Insanity test

I had to do this, dontcha know.

Insanity Test
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Just how crazy are you? - 45%
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My element

You're Element is Light. You are friendly, happy, social, bubbly, and can brighten up any one's day. You are very kind and a real people person because you have several friends (or at least should). You're cheery nature makes you lovable and your stunning looks are sweet and stand out.

What's Your Element(girls)? (PICTURES)
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"Bubbly" is not a word anyone has ever ascribed to me. Heh. These are a riot today.

My Soul (I'm laughing now)

You have a Lost Soul. No one is really sure what that can always mean, because it can be defined
in many ways. As Legend goes, lost souls were the spirits of passed away people who are neither in heaven nor hell. They walk the earth, brooding mysteriously, always appearing when you expect it least. So hence, if you have a Lost Soul, then you are probably very insecure and shy. Stuck in your own little box, you watch the world fly by as a loner. You don't know your place. You seemingly don't have a place in society or an interest. You are a very capricious person, and are confused and frustrated about where you belong. You crave for the sense and feeling of home--but have not obtained it yet.

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Really, this one is absolutely hysterical. If I read this as a teenager I think I'd slit my wrists. Thank God I'm not; but I did get a good giggle. And I only wish I looked like this... Nice shoes.

What color am I?

You're Purple!

What is your color? (girls only... great anime pics)
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Purple, hmmm. {wave to Lois}

My age today

My inner child is six years old!

Look what I can do! I can walk, I can run, I can read! I like to do stuff, and there's a whole big world out there to do it in. Just so long as I can take my blankie and my Mommy and my three best friends with me, of course.

How Old is Your Inner Child?
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Somehow this didn't make my to-do list

...but I meant to do it last week...

Link: Via Jenica and Amy
Title: Design your own hell

Hipsters
Circle I Limbo

Scientologists
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Militant Vegans
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

Chicago sports teams' fans, Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies
Circle IV Rolling Weights

PETA Members
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

General asshats
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Creationists
Circle VII Burning Sands

George Bush, Republicans
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Saddam Hussein, Uday Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Qusay Hussein
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

I do like the picture of Scientologists whirling in a dark & stormy wind and the Republicans living, as usual, immersed in excrement. Somehow those are poetic justice.

Having read Dante, I don't remember some of these circles.... ;-)

_____________________________________
APPENDED:

But anyway, these are a little abstract. In my own personal hell, here's the lineup:

OCLC
Circle I Limbo

Stupid Library Patrons
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Ponytail Man
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

Chicago sports teams' fans
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Complaining Tech
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

Former Boss from Hell
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Chicago drivers
Circle VII Burning Sands

Donald Rumsfeld, Religious Know-it-Alls (of every stripe)
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Hypocrites
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

Which is great except Ponytail Man will probably be happy, and Rumsfeld will feel right at home. Sigh.

Vocabulary test

Title: Peter Schmies's Word Classification Test via Frilly

I got 165 correct. I'm not sure what it means, except I know a lot of words.

Now it's your turn!

Which book... ?

Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose. You are a
mystery novel dealing with theology, especially
with catholic vs liberal issues. You search
wisdom and knowledge endlessly, feeling that
learning is essential in life.


Which literature classic are you?
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--Perhaps I should read this book?--

Thanks, Annie!

Dear me

Cocktail

?? Which Alcoholic Drink Are You ??
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Hmm, but which cocktail?!

Wednesday--Time to Warm Up the Brain

Link: BDI
Title: Hump Day

We are smack in the middle of National Friendship Week which occurs annually during the third week of August. What better way to warm up for the Mind Hump than by bragging on our friends -- after all, we are all about sharing the love. Using the letters F-R-I-E-N-D list six qualities that your best friend possesses. [Boy, does that word look weird!]

