Personality Profiling

Good afternoon friends:) I hope everyone is having as nice weather as we are here in S.C. Things have been pretty busy here as I just finished up teaching yesterday and now have to start prepping for the fall as well as for my Comps in September. Anyhow, I was talking to my friend Becca the other day and we somehow got on the topic of the Myers-Briggs test. You know that one right? It's tells you about your personality type and who your best love matches are, what careers you're suited for, etc. It had been a while since I'd thought about it, but this thing is pretty dead on, at least for me. I'm an ENFJ. The more I started reading those site about your personality profiles, the more I enjoyed reading up on other people, especially my friends. In fact, I find that I potentially learn a helluva lot more about people from these profiles than from simple horoscope profiling. Of course, with everyday horoscope, they are just general enough that people can find something of themselves in every prediction. With all these Myers-Briggs/astrology pages, I came across one that is supposed to tell you even more specific things based on your Myers-Briggs profile, your exact birthday, the exact time you were born and the latitude and longitude of the city you were born in. While that's pretty damn cool, the only thing you get for free is the actual picture chart of how the stars are aligned for you. You need to pay money for them to actually interpret it for you. Figures! So a case of beer goes to anyone who can read my chart... (Ummm, yeahhhh. Like I know what this means)

Okay, so today's poll asks: What Myers-Briggs type are you? Here are a couple of pages that give pretty detailed explanations for each type once you know what it is. If you don't, here's a free online test you can take and it'll tell you.

Myers-Briggs personality pages:
The Personality Page
Geocities Life Explore
Type Logic

What I've Come to Realize

Morning friends. It's drizzling here an S.C. and my Internet is working for the moment (F%&$ You Verizon!) so I thought I'd write. Since my Internet has been on the fritz, it's forced me to do things without the Internet for a change, old school style;) Thus I've been doing a lot of reading, helping friends move, etc. For those of you (if there really is anyone who thinks so) that life in ivory tower is at all glamorous then think again. The summer, especially, is brutal for most grad students because we don't get money for our assistantships and so you are really tested as to how far you can stretch a dollar. While this is a good skill to possess in general, I laugh when I think of the things I and some of my friends have done this summer to keep us afloat financially. I myself prefer the old stand-by of selling things on Ebay for cash, but between me and my friends, we've babysat, done yardwork, and sold bodily fluids just to keep us in caffeine over these past few months. Because of this, I'm soooooo ready to sell out and pimp myself out to some rich 80 yr old just so I can buy my iced caramel macchiatos and the occasional new DVD for my collection;) So if you know anyone on the verge of dying and with no relative to leave his fortune to, feel free to give him my number (hehe).

In other news, I saw the new film Talledega Nights this weekend. Hilarious!!! Not better than Anchorman (I think because Anchorman has a better supporting cast), but still some quality moments poking fun at Redneck culture. What I love aobut Will Farrell movies though is his attention to detail. Like the fac tthat his sponsor is Wonder Bread or that dinner around the table includes food from KFC & Dominos or that he's wearing a Crystal Gayle t-shirt in one scene. You can only appreciate that if you grew up in a redneck state. Some of the scenes fell flat, but for the most part it was hilarious!!!

Last thing: I'd like to send a shout out to my cousin Mikey who has a new tatoo "RINO" on his back. It's pretty badass and will come in handy anytime he's too drunk and can't remember his name. What's so funny is that I was teasing him because he's only 16 and I can't believe his parents would let him get that before he turns 18 (mind commenting on that Aunt Patrice). Hell, I had to hide my tatoo from our grandparents until they both died! So good for you Mikey!

