Survey
Because I'm sick on a Sunday night. (Chosen randomly. If you have better surveys, send me links in comments. Also post links to your responses.)
1. What's your name?
John. So far this is hard.
2. What is your favorite thing to wear?
A pair of jeans and a nerdfighter t-shirt. (My current favorite.)
3. Last thing you ate?
Well, I always end up eating at least a little toothpaste. It's delicious, and plus it prevents my stomach from getting cavities. So, toothpaste.
4. One place you will NEVER eat at?
Well, my grandma taught me never to say never, but it seems very unlikely I will ever eat at Hardee's.
5. I say Shotgun, you say:
"Take it." I actually preferred the backseat of the minivan in which Hank and Katherine and I spent the last three weeks.
6. Last person you hugged?
Sarah
7. Does anyone you know wanna date you?
I'm beginning to feel like this survey is not targeted at my demographic. It's almost as if married men in their thirties aren't supposed to fill out online surveys.
8. Would you date anyone you met online?
Well, not anymore obviously, but I did date people I met online, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
9. Name something you like physically about yourself:
I am not unhappy with my height.
10. The last place you went out to dinner to?
The Fiddlin' Pig in Asheville, North Carolina. (Really.)
11. Who is your best friend?
Sarah
12. What time of the day is it?
10:45 PM
13. Who/What made you angry today?
We drove back to Indiana from Asheville today, and there were a few moments in which I failed to imagine other drivers with adequate complexity.
14. Baseball or Football?
I love the Cubs, but football. Specifically the University of Alabama Crimson Tide.
(The above video answers the age-old question: How can one rhyme "hammer" and "Alabama.")
15. Ever gone skinny dipping?
I have.
16. Favorite type of Food?
Sushi.
17. Favorite holiday:
I'm not a huge fan of holidays. I do like Good Friday.
18. Do you download music:
Not illegally, no.
19. Do you care if your socks are dirty?
Yes. But, I mean, there are degrees of care.
20. Opinion of Chinese symbol tattoos?
I find nothing inherently objectionable about them.
21. Would you date the person who posted this?
Um, I am posting it. Are you asking me if I would date myself? Probably not, since the only thing I could come up with that I found physically satisfactory about myself was "height." Frankly, I think I can do better.
22. Has anyone ever sang or played for you personally?
Yes.
23. Do you love anyone?
I do.
24. Are colored contact lenses sexy?
They are Uglies sexy, sure. But my favorite kind of sexy is real-eyed sexy.
25. Have you ever bungee jumped?
Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. More on this tomorrow.
26. Have you ever gone white-water rafting?
Yes. Terrifying.
27. Has anyone ten years older than you ever hit on you
No.
28. How many pets do you have?
Oh, I think just the one is sufficient.
29. Have you met a real redneck?
I'm not crazy about the word redneck, but I certainly have friends who would describe themselves as rednecks.
30. How is the weather right now?
Pretty freaking cold.
31. What are you listening to right now?
Cars in the distance--the kind that far enough away so as to have everybody's dreams on board.
32. What is your current favorite song?
"Cubs in Five," by The Mountain Goats
33. What was the last movie you watched?
Ironman. (not bad!)
34. Do you wear contacts?
No.
35. Where was the last place you went besides your house?
Well I spent most of today inside the car.
36. What are you afraid of?
Heights. More on that tomorrow.
37. How many piercings have you had?
None. Piercings scare me. More on that tomorrow, too.
38. What piercings do you want?
None.
39. What's one thing you've learned this year?
Nerdfighters make book tours fun.
40. What do you usually order from Starbucks?
Water.
41. What Magazines are you reading?
I read The New Yorker and The Economist. (I grow old. I grow old. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.)
42. Have you ever fired a gun:
Yes.
43. Are you missing someone?
I think that is the nature of our condition, yeah.
44. Favorite TV show?
30 Rock.
45. Do you have an obession with WoW?
I do not. I am somewhat interested in the idea of WoW, but I don't actually enjoy playing it. I don't want my video games to be hard. I don't want them to require the full measure of my meager intelletual talent. I want to drive a racecar in a circle until my brain freezes.
46. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celeb?
It's been awhile.
47. What celeb do you look like?
Like, what if instead of becoming Neal Patrick Harris, Doogie Howser had put on some weight and didn't have great posture and spent most of his time typing?
