I thought I would answer the quiz myself because I am a bit bored. There is nothing particular about it, just something I read every month. If you do a google search you can find a lot of interesting people along with their interesting answers.
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
With all due respect to my husband, a good book, a hot bath, and a small terrier curled up and napping on the bathroom rug.
2. What is your greatest fear?
That I will live an unlived life.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I am too chatty and get jealous too easily.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
I hate cockiness.
5. Which living person do you most admire?
As for people I know, my friends Ashley, Wyatt, and Bud. All of them are such achievers.
As for someone famous, Tina Fey seems like such the perfect woman.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
Flights between the US and Japan.
7. What is your current state of mind?
Sightly bored, slightly conceited (in that I think people will read this).
In the larger picture, I am pretty content at the moment but still feel as if things haven't quite gotten started yet.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Bravery
9. On what occasion do you lie?
Working with students and people of a foreign culture, I lie at work. All. the. Time.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My height and weight can't seem to strike a happy balance.
11. Which living person do you most despise?
Haha... For this I shall just stick to famous or infamous people. I would say the selfish Americans who make the US look ugly to other countries.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Humor and an easy-going nature.
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Humor and an easy-going nature.
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
like, In America..., anyway
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
As much as I would love to say Motoaki, I think books have been and will be with me longer.
16. When and where were you happiest?
I think the fall when I first met Motoaki and was living in Tsuyama with Eddie, Genesis, Gemma, Sanyu, Lauren, Andy, Ben, Lenny, etc There was such a feeling of fun and freedom that being an expat gives you.
Or spring semester of my first year at University.
Or being on the State 4-H council.
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
I wish I was better at languages and sports. Is having a photogenic memory a talent?
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I wish I was generally more considerate of others.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
So far, staying for the most part true to myself.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A hymn or a hymnal. Or a terrier (one of the fluffy ones). Or a book. Something daring that children would read hidden under their comforters with a flashlight and that adults would reread into their adult lives.
21. Where would you most like to live?
I am happy where I am at now, but if we had to move, Tsuyama, Des Moines, the Twin Cities, or Sydney.
22. What is your most treasured possession?
My mother's copy of Little Women, my Paul Frank quilt made by my grandmother, my United Methodist Hymnal.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Losing a loved one, the thought that there is a good chance my life is half way over or more than half way over.
24. What is your favorite occupation?
Teaching, although I would love to be a writer or dancer.
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
My voice- talking, singing, writing
26. What do you most value in your friends?
Their willingness to keep in touch despite distance and time. Their ability to selflessly meet and support me whenever I happen to be in the US. And their humor.
27. Who are your favorite writers?
As much as I love books, I am not as loyal to writers. My favorite books are Behind the Attic Wall, The Poisonwood Bible, As I Lay Dying, The Time Traveler's Wife, How the Garcia Girl's Lost Their Accents, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Baby-Sitter's Club, The American Girl series, Me Talk Pretty One Day
I do find that if I buy an Anita Shreve book, I will like it. The same goes for David Sedaris.
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
Huckleberry Finn, Peter Pan, Jo March, Curious George
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Arthur Hart-Synnot, from the book Sword and Blossom, and, in regards to his quote that "I cannot live without books," Thomas Jefferson. I was brought up to greatly admire Harry S. Truman and I do, but I can't say that I identify with him.
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
My grandmother(s), my mother, my aunt, my husband, my father, my friends.
31. What are your favorite names?
George, Robin, Truman, Fitch, Nora, Ella, and Jane
32. What is it that you most dislike?
People who complain or who can't take care of themselves. Sadly, that includes infants.
And centipedes and snakes.
33. What is your greatest regret?
I hope it isn't the decision to stay in Japan. There have been a lot of lost chances to say what I really felt or meant and too many chances where I said what I shouldn't have said.
34. How would you like to die?
In my sleep, in a warm room, old and ready.
35. What is your motto?
Don't walk in front of me, I might not follow. Don't walk behind me, I might not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Life's like a movie, write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending.
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