Moving on up...to the murder house

Not me of course. I love my apartment and have way to much shit to move (more on that later). But my friend Beccatron moved yesterday and like the good friend that I am, I offered to help. The apt she moved into seemed to have it all. It's sooo cute too. Quiet neighborhood, A/C, washer & dryer, dishwasher, fully furnished, etc. But shortly after Beccatron signed her lease, the house became forevermore known as the murder house (cue lightning). You see, in early June we all found out on the news that some shady guy who was living in what would be the apt directly above Beccatron's, was murdered in his apt from an apparent drug deal or something gone awry. Are you freaking kidding me?! Right after she signs the lease?! Yeah, so when Malfeasance and I started moving her in yesterday morning we could see the red tape on the windows above her and his grill and stuff locked up (ya know, evidence and all that) on his deck right above Beccatron's door. Soooo shady!! Luckily, once we started unpacking boxes and the decorating began, we almost forgot about the upstairs apartment's sinister past. But Malfeasance and I have decided that the best possible thing to do is host a "Murder Mystery" dinner part/housewarming. How awesome would that be?!!! Remember those boardgame/video mysteries in which you get to dress up like Clue characters from the 40's and sole a murder? It would be sooo bitchin!

Becca's move got me to thinking about moving in general and how much stuff one acquires over time that you are only reminded of once you start having to pack stuff up (I'm sure Mommymatic will have a lot to say on this subject since recently completing the move to SLC). But seriously, when I moved back from NYC to Ohio for a few months, I had an entire U-Haul of stuff. And at that time, I was moving out of a 17 x 11.5 foot studio in Manhattan. So where does all the crap that we acquire come from? Because I certainly don't know how I filled an entire U-Haul with that move. And now that I have added furniture to the mix, I don't think I'll ever be moving out of my current residence, lest I make the woodland creatures who frolic in my backyard (not to mention my father) tremble in fear at my apparent materialism.

Anyhow, those were my random thoughts on moving I thought I'd share, especially since my muscles are sore from carrying boxes yesterday and I can't leave my apt anyway since I have far to much stuff. At least by staying put I'm afforded lots of blog time;) Have a great Saturday friends! Later!

Paging Dr. McDreamy

Good morning friends. Yes, it's freaking 99 degress here in S.C. and I'm too lazy to post anything of substance today so here's another YouTube video for you to enjoy. It's a compilation video of Grey's Anatomy clips to the song Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol. Could this be any more romantic?!

America is melting

America is melting...literally. For anyone reading this blog outside the U.S. or in a nice mild climate (you know who you are) fuck you;), because the rest of us are melting our faces off in 100 degree weather. It's so freaking hot out that last night I was talking to one Lisaopolis and even she, a staunch hater of all things air conditioned, had been seeking refuge all day in an ultra frigid Starbucks. Don't they know that Irish people char in the sun?! And because of this, the U.S. has gone into energy crisis mode. The Gawker has even joked about an 18 hour over/under for the next city power outage. I was in the city during the last blackout on the freaking hottest day of the year, so it's like Nam flashbacks for me just thinking about it.

In other news, lazy sluts of the world rejoice because the morning after pill is shortly going to be offered over the counter. So for all of you too lazy to take the 10 extra seconds to put the condom on, you don't have to worry anymore! Of course at that point, you can lounge around worry free in your apartment while scratching your crotch from crabs and the Syph. But hey, at least you won't be procreating!

Editor's note: Hello again! As there seems to have been some confusion as to the joke I made about the morning after pill, I decided to state for the record that no, of course I do not think that women who want to use the morning after pill are lazy sluts. My only problem is with people who use it regularly as their only method of birth control because it could be seen as a quick fix in place of acting responsibly. And when I say only, I don't mean a one time mistake with the hot Turkish entertainment director at the your vacation resort either. So keep on gettin it on everyone!

As I ponder that fact that it is, in fact, August, I ask myself, what is it that I actually did this summer? I clearly have spent little time working on my research or organizing my files, as I wanted to. Hawaii was over 2 months ago, so what the hell have I been doing since?! I'm going to have to investigate past blog entries from this summer to find out if I have actually done anything at all. My gut feeling is no, not so much. Hope you all are staying cool and leading infinitely more interesting lives than I am in Central PA right now. Later!