1. What is your idea of perfect happiness ?
I don't think perfect happiness exists; I prefer to be content with who and where I am.

2. What is your greatest fear ?
Abandonment

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself ?
I always have to know things, and I hate not having an answer. Not having an answer is as humiliating to me as showing up to work with no trousers on.

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others ?
Rushing to judgment, making assumptions, or accepting 'first impressions.'

5. Which living person do you most admire ?
My mother.

6. What is your greatest extravagance ?
I can't resist books; no matter how pinched for pennies I am.

7. What is your current state of mind ?
Fairly normal, but with an undercurrent of anxiety for tomorrow.

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue ?
Righteousness; it too often leads to self righteousness and blind judgment of others.

9. On what occasion do you lie ?
When something is not worth the fight.

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance ?
Being overweight.

11. Which living person do you most despise ?
Those who continue to deny their actions despite proof positive of their guilt.

12. What is the quality you most like in a man ?
Loyalty

13. What is the quality you most like in a woman ?
Loyalty

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse ?
The ones where I think I know something.

15. What or who is the greatest love of your life ?
My God, and my current husband.

16. When and where were you happiest ?
Happiness is fleeting, and always best viewed in retrospect. People rarely ever realize how happy they are in the present.

17. Which talent would you most like to have ?
Discernment, or knowing when people are lying.

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be ?
Being hyper critical of myself.

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement ?
Nothing. I have achieved nothing of worth.

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be ?
An Ent.

21. Where would you most like to live ?
Where I live now, but closer to family.

22. What is your most treasured possession ?
My computer.

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery ?
Self hatred.

24. What is your favorite occupation ?
Librarian.

25. What is your most marked characteristic ?
Intensity

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

27. Who are your favorite writers ?
Let me get back to you on that...there's a long list.
R. A. Salvatore, Robert Heinlein, and Anne McCaffrey among others.

28. Who is your hero of fiction ?
Drizzt Do'Urden from R. A. Salvatore's Hidden Realms worlds. He overcomes his birth into the violent and malicious Dark Elf race living deep within Earth to become the champion of the helpless in a topside world that is slowly killing him and frequently rejects him on sight.
Luka Crosszeria, or Brand Zess of the anime Betrayal Knows My Name.
He overcame his biology and upbringing for love.

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with ?
None, I haven't done anything with my life.

30. Who are your heroes in real life ?
My parents and my siblings.

31. What are your favorite names ?
Any with meaning.

32. What is it that you most dislike ?
Dishonesty in the face of the truth.

33. What is your greatest regret ?
Too numerous to mention.

34. How would you like to die ?
In place of someone else.

35. What is your motto ?
'Don't believe everything you see.' or
'Inside every cynic is a mortally wounded idealist.'