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Another one? No numbers?
I tried to do the one on sex, but I got bored because I couldn’t answer any of the questions. So let’s do this one.
Kinda fun. Two or three Women Questions though.
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Warning for future question listers: there are TONS of questions that only women can answer
Also, relationship questions trigger warning.
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There aren’t any numbers, what is this witchcraft
This survey gets a little personal; can you handle it? Yes, but if you people reading can’t, I’ll put a Read More in. So if you don’t think you’re ready for this jelly (or just don’t give a fuck), you can just move on down your dashboard.
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Q-List, but it had a stupid title with lots of symbols. So I changed it.
As always, I’ll just Read More this. Plus, this list generally sucks.
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Apparently there’s a whole Tumblr called fuckyeahsurveys.
I have a new best friend. Will put this behind a Read More though.
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Half of the notes on my question list are “likes”…
You guys do know the point of a question list is to answer the questions on your own blog… right?
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Ask me.
Okay, enough fooling around.
- Are you young at heart, or an old soul? Old soul. I’ve been an old soul since I was about 11.
- What makes someone a best friend? Someone that you know has your back, and will always be a listening post for you to express emotions. Someone that will take the time to talk to you.
- What Christmas (or Hanukkah) present do you remember the most? When I was four or five, I got a Sega Genesis, and I played this Lotus racing game for the entire day. I even took it to my grandmother’s house, and I played it there.
- Tell me about a movie/song/tv show/play/book that has changed your life. I’ll go with a book. In 11th grade, I read Ethan Frome. That book was beyond brilliant. I’ve never felt such a connection with a character. It made me slightly more pessimistic, though, about the world around me.
- Name one physical feature that you like about yourself, and one you dislike. I like my eyes. I like that other people like my eyes. They’re very blue, and convey a sense of troubled innocence. I dislike my inability to grow facial hair. I get these terrible scruffy little neckbeards and blond mustaches and I hate them.
- Would you like to reconnect with any friends you’ve lost contact with? I wouldn’t mind talking to Tom Califra from grade school again, or Laura Birdsall from high school. Tom was very down-to-earth, and Laura was like no person I had ever seen before.
- What’s more important in a relationship: physical attraction or emotional connection? Emotional connection. Physical attraction without anything beyond that just doesn’t lead anywhere. Now, being attracted to your partner is still important. Vital, even. But not as important as being able to get along.
- Name a movie that you knew would be terrible just from reading the title. I can name a few. Rocky and Bullwinkle (and many other bad series revivals), Gnomeo and Juliet, Hot Tub Time Machine, and most recently, Battleship.
- What holiday do you most look forward to? Independence Day. The Fourth of July. The beginning of summer. Burgers and hot dogs and fireworks and family and America fuck yeah.
- How is the relationship between you and your parents? Me and my mother get along fine, though she gets frustrated with me when I don’t do things she wants me to do. Big things, like calling psychiatrists or submitting insurance whatever or doing taxes. Basically, she wants me to take care of my own shit and I don’t want to. As for my father, we get along fine. We talk about sports, he often complains about his day. I can’t really trust him with secrets or anything, but he’s cool to just hang around with.
- You’ve got the TV on, but you’re not really watching. What channel is the TV on? Probably ESPN/ESPN2. If it’s late at night I’ll be watching Adult Swim. And if it’s really late I’ll throw on an infomercial. They’ve been showing a lot of Brazil Butt Lift lately.
- Name a song that never fails to make you happy. Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains. It takes me to a happy, happy, very happy place, but not necessarily the Blue Ridge Mountains, over near Tennessee.
- You know at least one person named Michael. Tell me about him.
