| 1. What is your greatest fear? |
going blind |
| 2. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? |
Intolerance |
| 3. What is your greatest extravagance? |
throwing away half-used bars of expensive soap |
| 4. What is your favorite journey? |
Drive to Skylark for lunch |
| 5. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? |
Absolute certainty that you're right |
| 6. What do you dislke most about your appearance? |
My body suits me fairly well--I don't have to look at it. Ask somebody else. |
| 7. Which living person do you most despise? |
Anybody named Bush |
| 8. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? |
"Hide and watch" |
| 9. What or who is the greatest love of your live? |
Art Greene |
| 10. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? |
Jack Aubrey |
| 11. What do you consider your greatest achievement? |
Starting the research lab at the FBI (well, I helped.) |
| 12. What is your most treasured possession? |
My great-grandmother's silver coffee service. |
| 13. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? |
Snowed in and out of cat food |
| 14. Where would you like to live? |
Downtown Charlottesville |
| 15. Who are your favorite writers? |
Jane Austen, Nevil Shute, John MacDonald |
| 16. Who are your heroes in real life? |
Madame Curie, Queen Elizabeth II, Thomas Jefferson, Nelson Mandela |
| 17. How would you like to die? |
in my own bed, under Hospice care |
| 18. What is your motto? |
"Tout s'arrangera" |
| 19. What is it that you most dislike? |
Brussels sprouts, boring people |
| 20. What is your greatest regret? |
not spending more time with my mother before it was too late. |
| 21. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think
it would be? |
I don't know what it might be, but I'd LIKE it to be a Siamese cat. |
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