Since I'm in a confiding sort of mood these days, here are my answers to one version of the famous questionnaire (found here):
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being able to use my time as I please (hint: it involves reading).
What is your greatest fear?
Fire; one of my aunts went through multiple apartment fires when I was younger, and it completely traumatised me.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Relying on other people's judgment.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Hypocrisy.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Tea (since books couldn't possibly be seen as an extravagance!).
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Extroversion.
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Intelligence.
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Intelligence.
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
"There's only way to find out", "idiot", "seriously?"
Which talent would you most like to have?
Being able to draw.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Becoming my own person.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A cat.
Where would you most like to live?
In an isolated little cabin in the woods, near a river.
What is your most treasured possession?
My mind.
What is your most marked characteristic?
My short stature.
What do you most value in your friends?
Genuineness.
Who are your favourite writers?
Jane Austen, Patrick O'Brian, David Mitchell, Simone de Beauvoir, Ian Rankin.
Who is your hero of fiction?
Jane Eyre.
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Winston Churchill. But seriously, I have no idea.
What is it that you most dislike?
Lack of consideration from people who live as though they were alone in the middle of nowhere.
What is your greatest regret?
Not continuing to write as I did in high school.
How would you like to die?
Sitting in a comfortable chair, under a tree, just after reading the last line from David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas.
What is your motto?
Professionally, it's :"Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine." Personally, I don't have one... yet.
