| I got 46, which actually seems right, at least in part (and that almost never happens with these things), so kinda fun:
Read on, this is very interesting!
Here's something that you may find interesting ... it's a ten question
psychological profile don't be overly sensitive!
The following is very accurate and it only takes 2 minutes.
Don't peek but begin the test as you scroll down and answer.
Answers are for who you are now ... not who you were in the past.
Have pen or pencil and paper ready.
This is a real test given by a local Human Relations department...
Ready?? Begin..
1 . When do you feel your best?
a) in the morning
b) during the afternoon and early evening
c) late at night
2. You usually walk
a) fairly fast, with long steps
b) fairly fast, with little steps
c) less fast head up, looking the world in the face
d) less fast, head down
e) very slowly
3. When talking to people you
a) stand with your arms folded
b) have your hands clasped
c) have one or both your hands on your hips
d) touch or push the person to whom you are talking
e) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your hair
4. When relaxing, you sit with
a) your knees bent with your legs neatly side by side
b) your legs crossed
c) your legs stretched out or straight
d) one leg curled under you
5. When something really amuses you, you react with
a) a big, appreciative laugh
b) a laugh, but not a loud one
c) a quiet chuckle
d) a sheepish smile
6. When you go to a party or social gathering YOU
a) make a loud entrance so everyone notices you
b) make a quiet entrance, looking around for someone you know
c) make the quietest entrance, trying to stay unnoticed
7. You're working very hard, concentrating hard, and you're interrupted; do you...
a) welcome the break
b) feel extremely irritated
c) vary between these two extremes
8. Which of the following colors do you like most?
a) Red or orange
b) black
c) yellow or light blue
d) green
e) dark blue or purple
f) white
g) brown or gray
9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few moments before
going to sleep, you lie
a) stretched out on your back
b) stretched out face down on your stomach
c) on your side, slightly curled
d) with your head on one arm
e) with your head under the covers
10. You often dream that you are
a) falling
b) fighting or struggling
c) searching for something or somebody
d) flying or floating
e) you usually have dreamless sleep
f) your dreams are always pleasant POINTS:
1. (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6
2. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 2 (e) 1
3. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 7 (e) 6
4. (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 1
5. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 2
6. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 2
7. (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4
8. (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 3 (f) 2 (g) 1
9. (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 2 (e) 1
10. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 6 (f) 1
Now add up the total number of points.
OVER 60 POINTS:
Others see you as someone they should "handle with
care." You're seen as vain, self-centered, and who is extremely
dominant. Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you,
but don't always trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you.
51 TO 60 POINTS:
Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality;
a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions,
though not always the right ones. They see you as bold and
adventuresome, someone who will try anything once; someone who takes
chances and enjoys an adventure. They enjoy being in your company because of
the excitement you radiate.
41 TO 50 POINTS:
Others see you as fresh,lively, charming, amusing, practical,
and always interesting; someone who's constantly in the center of
attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head.
They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding;
someone who'll always cheer them up and help them out.
31 TO 40 POINTS:
Others see you as sensible, cautious, careful & practical.
They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest. Not a person
who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely
loyal to friends you do make and who expect the same loyalty in
return. Those who really get to know you realize it takes a lot to
shake your trust in your friends, but equally that it takes you a long
time to get over it if that trust is ever broken.
21 TO 30 POINTS:
Your friends see you as painstaking and fussy. They see you as very
cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It'd really
surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on the spur
of the moment, expecting you to examine everything carefully from every
angle and then, usually decide against it. They think this reaction is
caused partly by your careful nature.
UNDER 21 POINTS:
People think you are shy, nervous, and indecisive, someone who needs looking after,
who always wants someone else to make the decisions
& who doesn't want to get involved with anyone or anything.
They see you as a worrier who always sees problems that don't exist.
Some people think you're boring.
Only those who know you well know that you aren't. | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment   |
| I'm only posting this because it seems so bizarrely off (I think, I'm trying to think back to how on earth I answered the questions)
Your result for The Best Thing About You Test ...
Passion
Hot! Passion is your greatest virtue
Passion
Passion is an intense emotion that compels feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for anything, and that often requires action. Get that? Requires action. It's very likely you submit to your deepest needs and live life with a flair few others achieve, but many envy. All 7 virtues are a part of you, but your passion runs deepest.
Passionate types: artists, writers, composers, athletes, and heroine addicts.
Your raw relative scores follow. 0% is low, and 100% is perfect, nearly impossible. Note that I pitted the virtues against each other, so in some way these are relative scores. It's impossible to score high on all of them, and a low score on one is just relatively low compared to the other virtues.
YOUR VIRTUES
50% Compassion
44% Intelligence
38% Humility
44% Honesty
13% Discipline
29% Courage
58% Passion | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Song list Poem creation
1. Put itunes (or similar) on shuffle (skip instrumental music)
2. Listen to 21 songs
3. The first line of songs 1-20 are the lines of your poem (no changing order, but put the stanzas as you want)
4. The first line of song 21 is the title
Out the Door Just in Time
Send a heartbeat though a void that cries though you
At midnight I'll call
Oh no, I see
Reach out and touch faith
What would you think if I sang out of tune?
