1. If you could paint each room in your house a different color, what colors would you paint them?
Living room: old brick, Bedroom: Salem or Sherwood green, kitchen: Goldenrod or shooting star yellow, Bath: Danube blue
2. If, for the good of mankind, you could reverse one scientific discovery, what would you choose?
Stop the development of nuclear weapons.
3.When was the time in your life when you felt the most repressed?
Right now.
4.When you were ten years old, how did you spend your free time?
That was nearly 38 years ago! Playing cowboy, playing with my toy cowboys and Indians, dolls, cars and trucks, exploring the woods, fishing, swimming, berry picking, building tree forts or snow forts, 3.reading, playing ball and board games with my sister and the other kids on or street, listening to records/the radio, tobogganing, sliding down grassy hills on flat pieces of cardboard, picking flowers, riding bikes, just hanging out with the other kids at each other's houses or around our yards, just talking about stuff.
5.What musical piece(s) make(s) you feel contemplative?
Chopin's Sonata #2, Ashokan Farewell by
Jay Unger, and A Time Ago, by Gary Remal Malkin.
6.Name three experiences that have strengthened your character in a positive way.
.Being talking into taking a couple of very basic acting classes at my community college, my first trip overseas to the Neatherlands/Iceland, volunteering at two handicaped riding programmes (mainly assisting developmentally disabled.)
7.What is the most disgusting thing you've ever had in your mouth?
I once slipped on some icy snow, while pushing my fully loaded wheelbarrow up the ramp leading to the manure spreader, and fell in--face down...thankfully it was 11 degrees below zero, F, so a lot of the stuff was frozen already.
8. Assuming you had one, what's the name of your most favourite pet, or if you've never had a pet, your favourite toy as a child?
dogs: my half-Scottish collie, Shamrock. Cats: tie between my former cat Red, and a little ginger cat I had in the 80's, named Jamie McCrimmon.
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PART II
1.What is the boldest thing you've ever done?
Choose to stay in a foreign city all by myself, while my classmates and professors went to Amsterdam for the weekend--I'd never even been out of my country--or even on a jet plane or inside an airport, two weeks before that.
2.What's the weirdest place you've ever visited?
An area known as the "combat zone" in Boston, in the mid-1980's. I particularly remember that there was this club called the "pussy-cat club" with a sign shaped like a cat--who was doing something rather...erm--rude, with it's tail.
3.What is the craziest thing you ever did as a child or teen?
My sister dared me to throw a mushroom puff-ball in this prissy older girl's face...turned out her mum came screaming at me, that it might be a poison mushroom, and was I nuts--gosh, at the time, I had no idea the things might be harmful (this one wasn't, it was fine)...but god! This girl's mum was a very uptight school teacher---she rang my mum, my mum gave me a spanking and made me apologize...what a bunch of palaver for a dare--and my sister got a larf out of it, and got off scot-free.
4. If you were in need of emotional refuge, where would you go?
The woods, fields or beside the water. Somewhere quiet.
5.What is your favorite sounds?
The wind soughing through hemlock or pine boughs--or perhaps the sound of a merry brook or cascade, or waves against the shore...and, yes, the Doctor Who opening theme. 
6.Who is the best-dressed person you know?
There's this girl at work named Jen who wears really cool and unusual outfits
7.When was the last time you cried and why?
The other day I was missing my old cat, Red, who I put to sleep when he was 18, in Nov. of 2006. He was with me literally from the second he was born. He stayed by me through the good times and bad, he loved me sooo-much, and I still very much love him.
8.When you were a child, was there something you looked forward to doing when you grew up? What is it, and have you done it?
.All through my childhood, I looked forward to being grown up, so I could go horseback riding whenever I wanted to...didn't quite work out that way. By the time I grew up, our version of health and safety changed the rules for safe riding--requiring insurance, thereby causing places to raise the prices from $10 to $15 dollars an hour, to $25 an hour or more. I finally had a job and my own transport...but no money to ride with. 
9.If you had a guardian angel, what would you name it?
Fred. It's short and easy to say.
10.What have you done in the past week to help someone else?
.I loaned some kid on the street, 50 cents to use a pay phone, gave $1 to the Red Cross disaster relief fund. Don't know if either of those really counts as "helping," though.
11.What makes you laugh?
Lots of things, my cats, Dr Who sometimes, stuff I read on blogs and online, things like that. slapstick humour, dry humour, a minimal amount of crude humour--in very tiny doses, unexpected humour.
12.What is the biggest surprise you've ever had?
On my 19th birthday--a Sunday that year, I went out for my usual Sunday hike--mum told me they were going to take me out to dinner that night, to celebrate my birthday--when I got back, my sister and her fiance (now her ex) were there, and sis and mum had decorated a special cake, and gave me my first ever (and only, actually) surprise party. It was really cool, I'll treasure the memory always.
13.With which person from history would you choose to change places?
If I could change places with anyone? Wow, tall order. I assume it would have to be a woman, so I'd say Rosa Parks--that lady had a lot of guts, and she changed a country with one simple act of civil disobedence, by refusing to sit at the back of the bus. However, if gender doesn't matter, I'd have liked to be Henry David Thoreau, at Walden Pond.
14.What is the worst experience you have ever had in a car?
Mum's feral--but domesticated--ginger cat, Julius Claudius Augustus Caesar (my Bonnie Prince Charilie's and Boot's dad), got hit by a car crossing the road, and I had to take him to the vet, to be put down, he was internally injured and litterly screamed in pain all the way--the longest 20 minute drive I ever had. Which is WHY I don't let my cats outside, any longer!
15. What instruments did you have to take lessons on, as a child?
Recorder, cello, guitar.
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PART III
1.In a religious sense, what was your most spiritual moment--if you're not religious, what was your most serene moment?
This is gonna' sound weird. One year, during Christmas eve service at the Presbyterian church, they dimmed the lights and had a candlelight service. As part of the service, the minister did a "candle creche." Where he quietly tells the story of the birth of Jesus, by the lighting and extinguishing of candles--each candle representing a figure in the story....until one candle is left--that of "Jesus." The minister then lights a small hand-held candle with the "Jesus" candle, and that light is passed from person to person, each holding their own candle. When all the candles were lit, we sat in total silence, praying silently, as the organ very, very softly played, "silent night." For just an instant, something odd happened. I felt a glow inside me...it was a peaceful, joyous glow, such as I'd never felt--before or, sadly, since. It lasted for about three or five minutes, then gradually melted away...it felt so loving and serene...was it the "spirit of Jesus?" Was it just a momentary "natural high?" I've no idea. In fact, this is the first time I've ever told anyone, ever.
2.Name one fun thing you did in the last ten years, that you'd never thought you'd do before--and that you'd like to try doing again.
Went sailing on a real Friesian sailboat one weekend, in Heeg on our college seminar trip. Fantastic! I'd do it again, in a heartbeat--especially sailing in a moderate gale, that was way cool!
3.Talent show tonight!! Give us a preview of your act.
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4.What is the hardest test you've ever taken?
My college "topics in chemistry" final--OMG!
5.What one possession would you like to take with you to heaven (or equivalent)?
My mum's picture--of if she's where I am, then my George Hoose painting I've had since I was 7--the only thing I own from my childhood.
