Monday, April 2, 2012

list no. 14 :: indulgence


I've been a rabid and avid fan of Vanity Fair magazine for the past fifteen years. My favorite part? Their version of the Proust questionaire at the end.
  1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?  When I'm not stressing, fretting or certain the world is doomed.
  2. What is your greatest fear?  Only one?
  3. Which historical figure do you most identify with?  Dr. Wilbur Larch
  4. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?  Control issues
  5. What is the trait you most deplore in others?  Insincerity
  6. What is your greatest extravagance?  Polaroid film
  7. What is your favorite journey?  The one involving a safe flight and landing
  8. What do you dislike most about your appearance?  Depends on the day...
  9. What words or phrases do you most overuse?  "Dude"
  10. What is your greatest regret?  Living in fear
  11. Who or what is the greatest love(s) of your life?  M and A
  12. When or where were you happiest?  That three week vacation in France and Italy with when A was conceived was pretty awesome
  13. What talent would you most like to have?  Singing and tap dancing 
  14. What do you consider your greatest achievement?  Overcoming personal obstacles
  15. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?  A hummingbird
  16. What is your most treasured possession?  My wedding rings and cameras. And the binders full of original Polaroids. And...
  17. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?  Torture
  18. Where would you like to live?  Here
  19. What is your favorite occupation?  Reading and shooting
  20. What is your most marked characteristic?  I can keep a secret
  21. What is the quality you most like in a man?  The quality I like in both men and women: integrity
  22. What do you most value in your friends?  Open-mindedness
  23. Who are your favorite writers?  Irving and Oliver
  24. Who is your favorite hero in fiction?  Laura Brown
  25. Who are your heroes in real life?  Single parents
  26. What are your favorite names?  The ones that hold my heart
  27. What is it that you most dislike?  Shame
  28. How would you like to die?  At a ripe old age and in my sleep
  29. What is your motto?  "It is what it is" 

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