1.What is your idea of perfect happiness?

i have no conception of perfect happiness. i don't believe in it. i could not begin to define it.

2.What is your greatest fear?

not being in control of my own body or my own mind

3.What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

impatience

4.What is the trait you most deplore in others?

meanness

5.Which living person do you most admire?

one? i have to name ONE? and since nobody is perfect, i admire different people for different reasons. no, cannot do it.

6.What is your greatest extravagance?

lox

7.What is your current state of mind?

annoyed not to have received a phone call i am awaiting, and am running out of time to receive

8.What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

i don't even understand the question. if it is really a virtue, how can it be overrated?

9.On what occasion do you lie?

when my physical survival depends on it.

10.What do you most dislike about your appearance?

almost everything. i still have pretty good hair though.

11.Which living person do you most despise?

it's a toss-up among so many republicans. trump and mcconnell are at the top of the list but there are others.

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

honesty

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

honesty

14.Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

fuck

15.What or who is the greatest love of your life?

richard

16.When and where were you happiest?

when i was editing my final project for a filmmaking class

17.Which talent would you most like to have?

i'd love to have courage.

18.If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

only one? so much to change.

19.What do you consider your greatest achievement?

helping one of my students find his life's passion by introducing him to horses

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

myself, with everything i already know and all my memories but none of my fears. money wouldn't hurt either.

21.Where would you most like to live?

new york city

22.What is your most treasured possession?

i cannot respond.

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

being on a gurney, about to have surgery, a needle in my wrist, and horrible music in the background, and hearing, as i pass out, the doctor say "oops"

24.What is your favorite occupation?

ethnomusicologist and film director

25.What is your most marked characteristic?

i don't even understand the question.

26.What do you most value in your friends?

something different in each friend

27.Who are your favorite writers?

way too many to list. honestly.

28.Who is your hero of fiction?

penelope

29.Which historical figure do you most identify with?

i don't identify with any. i admire hypatia.

30.Who are your heroes in real life?

i don't have heroes.

31.What are your favorite names?

for whom or what?

32.What is it that you most dislike?

meanness

33.What is your greatest regret?

mortality

34.How would you like to die?

never

35.What is your motto?

i have no motto. i refuse to have a motto.

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