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proust q & a…prêt à voyager

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I live vicariously through fellow francophile Anne Ditmeyer’s blog, Prêt à Voyager. A graphic designer with a penchant for travel, she is living a fabulously creative + successful life in Paris! With a background in art history, photography, and anthropology, her posts are always a delight. My personal favorite is her Boarding Pass series, where she features fellow travelers. I’ve learned quite a bit more about Paris and have many new, exciting places to visit…merci Anne!

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Your idea of happiness.

Good friends and a day without a set plan where anything can happen.

 

Your idea of misery.

A monotonous day job with a serious lack of vacation days.

 

Your favourite colour and flower.

Mustard yellow (my accent color); will take any flower that a handsome man cares to give me.

 

Your favourite food & drink.

Strawberries and Pims & lemonade

 

Your chief characteristic.

Diligent.

 

Your favourite motto.

By not working out things often work out for the better.

 

Your favourite qualities in friends.

Good communicators/keep in touch, open to trying new things, look out for each other, overall just awesome people. ;)

 

Your favourite hero (or heroine) in fiction.

Amelie Poulin

 

Your favourite hero (or heroine) in real life.

Kwame Kwei-Armah (playwright)

 

Where would you like to live?

Paris (but in a bigger apartment!)

 

**the proust q & a is a regular feature..check out the archives here** 

proust q & a…little brown pen

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Little Brown Pen was one of the first blogs I fell in love with. Capturing life beautifully and soulfully, Nichole Robertson’s writing and photography are an inspiration to me. We share a love of Paris, and butter. So, without further ado…her Proust questionnaire….and many thanks to Nichole for getting this off to a poignant start.

 

Your favourite virtue.

Honor

Your favourite colour and flower.

White and tulips

Your idea of happiness.

The ten minutes before a thunderstorm. The breeze, the menacing sky, the barometer drop, the anticipation, and the smell of the first drops of rain on a hot pavement.

Your idea of misery.

Having too many plans

Your favourite food & drink.

cake and coffee

Where would you like to live?

Wherever my husband and sons are

Your favourite qualities in friends.

Self-deprecation, quick wit, humor, equally at home whether they are living large or slumming it

Your biggest flaw.

Impatience

Your chief characteristic.

Optimism

Your favourite poets.

Rimbaud, Wordsworth and Keats

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Fernandovicente

 

 

I became aware of Marcel Proust (French novelist and critic), in an indirect way via “Inside the Actors Studio”. At the end of each show, James Lipton questions the guest with an adapted version of the Proust questionnaire, which french television host Bernard Pivot made famous. The story of how it came about is a lengthy one, but it originated in 1885 + developed into a great template for interviewing. The Proust questionnaire will be a regular feature on my blog, and some of my favorite bloggers will be participating–stay tuned!