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The below Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one’s personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust.

What is your current state of mind?
 Content.

What is your greatest fear?
Sharks (specifically the Great White).

What or who is the greatest love of your life?
 My beautiful wife Lisa and my adorable step-daughter Natalie.

What is your most marked characteristic?
 My red hair and ruddy complexion.

What do you most value in your friends?
 Consistency.

Which talent would you most like to have?
 To hit a golf ball like Tiger Woods (without the cocktail waitress fetish).

Who are your favorite writers?
 Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Dr. Seuss, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, Khaled Hosseini, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Salman Rushdie, Stephen King

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
 Curled up on the couch on Christmas Eve with popcorn and hot chocolate watching Home Alone with Lisa and Natalie listening to Natalie laugh uncontrollably (as only a child can) when the Wet Bandits fall prey to Kevin’s (Macaulay Culkin) booby traps.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
 Cynicism.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
 Dishonesty.

What is your greatest extravagance?
I have been an ardent U2 fan since the early 90’s which has resulted in me accumulating over 300 U2 albums, singles, and bootlegs .

What is the quality you most like in a man?
Respect.

What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Confidence.

Which living person do you most despise?
While there are plenty of folks I find unappealing, I despise no living person.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Nothing.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Losing a loved one.

What is your favorite occupation?
Any occupation that offers challenge at the beginning, education in the middle and the satisfaction of a job well done at the end.

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and Tom Sawyer.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
“Cool”

When and where were you happiest?
Unexpectedly receiving an NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) for Christmas in the mid-80’s. My brothers and I liked to guess what our gifts were prior to opening them so our parents wrapped a brick with a note instructing us to go upstairs where the NES was hidden. Never saw it coming…

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Trying to be a good husband and father (work in progress).

Where would you like to live?
Where I live now, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland, Canada.

What is your most treasured possession?
Memories.

Who are your heroes in real life?
My Mom and Dad.

What is it that you most dislike?
Tailgaters (I selflessly try to re-educate them by unexpectedly braking but it’s a thankless profession).

If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
Unquestionably…a catfish.

What is your greatest regret?
Not using what I have been undeservedly given in life to help those that are in need.

How would you like to die?
Before my loved ones.

What is your motto?
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been.” – Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier