Ryan Puckett – Proust Questionnaire

Ryan Pucket, Indianapolis-based communications consultant and freelance writer, joins us this week on the Proust. You can connect with Ryan on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

1. What is your most marked characteristic? My dry sense of humor. Physically, it must be my curly hair and my height – I’m 6’2”.
2. What is the quality you most like in a man? Respect for others and air guitar skills.
3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? A good conversationalist and appreciation for sports, especially baseball.
4. What do you most value in your friends? Non-judgmental of my flaws.
5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Procrastination.
6. What is your idea of perfect happiness? And endless supply of pie and ice cream.
7. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Stopped at a traffic light with a bass-thumping car next to me.
8. Who are your favorite writers? Sadly, I’ve never read much for leisure. GQ’s The Style Guy (Glenn O’Brien) cracks me up and offers common sense sartorial advice
9. What is your current state of mind? Scatterbrained. My wife and I have a 6-month-old – need I explain more?
10. What is your motto? Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
11. What is your greatest fear? Not being able to be there for my family.
12. What is your greatest extravagance? Jackets. My wife thinks I have to many.
13. On what occasion do you lie? None. I don’t lie, to the point that it may be a flaw.
14. What do you dislike most about your appearance? My posture.
15. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “So…” “In terms of” “For all intensive purposes (which I recently learned should be: for all intents and purposes)” “The fact of the matter is…”