F - Fun and Funny. The obvious choices. Or why hang around them?
R - Religious, or Spiritual. Or at least deeper than the average rain puddle. I don't mean "churchy," however...
I - Intuitive.
E - Eager-for-Adventure.
N - Nosy. In the sense of asking probing questions and waiting for the real answer.
D - Dedicated.
(Who does this describe? Jenny.)

This week let's have some fun with free association or "I say ___, you think ___." Using the following words respond with your first thought. You can respond with one word, a sentence, or just babble like crazy! Ready? Do the Humpty Hump!

01. protection -- My first response was "Doberman." But it was followed so quickly by "condom" that I just had to include both. Maybe using the two would decrease the spread of AIDS/HIV even faster?? :-)
02. twist -- Chubby Checker
03. furry -- Marten (I'm reading "Inkheart.")
04. buck -- Henry. Owens. Deer. They all popped into my head at once.
05. purple -- "...flying purple people eater." And my sister hated this color.
06 wave -- "...long may she wave." And marcelled hair.
07. flash -- Gordon. Uh-oh: too much listening to my Best of Queen CDs!
08. pokey -- Hokey.
09. neon -- City streets.
10. elastic -- Underwear. [huh??]
11. chips -- Corn chips, with salsa and shredded cheese. Oy. Great: now I'm hungry.
12. float -- Hope Floats. Which I never saw. Also, Homecoming. And the Tournament of Roses Parade.

Birthdays

Title: Your birth months (thanks to Shirl)
Pick your birth month and cross (strike) out what doesn't apply to you. Then post the whole list for the next person or link back to this site.

NOVEMBER: Has a lot of ideas. Difficult to fathom. Thinks forward. Unique and brilliant. Extraordinary ideas. Sharp thinking. Fine and strong clairvoyance. Can become good doctors. Dynamic in personality. Secretive. Inquisitive. Knows how to dig secrets. Always thinking. Less talkative but amiable. Brave and generous. Patient. Stubborn and hard-hearted. If there is a will, there is a way. Determined. Never give up. Hardly becomes angry unless provoked. Loves to be alone. Thinks differently from others. Sharp-minded. Motivates oneself. Does not appreciates praises. High-spirited. Well-built and tough. Deep love and emotions. Romantic. Uncertain in relationships. Homely [in which sense? American or British?? I'm going with British and leaving it in!]. Hardworking. High abilities. Trustworthy. Honest and keeps secrets. Not able to control emotions. Unpredictable.

Obfuscation results

1. When I was twenty, one of the job possibilities I considered was long-haul truck driving. I love driving and thought there could be nothing cooler than doing it for a living. My downfall, and one of the main reasons I never pursued it, was the fact that I can't drive in reverse in a car, much less in a tractor-trailer. Still wish I could do this sometimes, though...

TRUE. I love driving! It's one of the reasons that I like to travel. All those family vacations int he car? Heaven! But, everytime I've damaged a car, it's been while reversing. I'm better than I used to be, but backwards driving in a semi sounds perfectly dangerous with me at the wheel.

2. My brother and I came face to face with a young bear while hiking in the mountains. He was about thirteen, I was three-ish. He was supposed to be doing some surveying of a parcel of property for my dad. I was just along for the hike. So really, he had two jobs: carry the big stick so Dad could get his measurement, and watch his twerpy little sister to be sure she doesn't fall off the edge. We clambered up a rock slide and reached the top and just in front of us was a brown bear. He was bigger than me but smaller than my brother, so clearly not full-grown. We all stared across the species barrier for a minute and then bro picked me up and RAN full-tilt down the mountain. I could hear the bear crashing away the other direction behind us. When we reached the bottom, Dad yelled at us for leaving the stick up there.

This is the HALF-TRUTH. I wasn't there, although the story was told so often around the dinner table that it has become incredibly vivid in my head. As a child, it just felt like I had been there. The rest of the story is true, just my presence in it was added. Yes, my Dad yelled at my brother for leaving the surveying rod up the side of the hill...before Dad knew the rest of the story.

