Meme time

From Lachlan

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being worry-free.

2. What is your greatest fear? My daughter will suffer like her father did.

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I'm not good at relationships. I'm aloof.

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? I deplore the sense of entitlement that so many people have. They claim to deserve all the good things in life, without doing what it takes to EARN those things.

5. Which living person do you most admire? Bill & Melinda Gates, because of things they are doing with their foundation.

6. What is your greatest extravagance? Alternative medicine.

7. What is your current state of mind? Positive about the future.

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Piety.

9. On what occasion do you lie? Whenever necessary.

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? Big belly. I lost 50 pounds last year and very little of that came off my belly.

11. Which living person do you most despise? Maggie Gallagher.

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

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

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Fuck.

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

16. When and where were you happiest? Now and here, in East Jesus of all places. I'm finally learning from my mistakes and reaping the benefits of that wisdom.

17. Which talent would you most like to have? Wish I could dance.

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? An improved me wouldn't have depression.

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? My daughter.

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

21. Where would you most like to live? My dream is to have a twenty-acre hobby farm somewhere in the VA/NC Blue Ridge Mountains.

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

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? A significant depressive episode.

24. What is your favorite occupation? The set-up I have now where I work at home on my own schedule.

25. What is your most marked characteristic? I have dimples.

26. What do you most value in your friends? They'll have my back when necessary.

27. Who are your favorite writers? Vladimir Nabokov.

28. Who is your hero of fiction? Dagny Taggart. She gave me the motivation to go to college, and that changed my life completely.

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Florence Nightingale. She's known for being a great nurse, but she was also a very good statistician.

30. Who are your heroes in real life? First-responders and our military.