| Age |
32 |
| Height |
5'10" |
| Weight |
175 -- 33 times my weight at birth |
| Can bench press |
More |
| Hair |
Blond |
| Eyes |
Hazel |
| My best feature |
My deep voice -- people tell me all the time that I should be on the radio. |
| Favorite color |
Kelly green |
| Ancestry |
Norwegian & Swedish |
| Family |
Oldest of three |
| Religion |
Lutheran |
| Education |
University of Minnesota graduate |
| Favorite college professor |
Hy Berman |
| Greatest academic accomplishment |
Helping a professor write a textbook for a class I once didn't pass |
| Favorite grade in elementary school |
2nd |
| Least favorite subject in elementary school |
Art (Sorry, I like art now, but I was no good at making stuff out of paste and construction paper!) |
| Favorite childhood memory |
The summer when I was 8 -- I got away with so much! |
| Childhood awards |
Raised most money in reading contest, named best bicyclist by chief of police |
| Pet peeve |
People who give me awards and make me pay for the engraving |
| People who knew me in high school thought I was |
A good leader. They elected me student body president. |
| People who knew me in high school wouldn't believe I still |
Have my pep band jersey (I don't wear it though). |
| First date |
I was working on a political campaign and asked a co-worker to lunch. I still talk to her occasionally. (She's married, so don't worry!) |
| Best date I ever had |
Lasted three days |
| Worst date I ever had |
Getting ditched at the Ordway |
| Favorite way to impress a date |
I had an apartment in a church for a few years, and although I had my own entrance, on a first date, I always took her down the aisle and past the altar. |
| Favorite way to pamper someone special |
Sending her flowers at work |
| Most embarassing moment |
Asking a friend when her baby was due. She wasn't pregnant. |
| Favorite restaurant |
The Olive Garden |
| Favorite lunch spot |
Peter's Grill |
| Favorite fast food |
Jack in the Box ... none in Minnesota, darn it! |
| Favorite romantic dining spot |
The Rosewood Room |
| Favorite movies |
Being There, Top Hat, The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Favorite movie performers |
Jack Lemmon, Sandra Bullock, Harrison Ford |
| Favorite movie for a first date |
I try to avoid movies on first dates. |
| Best movies seen lately |
Air Force One, Ghost, My Best Friend's Wedding |
| Radio stations I listen to a lot |
WLTE-FM 103, KS-95, KSTP News Talk 1500, KLBB 1400 in the morning |
| Favorite music |
Popular standards from the 1910s to the 1990s |
| Favorite songs |
"Till the End of Time," "With a Song in My Heart," "I Just Called to Say I Love You" |
| Favorite singers |
Andy Williams, Tony Bennett, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Frank Sinatra. (OK, I listen to a lot of old stuff.) |
| Favorite rock group |
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (Am I getting in deeper here?) |
| Favorite classical composer |
Mendelssohn |
| Favorite popular composer |
Irving Berlin |
| Favorite musical |
Annie Get Your Gun |
| Favorite play |
You Can't Take It with You |
| Favorite TV show |
The Simpsons |
| All-time favorite TV shows |
Lou Grant, Get Smart, The Simpsons, The Bob Newhart Show, The Twilight Zone |
| But you won't catch me watching |
Married with Children, Roseanne |
| Most embarrasing TV habit |
I watched the soap opera Santa Barbara for almost six years. |
| Even my closest friends don't know I |
Shoo spiders instead of killing them |
| Favorite authors |
Gene Lees, Martin Mayer |
| Best book read lately |
O.J.: The Last Word by Gerry Spence |
| O.J. |
Did it |
| Favorite comedian |
Jack Benny |
| Favorite current comedian |
Paula Poundstone |
| Favorite local celebrity |
Don Fraser |
| Favorite walking lake |
Lake of the Isles |
| Favorite boating lake |
Minnetonka |
| Other lakes I like |
Superior, Tahoe, Mead |
| Favorite water sport |
Jet-skiing |
| Best place to get wet |
World Waterpark at West Edmonton
Mall |
| Favorite participatory sport |
Roller skating |
| Favorite spectator sport |
Baseball (but don't ask me the last time I've been to a game) |
| Least favorite spectator sport |
I hate football ... I never waste time watching it on TV. |
| Favorite secluded local spot |
Skygarden at the Northstar Hotel |
| A great date for me is |
Dinner at a nice restaurant after a concert |
| A great low-budget date for me is |
Ordering pizza in while watching movies on the VCR |
| A great weekend getaway is |
Flying to some other city and soaking up the atmosphere or just relaxing |
| Great cities for weekend getaways |
Chicago, Montreal, New York, L.A. |
| Least favorite city |
New Orleans |
| Great weekend drive |
Along the Mississippi River between Hastings and Wabasha |
| My approach to freeway driving |
I can make it to Chicago without stopping |
| Great places to experience the outdoors |
Death Valley, Banff, the North Shore of Lake Superior |
| My longest vacation lasted |
Two months |
| Favorite foreign country |
Canada |
| Countries I want to visit soon |
Norway, Belgium, Switzerland |
| Favorite shopping places |
Downtown Minneapolis, Eaton's in Winnipeg, and any Target |
| Favorite local shop |
The Minnesota store at the History Center |
| I go out of my way to shop at |
Record/CD stores. There are a couple of stores in L.A. and Chicago I really like, and I've been known to plan my trips there around their sales! |
| Best purchase |
My video camera -- adds a new dimension to my travels |
| Worst impulse buy |
A gallon of pickles from Sam's Club -- Why are all the jars so big? |
| Favorite pickle |
Gedney Crunchy Dills -- no garlic, please |
