1. Name three classes you would take if you could return to college and study things you never got around to before:
French, Sociology and Dance
2. Point out one platform or policy item in which you differ from the political party you generally support:
Protecting the environment - but intelligently and reasonably. I'm not angry or Greenpeace-y about it.
3.A boy’s name and a girl’s name that you never used to like, but do now:
Jasper, Daisy
4. What is your favorite bird?
Blue jay - they remind me of living in Brookings, Oregon when I was little
5. Doctor’s office waiting room: Do you pick up “People” or “US News and World Report”?
It depends who is on the cover; both appeal equally.
6. If you could spend a season each in four places around the world, where would you choose, and which season?
Summer in the UK; Autumn in Logan, Utah; Winter in Key Largo; Spring in Paris
7. What’s the most demeaning thing that anyone has ever said to you during your working life?
"We're going to have to let you go." It only happened once, but it was enough to scar me for life.
8. Cary Grant, James Stewart or Robert Mitchum? OR Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn or Jean Arthur?
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. (Can I do both?)
9. A food you despise but wish that you liked and vice versa:
I love almost everything, and the things I don't like, it's with good reason. Eggplant, shellfish, organ/weird meats like tongue... I have no desire to like any of these foods. I wish I didn't like cheese so much - any kind.
10. Worst teacher ever, and why:
I won't mention him by name, but he taught geometry at KHS and was also the varsity baseball team coach. He'd spend ten minutes teaching the proofs, and the other thirty-five minutes talking sports with the jock in the front row. I didn't do well in that class.
11. What disco/dance song makes you shake your groove thing, despite your best intentions to resist it?
I never try to resist it. :) Currently it's Tavares' "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel."
12. You are going somewhere where there will be people you haven’t seen in years. You will be standing for quite some time. Shoes: comfortable, or with pizzazz?
Comfortable AND with pizzazz.
13. Notion of a perfect day in ‘the retirement years’:
Being with my daughters or daughters-in-law when they give birth to my grandbabies
14. Let’s Make a Deal: Which door would you pick? Would it be the right one?
I don't know, Door #2? It probably wouldn't be the right one - I'd get the donkey or the giant rocking chair. Oh well, I can always eBay them.
15. Name three pretentious, ostentatious and/or seemingly pretentious, ostentatious things that you’ll confess to having a hankering for now and again or more often than that:
Brie, classical music, and a good lecture or presentation about some historical event.
16. Which nationality or ethnicity do you think you have a little of by osmosis, even if it is not part of your genetic components?
Ooooh, good one. I'd have to go with Jewish/Yiddish because I like the way they sound when they talk, their food rocks, and they're hardy. The stuff they've been through... I hope I'd be strong enough to endure all of it.
17. Name an over-rated painter, writer and actor:
Picasso, Jane Austen (sorry, I just can't get into her stuff), and Tom Cruise
18. What is better: finding a $20 bill in the pocket of a pair of pants you haven’t worn in a couple of years, or that one sixty-two degree day that you get in the middle of February every so often?
THE CASH BABY
19. If you could say anything to your teenage self, what would it be?
Mine would be a list of dos and don'ts: Don't date that guy, don't listen to your idiot feminist teacher and the other idiot feminists around you, do think more positively about yourself, and do realize you'll get through the hard times with happiness waiting for you on the other side.
20.Teal, turquoise, tan or taupe?
Taupe, but only as an outside paint color.
21. Three least favorite letters of the alphabet:
Q, X, and Z - horrible to get when playing Scrabble.
22. At the fork in the road, do you stop and mull it over, or do you tentatively head down one way knowing you can always backtrack, or do you decisively plunge forward?
It depends on the fork. Sometimes I mull, but more often I plunge. Plunging is my favorite.