I was watching Inside the Actors Studio today while the girls were napping. This is a show that I don’t often watch, but I had seen a commerical for it showing that Mike Myers was going to be the features guest. Of course Myers is known for his various characters from SNL, but I’ve been a fan of his since So I Married an Axe Murderer . HEAD! MOVE! If you haven’t seen it, Netflix it.

Anyway, James Lipton does his one-on-one interview and then wraps up the show with a questionnaire put to his guest. Lipton said the questionnaire was popularized by Bernard Pivot, some French TV personality. I did some googling and wiki searching. Lo and behold! Lipton’s questionnaire is an adaptation of a version of a questionnaire created by Marcel Proust. Basically, the questionnaire is believed to reveal the true nature of the person answering the questions. I was intrigued (obviously) and decided to find out a little more about myself, choosing another adapted list that is usually found in the back of Vanity Fair, plus a bonus question that I took from Lipton’s list. Take a look and learn something new about me. Take the questionnaire yourself and learn something new about you.

1. What is your current state of mind? Scattered, multi-tasking, forward thinking (about tomorrow’s list of “to-do’s”.

2. What is your greatest extravagance? Giving my children what I’ve had and/or better.

3. What is your greatest fear? To live my life with more regrets than gratitude.

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? An incorrigible sense of entitlement.

5. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Frugality.

6. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? To be more patient with myself and others.

7. What is the quality you most like in a man? A chivalrous nature.

8. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Non-competitiveness

9. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Scheisser (German for shit), Son of a goat!

10. Which talent would you most like to have? To be musically inclined with respect to singing and playing an instrument.

11. What or who is the greatest love of your life? The who would be DH, Mo and Co. The what has not yet been determined.

12. Where would you like to live? On a vineyard in the South of France.

13. What is your favorite occupation? Reading, photography, anything that allows me to be creative.

14. What is your most treasured possession? A typewritten account of her cruise to Bermuda with my grandmother written by my Great Aunt Marian, dated March, 1938.

15. Who are your favorite writers? William Golding, Audrey Niffenegger, David Sedaris, Roald Dahl, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, Ayelet Waldeman, Kahty Reichs, Augusten Burroughs, Elizabeth Berg,

16. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Paikea (Pai) Apirana from The Whale Rider.

17. Who are your heroes in real life? Anyone who has stepped outside of their comfort zone and learned from doing so.

18. What do you most value in your friends? Loyalty.

19. What is your most marked characteristic? Organization.

20. How would you like to die? Quickly, in as little pain as possible, and as a better woman than I am today.

21. What is your motto? Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Bonus: If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? There are five people I would like for you to meet.