Proust Questionnaire: Candice's answers

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On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:40:43 UTC Candice (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being bored for the rest of my life.
Where would you like to live?: In a lived-in two story house with a windowseat.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Driving on a warm day with the windows down and good music on.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Overanalyzing everything.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Adventurers, romantics, fighters, and realistic dreamers.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Joan of Arc, and Nathan Hale.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Brave, smart, talented, and funny women (including my mother).
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The ones who are bold and unquestionably themselves.
Your favorite painter?: O'Keefe.
Your favorite musician?: John Mayer.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty and social consciousness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A good sense of humor and courage.
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness.
Your favorite occupation?: Writing.
Who would you have liked to be?: A girl who could be captivating and well-respected.
Your most marked characteristic?: Hopefulness, idealistic, somewhat sarcastic, and overly critical of myself.
What do you most value in your friends?: The ability to listen and to allow themselves to be heard.
What is your principle defect?: Procrastinating.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never leave Texas and to live an ordinary life.
What would you like to be?: Myself, only more confident and healthier.
What is your favorite color?: Blue.
What is your favorite flower?: Hibiscus.
What is your favorite bird?: Penguin.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Christopher Moore and Neil Gaiman.
Who are your favorite poets?: Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Langston Hughes.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mom.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Ella Fitzgerald, Elenor Roosevelt, Joan of Arc.
What are your favorite names?: Alexandria and Chase.
What is it you most dislike?: Liars and thieves.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler.
What event in military history do you most admire?: V-Day.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Perfect pitch.
How would you like to die?: Comfortably and knowing that I was loved.
What is your present state of mind?: Apprehension for the coming weeks.
What is your motto?: "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. No go put foundations under them."--Henry David Thoreau

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