Proust Questionairre

Small Apartment, Big Life has tagged me after filling out the Proust Questionairre from a recent issue of Vanity Fair. Here are my answers!

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!