Monday, September 10, 2007

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? - Falling in love

2. What is your greatest fear? - Failure

3. What historical figure do you most identify with? - No one, I’m original

4. What living person do you most admire? - My mom

5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? - My short fuse/quick temper

6. What is the trait you most deplore in others? - deceitfulness

7. What is your greatest extravagance? - A $300 pair of jeans

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? - No virtue is overrated, maybe just hard to achieve
9. On what occasion do you lie? - When I’m trying to hide something

10. Which words or phrases do you overuse? - “Whatever,” “What the hell…”

11. What is your greatest regret? - Well, I try to live life with no regrets. If I make a mistake I ultimately learn from it, but I would say I regret partying too much my first semester of college because it negatively affected my grades.

12. What is your current state of mind? - Exhausted and overwhelmed

13. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? - I would be more confident in myself

14. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be? - Absolutely nothing

15. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? - A princess

16. What is your most treasured possession? - My journals or my carebear

17. Where would you like to live? - England, Paris, New York, Australia, Colorado…

18. What is your favorite occupation? - A writer… of course

19. What is your most marked characteristic? - My insight….I’m also emotional, dramatic, romantic, and stubborn

20. What is the quality you most like in a man? - Goal-oriented, honesty

21. What is the quality you most like in woman? - Loyalty

22. Who are your favorite writers? - Rilke, Roubaud, Virginia Woolf, Pat Conroy, Natalie Goldberg

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? - Wesley in The Princess Bride

24. Who are your heroes in life? - My mother and father

25. What is it that you most dislike? - Onions

26. What is your motto? - Live in the moment