3. I didn’t learn to read until I was seven. My sister worked and worked with me, but I just didn't get it. She and I are both librarians now, which is a credit to her stick-to-itiveness (and, I guess, mine). Kindergarten and part of First Grade were rough.

This is HOGWASH. I was four when I learned to read. The book we were reading was "Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang." It was the page with the picture of the family on it. It was a definite Light Bulb Moment for me. I just suddenly totally got it. I used to read books to the rest of my Kindergarten class when I got to school--"Geek in training." Grade school--the academic bits anyway--was a breeze for me. (OK, my sister and I are both librarians, so that was sort of tricky...sorry. It didn't occur to me to change that.)

Fun Sunday Quiz

From Annie
Which Muppet are You??

You are Rowlf.
You are a loner, and love classical music, You can play the piano without opposable thumbs. Then again, you are just a Muppet.

ALSO KNOWN AS:
Ol' Brown Ears

HOBBIES:
Piano playing, punning, fetching.

QUOTE:
"My bark is worse than my bite, and my piano playing beats 'em both."

FAVORITE MOVIE:
"The Dogfather"

FAVORITE COMPOSER:
Poochini

FAVORITE SONG:
"I've Never Harmed An Onion, So Why Should They Make Me Cry?"

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[some of this is so right on it's scary...] hee hee hee

I'm a day late with this...

Link: The Last Five Pages
Title: Obfuscation

How well can you get to know someone from reading their daily musings? Would readers, when asked to choose what’s real and what’s fake, be able to figure out the truth based on what they’ve gotten to know about you from your blog?

The Game: On Friday, August 13 you’ll post 3 stories:

Two false and one true or
Two true and one false

Readers have to pick the false story(ies), leaving their guess in the comments. (Make sure you let them know which version of the game you’re playing.)

On Monday, August 16 you’ll post the correct response. [I'm giving everyone till 8/17 since I'm late posting these.]

OK?

So here are mine (by the way I'm splitting the difference: about one-and-a-half of the below stories is true, which gives people a better chance, eh?):

1. When I was twenty, one of the job possibilities I considered was long-haul truck driving. I love driving and thought there could be nothing cooler than doing it for a living. My downfall, and one of the main reasons I never pursued it, was the fact that I can't drive in reverse in a car, much less in a tractor-trailer. Still wish I could do this sometimes, though...

2. My brother and I came face to face with a young bear while hiking in the mountains. He was about thirteen, I was three-ish. He was supposed to be doing some surveying of a parcel of property for my dad. I was just along for the hike. So really, he had two jobs: carry the big stick so Dad could get his measurement, and watch his twerpy little sister to be sure she doesn't fall off the edge. We clambered up a rock slide and reached the top and just in front of us was a brown bear. He was bigger than me but smaller than my brother, so clearly not full-grown. We all stared across the species barrier for a minute and then bro picked me up and RAN full-tilt down the mountain. I could hear the bear crashing away the other direction behind us. When we reached the bottom, Dad yelled at us for leaving the stick up there.

3. I didn’t learn to read until I was seven. My sister worked and worked with me, but I just didn't get it. She and I are both librarians now, which is a credit to her stick-to-itiveness (and, I guess, mine). Kindergarten and part of First Grade were rough.

Hump day

Link: BDI
Title: August 11th is Alcatraz Day which commemorates the arrival of the first prisoners in 1934 to be incarcerated on Alcatraz aka The Rock. Let's warm-up ... using the letters T-H-E-R-O-C-K list seven material things (try to think of something other than your computer for "C") that would make you miserable if they were taken away from you. Warmed up? Okay ... let's break free and hump like we just don't care!

T - Teeth (don't know why that jumped into the front of my mind, but I surely would miss 'em)
H - Hot pads (again, this is stream of consciousness here, so don't ask where that came from)
E - Email (d'uh, right?)
R - Rock music
O - OCLC (if you aren't a librarian, you'll miss the full significance of that)
C - Cars (long walk to and from work...and anywhere else)
K - My kitchen

This week a getting to know you hump with a crazy twist. Ready?