48. Who would you like to see right now?
Wait, I can see anyone? Do they have to be living? That's a very open-ended question. In what context can I see them? Can I travel back in time to see them, or do I have to see them on my home turf? Is it possible to see them for an extended period of time--like, say, to watch the entire writing of Hamlet--or is this just going to be a brief meeting?
Actually, I'm just going to pick Shakespeare regardless and hope for the best.
49. Favorite movie of all time?
Rushmore is probably my favorite movie; the movie that most positively affected my life was Harvey. "Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.'"
50. Do you find yourself loved?
I do, yes.
51. Have you ever been caught doing something you weren't suppose to?
Yes.
52. Favorite smell?
Anything that smells like something in the past I can almost remember.
53. Butter, plain, or salted popcorn?
Plain.
54. What's something that really bugs you?
The general inability we all have to understand that what bugs us about other people is very often what bugs other people about us. (I'm looking at you, people who say that Holden Caulfield is self-involved.)
55. Do you like Michael Jackson?
I would feel sorry for Michael Jackson, but I try to devote most of my feeling-sorry-for-people-other-than-myself energy to people who don't have tens of millions of dollars.
56. Taco Bell or Burger King?
That's a race to the bottom. Taco Bell, I guess.
57. What's your favorite perfume?
White Musk from the body shop, if I'm being totally honest. I don't know why. It got its claws into me in eighth grade and never let go.
58. Favorite baseball team?
The Chicago Cubs.
59. Ever call a 1-900 phone number?
No.
60. What's the longest time you've gone without sleep?
About 35 hours.
61. Last time you went bowling?
I used to bowl so much I had my own ball and shoes. Now I only go a couple times a year.
62. Where is the weirdest place you have slept?
Like spent-the-night sleeping? Driver's seat of a Ford Thunderbird in a biker bar parking lot 50 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska.
63. Who was your last phone call?
Let me look at my phone. My mom.
64. Last time you were at work?
That all depends on how you define "at" and "work."
65. What's the closest orange object to you?
My orange suitcase. That thing is always closer to me than I'd like.
77 Comments:
Finally, someone cool who understands that you can be a nerd and an Alabama Crimson Tide football fan! Actually, I'm an ACTF nerdfighter. I read books about them waaaay too much. It's kind of unhealthy.
Eliot FTW. And why did you spend the night in a biker bar parking lot?
I too am a huge fan of Good Friday, even more so than my birthday or Christmas. I love everything about Good Friday - I think because it hasn't lost its meaning the way Christmas has. (It's really hard to make Good Friday secular.)
Also, I too would pick Shakespeare. I'd like for him to insult me. ;) And, I'd like to know what he'd have to say about the word "forshizzle." Something tells me he'd have delighted in it.
Posted my answers: http://alanlastufka.livejournal.com/250044.html ...loved your answer about the other complex drivers on the road. =)
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52. Favorite smell?
Anything that smells like something in the past I can almost remember.
I so TOTALLY agree with this! I have a couple smells like that but there is one that makes me remember something very clearly...
If I smell a pencil eraser, I am completely transported back to Mrs. Slodisco's first grade class in 1978. (Yes it was the 70's and her name really was pronounced "slow disco!") I can describe who was sitting near me (Randy Beers in a Superman T-shirt) and can picture the entire classroom.
I sometimes wonder why an eraser smell brings all this back... did I spend that year with a pencil in my nose?
PS: Can't wait to hear about the bungee jumping!
The orange suitcase attacks. :]
"7. Does anyone you know wanna date you?
I'm beginning to feel like this survey is not targeted at my demographic. It's almost as if married men in their thirties aren't supposed to fill out online surveys."
Haha. Haha. I don't even have words for this question and answer. :]
Ha #13. Hated IS a failure of the imagination. Yet somehow I'd never applied that on the road.
Just finished filling in my answers: http://valerie2776.blogspot.com/2008/12/surveys-are-nice-in-that-they-dont.html
I wish I had an orange suitcase.
You said "post your responses", so I did the survey, but I thought it a little long to go in the comments section. Here it is:
http://everydayuncommon.blogspot.com/
-Morgan
I love white musk! Just a random arbitrary fact for you there...
My survey is here: http://yasdnilbackwards.blogspot.com/2008/12/q-does-body-good.html
But first, I've got a bone to pick. Alabama? Really, John? I was always afraid that that might be the case since you spent time in AL and everything, but I hoped against hope that it wasn't true. And for the record, "Alabama" still doesn't rhyme with "hammer." "Alabammer," on the other hand, does.
