1. What is your most marked characteristic? My passion. People say I'm the most "passionate" person they know. (I think that's a nice way of saying I'm more than a tad bit obsessive.)
2. What is the quality you most like in a man? Intelligence.
3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Intelligence.
4. What do you most value in your friends? Acceptance and understanding.
5. What is your principal defect? My impatience. I refer to it as the Mother of All My Flaws.
6. What is your favourite occupation? Day-dreaming
7. What is your dream of happiness? I'd like to be completely and utterly understood, accepted, and appreciated by my life partner. Failing that, I could be very happy just living alone.
8. What, to your mind, would be the greatest of misfortunes? Losing my mind
9. What would you like to be? A recording artist, like Eva Cassidy. I'd like to record songs that soothe the soul. But I wouldn't like to go on tour.
10. In what country would you like to live? England
11. What is your favourite colour? Slate blue
12. What is your favourite flower? Lilacs
13. What is your favourite bird? Falcons
14. Who are your favourite prose writers? Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Proulx
15. Who are your favourite poets? Shakespeare
16. Who is your favourite hero of fiction? Ennis Del Mar
17. Who are your favourite heroines of fiction? Jane Eyre
18. Who are your favourite composers? Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, Mozart - I like the pretty stuff.
19. Who are your favourite painters? Andrew Wyeth
20. Who are your heroes in real life? Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann, Michael Moore, Billie Joe Armstrong, Martin Luther King Jr., John and Bobby Kennedy
21. Who are your favourite heroines of history? Margaret Sanger, Betty Freidan, Rosa Parks, Katharine Hepburn, Ann Richards, Molly Ivins
22. What are your favourite names? Emma, Molly, Shannon, Lily, Will, Eli, Jake, Mark
23. What is it that you most dislike? Ignorance
24. What historical character do you most despise? George W. Bush
25. What event in military history do you most admire? I don't admire events in military history. I am a true pacifist.
26. What reform do you most admire? The Civil Rights Movement in this country
27. What natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to sing like an angel
28. How would you like to die? While walking briskly outside in a cool breeze at the age of 95.
29. What is your present state of mind? Calm
30. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? Gluttony and lust
31. What is your motto? Never expect anything. At best, you'll be pleasantly surprised, and at worst, you'll be validated.