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I got this meme from dargie. It's sort of rambling, but has its moments.

THE LETTER A:
Are you available?: For what? (Suddenly Rose Tyler comes to mind. Probably if I was talking to Captain Jack I'd say, "Very." With or without psychic paper.)
What is your age?: 54.
What annoys you?: Slow traffic, ads on TV, pessimism, pill bottles that are hard to open. Slow lines in the supermarket or bank. People who think they are always right. People who bully children. Children who bully children. How long a list do you want? Should I add capitalism, commercialism, war, terrorism, and the common cold?

THE LETTER B:
Do you live in a big house?: No
When is your birthday?: Sept. 24
Who is your best friend? I love all my friends. Equally? No, but I don't have them stacked up for degrees of favouritism.

THE LETTER C:
What's your favorite candy?: I am so accustomed to telling myself I shouldn't eat candy that the question is perplexing. My favourite candy ever is something my mother used to make at Christmastime, called Maple Cream. It wasn't a fudge, but butterscotch-flavoured fudge is the closest I can think of in style. I have never succeeded in making it properly - the recipe was in her head, and she's been dead for decades, so I'll never taste that candy again. I'll also never forget how it tasted.
Who's your crush?: I like to think I don't have crushes: I don't really like the word of the concept, which I find denigrating. My current greatest fannish loves are Captain Jack Harkness and the Doctor.
When was the last time you cried? When I watched the Doctor Who episode "Doomsday" about 10 days ago.

THE LETTER D:
Do you daydream?: Another word I don't much like, but yes.
What's your favorite kind of dog?: Lurcher.
What day of the week is it?: Belgium? Is that a test question to see whether I have Alzheimer's or something?

THE LETTER E:
How do you like your eggs?: Sunny side up, with runny yolks and firm whites.
Have you ever been in the emergency room?: Yes.
What's the easiest thing ever to do? Is this a question about Existentialism? Zen? I'm not sure how to take it. There are a thousand paths of ease and a thousand of difficulty.

THE LETTER F:
Have you ever flown in a plane?: Yes. I love to travel. Too bad it's expensive. Too bad I'm poor.
Do you use fly swatters?: No, but not because of any deep moral revulsion concerning them.
Have you ever used a foghorn? Used one? No. I've heard them. Does that count?

THE LETTER G:
Do you chew gum?: Seldom. I never see the point.
Are you a giver or a taker?: That's like asking if I inhale or exhale. Balance. Balance is the key.
Do you like gummy candies?: You mean, like gummy bears and gummy worms? Yes. Preferably the kind without sugar.

THE LETTER H:
How are you?: Recovering from a virus. Alternating joy and fatigue. Coughing and trying not to.
What's your height?: 5' 4 1/2"
What colour is your hair?: Used to be blondish brown. Now it's brown and white and whatever colour I decide to dye it.

THE LETTER I:
What's your favourite ice cream?: Butterscotch Ripple, or Pralines'n'Cream, or some such variation. The best ever is Breyer's sugarless butterscotch ripple. I swoon to remember it.
Have you ever ice skated?: Yes, of course.
Would you live in an igloo? Why? If the Ice Age returned? I really can't think of any circumstances in which I would have the opportunity or the need to live in an igloo, but if it was the thing to do, sure, I could live in an igloo as well as anywhere. Why not? ...Well, aside from the fact that if the weather were cold enough for an igloo to exist, I'd probably rather be somewhere warmer.

THE LETTER J:
What's your favourite jelly bean?: Licorice.
Have you ever heard a really hilarious joke?: Yes. Hasn't everyone?
Do you wear jewellery?: Almost never. I have developed a disinclination to have anything metallic or stone on my body. These days the most I ever wear is a little pewter Dalek pin.

THE LETTER K:
Who do you want to kill?: Yeech! No one. I am a pacifist. Killing is a terrible act.
Do you want kids?: I did once, desperately. Now... I wish it had happened twenty-five years ago.
Where did you have kindergarten? Hilson Avenue Public School, at the corner of Richmond Road and Hilson Avenue, Ottawa.

THE LETTER L:
Are you laid back?: ...Sometimes. I don't really have a laid-back temperament.
Do you lie?: No. Sometimes I prevaricate, sometimes I refuse to answer questions, as necessary. I am trying to practise 'satya', the niyama of truthfulness. Honesty is an art and a grace, and it's important to me.
Have you ever been to London?: Yes. I lived there when I was a post-graduate student. It's one of my favourite places in the world.

THE LETTER M:
What's your favourite movie?: The Lord of the Rings
Do you still watch Disney movies?: I'm tempted to say "not if I can get out of it", but the truth is that I do, and quite like some of them - Pirates of the Caribbean, for example. The Three Lives of Thomasina is one of my favourite movies of all time.
What type of music you listen to?: John Barrowman. Andy Williams. Cole Porter. Songs from musicals. Opera, particularly Mozart, Bizet, Verdi and Leoncavallo. Baroque string quartets. Sting. Movie soundtracks. The Beatles. Queen. Murray Gold.