My uncle Michael delivers Bill Clinton’s mail. I haven’t talked to him in years, since he really doesn’t get himself involved with the family unless he needs money. He’s good enough, I guess, though he’s obsessed with crushing my hand whenever we shake hands. I guess he really wants to prove to his nephew that he’s a tough guy. - Have you ever read the “missed connections” on Craigslist? Have you ever posted one, or wanted to? I actually have read them. Got into it when the Georgetown Voice blog posted them. That shit’s right up my alley. Sometimes a girl and I will look at each other and then look away, and once in a while I’ve felt the urge to throw it on Craigslist. But then I realize that that’s so, so stupid.
- If you could pick anywhere to live the rest of your life, where would it be? Copenhagen, though my mind changes by the hour on this. A week ago it was Charleston. This week it’s Copenhagen. Next week it might be Kyoto, and two weeks from now it might be Peekskill.
- Can money buy happiness? No, but it sure can take away a lot of the issues that keep you from being happy. Basically, money makes happiness a whole lot easier.
- Do you drink? Smoke? Do drugs? Why, or why not? No. I used to drink, but now I can’t due to the meds. I wouldn’t smoke or do drugs though (other than my meds), because I’m really fearful of getting addicted to stuff. I know how bad addiction is, since I’m so addicted to the Internet.
- Is there anyone close to you that you know you can’t trust? You don’t have to give names. My father, and a friend or two. My father broadcasts things to the entire family and everyone he knows. And with a couple of friends I’m just not entirely sure if they have my back.
- Where was your favorite place to go when you were a little kid? The Wendy’s drive-through. I would look forward to the next Wendy’s trip all the time.
- Have you ever spent a night in the hospital? Yes, I spent five days in Westchester Medical Center for food poisoning, which could have been from the Spaghettio’s or some raw meat or something. They told my parents I might die. I didn’t, though, obviously.
- Do you enjoy being with only one or two friends, or with a large group of people? I hate large groups. I don’t even much like being with two people, because I inevitably feel like I would be the third wheel. Plus, with one-on-one stuff you get to a deeper connection with the person you’re with.
- Do you like the type of music your parents listen to? Do your parents like the type of music you listen to? My father listened to rock music, like Tom Petty and the Allman Brothers. I like Tom Petty, I don’t like the Allman Brothers. But now he listens to Top 40 when he puts on the radio and I have no clue why. I’ve picked up a few bands from my mother: Squeeze, 10000 Maniacs, some leftover songs from the nineties… My mother actually listens to WFUV now and we end up talking a bit about songs and bands that catch both of our ears.
- Have you ever been bullied? Have you ever bullied anyone else? Yes and yes. The best examples are from kindergarten. The kids gathered around and teased me for having a crush on this girl who looked like a horse (I didn’t). So to make myself feel better, I went up to another boy and said he had a crush on another girl, except that girl was his cousin. And that was how I learned the meaning of the word “awkward.”
- If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? Can I pick a meal? If so, it would be a fully furnished burger and fries. If not, it would be pasta.
- If your partner wanted to wait until marriage before having sex, would you stay in that relationship? Yes. I’ve waited 20 years to have sex; I’m in no hurry.
- Do you believe in a god? Ultimately, no. I suppose it’s still possible, but I call myself agnostic, in the sense that the question of a god’s existence is really pointless, since any divine being clearly has no effect on our lives today. But if forced to choose, I lean toward atheism.
- Of all the social networks in the world, why use Tumblr? I use most of the social networks in the world. But I began using Tumblr specifically to keep an eye on some depressed friends. Now I use it for question lists and hipster edits, and to see what the liberal media is up to.
- What’s your favorite Tumblr tag to track? “Hipster edit.”
- Would you call yourself/your family “middle class?”When my parents were together, they were middle class. When my father remarried, that family was middle class. When my mother was single, she was middle class. When my mother moved in with Drew… not middle class.
- Name a TV series you didn’t enjoy until after it ended. King of the Hill.
- Have you ever bought a product from an infomercial? Surprisingly, no. I watch infomercials for pure entertainment value. However, my mother inherited a Swivel Sweeper, and Drew bought P90X and never used it (the pull-up bar can’t support his weight.)
