Your favorite qualities in a woman:
Sophisticated strength a la Jackie Kennedy and the ability to hold a conversation with anyone or anything, including inanimate objects.
Your chief characteristic:
Impatience. I have a lot of good qualities too, I promise, but my inability to wait for anything dominates.
What you appreciate most in your friends:
Their ability to be happy for me when I am happy, regardless of the circumstances.
Your idea of happiness:
A long afternoon nap followed by a foot rub and a Real Housewives of New York marathon. (Whatever. At least I didn't say a walk on the beach at sunset.)
Your idea of misery:
Being stuck in a job that I hate for the rest of my life.
If not yourself, who would you be:
The First Lady of anywhere.
Where would you like to live:
Somewhere like Brevard or Hendersonville, North Carolina. In the mountains, but close enough to a large city. I love the solitude of the mountains.
Your favorite color and flower:
My favorite color is a constant battle between light blue and red. It depends on my mood. Ranunculus is my favorite flower. It looks like a mix between roses and peonies and grows in so many colors.
Your favorite heroines in fiction:
She isn't technically fiction, but Beatrice Portinari in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Your favorite painters and composers:
Caillebotte, Degas and Dali. My favorite composer is Tchaikovsky, perhaps because I've danced in two of his ballets.
Your heroes/heroines in real life:
My Nanna.
What characters in history do you most dislike:
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Your favorite food and drink:
I could eat a rare-medium rare filet mignon everyday. Margarita.
What I hate the most:
Consistently poor writing. I am extremely conscious of even the smallest grammar error. I think I inherited it from an impossible professor who is responsible for the fact that I can no longer have any respect for someone who uses "myriad" incorrectly.
World history characters I hate the most:
Hitler.
The military event I admire the most:
The Revolutionary War. We were so badass.
The natural talent I'd like to be gifted with:
Learning and retaining multiple languages.
What is your present state of mind:
Cold. I am frozen to my core. Check back when I thaw out mid-March.
My Favorite Flower!
