In light of recent conversations as well as overheard conversations, a lot of people are doing questionnaires, particularly the Prost Questionnaire (there is a book of famous people answering it, as well as a sometimes feature on the Next Chapter). So here are my answers to the Prost Questionnaire:
b. Your favourite quality in a man: Ability to fall into easy, frank friendships.
c. Your favourite quality in a woman: Ability to fall into a playful, conversational friendships
d. Your chief characteristic: my chattiness
e. What you appreciate the most in your friends: Their time and laughter.
f. Your main fault: Doubt, action crippling doubt
g. Your favourite occupation: The Pursuit of Trivial Knowledge
h. Your idea of happiness: All my friends and family having a good time together on an island resort that has a huge library and Internet access; Knowledge, friendship, peace
i. Your idea of misery: Being trapped with nothing but reminders of all the mistakes you have or will make.
j. If not yourself, who would you be?: No one. I saw the Star Trek episode showing why changing previous selves is a bad idea.
k. Where would you like to live? Not so much in one place, but the freedom to have a home in Owen Sound, Toronto, Vancouver, London, and Tokyo. With easy transportation between them
l. Favourite colour and flower: Green and forget me nots
m. Favourite bird: The Penguin and the Kingfisher/blue jay
n. Favourite prose authors: Currently, Neil Gaiman, Guy Gavriel Kay for novels and Rebecca Rosenblum, Cory Doctorow and Thomas King for short stories
o. Favorite Poets: Don’t know a lot of poets. Frost, Dante,
p. Favorite heroes in fiction: Sherlock Holmes, Eramus, Eljah Snow, Cliff Steele, Meyer Landsman, Bilbo Baggins, Morpheous, Richard Castle, Batman, Spiderman
q. Favorite Heroines in fiction: Fenfang, Nikki Heat(Detective Beckitt), Sun, Crazy Jane
r. Favorite painters and composers: Rembrandt, Mozart, Bach, Monet, Duchamp (Dada in general), the Group of Seven
s. Your heroes in real life: Neil Gaiman, Foreign aid workers
t. Your heroines in real life: Steph, Becky, Corrina, Mom
u. What characters in history do you most dislike: Most absolute monarchs
v. Your heroines in history: George Elliot, Elenor Roosevelt
w. Your favorite food and drink: General Tao Tofu, 7up from a glass bottle, sushi, A&W momma burgers, fettuccine alfredo
x. Your favorite names: Scott, Alexis, Zoë, Sebastian, Gavon, Jessica, Selene
y. What I hate the most: People (including myself) being stupid
z. World history character I hate the most: A Lot of ancient kings are on this list.
aa. The military event I admire the most: The retreat at Dunkirk (the fact so many were saved) , The Greeks triumph over the Persians (the battle after the battle of the 300)
bb. The reform I admire the most: The charter of rights and freedom (Canada) end of absolute monarchies.
cc. The natural talent I’d like to be gifted with: perfect memory recall
dd. How I wish to die: Heat death of the universe (possible a couple universes after this one)
ee. What is your present state of mind: Weary but vaguely optimistic
ff. For what fault have you most toleration: Obsessions with some trivia subject.
gg. My favorite motto. “The thing about common sense is that it is not a lot of sense and not all that common” or “I should be too afraid that it bring me misfortune”
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