This week, my fellow Hopkins Interactive students and I have decided to change things up a bit and all present a common blog topic. Through the blogs and message boards, we really enjoy providing you with a glimpse of our lives here at Hopkins while trying to show what your future could hold, if you choose to make the decision many consider the best of our lives to date--the decision to become a Hopkins student. However, in addition to detailing life here at Hopkins, we also enjoy getting to talk about the totally random things we love. We're people too! Well, sorta...Anyway, just like we've done with the OFF-TOPIC DISCUSSION FORUM of the message boards, we're taking a break from talks about Hopkins and discussing our favorite things--all the aspects of our lives that make us who we are.
So here we present our personal answers to a common survey of our favorite things,including books, movies, television, and much more. I suggest you check out some of the other bloggers' surveys as well, and head over to the message board to check out the surveys of some Hopkins Interactive members who don't write a weekly blog. Be warned, we're about to get REALLY random.
Who is your favorite author?: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Notable Mentions: Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, Oscar Wilde, Meg Cabot (I met her!), Sarah Dessen, any author that makes me laugh. Poets include William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, and T.S. Eliot.
What is your favorite website?: The Sartorialist a blog that takes pictures of people on the street with excellent fashion and personal style. They had a showing of his pictures in NYC, but I was unable to attend. The good news is it is coming to Washington D.C. and they are going to have an "opening". I'm definitely going to that.
Notable Mentions: Google, BBC, Post-Secret
What is your favorite item in your bedroom?: My bedding. Nobody does stripes and paisley better than Ralph Lauren. Haha, at least that's what the lady told me when I bought it last year. In any case, it is critical that you have comfortable bedding. There is nothing better when you are sleep deprived to fall into a comfortable bed and go to sleep.
What, in your opinion, has been the greatest invention of your time?: The internet
Notable Mentions: Cell phones, iPods, and any other Apple inventions
What is your favorite new source?: Brian Williams. I get my news from everywhere, the internet and the TV. Although, I love to hear the newscasters on TV while I work on other things.
Notable Mentions: Anderson Cooper 360, Erica Hill, and for humorous news: The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. I also love Google News.
What is your favorite movie series?: Movie series? This question leaves me feeling blank. The only thing that comes to mind are the Harry Potter movies and while I enjoy watching them they are not absolutely wonderful. Hmmm, after careful thought the only reputable series is The Godfather, but it is kind of ruined by Part III.
What is your favorite time of day? Why?: Morning because you still feel like you have the whole day ahead of you: enough time to complete things, yet its not too early in the morning.
Who is your favorite one-hit wonder?: 99 Red Balloons or (99 Luftballons) by Nena.
Which famous person, living or dead, would you like to have a cup of tea with?: This is a terribly difficult question, I might have to say Harry Truman. I would just like to ask him about his ultimate decision to drop the atom bomb.
Notable Mentions: Lewis Carroll, Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Grace Kelly, Coco Chanel, Stephen Colbert
What is your favorite quote?: "Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked." Ralph Ellison
Notable Mentions: Any quote by Oscar Wilde. I also was always a fan of Sartre's, "Hell is other people" and Albert Camus', "In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer".
Are you a dog person? Cat person? An "other" person? Why?: I am an "other" person. I feel as if that's because I have never had a pet in my life nor has my family. Too be honest, I actually really love horses and I enjoyed riding when I was little. But, overall I think it's because we didn't have any pets that I am pretty neutral between all animals (except for my love of horses).
What is your favorite game?: I interpreted this as boardgames because I basically love every sport. Apples to Apples. This game gives each person 7 nouns and you have to pair one of your nouns with the adjective that is uniform to all. So, each round there is elected one judge who decides which noun best fits the adjective. Whoever put down the adjective that won, wins the card and essentially gets one point! So for example, if the adjective was amazing and someone put down the Red Sox and another person put down Pearl Harbor. I would chose the Red Sox card and whoever put it down wins the point!
Notable Mentions: Taboo, Fictionary, Trivial Pursuit
Who is your favorite TV villain?: I don't want to give anything away so don't read this if you haven't seen the show, Dexter. Favorite villain is Rudy from Dexter ... probably because he's the only TV villain I can think of besides the Republicans in The West Wing and they really aren't my favorite.
Where is the one place in the world you would want to visit?: The Arctic Circle. I just think that out of all the places I want to visit this would be the most important. The world is changing, and who knows if I would be able to visit it in the future. But, this is an extreme case. If I wasn't looking to go somewhere crazy I would like to go to Greece during the summer.
Notable Mentions: Ireland, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Cannes, Amalfi Coast, Argentina, St. Petersburg
What is your favorite guilty pleasure?: Searching for vintage designer clothes and accessories on eBay.
Notable Mentions: taking random quizzes online, looking at celebrity gossip online
To finish this survey, we will be stealing questions used at the end of every broadcast of Inside the Actor's Studio. James Lipton, the host of the show, always finishes each interview with a questionnaire invented by the great Bernard Pebo. Here goes:
-What is your favorite word?: lovely
Notable Mentions: craven, snarky, soporific, brilliant
-What is your least favorite word?: stupid
-What turns you on (creatively, spiritually or emotionally)?: great music
-What turns you off?: failure to try. I hate when people give up before they even begin. It is so dissappointing.
-What sounds or noise do you love?: the sound of the ocean on a windy day
-What sounds or noise do you hate?: the sound of someone rubbing their hand or anything against the ceiling of a car. It's like the weird felt/soft part. It gives me the chills.
-What profession would you like to attempt?: Travel Host (like Samantha Brown on Passport to Europe), but really I would like to hold some sort of political office, hopefully one with gravity. I also would like to become a writer.
-What profession would you absolutely not like to attempt?: Physicist ... I'm just not into math or science
-Finally, if Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?: "You did good, welcome home Jackie."
To comment or debate any of my answers, or just to share your views and continue the discussion with me, be sure to hear over to my personal message board thread! I look forward to hearing from you. And as always, if you have any Hopkins-related questions, don't hesitate to ask them as well! Until next time...
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