Proust Questionnaire at Age 20Feel free to post your answers below, on your own blog, or both!!! Ideas from Proust.
My sarcasm
The quality you most like in a man?
Think I already answered this last time, now if I waited 7 years to answer this maybe my answers would have changed, but well, it's only been 7 days-ish sooo...
The quality you most like in a woman?
Please see above answer...
What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty and a willingness to accept me the way that I am
What is your principle defect?
Tardiness
What is your favorite occupation?Answering this one a little different...my favorite occupation is the job that I do...teaching, I love it really...
Side note: being a mother and a wife are not occupations they are who I am!
What is your dream of happiness?
I am living my dream of happiness...
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Not being able to do what I love
What would you like to be?
I am what I would like to be...oh, wait! I'd like to be a little more patient
In what country would you like to live?
While I love the USA, I would love to live in England
What is your favorite color?
Red...although it seems like brown...and blue...
What is your favorite flower?TULIPS!!!
What is your favorite bird?
One time when I was a little and staying with my aunt I found a baby robin and fed it and fed it and fed it, but it wouldn't eat and I cried...it died anyway...I hate birds! However, my favorite bird is the extinct dodo bird and the archaeopteryx (which is a dinosaur bird I learned about from "Dinosaur Train")
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Ondaatje, Fitzgerald, Fleming, LM Montgomery, Martin Amis, Atwood, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Rand, Morrison, Lewis, James, Tan, Hardy, Hawthorne, Mansfield, Austen, Smiley, L'Engle, Bronte, Woolf, Cunningham, Minot
Who are your favoite poets?
Rich, cummings, Olds, Giovanni, Cullen, Dunbar, Hughes, Poe
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Please see the answer to #2
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?Hester Prynne, Emily Webb, Mrs. Dalloway
Who are your favorite composers?
Puccini, Mozart
Who are your favorite painters?
Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock
Who are your heroes in real life?
Please see the answer to #2
Who are your favorite heroines of history?Gloria Steinem, Ruth from the Bible
What are your favorite names?
Lila, Olivia, Libby, Abbie, Tallulah
Braden, Hayden, Shad, Henry
What is it you most dislike?
a person's need to obliterate something from existence just because they don't like it...
What historical figures do you most despise?
Andrew Jackson, Aaron Burr
What event in military history do you most admire?
The Emancipation Proclamation...er...that was military sorta
D-Day :)
What reform do you most admire?
A sincere, thoughtful one...these do not exist!
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Looking organized...I am organized, but I don't look it!
How would you like to die?
Living life to the fullest
What is your present state of mind?
Positive and ready to take on the world
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
My need to be late and sleep
What is your motto?
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." ~Agatha Christie
Side Note: Last time I did this I was sick, now the tiny tot is...
1. Your most marked characteristic?
ReplyDeleteThat I tell people the truth and what I think, people don't like the truth.
2. The quality you most like in a man?
To be fun, honest and trustworthy
3. The quality you most like in a woman?
Same as above
4. What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty and a willingness to accept me the way that I am (You said it Sista)
5. What is your principle defect?
Most people would say my telling the truth and saying what I think...I would say having to think things out too much.
6. What is your favorite occupation?
I love to craft and sew and cook.
7. What is your dream of happiness?
To be happy.
8. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Not being accepted for who I am
9. What would you like to be?
Happy
10.In what country would you like to live?
United States of America
11. What is your favorite color?
Green
12 What is your favorite flower?
Iris
13. What is your favorite bird?
Eagle
14 Who are your favorite prose writers?
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jane Austen, Madeline L'Engle and Bronte(I also love their quotes) and Hemmingway
15 Who are your favoite poets?
Steinbeck, Poe, Cummings
16. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Don't know never thought of it that way
17 Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
same as above
18 Who are your favorite composers?
Not one
19 Who are your favorite painters?
Henry Louis Stephens and da Vinci
20 Who are your heroes in real life?
My Mom and Dad
21 Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Ruth from the Bible (you go sista)
Emilia Earhart, Jacklyn Kennedy,
22 What are your favorite names?
girls-Shantelle
boys-Nathaniel
23 What is it you most dislike?
a person's need to judge you for what you don't have and a person's need to feel like they are better than you
24 What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler
25 What event in military history do you most admire?
The Emancipation Proclamation...er...that was military sorta
D-Day :)
26 What reform do you most admire?
A sincere, thoughtful one...these do not exist!
27 What natural gift would you most like to possess?
28 To be more stylish, not be who I am not, but more stylish
29 How would you like to die?
No regrets, living my life the way I want
30 What is your present state of mind?
emmotionally drained and tired
31 To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
My need to keep my mouth shut and not state my mind
31 What is your motto?
What goes around, comes around