Just kidding (for the most part). It's all in good fun. Different people, different preferences. That being said, GEAUX TIGERS. Oh, and good luck with the Gators next week.
the ipod shuffle game
put your ipod on shuffle and answer the questions with the first song that appears.
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
WHAT IS 2+2?
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
WHAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU REGRET?
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Hey John,
Hope you feel better. Happy reading.
Aah, feel better!
Mine's up.
http://quotationeducation.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/on-a-break-from-the-black-holes/#more-458
I told you not to get sick! How dare you? lol.
If you're interested in doing another survey, I just posted an end-of-the-year survey on my blog, which you can find by clicking my name. I may do yours later.
Love Song is taped to the wall right next to me :-)
...In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse...
I did the survey over at my blog http://itsdifferentirl.blogspot.com/
Thanks for posting it John! And I found it funny that you put Good Friday as your favorite holiday because my birthday sometimes falls on Good Friday =)
http://multiplesyllables.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/survey/
Yay for other Crimson Tide nerdfighers!
Anyone besides me for Michaelmas? I just like autumn, I guess.
Roll Tide!
Haha. Surveys. Welcome to the essence of the teenagedom. Wait, what? Bungee jumping? Piercings?
I don't have a survey, but I did find this quiz: http://www.blogthings.com/whichofsantasreindeerareyouquiz/.
For the record, I'm Vixen. The whoriest of all the reindeer. And, supposedly, I enjoy "sitting on Santa's lap" "far too much."
-facepalm-
answers:
http://fionaces.blogspot.com/
Thanks John! That was entertaining, and it gave me a nice break from what I was doing.
Here are my answers: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/note.php?created&&suggest¬e_id=38553499012&id=
It would seem that my URL was cut off. Well just in case, here it is again: http://tinyurl.com/5aoa6g
you asked for it...
http://nerdfighters.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lets-play-which-survey-is-real
bah. why do i love wasting time so much?!?
http://everybodyknowssomebody.blogspot.com/
There's my answers! I love online surveys...
I am also curious to know what you were doing at the biker bar in alaska. that sounds like an interesting story.
Some of your answers were very interesting. Thanks for this one John.
DFTBA
well, john, i think i just fell in love with you just that smidge more. aside from loving yr books (finally got to read abundance of katherines as am holidaying in the states and it's just not available in australia no more) you love rushmore and quoted my fave t.s. elliot poem. tops!
all i could think while reading this is "woohoo! i use White Musk from the body shop!"
hah.
your a funny one.
-x-
CUBS FTW.
Link for my answers: http://casey-connors9.livejournal.com/354567.html#cutid1
I did it on Facebook. I tagged you.
Just in case:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=36470914525&id=739547227&index=0
I always imagine that people around me who are driving badly have a woman giving birth in their back seats, so obviously they can't deal with driving up to standards. This accounts for overpopulation AND all the crazy driving in Chicago.
I hope you feel better John.
That's my favorite T.S. Eliot poem. Thanks for referencing it; it brightened my day.
Did you see the Iron Bowl on Saturday? Alabama beat Auburn 36-0. First time in 7 years they beat them.
-Max
As a UF alum, I think it's a shame you're an Alabama fan, and I'm sorry in advance for your misery Saturday night after they lose the SEC championship game :)
HEY AUBURN! WE JUST BEAT THE HELL OUTTA YOU!
Let's hope we're singing that again Saturday. I had that 63 Boyz song in my head all weekend. Roll tide.
You are the first person to ever fill one of these out in an interesting manner.
Seeing as you're not the "model of productivity", will you look at my answers to your survey, and maybe possibly comment me? :)
Survey Answers here
This was in fact my first online survey. I hope you're happy with yourself. :)
T.S. ELIOT REFERENCE FTW.
Ahem. Sorry, that's just like my favorite poem ever.
haha, leave it to a writer to make one of these, just that more interesting!
here's mine: http://halladayholiday.blogspot.com/2008/12/not-blog-just-survey-train-i-hopped-on.html
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. I had to do that for a play. Also, I stole your survey! :)
"The general inability we all have to understand that what bugs us about other people is very often what bugs other people about us. (I'm looking at you, people who say that Holden Caulfield is self-involved.)"