- If you could give up your car and never have to drive again, would you? Oh yes, oh god yes. I hate driving, it’s so tedious and nerve-wracking.
- If you go back to one point in time to give advice to yourself, when would you go and what would you say? I would go back to January of 2005 and tell myself to get off the fucking Internet and go outside. Go shoot hoops with the neighbors or something. God, you’re gonna grow up addicted to this stupid Internet shit.
- What’s your “quirkiest” habit? I sing, in public, to everything. Sometimes prompted by music through speakers in a store, sometimes on my own.
- What is “normal?” Are you normal? Normal is an impossible goal set by society and the media, which involves staying up to date with every stupid fad and trend, never having dangerous opinions of your own, and being completely emotionless. So no, I’m not normal.
- Someone close to you is dying. You have the choice to let this person live for 10 more years, but if you do, you cause the death of 10 strangers. You don’t have to see them die. Do you take the offer? No. I would be so guilty about the people I killed. Oh god, I would feel so guilty.
- What is one thing you could never forgive? Anyone who expects to be treated with respect, and then treats other people like shit, immediately loses any respect I had for them.
- Would you rather be in a relationship after the honeymoon period ends, or be single? I’d stay in the relationship. Just because you’re not deeply infatuated anymore doesn’t mean you should stop being a couple. There was a time when relationships and marriage didn’t center around constantly being romantically in love all the time.
- Is it possible for guys and girls to be just friends? No. Out of the question.
- Where do you and your friends go to hang out? Barnes and Noble or the movie theater. Maybe in the summer we can go to Mohansic Park more often, but I doubt it. My friends are like me, allergic to the sun.
- Write the first paragraph of your obituary. I’m gonna cheat and write the whole thing.
Nicholas Arthur O’Neill passed away peacefully on September 21, 2062, in his North Charleston home. He was 71. Nicholas was born on July 16, 1991 in Mount Kisco, NY to the late Michele (nee Stys) and Glenn O’Neill, and was raised in Putnam Valley, NY. He graduated from Binghamton University with a BA in Geography. He later received his MA in education from The Citadel.
Nicholas worked several jobs across the country as a GIS analyst and technician, before settling in Charleston and becoming a social studies teacher at Fort Dorchester High School. Nicholas was also a devoted Charleston Battery supporter, becoming the president of the Battery supporters’ club, The Regiment.
He is survived by step-sister Allison Carr, of New York, NY, as well as his beloved students and fellow Battery supporters.
Viewing will be held at North Area Funeral Home in North Charleston, SC on Monday, September 26th 2062 between noon and 2pm and again between 6pm and 8pm. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, September 27th 2062 at 12pm at St. Peter’s AME Church, 4650 North Sanders Ave, North Charleston SC. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent to the Fort Dorchester Model United Nations Club. - What is the best TV theme song ever? The NBA on NBC theme, Roundball Rock. I don’t even like the NBA and that theme still kicks as much ass as it did when it was on air in the nineties.
- When you were young, what would you dream you would be when you grew up? I dreamed for a while that I would be a sports broadcaster. Then, when I realized that that dream was sort of a joke, I dreamed that I would be a teacher.
- When you’re alone in your own home, do you walk around naked? No, I am terribly uncomfortable with being naked. I don’t even like to be naked in the bathroom alone, because I get to looking at myself in the mirror.
- What gets you out of bed in the morning? The consequences of what happens if I don’t get out of bed are usually bad.
- Do you want to have more friends than you have right now? No. I just want to have better ones.
- What part of the past year sticks out in your mind? Stumbling and getting back up and stumbling again and getting back up again and stumbling again and getting back up again and stumbling again.
- You win a scratch-off lottery game that gives you $2000 a week (after taxes) for the rest of your life. Do you keep your job? Yes. I would go absolutely stir-crazy if I didn’t.
