The best thing about Charlottesville is: it is very cosmopolitan with great restaurants, theater, and country roads minutes away yet is within easy drive to beaches and sailing on Chesapeake, the splendor of the mountains and capitol cities of Richmond and Washington: the best of everything in Virginia (hospital, Univ. of VA,charities actually helping people, etc.

The worst thing about Charlottesville is: Traffic, cost of living going up too fast, dopey politicians spending too much on nonsense (the Omni fiasco, $3million for new mall bricks that seem the same as before???) and fighting progress (Park St. extension & bypass),bad newspaper & local TV, etc.

My radio dial is usually tuned to? NPR radio during AM & PM rush hour drives and NPR talk radio during the day. Rush and Glen fanaticism have turned me off AM radio totally except for UVA sports.

If you are about to enter a room full of total strangers, what song would you want played to accompany your entrance? Hail to the Chief, then "Get your motor runnin'...Get out on the Hiway....etc at full blast

Two books that everyone should read are: The Bible (New Living version) and The Complete works of Mark Twain or Dumas Malone's six volumes on life of Jefferson (if 7 is OK to take along)

One thing people are surprised to find out about me is: I am basically shy and have to take a big breath before speaking in public (nobody believes this but it is true)

Quote a line from your favorite movie. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" (big intake of breath by movie audience on hearing this curse word).

Thomas Jefferson makes me: Jealous..... that any human being could do so much in any one ordinary day, and have accomplished so much by the time he was 33 years old, and partied so hard that he died broke at a ripe old age without spending one day in jail!

When someone cuts me off on the road, I usually: Am ready to flip the bird until I see how big he is, and if there are more than 2 big guys, and if there is a rifle rack in the rear window of his battered pickup, and make sure I realize where I am driving if in NC, Ga, Tenn, or anywhere close to resembling the Deliverance movie setting.

Name three things you shouldn't have eaten. Sushi of any kind, Indian food of any kind, and Biscuits 'N Gravy in Texas (pork grease & flour tastes good to some people???)

I'm an open-minded person, but talking endlessly is a deal-breaker.

Design your ideal mate: the brain of Einstein and the body of Marilyn Monroe

People say my brains & assuredness is my best feature.

The first section I turn to in the Hook is current events

The quickest way to my heart is great food The quickest way to my bed is we'll have to see And in the morning, I like my eggs cooked over easy

The last concert I attended was Nutcracker ballet

My favorite cartoon as a kid was Tom & Jerry

Crozet arts & crafts is my favorite local festival.

I wouldn't sell my grandkids for a billion dollars.

Van Johnson is the celebrity I've been told I resemble.

Prospect Hill Inn is my favorite restaurant.

The Corner or Downtown Mall

Blockbuster or Sneak Reviews

Best Buy or Sidetracks

Wireless or Landline

CD or MP3

Summer or Winter

Ben n Jerry's or Splendora's

Black or Brown

Bars or Stay Home

PC or Mac

Steak or Salad

Steak or Sushi

Cavaliers or Redskins

Casket or Cremation

Fax or Email

Dyed or Natural

Beach or Mountains

SUV or Sedan