Once again I’m reporting live from the Department of Trying Something Completely Different and extending this opportunity to YOU, the Viewers at Home, to share your feedback about your Midlife Crisis Crossover reading experience. This may be an imperfect structure (I’ve already encountered one unresolved bug), but I beg your forgiveness and your willingness to humor me in this flighty endeavor.

Assuming I didn’t break anything, embedded in this entry should be a simple survey — two pages, five questions in all — providing statistical info on the MCC readership at large to satisfy my curiosity, to help me think a little harder about what subjects to incorporate here in future entries, to show me whether or not the PollDaddy survey function is worth reusing, and to determine once and for all how many of you are real and how many of you are Matrix holo-henchmen.

Please feel free to be honest with your responses. Any defensive crying on my part will be kept strictly between myself and my stuffed P. Opus doll. If this version of the survey is too buggy beyond belief, please feel free to use this direct link to the survey over at PollDaddy instead. (Updated 6/25/2013, 1:05 a.m. EDT: Fixed the link. My phone hates the version below, but the link seems fine now.)

If that method fails, let me know and I’ll consider not counting off points against you. Remember: this is only a test. If it becomes a fiasco, let us all agree never to speak of it again. Enjoy!

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