The Proust Questionnaire

Your favorite virtue
Honesty

Your favorite qualities in a man
honest, faithful, handy, dedicated, gramatically correct, chivalrous

Your favorite qualities in a woman
honest, caring without a personal investment, self respect, thick skin, judgment avoidant

Your Biggest Flaw
I tend to close myself off from the outside world. No matter how many people I'm around, I can withdraw and be more content with my own thoughts. I wonder if I'll ever truly open up to people.

Your favorite occupation
Oddly enough, I don't know if it's writing. I think editing other people's works is more fun for me. I do want to be a professor, though...

Your chief characteristic
Sarcasm. It serves two purposes...first, it gets people laughing when they first meet me. But then it also protects me from having to fully articulate my feelings.

Your idea of happiness
Making someone else so happy that a hug is in order

Your idea of misery
Being around someone who is in pain...and I can't do a thing about it

Your favorite color and flower
Pink. Snapdragons.

If not yourself, who would you be
I'm not in love with myself, but I can't think of anyone else I'd rather be. The things most lacking in my life right now (direction and true happiness), I don't really see in anyone else's life.

Where would you like to live
Wherever my love and my life take me (i.e. future family and occupation are more important to me)

Your favorite prose authors
George Orwell, Judy Blume, Luis Rodriguez

Your favorite poets
Shel Silverstein, Robert Frost, Tupac, Kanye West

Your favorite painters and composers
Paintings usually bore me; I like photography. Composers: Peter Tchaikovsky

Your favorite heroes in real life
Unfortunately, I put no one on a pedestal

Your favorite heroines in real life
see above

Your favorite heroes in fiction
Does Ariel's father in The Little Mermaid movie count?

Your favorite heriones in fiction
Perhaps it would be Samantha on Sex and the City

Your favorite food and drink
Chile Relleno and lemonade

Your favorite names
Garrett, Grant, Liesel, Mona

Your pet aversion
People who are hypocritical

What characters in history do you most dislike
Rulers who justified their unjust actions

What is your present state of mind
Sleepy...but wanting to bring a change into my life

For what fault have you most toleration
Shallowness and a perceived lack of intelligence

Your favorite motto
This isn't all there is

How would you like to die
Saving someone else from death