THE GUARDIAN Q&A Please answer a minimum of thirty-five questions, including the first two and last two. Where the question demands a yes or no answer, perhaps you would be kind enough to expand on your response.
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? A big mug of hot tea, a warm fire and a good book I'v never read.
2. What is your greatest fear? Never finding out what I want to do with my life, or chosing the wrong thing
3. Which living person do you most admire and why? Probably... okay, I really have no idea
4. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I have a temper and tend to go too far at times.
5. What is the trait you most deplore in others? People using faith as an excuse to be an asshole and put down others.
6. What has been your most embarrassing moment? At my aunts wedding, I was the flower girl and my cousins tossed me in a swamp
7. What vehicles do you own? A pontiac wave. That's it.
8. What is your greatest extravagance? Tossup between the book collections and the DVD collections. I adore the written and spoken and performed word and spend ridiculous amounts of money to feed my addiction
9. What is your most treasured possession? Probably my compy. That thing kicks ass, no matter what horrible things I put it through
10. Where would you like to live? Either in BC or the UK, I wouldn't mind Toronto for a few years first though
11. What makes you depressed? Silence. I have to have some kind of backround noise or my own thoughts tend to get rather grim.
12. What do you most dislike about your appearance? I'm pale enough to be used as a nightlight
13. Who would play you in a movie of your life? I have absolutely no idea, probably an actress who play more off-beat parts like Sandra Bullock
14. What is your most unappealing habit? Drinking massive amounts of caffeine and then crashing suddenly in the middle of a movie
15. What is your favourite smell? Oranges (the type you eat), fresh green tea and pumpkin pie
16. What is your favourite word? Bugger - just out of longstanding habit, it's my stand-by when I'm frustrated
17. What is your favourite book? Toss-up between the Lord of the Rings, the Chronicles of Narnia, and the Complere Works of William Shakespeare
18. What is your fancy dress costume of choice? Geisha or harlot probably, they get the best costumes
19. Radiator or air conditioning? Radiator, I'd rather roast than freeze any day
20. Cat or dog? Argh, can't decide. i love cats for elegance but dogs are just FUN!
21. Is it better to give or to receive? Give, I love buying people resents and things and seeing their faces when they get them.
22. What is your guiltiest pleasure? Fanfiction. I'm such a horrible little ficcer
24. To whom would you most like to say sorry and why? Someone whom I haven't seen in a long long time, but still can't believe I was such an ass. (No names, sorry)
25. What or who is the greatest love of your life? Books. I'd go mad without stories
26. Which living person do you most despise and why? Probably my grandmother, horrible old bat that she is
27. Have you ever said "I love you" without meaning it? Not in the sense of Romantic love, but in conversations, and joking around and shitr like that, yes.
28. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Bugger, thingy, corpsified, vive le france!
29. What has been your biggest disappointment? Probably guys in general. I went to private school and always figured that guys were a big deal, but now I'm more likely to be friends with a guy than like them in a romantic sense.
30. What is your greatest regret? Not taking the time to enjoy it when I went travelling as a kid
31. When and where were you happiest? Probably my last 2 years of high school, great friends and alot of fun classes and some great memories
32. When did you last cry, and why? actual all out tears for more than 5 minutes? 2 years ago for reasons that are none of anyone's business
33. How do you relax? Read something, anything really, and listen to music. Either that or play with my dog, nothing more relaxing than trying to wrestle a 90 pound ball of fluff and energy into submission.
36. What single thing would improve the quality of your life? Probably a better job....
37. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Bit too young to really say I've ever achieved anything of signifigance
38. What keeps you awake at night? Boredom. Seriously, I have to think and tell myself stories and work on plans and shit before I can fall asleep
39. What song would you like played at your funeral? Probably something like "The Night That Pat Murphy Died" by the great big sea, and that song is how I want my funeral to be by the way
40. How would you like to be remembered? As a good person, I don't really care if I make anything big of myself as long as I turn out to be a decent human being
41. What is the most important lesson life has taught you? NEVER give up a chance to go somewhere new and take on a new experience, cause you'll always wonder.