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• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
  To be without my family and closest friends
  
• Where would you like to live?
  Wherever there is hope.  And very large burritos.
  
• What is your idea of earthly happiness?
  To bask in the warm glow of the home hearth.  Possibly nekkid, with my wife...and maybe some wine.
  
• To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
  Gluttony...or sloth--if I'm too lazy to go get some large burritos.
  
• Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
  Sisyphus, Arthur Dent, Holly Martins, Quentin Compson III
  
• Who are your favorite characters in history?
  William Wallace, Thomas Jefferson, Gandhi
  
• Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
  Emma Peel, Buffy, Scully, Ripley...hmmm, I guess I don't read many feminist-driven books.
  
• Your favorite painter?
  Nobody ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole.
  
• Your favorite musician?
  Johnny Cash
  
• The quality you most admire in a man?
  A well-trimmed 'stache.
  
• The quality you most admire in a woman?
  Independence mixed with wanton neediness.
  
• Your favorite virtue?
  HUMOR
  
• Who would you have liked to be?

Groucho Marx

• What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
  A life without laughter
  
• What would you like to be?
  The man that my wife deserves, the father that my daughter cherishes, and the creative nutball that makes me laugh at my own jokes.
  
• In what country would you like to live?
  Freedonia, "Land of the Spree, and the Home of the Knave"
• What is your favorite color?
  Blue, but as I'm getting older, it's inching toward black...I don't really know what that means.
  
• What is your favorite flower?
  The crocus. Spring has arrived.
  
• What is your favorite bird?
  The Grey Goose or the Wild Turkey.
  
• Who are your favorite prose writers?
  Vonnegut, Camus, Kafka, Greene, Faulkner, Walker Percy, Douglas Adams, Haruki Murakami, Neil Gaiman, Richard Brautigan, Flannery O'Connor, Julio Cortazar, Annie Dillard, Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges...others.
  
• Who are your favorite poets?

Shelley, Keats, Tom Waits

• What natural gift would you most like to possess?
  Fitness
  
• How would you like to die?
  Remembered...perhaps even missed.
  
• What is your present state of mind?
  Relaxed, but vigilant.
  
• What is your motto?

Patience comes to those who wait.

• What do you most value in your friends?
  Honesty and forgiveness
  
• What is your principle defect?
  Not being able to finish thing...
  
• What is your favorite occupation?
  Fishmonging
  
• What is your dream of happiness?
  To come to terms with exactly who I am and to uncover exactly what I am capable of accomplishing.

What about me?, originally uploaded by sepultura.

Mom always did like you best.

What other names did your parents consider for you?

If I were a girl, Stacy.
Also, the first choice for my boy name was Grayson, and my mother intended to call me "Sonny" (ugh). Luckily, while she kept the "son" ending, "Sonny" never stuck.

From Susan Jeffers' "Feel the Fear...and Do It Anyway":

• The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow.

If I keep trying new things, pushing my boundaries, I'll always run into something new to fear. This is good. I want to learn and grow.

• The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.

I won't wait until I no longer fear something to go out and do it, because the fear won't go away unless I do it.

• The only way to feel better about myself is to go out...and do it.

I won't feel better about myself until I get over the fear and do what I say I could be capable of.

• Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I'm on unfamiliar territory, so is everyone else.

Life's an adventure. No one else knows what to expect around the next bend.

• Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

Wondering what I will do if the status quo breaks down will freeze me into inaction and helplessness. Knowing that I can handle whatever comes next after I make an action will enable me to live with power.

If a waiter stopped by right now to take your order, what cocktail or drink are you having?

Well, it's not even yet 9 in the morning, but I could really use a stiff drink. Since we're imaging the waiter anyway, let's say that we're also in New Orleans, and I'm having a long, leisurely breakfast (before going into work for a couple of hours and then heading back out for a Friday "lunch"). In which case, maybe I'm having a Bourbon Milk Punch.

Wouldn't you like to be a new patriot too?

What websites do you visit every day?
Submitted by Chez Michelle.

Metafilter, BoingBoing, MSNBC, ESPN, iGoogle...yup, that's pretty much it for everyday sites.