01. If you could read ANY person's blog (living or dead), whose blog would you love to immerse yourself in? Peter's. It would be funny to see the light bulb come on. At least, we have to assume it finally did...

02. Mattel decides to make a Barbie-like (or Ken-like) doll of you -- what would be the most important accessory or accessories they would absolutely have to package you with in order to portray your lifestyle? Glasses and a book. Sensible shoes. Human hair, stylable.

03. It's been said "The eyes are the windows of the soul." If your eyes were truly a window into your soul and your character traits were represented by objects, what things would people see when they gazed through your windows and what would those things represent?

Simple cross: Probably broken and taped together gingerly, because I keep
screwing up.
Books: Both those read and those created (as in scrapbooks). I read and save EVERY-bloody-THING!
Headphones and/or a boombox: Love to listen to almost any music.
Hymnal: Love singing old hymns.
My family: All of them. They are that important. Wouldn't it be interesting if you couldsee everyone's family by looking in their eyes? Not just those with whom we live, but the whole quilt of our ancestry....

04. We've all said it, we've all done it ... said OOPS that is. What was your most memorable OOPS? So many to choose from...the most recent is telling off my new nephew-in-law last month.

05. Cave drawings -- the blog of the caveman. If we drew pictures on our walls what sort of scrawling might we see on your walls? Stick figures and line drawings. I can't draw representationally, except for architectural drawings. An outgrowth of my childhood. Also probably lists. Possibly swear words. Maybe even lists of swear words, alphabetized, with etymologies... ;-)

Well, of course...

Thanks, Annie!


(...I love this book!)

'Tis a great mystery, but somehow you have come to belong in Jane Eyre; a random world of love, kindness, madness, bad luck and lunatic ex-wives. There really isn't much to say about the place you belong in. It's your place, and though it seems far from reality largly due to how random the events are, you seem to enjoy it. You belong in a world where not too many people understand you, and where you can be somewhat of a recluse.

Which Classic Novel do You Belong In?
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Killing time

Link: Daily Dirt
Title:Travelling

1. When travelling, do you prefer long drives or by plane?

Actually, I like both for different reasons. I love the act of driving, and watching the scenery go by--assuming there IS scenery to look at and you aren't in Nebraska or North Dakota!--brings back memories of all the driving vacations of my childhood. Flying is faster. But it's awfully annoying now.

2. Where was your first out-of-country trip?

I think the first time I left the States was in 1978 when I went to England.

3. Who do you usually travel with?

Nowadays I usually go on big trips with The Beast and Sparky. Once a year I go on a Mom's/girls' weekend with friends to scrapbook. Occasionally, I fly solo to visit family.

4. What's your favorite destination?

Hate to be wishy-washy, but I can't pick just one. There are a lot of different reasons to travel. I can't think of a trip that didn't have a single aspect to enjoy. Maybe going home for my dad's funeral...but I sure learned a lot that trip. I think that when I stop enjoying travel, shoot me.

For education: The Cathedrals of England; Siberia, China, the east coast of the U.S. (or more specifically D.C./Virginia); the ever-popular "how many miles can we put on the car/how many cities can we cram into two weeks" trips across the country.

For noise and people-watching, and good food: London, Athens, Chicago, Denver, Mexico City, Moscow.

For relaxation: Moosehead Lake, ME; Greek islands, Puerto Vallarta, San Diego; Ouray, CO.

5. Do you usually travel for fun or work?

Fun. Libraries don't fund too many business trips.

Cuz I really don't feel like working

Link: Luna Nina

1. Sting :: Gordon Matthew Sumner (Gad, I always forget how much he needed to change his name!)
   
2. BMW :: Show-off
   
3. Jeremy :: Pearl Jam
   
4. Audacious :: Most celebrities today (i.e. Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Tom Green, Andy Dick...)
   
