Not going to try to apply quotes to all of these.
Are you a good person? If we're speaking in the sense of binary good/bad, then I'd like to think so. On scale, I'd probably put myself somewhere in the low 70s, out of 100.
What is a good person? Hmm... to keep it brief, I guess I'll say someone who is capable feeling and acting upon empathy, though I think it's also important to control one's empathy. If you let every terrible thing that happens in the world get to you and try to help fix it, your attention will be too divided to do anyone any good.
What is the correct metric for good? In terms of something that is relatively measurable, I'm going to go with "number of days brightened".
Could you compose an essay on the nature of goodness and morality within the human condition and culture? Yes, if I put more time and thought into it than I plan to at the moment.
Do you blog? Nope. I started a blog once, but never actually wrote anything for it.
Why? I started it to practice my writing, but also to have a more established web-presence.
Why not? Turns out that when you spend all day writing, you don't feel like writing for a blog. I also don't have a lot of interests I care to write about in great detail on a continual basis. There's only so much you can say about writing fiction if you don't want to get into plot and don't want to turn into an advice blog. I don't generally have strong enough opinions about video games to write them down, and I already do basic write-ups of my D&D games for my own use, and have no interest in making them more legible to an outsider, because I know that
I have little interest in reading about other people's D&D games.
Why anything? The big bang, I'm led to believe.
Does anything matter? Depends entirely on how you define mattering. Presumably any action by a person or natural force will rendered irrelevant in time, but as humans can only perceive a very limited amount of time, things can matter greatly to the universe as far as that individual can sense it.
Do you want me to stop getting existential? It'll probably speed up my answers, but it's also a nice mental exercise to think in the abstract.
How're you doing right now? A bit tired, I had trouble getting to sleep last night. A little sore from exercising earlier this morning, but not bad.
How's your day been? Your week? Today's been slow, I'm not really feeling very motivated to do anything (hence the posting here). This week has been excellent, however. I've been working on my final edits to my novel, and in the last two days I went over twelve out of the thirty chapters, when I'd been previously averaging two or three a day. I'm pretty excited to be almost done with it, and to get onto the next step.
Is Fayili going to be cross that I've nicked her questions? I doubt it.
Are you wearing a hat? Nope.
Why the hell not? I'm inside. Also my hair's wet from a shower.
What is the worst decision you've ever made? Not making an effort to be more sociable in my formative years. I'm a very talkative person, but I've had to work hard in the last five years or so to get over some socially crippling shyness issues.
What is the worst joke you know? When I was younger, probably ten or so, my brother made up a joke while we were waiting for dentist appointments. I believe it went: "there are two people in a dentist's waiting room. One goes in, then after the regular amount of time, he comes back out. The second does the same. The second one says to the first: 'did you notice that the dentist only has one hand?' and the first replies: "yeah. Did you know those rubber gloves taste awful?" The problems with it are numerous. Why is the first one still in the waiting room that much later? Why did anyone let him leave after he presumably bit the dentist's hand off, and why did the dentist see another patient? Why did the dentist even have his hand all the way into the first patient's mouth? But the worst part is, I found the joke funny, and I can't forget it. Now every time I go to the dentist I'm reminded of it, and for years I kept laughing part way through every appointment. It was infuriating!
Favourite/least favourite band? Both of those are tough... favourite is probably a toss up between Genesis, who I really like but listened to too much last year and am completely burnt out on, on The Alan Parsons Project (and Alan Parsons, which was still sort of a band even once he went solo). I've also been really enjoy the obscure band Phideaux recently, but I'll have to wait to see if that appreciation lasts well. As for least favourite, nothing springs to mind. There are songs I don't like, and genres I generally don't care for, but I can't think of any one band I strongly dislike.
Would you like a treehouse? It depends on the design. A small, private fully functional house built in a tree? Sure. I'm not particularly outdoorsy though, so I don't have much interest in the stereotypical box with a ladder and nothing else.
What is your favourite proverb? Nothing comes to mind.
What is your favourite poem? Drawing a blank here too. I know there were a couple of poems I liked when taking English classes in high school, but none enough that I remember them.
Do you like cheese? Yes, but not nearly as much as a lot of people do.
Which cheese? I don't eat cheese very often if it isn't in another dish, these days, but I used to enjoy eating cheddar. I still eat it on casseroles and the like, and I like jarlsberg on my pizza.
What should the next question be? Easier to answer than this question.