State of the 4S Nation Part 2: Kim

1. What is your name?
Kim

2. Where do you live?
Normal Heights/North Park area of San Diego, CA (greatest city in the world- discovered in 1904 by the Germans

3. Of what type is your domicile?
I live in a medium size one bedroom apartment on the first floor of a small apartment complex. I park about 20 feet from my front door and the laundry room is in between my car and my apartment. I have some seriously crazy neighbors too. Like, whoa.

4. Do you like where you live? (City, neighborhood, domicile, etc.) If not, where would you rather live?
I love where I live. My apartment is the perfect size for me and a great location! I wish my landlord wasn't so weird though. I mean, I would love to live in some ritzy apt complex with a bigger place, but you can't win 'em all!

5. What do you do for a living?
I am the Assistant Coordinator for Fraternity & Sorority Life at San Diego State. I absolutely adore my job! I get to work with college students every day, encourage them to make the most out of their organizations and become better men and women.

6. Do you think you'll be doing this forever?
Probably not. I really love my job, but it's extremely time consuming. I work a 45 hours on an average week and up to 90 during really hectic times (aka sorority recruitment!). I really want to own my own flower shop some day. I think it would be pretty amazing!

7. Describe a perfect day.
I get to sleep in- with no alarm! I spend time on myself, relaxing, taking a bath, getting a pedicure, going shopping, browsing a farmer's market, and just hanging out (doing some fb stalking, etc.) I get this day about once every three months or so, but I wish I had one every week!

8. Pirates or ninjas?
Pirates. Duh.

9. What's the best book you've read lately?
Well I don't get to read more, really just my books for book club. This last month we read The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It was quite interesting. This months book is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. It's good so far.

10. What's the best movie you've seen lately?
Um, I haven't seen a movie in ages. To be honest I think the last time I saw a movie was when we watched Superbad at the Greek Week BBQ.

11. If you were a cliche, which cliche would you be?
I absolutely adore Anna's answer! But for me... "Everyday is a miracle"

12. What's your least favorite part of every day?
Dragging myself out of bed in the morning. HOW TRUE ANNA!

NEW QUESTION
13. What's your favorite part of every day?
Getting home at night, checking my facebook and the blog, and going to bed. :)

14. Cheese or chocolate?
BOTH! I LOVE BOTH!

15. What was your first concert?
That I remember? Because I know I went to a bunch at the fair with my 'rents. But that I paid for, N'sync at the Oakland Coliseum.

16. Would you prefer invisibility or time travel?
Probably time travel. I do have a degree in history!

17. What's your favorite part of your life?
My job. I love it.

18. What are you looking forward to?
SUMMER! Finals are in two weeks and things are going to get really quiet! My mom is coming, I may go to Vegas with Shannon, and Jenny and I are going to NYC in JULY! (I really wish tomorrow was July 1 and not May 1, but alas)

19. What are you not looking forward to?
The rest of this week and next week. Orientations during the summer.

20. What cool stuff has happened recently?
Not a lot. I got to see my mom in San Francisco a few weeks ago. That was awesome.

21. What crappy stuff happened recently?
Lots of drama at work. I had a really bad day today, it was just awful.

22. Who is your favorite Spice Girl?
Sporty. Plus she has an awesome solo album. Haha.


I added an additional question and finished numbering the questions! :)

State of the 4S Nation Part 1: Anna

Okey dokey clowns, it's catch up time! I propose we do a little informal survey, where EVERYBODY ANSWERS EVERY QUESTION, so we can kind of get a feel for how everybody's doing. It's sort of like an annual physical, except for your life. Please be as specific as possible, and thank you in advance for participating. (PLEASE PARTICIPATE)

1. What is your name?
Anna

2. Where do you live?
The Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.

3. Of what type is your domicile?
I live in a two bedroom apartment with a very cool lady named Eesha who is beginning to succumb to my love of The X-Files yay! We also have one bathroom, one heater, a kitchen that used to be a doorway, and a new couch. Our building is 100 years old.

4. Do you like where you live? (City, neighborhood, domicile, etc.) If not, where would you rather live?
Yes, for now. I like Manhattan, and right now it's pretty much the only place I could be happy at this point in time according to myself. I'd be too lonely in California and Chicago (except for San Diego, but I couldn't work in publishing there), even though I have family in each location and eventually I want to live in either of those two places. I like my neighborhood for now, but I would prefer to live lower, like in the 90s or 100s on the Upper West Side, so maybe someday. I like my apartment well enough and I love my roommate, but eventually I'd like to live on my own. On the other hand, I could not live closer to the subway, which is very convenient especially in the nighttimes.

5. What do you do for a living?
I am an online marketing assistant at an independent book marketing firm. I basically read blogs and websites all day and then pitch them books that they and their readers may enjoy, then I send them those books (or arrange for them to be sent), and then I gather all the blog mentions/reviews that I arranged so that my boss can create a report.

Do you think you'll be doing this forever?
Probably not, but I don't know. I'd like to work for a publishing house relatively soon, and while I think I could be happy doing Internet marketing, I'm pretty sure I'd still rather work in editorial. Not to mention that what I'd really like is to make enough money off my own writing that I could live in New York or anywhere else I like and afford health insurance and not have to work. That'd be the best.

Describe a perfect day.
I sleep as late as I want, then I get up and take a shower and eat, then I sit down at my computer and read or write, then I take a walk in Central Park, then I have a sandwich at Lenny's and a cupcake from Magnolia and then I go see a movie with James McAvoy in it, then I have dinner and wine with Cambria, then I go home and read and write and go to bed late. Also, I complete a New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle ALL BY MYSELF.

Pirates or ninjas?
Ninjas. Sorry Kim.

What's the best book you've read lately?
I Was Told There Would Be Cake by Sloane Crosley.

What's the best movie you've seen lately?
I really liked Penelope.

If you were a cliche, which cliche would you be?
Good things come to those who wait.

BONUS KIM QUESTION: What's your favorite part of every day?
Crossword puzzle!

What's your least favorite part of every day?
Dragging myself out of bed in the morning.

Cheese or chocolate?
Hmmmm...cheese, but by a very small margin. It's seriously in everything I eat, though.

What was your first concert?
Jewel, in Tinley Park, IL

Would you prefer invisibility or time travel?
Absolutely invisibility. Time travel would freak me the fuck out.

What's your favorite part of your life?
The possibility that my agent and I might someday sell my book. That's pretty fucking awesome.

What are you looking forward to?
Getting my tax return money and stimulus check, Rilo Kiley in June, Tim and Carmen coming in June/July, Kim and Jenny coming in July, my sister coming in July for film camp, GOING BACK TO CALIFORNIA IN AUGUST WOOT! X-Files movie. Possibly looking for a new job in the future?

What are you not looking forward to?
More manuscript revisions, rejections from publishers (it will happen--I may sell it, but someone WILL reject it, it's the nature of the business), heat and humidity.

What cool stuff has happened recently?
People (Brigitte, my mom) visited, I got an agent, I went to a City Breathing show and it was totally awesome, I joined a trivia team (Yeah, go Trivia Newton John!), met some new people, saw Spring Awakening

What crappy stuff happened recently?
No more living across the park from Cambria :(, being poor (this is a chronic condition)

Who is your favorite Spice Girl?
Hmm...Ginger.

If anyone wants to suggest/add new questions to the survey and demand we answer them, that'd be great. But please fill out the survey! I will love you forever.

Also, I've updated my 25 before 25 list and put all of them in the sidebar--update yours so that we know what you've accomplished and can give you a round of snaps for job well done!