- Could you be in a long-distance relationship? If you’re in one, what makes yours work? I could. I don’t need the physical connection, the sex and the groping, as much as the emotional connection. I value the talking much more, the getting to know someone on the deepest, most personal level.
- What’s the best route to your heart? As I said, just get to know me, and let me get to know you, on that deep, personal level. It would be very hard for me not to develop feelings for you if you have a strong heart.
- Have you ever met someone through the internet, then met them in real life? No, and I don’t ever plan to. I try to separate my lives between the Internet Life and the actual life. Doesn’t mean I haven’t been tempted. Usually the temptations have gotten worse as time went on.
- What is your favorite sport? Soccer to watch, golf to play.
- What has been troubling you lately? I have to do a few things. Find a new psychiatrist, complete a defensive driving course. Both deadlines are coming up shockingly quickly. There’s also the fact that I keep staying up until 4 in the morning.
- Did you enjoy your high school prom? If you haven’t gotten there yet, do you look forward to it? If you didn’t go, why not? I did not enjoy my high school prom at all. It was very awkward, considering that I wasn’t sure whether to spend time with my prom date or my girlfriend.
- What do you use more often: your intuition or logical reasoning? Logic. I know that you need to use both, but I am very much left-brained.
- Do you know what makes you happy? Some of it. But not enough to get me through the day.
- Tell me about the last book you read. A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein. Brilliant profile of Bobby Knight and the 1985-86 Indiana Hoosiers. Really gave me an idea of what it’s like to be a coach, especially one as dedicated and emotional as Knight.
- What is the nicest compliment you’ve ever been given? A professor in college said that I had a clear, almost conversational writing style. I returned the favor by failing her class.
- Who was your first crush? Eileen Shimizu, in kindergarten. …Actually, as I look back now, she wasn’t all that pretty. But I just thought she was so sweet. I wasn’t infatuated, but I definitely woulda kissed that. She changed schools after like 3rd grade.
- Do you believe that there is life on other planets? Yes, unequivocally yes.
- Predict what your life will look like a year from now. I will be in my second semester back in residence life. I’ll still be looking for a part-time job, and will hopefully be rehearsing for my first role in a play. The relationship with my roommate will be tense, I will have a very small group of people I can call friends, and I will be struggling to keep up with deadline in least two classes.
- Often, people will ask how your last relationship ended. I want to know how it began. She did all the legwork, I just went along.
- Where is your favorite place to go out and eat? Five Guys. Oh my god, Five Guys.
- What is something you want to change about your current situation? I want to not have this defensive driving thing hanging over me.
- Early bird or night owl? At the time I answered this question, it was 3:27am. Take a guess.
- Are there any childhood possessions you still hold on to? Andy. Got him in 2001, during this.
- Give me an unpopular opinion you have. I don’t like the NFL. It’s too corporate, barbaric, and evil, and I hate how it gets coddled by the sports media and marginalizes every other sport in America between August and February.
- What was the last song that was stuck in your head? At work today I had Nicki Minaj’s verse in Monster stuck in my head. Which is strange, because I actually like Jay’s verse more. Nicki is just very, very off-putting.
- Where do you live? Be as general or specific as you want. I live in a house with a WalkScore of 0. Zero.
- Do you believe in giving kids medals and trophies for participation? I don’t believe it’s nearly as harmful as people think. While I understand the argument against participation medals, I also think that it helps kids realize that winning isn’t always the biggest deal, especially when it’s the town basketball rec league. Seriously, there’s no need to go out there and want to crush your competition in that situation. However, when the stakes are higher (like in school), that’s when you stop it.
- What was the longest car ride you’ve ever taken? 13 hours from New York to Charlotte, with some traffic in between.
- Have you ever taken part in a protest? I was at both the 9/12 rally in 2009 and Occupy Wall Street in 2011. Figure THAT out.
- Would you ever use an online dating service? I wouldn’t rule it out. I just doubt that they work all that well.