Yeah, but I'm not asking anyone to sit through nearly 300 pages of my self-involvement.
Oh no! An Alabama fan? Oh well, I know a lot of Alabama fans who are good people, so I guess it's not the worst thing in the world. I have to hand it to them this year, they did pretty well, but I will always be a faithful Auburn Tiger. War Eagle! Anybody else with me? People might not readily admit that this year.
- i like your nurses uniform, guy.
- these are OR scrubs.
- O R they?
I WROTE A HIT PLAY!
we both have dead people in our families.
Thanks for giving me something else to post on my blog besides, "So the revisions are going...nowhere."
I love your answer to whether or not you're missing someone. "I think that's the condition we're in, yeah" Lovely. Pure brilliance.
And why do you have an orange suitcase?
It kind of went downhill as I kept going, but here it is: http://asparkingoutlet.blogspot.com/2008/12/because-im-copycat.html
I would comment more but my cat comands attention.
This was fun to read, I hope you do more! Here's mine:
http://141andbeyond.blogspot.com/2008/12/apparently-everyone-is-doing-this.html
John -- a couple of years back I invited you bowling (through your email) should you ever come to Phoenix. Here you were, bowling we did not go. (Had a great lunch instead, but bowling we did not go.)
A couple thoughts:
1) How is it that you can fill out a silly online survey and make it somehow sound beautiful? I love your books, but dude, that's obscure evidence of writer's craft.
2) You make me think of the good parts in people even though I'm usually inclined to lean toward the cynical. Thanks.
Do I get brownie points for knowing that the quote in 41 was from 'The Love Songs of J. Alfred PRufrock' by TS Eliot?
John Green, you are amazing and I wish to be able to meet you some day.
I swear, I have to worst time management ever, and you don't help, at all.
Okay Mr. Green. I have a bit of a challenge for you. With the survey questions below I have included a link to my blog where you will find my responses to your Nov. 30th survey. You will also find the details of my request. I hope very much that you find the time to check out my blog & survey answers, and I promise that if you do, I WILL do something awesome.
Would you ever get back together with an ex?
What color shirt are you wearing?
Would you kiss any of your friends?
How many kids do you want to have?
Do you have a good relationship with your parents?
What name would you want besides the one you have?
Would you ever make out with someone of the same sex?
What did you do for your last birthday?
What's your main ringtone on your phone?
What time did you wake up today?
What were you doing two nights ago?
Name something you can't wait to do.
Last time you saw your mom?
What is one thing you wish you could change about yourself?
If you had $250,000, what would you do with it?
How long have you worked at your current job?
Describe the underwear you have on.
Last thing you ate?
What's your favorite month?
Your least favorite month?
What's the last piece of clothing someone borrowed from you?
Who is getting on your nerves right now?
Most visited webpage?
Last person you text messaged?
Last person to make you sad?
Would you take a bullet for your best friend?
Favorite kind of drink?
Favorite food?
Favorite dessert?
Have you been to Europe?
Are you close with your grandparents?
I hope you like what you find & that you comment! Thanks for being awesome!
http://www.ichoosethelabyrinth.blogspot.com/
-Lindsay Rae Slater
I believe I'd read this survey twice.... and I don't really know why. Whatever.
Here's mine: http://nerdfighters.ning.com/profiles/blogs/survey-1
"45. Do you have an obession with WoW?
I do not. I am somewhat interested in the idea of WoW, but I don't actually enjoy playing it. I don't want my video games to be hard. I don't want them to require the full measure of my meager intelletual talent. I want to drive a racecar in a circle until my brain freezes."
I so agree.
Here's mine on my rather new blog:
http://rachaelf27.blogspot.com/2008/12/because-i-love-stealing-things-from.html
http://uranoxymoron.livejournal.com/42682.html
My answers, because I'm late.
This may be a tad too late, but I did the (admittedly lengthy) survey here: http://thejustinediaries.blogspot.com/2008/12/survey-32408.html
I live in Malaysia so there is no Taco Bell (and rednecks). Not exactly a fan of Burger King either. But I would love to try Taco Bell someday. :)
Also, Mr. John Green, this is a pretty interesting meme to do:
http://diaryofananxiousblackwoman.blogspot.com/2008/06/mosaic-meme.html
Check it out if you have time to spare. ;) Have a great weekend!
