or “Lone Star” in the name of their business. Really??? Does no one else find that odd?

When did you realize you were no longer a child?
When they closed the lid on my mother’s casket.