- What is your ethnic heritage? My father’s side is all Irish. My mother’s father is Polish. My mother’s mother was mostly Italian, with some German thrown in.
- Describe a person that inspires you. Oh god, I don’t know. I guess I’m inspired by my father. How he strings his life together, I will never know.
- If you earn minimum wage doing what you love, would you? Not if I could make more doing something else. Maybe I can use some of that extra money to do the things I love.
- Do you believe in luck? I believe in fortune, but it’s not flip-of-a-coin fortune, but the things you can’t determine. It’s not a cosmic force.
- Describe the last time you were very angry at someone. I’m still seething, but I was forced to go back to speaking terms.
- Do you want to live until you’re 100? No. 75 at most.
- Do people change? If so, how do you keep a relationship together when both of you start to change? Of course people change. You both have to accept at the start that the person you fell in love with isn’t going to be the same person they were forever. Get over the little differences that might develop and focus on the reasons you fell in love in the first place. And if the reasons you fell in love in the first place are those little things, then the relationship was a mistake anyway.
- Have you ever risked a friendship by telling someone you liked them? No.
- Would you rather be alone doing something you enjoy, or doing something you don’t like with your best friends? I would rather be with a good friend.
- Do you practice what you preach? No. Never. I do the opposite. I believe what I preach, but it’s much, much harder to put it to practice.
- If you take precautions to stay safe, do you ultimately act more recklessly? No, but the opposite is true. If I’ve deliberately not made safety precautions, then I’m much more cautious.
- What do you value more in a significant other: Attractiveness or intelligence? Intelligence. The ability to keep up a decent conversation is sexy as fuck.
- Are you hard-headed? I’ve changed paths notably on a few occasions. But it takes a mountain of evidence to change my mind.
- Have you ever laughed uncontrollably when it was socially inappropriate? Yes. I was about seven, and I was in church. The priest referenced a Bugs Bunny episode, and I just thought it was the funniest shit on the face of the planet.
- When have you felt most alive? I didn’t feel particularly alive at the time, but during my second trip to California we went to Yosemite, and we hiked up this trail to this waterfall, and it was absolutely beautiful.
- Would you prefer to live? A city? The suburbs? The countryside? The mountains? Give me the city, or give me death.
- Do you often skip breakfast? Basically, if I don’t leave the house before 11am, I don’t eat breakfast and go straight to lunch.
- How do you know what true love is? I don’t. I get an idea of what true love is from sappy songs.
- Would you want to know the exact date and time you were going to die? Yes, and I’ll tell you why. If I didn’t, the fact that I had the chance to know but wouldn’t would haunt me for the rest of my life, and I would spend the rest of my life in fear that my death would be right around the corner. If I know when I’m dying, not only would I be more carefree in the years before my death, but I could breathe easy until around the month before I die, and then I can say goodbye to all my friends and family, and die peacefully, in my bed.
- Where is “home” for you? 14 Spruce St, Lake Peekskill. Nothing else will ever be home.
- What song best describes your life right now? Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better. “When it’s all over, I’ll let you know.”
- Do you want to be perfect? Only if I’m handsomely rewarded for it.
- What have you never tried, but would really like to someday? What’s holding you back? I’ve always wanted to try my hand at creative writing. Like, writing short stories. I just keep getting mental blocks.
- How do you express your creativity? I get by. When I was in high school, I had DC. Now, I have question lists and Twitter.
- Describe your neighborhood. Every house sits on at least an acre, and it’s impossible to walk anywhere. The nearest restaurant is a 5-mile walk. The nearest convenience store (7-Eleven) is a 5-minute drive. The nearest grocery is a 10-minute drive. I hate it I hate it I hate it.
- Name something you only liked because it was popular. Pokemon. I got wise after that.
- Give me the story of your life in six words. Faced turbulence, left without a choice.
(Source: nilesarthur)
