P&P Questionnaire
I have always loved flipping to the back cover of Vanity Fair magazine and reading the Proust Questionnaire. I have a plethora of extremely interesting and bright friends and family with whom I rarely get to ask such poignant questions. So, I’m going to do my own little questionnaire every so often using the people in my life as subjects. I’m borrowing a few of my favorite questions from VFPQ and also am going to throw in some that I think are more interesting. So far, I have found them to be highly entertaining so I am going to post them all here. Hopefully we can all get a little closer.
Also, if you are interest in either taking the real VFPQ yourself you can go here to do so: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/proust-questionnaire and if you would like to see some sample answers from various celebrities go here: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/archive/proust-questionnaire
My 15 questions are as follows:
1. What is the first song on your iTunes Recently Added playlist?
2. What is the last book you read or are currently reading?
3. What has been your favorite Halloween costume you have dressed as?
4. What is one thing you love that everyone else hates or one thing you hate that everyone else loves?
5. In your opinion, which are the best years of your life: college or your 20’s?
6. Name two things you are extremely skilled at and two things you are very bad at
7. Which do you prefer: sweet or savory?
8. What do you collect?
9. What is your motto?
10. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
11. If you had to pick one song to be the theme song for your life, what would be it?
12. What would you do if you didn’t have to work?
13. Who would you call with your one phone call in jail?
14. Is there anything you absolutely refuse to do?
15. If your house was on fire, and you could only take three things, what would they be?
Best, Lauren
Margaret Dickerson: The next person to try their hand at the P&P Questionnaire happens to be my mother, a one Margaret Dickerson aka Margarita, Margaret the Great, and Madge. Her favorite sayings are “don’t you just loooove Caleeforniaaa?”, “don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” and “I’m your biggest advocate!”. She has been a radiologist in the Chicago area for longer than she would like to admit, has a propensity for micro-managing, and is a tough woman to to crack. However, I couldn’t imagine having anyone better to call my mom. Here’s what she had to say…
1. What is the first song on your iTunes Recently Added playlist?
Teenage Dream - Katy Perry
2. What is the last book you read or are currently reading?
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance
3. What has been your favorite Halloween costume you have dressed as?
Can’t remember - haven’t dressed up for Halloween in over thirty years.
4. What is one thing you love that everyone else hates or one thing you hate that everyone else loves?
I HATE reality shows.
5. In your opinion, which are the best years of your life: college or your 20’s?
20’s
6. Name two things you are extremely skilled at and two things you are very bad at
Skilled: Breast Biopsies, reading mammograms
Unskilled: making dough of any kind and math
7. Which do you prefer: sweet or savory?
Savory
8. What do you collect?
Purses, scarves, handbags, shoes and ceramic birds
9. What is your motto?
Buck it up!
10. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
An exotic vacation
11. If you had to pick one song to be the theme song for your life, what would be it?
“We are Family”
12. What would you do if you didn’t have to work?
Volunteer
13. Who would you call with your one phone call in jail?
A lawyer
14. Is there anything you absolutely refuse to do?
Yes
15. If your house was on fire, and you could only take three things, what would they be?
My family members, personal files and my computer
Leah Bhabha:
1. What is the first song on your iTunes Recently Added playlist?
Bottoms up-trey songz
2. What is the last book you read or are currently reading?
The Gardner Heist
3. What has been your favorite Halloween costume you have dressed as?
Pickle
4. What is one thing you love that everyone else hates or one thing you hate that everyone else loves?
I love black licorice and I don’t love lady gaga
5. In your opinion, which are the best years of your life: college or your 20’s?
Can’t answer that yet, but I’m fairly sure our upcoming years in sf will be among the best
6. Name two things you are extremely skilled at and two things you are very bad at
Skilled at: talking and eating. Not skilled at: parking cars and hiding my feelings
7. Which do you prefer: sweet or savory?
Savory
8. What do you collect?
Hairbows and pickle paraphernalia
9. What is your motto?
Gramatically correct politically incorrect
10. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Lying in the sun having delicious food and drink and listening to wonderful music surrounded by my closest friends and family
11. If you had to pick one song to be the theme song for your life, what would be it?
Mellow mood-bob marley
12. What would you do if you didn’t have to work?
See #10
13. Who would you call with your one phone call in jail?
My mother
14. Is there anything you absolutely refuse to do?
Compromise my integrity or myself for someone else
15. If your house was on fire, and you could only take three things, what would they be?
My cell phone, my childhood photo albums and my pickle nikes
