Question Time

For a bit of fun, fellow blogger Alisia tagged me for a meme. Here are the guidelines:

1. Answer the questions on your blog, replace one question you dislike with a question of your own invention; add a question of your own.

2. Tag eight other un-tagged people.


Here we go...

WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT OBSESSION? Finishing the second draft of my novel. At this moment, it feels like an impossible feat!

GOOD COFFEE PLACE? My locals - Coffee Society or Orchard Valley Coffee, both of which are funky. They also have good coffee and a great environment to relax with friends, or buckle down to write.

DO YOU NAP A LOT? Never. I can't nap and never could. The few times I tried, I walked around like a zombie the rest of the evening, which felt like a waste. (Power napping baffles me. Two of my friends are expert powernappers, but I can't fall asleep before the fifteen minutes is up!)

WHAT'S FOR DINNER? Probably hotdogs...I'm taking husband to a baseball game for his birthday: Red Sox vs. A's. (Go Sox!)

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT? Beautiful new clothes and a pair of sassy red espadrilles with my birthday money.

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? My iTunes mix. Current song: "The Blower's Daughter" by Damien Rice.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER? The warming days of late spring and early fall and warm and breezy summer evenings.

WHAT'S ON YOUR BEDSIDE TABLE? A lamp, writing notebook and pen (for those pesky middle-of-the-night ideas), and whatever I'm reading at the moment.

FAVORITE VACATION SPOT? It's difficult to pick one since I like to see new places when I travel, but I'd have to go with London. However, a white sandy beach and Prague tie for a close second.

NAME THE THINGS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT. My family, books, chapstick, and coffee.

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE IN YOUR HANDS RIGHT NOW? My first published novel.

IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD FOR THE NEXT HOUR, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? Tea at The Orangery in Kensington (sans jetlag).

WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BECOME AS A CHILD? A writer and a teacher.

WHAT ARE YOU READING RIGHT NOW? The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg. (I finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Saturday and fell in love with it.)

WHAT DO YOU FEAR THE MOST? Losing those I love, and spiders.

FAVORITE BOOKS YOU'VE READ THIS YEAR? Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, Disraeli Avenue by Caroline Smailes, and Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte.

MOVIES THAT MAKE YOU CRY? The Notebook gets me every time, but I finally caught P.S. I Love You this weekend, and I'm glad husband was the only witness, because I was an embarrassing wreck. Good stuff.

I won't tag anyone, but feel free to continue this meme if you're interested.