I can almost visualize myself on my deathbed, saying, “My wardrobe did this to me…”.
Month: May 2005
More dresses:
Will anyone else out there admit that they are a compulsive shopper? It’s a shameful thing. Gary and I are both compulsive shoppers. This is something I’m extremely concerned about as I worry we are compromising our retirements (although someone pointed out that we will have a lot of great CDs to listen to), not to mention crowding ourselves out of our perfectly sufficient 850 square ft. apt.
I’m interested in the relationship of shopping to neurotransmitters. I couldn’t find much online about it, but here’s an interesting paragraph that confirms my suspicions:
And indeed, who has not felt the frisson of acquisition? I suppose that’s what the world runs on now. Shameful. Shameful.
So much for “radiant beneficence”, I guess.
Do you hate it when people paste in the result of their online quizzes? Anyway, here’s my diagnosis from the Personality Defect test.
| Class Clown You are 0% Rational, 71% Extroverted, 57% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant. |
| You are the Class Clown. This means you walk down the center of the classroom with books on your head, while the teacher stares on in… Shit, I really need to stop looking at these pictures while I’m typing. Anyway, I MEANT to say that you are the Class Clown, and this means that you are extroverted, mean, and arrogant. You are not very rational, so you gravitate towards things that produce feelings or emotions over thoughts (like fart jokes or spitballs, for instance). You are also an extrovert and rather full of yourself, so of course you want constant attention for yourself and think you are somehow better than others. You can also be a bit mean-spirited, and like a class clown you wouldn’t hesitate to make a joke at someone else’s expense, no matter how terrible it would make them feel. So your personality defects are that you have to be the center of attention, that you don’t care about others, and that you are rather irrational and motivated by intuitions. Now stop walking around with those books on your head and sit down this instant!
1. You are more INTUITIVE than rational. 2. You are more EXTROVERTED than introverted. 3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle. 4. You are more ARROGANT than humble. Compatibility:
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Schoolyard Bully, the Smartass, and the Brute. * * If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits. The other personality types: The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble. The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble. The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant. The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble. The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant. The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble. The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Personality Defect Test written by saint_gasoline on Ok Cupid |
Sometimes I notice my reactions to people and events feel like big slapping water.
I do wish that eBay were a more secular space. “God bless” indeed…
Dreams this morning:
G. and I go to visit Mick Jagger. His house is surprisingly funky — on a hill, a faded victorian — a big dog, a piano. The Stones tell us we can release their next album for only $4.50 a song. “It’s not about money,” they say.
Another dream I am in a bus with I think old colleagues from Japan. They are asking me how I think animals can contribute to our lives. I say: 1) the share their speechless wisdom, 2) they help us be better ‘stewards of the earth,” and 3) something else even more platitudinous I can’t remember right now.
Is it possible to move among people in a kind of “beneficent radiance”?
Nick Piombino, on poetry and “biography”:
We don’t just read, we feel, we empathize, we have antipathies,
we react, we identify. Writing and reading poetry, or any literature,
or significantly experiencing any work of art, is also partly
an adventure in personal insight and transformation. It is utterly
“personal”, even when contemporary life at the moment is less and less so.
Poetry and poets and all artists struggle to enliven the personal,
individual aspect of living.
Otohime 