I hope you enjoyed the Wizard Rock CD I gave you in Asheville. And I also hope you went to Salsa's or Early Girl and not just The Fiddlin Pig. Zoiks.
Shall I part my hair to the side? Do I dare eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
(No offense but T.S. Eliot was the best part of that survey)
My answers are in my blog, a few days late, but whatever.
http://sarahreadshp.blogspot.com
my answers:
http://catherine-lowe.blogspot.com/
How are you so impossibly witty? I've been trying to impress people with my sly humor on those surveys for years, only to find that no one cares. John, you've made me care. And I hope you didn't flip the bird at too many drivers.
Thank you, I wourk at Taco Bell. :)
You like Rushmore?!!? I just saw that movie, and I think it's one of the best ones ever!
So let me get this straight. You have a terrifying fear of heights and your argument for said fear is that, with the 3 feet from the table, you are actually 9 feet off the ground. A valid point I admit. However in this survey you say one of your better traits is your height...
I think this requires more explanation.
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I had some free time so i also did the survey. Good Survey. Long.
http://aloxonder.blogspot.com/
My answers to this survey are the second survey on this page:
http://howisuckatlife.livejournal.com/2596.html
The first survey there is pretty good too.
Hello. I love surveys, so if you don't mind, my friend and I are going to steal it from you and send it out. :]
P.S. Nice answers.
"I'm looking at you, people who say that Holden Caulfield is self-involved."
Finally! Thank you! I have this argument at lunch every other day.
here are my answers to this survey: http://agent-teacup.livejournal.com/315305.html
and here is a survey i think you should answer in future:
1. What's the first order of business?
2. What was the last class you went to?
3. Learn anything interesting this week?
4. Who is the messiest person in your house?
5. Do you go around telling your middle name to just anyone?
6. Where was the last bonfire you attended?
7. Would you make a good world leader?
8. Who was the last person you spooned with?
9. Were you the big spoon or the little spoon?
10. What is the most embarrassing tattoo you can think of?
11. Do you have any strict rules regarding who you absolutely will not make out with under any circumstances?
12. Have you ever gotten drunk alone?
13. Do you like the smell of old books?
14. Do you write on your skin?
15. If you had to have a word tattooed on your forehead, what would it be?
16. If you owned a factory, what would it produce?
17. What terms of endearment make you throw up in your mouth a little?
18. Do you currently know where you'll be living this time next year?
19. Do people fear your wrath?
20. Should they?
21. Would you agree to a marriage of convenience?
22. How do you feel about ringtones that don't sound like telephones?
23. What were the last two things that you attached to each other?
24. If you could become instantly fluent in any one language without studying, what language would you choose?
25. Have you ever portayed a biblical character in any kind of a spectacle?
26. Who's your favourite dance partner?
27. Have you ever been prescribed any kind of medicinal brain candy?
28. So far as you know, is anybody jealous of you?
29. Would you ever convert for love?
30. Are you down with pineapple on pizza?
31. What's your most notable dependency?
32. What fictional character do you talk like?
33. Why do you fill out these surveys?
34. What colour(s) are your bedsheets?
35. Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?
36. What was the punchline of the worst joke you've ever laughed at?
37. What don't your parents know?
38. What's the most uncomfortable conversation you can imagine having right now?
39. What rule have you never broken?
40. What would you do in Antarctica?
41. Do you know any farmers?
42. What's the prettiest dinosaur?
43. Do you like to read out loud?
44. What decade would you most like to be able to make periodic visits to?
45. Are you a pickle person?
46. What kind of wedding cake do you want?
47. What's your least favourite piece of literature?
48. What's the most efficient way to get punched by you?
49. What's the prettiest thing in your room?
50. Define "soul".
51. Have you ever had a beard?
52. What talent do you find the most swoon-worthy?
53. What's your favourite book on tape?
These surveys are quite contagious...
Lol, and I though I had started an obnoxious list trend.
adrianej.livejournal.com
Yay surveys! I was proofreading mine and discovered that I had used like 7 YA references.
58. Favorite baseball team?
The Chicago Cubs.
I love the Cubs. Which officially makes me the outcast of Missouri...(If you didn't already know...I'm sure you do...Cardinals fans hate the Cubs) I was actually shunned from the 2006 World Series and forced to sit outside because I'm a Cubs fan. I think my family might disown me. Ha ha.
Ha I love Harvey, one of the funniest movies ever
YFN did a meme a lot like this one.
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