THE LETTER N:
Do you have a nickname?: Absolutely not.
Favourite number?: 2
Do you prefer night over day? No. I like both.

THE LETTER O:
What’s your one wish?: One wish? I only get one wish? How stingy is that? Okay, I wish I could easily master all my New Year's Resolutions.
Are you an only child?: Yes
Do you wish this was over?: No. If I did, I wouldn't be doing it. It's not as if anyone is forcing me to answer these questions.

THE LETTER P:
What one fear are you most paranoid about?: I like to think I'm not paranoid about anything. I worry about money.
Do you love the colour pink?: Not particularly.
Are you a perfectionist? I wish. Okay, I'm a perfectionist about my writing. Nothing else.

THE LETTER Q:
Are you quick to judge people? No. I don't think we should judge others. I think the world would be a much better place if we tried not to judge others. There are certainly people I don't like, but it's not usually because I judge them.
Do you wish you were a Queen?: Any particular queen? It might have been exciting to be Eleanor of Acquitaine and there are times I've wished I was Isabella of Jerusalem - her life was sad but I like her husbands.
Have you ever rode a quad? What's a quad?

THE LETTER R:
Do you think you're always right?: That would be nice, but no one is always right, or should be.
Do you watch reality TV: No. Okay, okay, so I watched How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria but it wasn't my fault, John Barrowman was in it, so I had to. And I regret nothing. Nothing!
What’s a good reason to cry?: Sorrow.

THE LETTER S:
Do you prefer sun or rain?: Sun, usually, particularly on a cool day.
Do you like snow?: Mixed feelings. Snow is beautiful, but it makes it difficult to walk, and complicates my life.
What's your favourite season? Autumn.

THE LETTER T:
What time is it?: The twenty-first century is when everything changes, and you gotta be ready.
What time did you wake up?: 6:44 a.m.
When was the last time you slept in a tent? Um... 1983?

THE LETTER U:
Do you own an umbrella?: Yes. One given to me by Lyn, a rather garish green thing. And I have one I am ridiculously in love with: a plain collapsable black umbrella with a wooden handle, that I bought at Boots in Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland in 1994 at a Dunnett Gathering. I didn't think I could last a week in Edinburgh without an umbrella. Turned out I could - but that umbrella is still my cherished souvenir of a great holiday.
Can you ride a unicycle?: No.
Have you ever said someone was ugly? No, of course not. I am much more likely to say people are beautiful, and that embarrasses them.

THE LETTER V:
What’s the worst veggie?: I don't like anything pickled. Otherwise... I can't think of a vegetable I don't like. There are some I've never tasted.
Where do you want to go on vacation?: Scotland, England and Italy, always - I've been to each more than once and would go again if only I had the chance. Places I haven't been but want to see: Greece, Sicily, Morocco. I used to say Persepolis, Macchu Picchu and Mohenjo-Daro but the state of the world makes them less appealing than they used to be. I'd love to go to Malta again, and Cape Breton Island, and other islands where I've never been - the Queen Charlotte Islands, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Iceland, Shetland, Bornholm, Crete.
Where was your last family vacation to? Family vacation? I don't have a family. The closest I ever came to having a family vacation was going to Boston with my father once, probably in the early 1970s.

THE LETTER W:
What's your worst habit?: Procrastination
Where do you live?: Ottawa, Ontario
Who's your hero?: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Julius Caesar. Henry II Plantagenet. Conrad of Montferrat. William Shakespeare. Emma Goldman. Gambit. Francis Crawford of Lymond. I have many, many heroes. That's just a few favourites. You can add Captain Jack and the Doctor to the list.

THE LETTER X:
Have you ever had an x-ray?: Yes, many times. Hasn't everyone?
Have you seen the x-games?: What are they?
Do you own a xylophone? I did once, as a kid. The tin keys were each a different bright colour. It was fun. I was probably three or four.

(Disappointing, to have x-questions but no X-Men or X-Files.)

THE LETTER Y:
Do you like the colour yellow?: I prefer not to wear it, but yes, I like it. I used to have a bedroom decorated in yellow floral wallpaper - I loved that room.
What year were you born in?: 1952
What’s one thing you yearn for?: Energy

THE LETTER Z:
What’s your zodiac sign?: Libra. The Dragon, in Chinese astrology.
Do you believe in the zodiac?: Don't you mean, do you believe in astrology? Of course I believe in the zodiac: it is a series of constellations that you can see in the night sky. Just look up. The question is, do the stars govern our fates? No. But I think our date and season of birth does have an effect on our personality, and I have think that astrology and other methods of divination (like tarot and the I Ching) can be valuable psychological tools.
What's your favourite zoo animal?: Pandas.