| Favorite dinners |
Corned beef and cabbage, pot roast, steak and potatoes |
| People wouldn't believe I cook |
My own fresh French fries |
| Favorite fruit |
Grapefruit |
| Favorite vegetables |
Tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers |
| Favorite pies |
Pumpkin, banana cream |
| Favorite drink |
Caffeine Free Dr Pepper |
| Favorite alcoholic drink |
I don't drink alcohol, except sacramental wine |
| Nuttiest habit |
Driving to St. Cloud to buy Caffeine Free Dr Pepper |
| Art on the walls of my apartment |
Picasso's Flowers, a print of Minnehaha Falls, and some paintings by my grandma |
| Photographs on the walls of my apartment |
Friends and family, and various photos of me posing with celebrities |
| Sculpture in my apartment |
Busts of Beethoven and Mozart and a statue of Bart Simpson (No lie! I bought it in Tijuana on my 29th birthday.) |
| Favorite practical joke |
Putting salt on people's papers when they're not looking |
| One way I save the earth |
Recycling pop cans -- I feel terrible whenever I throw one away. |
| On Internet since |
1993 |
| Number of people in other places I've met after corresponding over the Internet |
At least five |
| Most interesting encounter with someone met over the Internet |
Spent two days sightseeing in South Florida with a professor I correspond with and his wife |
| Best time of day |
I'm a night person. Talking to me before 10 AM is often not informative. |
| Words to describe me |
Sensitive, intelligent, romantic, honest, caring, thoughtful,
sensible, cheerful |
| Personal style |
I'm an introvert but can be extroverted when the situation calls for it |
| The woman I'm looking for would be described as |
Sensitive, intelligent, romantic, honest, caring, thoughtful,
sensible, cheerful -- the same words I used to describe myself -- and also
feminine |
| Something in a woman that really interests me |
A soft, sweet voice |
| I avoid women who are described as |
Wild, loud, dumb, crazy, domineering, obnoxious |
| If a woman is in tune with me she will |
Engage me in long conversations |
| If a woman is in tune with me she will never |
Use the word party as a verb |
| When I'm in a relationship with a woman we |
Make every moment we're together special |
| My communication style in a relationship |
I'm a great communicator. I'm very sensitive to what my person is feeling. |
| My 2nd favorite intimate encounter |
To cuddle and kiss in front of a fireplace |
| My favorite intimate encounter |
To cuddle and kiss without the fireplace |
| If you could accomplish one crazy stunt that would land you in the Guinness Book of World Records, what would it be? |
I'd like to be the first person to visit all the states in the order they joined the union. |
| What's your dream home? |
There's a design for a large French provincial house with a dark brick exterior that I've admired for a long time. I'd like a house with a lot of functional rooms. A large number of closets is nice too. |
| Do you believe in "love at first sight"? |
Yes, because the most successful relationships I've had were with those I was attracted to right away, although it would be an overstatement to call it "love" at first sight. |
| Do you have neat handwriting? |
That's a matter of taste. Academics and creative people tend to like my rather distinctive handwriting. People who like handwriting to resemble a penmanship book do not. |
| If men had babies instead of women, how would the world be different? |
That's a rather simplistic question, since women are defined as the gender which gives birth. |
| What do you do when you feel down? |
I call friends on the telephone. |
| The editors at Bartlett's Familiar Quotations want to include the quote you're most famous for. |
"Have you ever noticed that people who know a lot about cars usually don't know very much about anything else?" |
| Do you take good enough care of yourself? |
I think it's important to live a healthy lifestyle. I'd like to avoid disease and keep my body in good working condition for a very long time. |
| Are your "hunches" usually right? |
I find it hard to act one way when my intuition suggests another. I'm good at "soft-solving" problems and following through with good decisions. |
| You've just been given a million dollars tax free. What is the first thing you'll do? |
I would invest every penny of the principal and reinvest a lot of the interest in order to provide myself with the optimum lifestyle for the longest time. |
| What's the strangest dream you've ever had? |
Probably the one where I dreamed I got up and went to work. The dream made me late, since I didn't get up because in my mind I already had. :) |
| Is it OK to lie under certain circumstances? |
I don't like to lie. That which people call "little white lies" are supposedly to protect other peoples' feelings, yet those people will be doubly hurt when they learn you lied. If I told more lies, I would probably be more socially adept, but I would be less comfortable about myself. |
| Would you rather be really, really smart or really, really good looking? |
Who says I'm not both already? ;) Hmmm... since a lot of people tell me I'm really smart, I think I'd like to try being called really, really good looking. |
| What is your favorite season? |
Spring |
| What is the best thing about being single? |
It's easier to manage time when you don't have to work around a significant other's schedule. |
| What is the worst thing about being single? |
Having to initiate new relationships. |
| Are you happy with your name? |
Yes, although some people expect me to be Italian. :) |