Proust's Questionnaire Revisited

1. What is your favorite word?
I have many..but I love cantankerous and margarita the best...

2. What is your least favorite word?
Can't

3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Passion

4. What turns you off?
Loud, loud people, loud noises..LOUD - hate it..

5. What is your favorite curse word?
Jackass

6. What sound or noise do you love?
The ocean

7. What sound or noise do you hate?
I hate the repetitive computer generated background noise of video games

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
I think I would like to be Queen of a small island nation

9. What profession would you not like to do?
I have absolutely no interest in livestock, so dairy farmer, cattle rancher, any other manure related jobs would be pure hell. & Just added today: Baby Photographer

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
"Come on in, we've been waiting for you, the bar is to left"

11. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being unable to care for onself

12. Where would you like to live?
On an island, deserted except for a coffee plantion, a "packy", a great yarn shop, a book store and a UPS location for all my online purchases. Oh, and preferably where there isn't a hurricane season.

13. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
The joy of a beautiful sunrise to begin my day and the fire of a sunset to end it.

14. What is your greatest indulgence?
Eating and drinking WELL

15. Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Strong women - of the Jane Austen variety...

16. Who are your favorite historical figures?
The people who dare to be FIRST.

17. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Susan Butcher

18. Your favorite painter?
LOL - I love watching Bob Ross on PBS... "happy little clouds"....I love Camille Pissarro's Impressionistic work

19. Your favorite musician?
YoYo Ma

20. The quality you most admire in a man?
Loyalty

21. The quality you most admire in a woman?
Honesty

22. Your favorite virtue?
50/50 between Hope and Justice

23. Your favorite sin?
Lust (but of course..;)

24. Who would you have liked to be?
Any of the astronauts who first orbited the earth

25. Your most marked characteristic?
My blatant honesty

26. What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty

27. What is your principle defect?
See question #25

28. What is your favorite occupation?
Knitter

29. What is your dream of happiness?
For everyone to have peace in their hearts, thus, I would hope, peace in the world

30. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To lose any of my 5 senses

31. In what country would you like to live?
Italy

32. What is your favorite color?
Yellow

33. Who are your favorite composers?
Mozart

34. What are your favorite names?
Anna, Eric, Justin. Virginia, Charles, Marshall and Charlotte.

35. What is it you most dislike?
Liars

36. What historical figures do you most despise?
Those who prey on the weak, and exploit their power over others - Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein...

37. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Any of the visual arts, sculpting, painting, drawing..

38. How would you like to die?
With a drink in my hand, on the beach at sunset, positive that the time is right, & that my work here is done.

39. What is your present state of mind?
Content

40. What is your motto?
"Remain calm"