5. Drag Queen :: Why is it that a man dressing up like a woman is called a "drag" anyway?? Uhm, Ru-Paul, and that Vegas Taxi show.
   
6. Title :: Book (what, you were expecting insight here?)
   
7. Stamp :: Food
   
8. Bad :: Michael Jackson
   
9. Snow White :: Mae West
   
10. Delegate :: ...what I should do with several little jobs I have here on my desk :-)

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Thursday Threesome

Title: ::Surprises in the Mail::

Onesome: Surprises-- Hey, do you like surprises? ...and what kinds? Birthday parties, dinners out? ...or are you one of those people who absolutely has to know what's going on before it happens?

I don’t really like surprises that much, honestly. Life is surprising enough (and not always in a good way) to add engineered surprises to it. Having said that, both baby showers that were done for me were surprises and they were fabulous. And I can roll with a change of plans easily, as long as I’m aware that it could happen: for instance, you have to expect some upset when you travel, because something always goes wrong. But yes, generally, I like having a plan. And I like sticking with it.

Twosome: in the-- nick of time: How do you keep track of birthdays and anniversaries and events you need to remember but only occur once a year? ...and where is your bailout place for cards and such when you've cut things a little too close?

Last first: Factory Card Outlet.

I have a list of all the birthdays on every calendar, and I remember most of them anyway. My brain does well with this kind of memory retention, but this year I’ve gone almost completely card-free. Not even ecards. I used to be much better about sending cards out, but life has gotten completely out of hand. I think what I’m going to have to do is set aside the first Sunday of every month next year and do ALL UPCOMING cards at once: buy them, sign / address / stamp them, and put them in my car to be doled out as the dates get closer. Sound like a plan?

Threesome: Mail-- Mail Call! Did anything interesting show up lately besides the bills? ...and do letters and cards still make it to your place or have email and ecards taken it all over? Inquiring minds and all that...

We got a letter Tuesday from People to People International inviting Sparky on a 2-week exchange trip next year to England and France. Pretty cool-sounding, but I’m not getting my hopes up; it probably costs an arm and at least one internal organ. We’ll see. He doesn’t know about it yet.

We still get mostly paper cards at holidays and birthdays. I still send mostly paper cards (but see above). So November thru early February is prime mail time at our house!

RE Ecards: I like their immediacy, but I’d really prefer to get a paper card. I think this is why:

When I was a kid, I was given my parents' old bedroom set to use. In the bottom drawer of the (huge) bureau were all the leftovers from the shower held for my mom when she was expecting me. I was the fifth kid, but I am ten years younger than my next-youngest sibling, so they had already gotten rid of all the baby stuff when my imminent appearance was announced. Along with all the shower-game papers were the congratulatory cards, with gifts noted on the back of each card. And there were birthday cards from my first three of four birthdays signed by relatives and family friends I barely knew or had never met.

I used to get all this stuff out at least once a year, usually much more often, and just go through it, item by item, looking at the funny pictures Grandma had drawn and Great-Aunt Florentine’s fabulously beautiful but unreadable signature. I still have some of the gifts that were given to Mom for me (blankets and an outfit), but I have no clear idea of what happened to the cards and papers. It’s a shame I lost track of them. I doubt I ever told Mom what they meant to me so she may have thrown them out while I was in college. But they have stayed in my memory and my heart. My mother always (ALWAYS) saying, “You were a surprise, but not a mistake!” Between the cards and this reassurance from Mom, even at the lowest points of my childhood—and of course there were some—I always knew I was loved.

Hump Day

Link
Title: "I say _____, you think _____"!

1. pop -- bottle
2. toast -- wedding
3. glass -- houses
4. holiday -- vacation
5. bottle -- fly
6. join -- the club
7. barrel -- o' monkeys
8. beach -- sand
9. paper -- towels
10. bottom -- feeder
11. love -- American Style
12. wrap -- Subway