Ice age heat wave can't complain
My bodyguard shows her revolver to anyone who asks
I got nothing
Where did my baby go?
I'd swim across lake Michigan
Bike down, down to the downtown
In every story, every secret told, you are not the first to wake up
Racey days help me through the hopeless haze
I don't need to be anything other than a prison guards son
How can it feel so nice
Under my cloud
I turn my camera on
My drum, my drum, my drum, gonna make you my drum
Inside out upside down twisting beside myself
I come over early in the morning
Creative? not really Amusing? Very much
Can you guess the songs? | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Waiting
I got there at 2pm, second person there, although it turned out that he was holding a place for 7 other people. Oh well, I got the best seat:) After lots of waiting, while in the little holding room episodes of the show were on. People started off just talking to each other, but gradually everyone just started watching. So, when the TV was suddenly turned off, by the crew getting us prepped for what to do/expect when we got in (clap fast so you sound like a lot of people! loud laugh!), and some trivia for prizes, there was a giant 'aaaaw' as suddenly we weren't able to watch Stephen's attempt to play the crazy guitar. Of course, we were all quickly mollified.
The toss
I got to see a toss! (I'd really been hoping I'd be able to) We had not been told that Stephen was coming out, so suddenly there was cheering as people in the back noticed. He smiled/waved (threw wriststrong bracelets, maybe?) and headed straight for the desk, and suddenly Jon Stewart was up on the monitors. They talked about random things, brought up Steve Carrell being on the Daily Show, and Jon proudly told about how he'd gotten Steve to do an actual spit take, and when he explained how ("you'll fuck anything that moves")Stephen and the entire audience exploded into laughter and applause. They also talked about Stephen going to talk to them for some apple thing, and he was trying to come up with questions to ask Anne Hathoway. (The audience basically managed to come up with 'her phone number', when Stephen found out she was from Jersey he came up with 'which exit?') After the actual toss, when we heard that Mike Myers would be the Daily Show's next guest Stephen made the comment, "What, so it's just summer party time over there? Why do we have to change the world?" Which made the crew and audience laugh, he then quickly left, while the warm-up guy (Pete? Paul?) came out.
Official ready for the show time
Of course he came out running, around the desk, made a flying leap off the step (onto the tape of where he had fallen when he broke his wrist, apparently no lesson learned.) I think I was the first to get a high five, although it was more of a finger touch at that point, but I got a second one when he came from the other way. There were no spectacular questions, although one about the pronunciation of his name did inspire him to go into a funny rant about people coming to his place and telling him what to do, and then explain that he's found out that everyone in the past several generations of his family has been Irish, and only married other Irish people, despite having gone separate ways. And he introduced his wife, who was at the taping, and tried to stop him from telling a story about how she had known Jon Stewart (then Leibowitz) first, when he was the unfunny guy who didn't really talk. He got the audience excited and yelling, competing for which side would yell louder, and finally said, "And they wonder how Hitler came to power", threw the mic to a crew member, ran to the desk and actually got started.
The show
Everything went off without a hitch, he had one slightly messed up line during the interview, which resulted with him doing a partial head desk while laughing about being unable to get a joke out, before he did it again. It was really fun to see the crew enjoying themselves so much through the whole show also, and I loved that the cameras never actually seemed to be in my way, even though I was in the front row and they came very close.
In between and after
Good music all around. During the first break, when the makeup/script people moved away, and the audience was actually able to see him dancing around a bunch of people clapped and cheered, he started miming 'what, for me?' and laughed when we just clapped more. During another break Holland, 1945 was playing, and of course I started singing along, because I think that's just subconscious at this point. He seemed to be singing along and actually searching through the audience, shielding his eyes with the script, and when he noticed I was singing along too he did a very exaggerated point. Apparently we both knew all the words, but he was being really funny with how he was singing, which made me laugh a few times and lose my place. When it was over there was lots of bowing and applause, and then it was over. THe Laws Have Changed by the New Pornographers was playing while we left, which I loved. The whole experience was like a huge high, it was amazing and addicting and I definitely want to go again. (I only hope next time a pre-line waiting friend will be able to come with me!) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| So, the general consensus at school today: we shouldn't have been there. Not because of snow, the roads were of course clear at bus driving time. But, there have been issues with the heating system.
I actually left early yesterday, as I had Starbucks, and missed the excitement. Apparently, during the last period of school, a pipe burst in the band room. Luckily, people were off schedule, as usually at that time the band director would be helping a lot of 5th grade students get their instruments to take home from the instrument storage room. They happened to be running late, and then the fire alarm went off, so everybody evacuated rather than going for instrument pick-up. The band director discovered shortly afterward that water and steam were filling the storage room, and spilling out into the band room, from a scalding burst heating pipe in the ceiling. The fire department was called, somehow the immediate problem was taken care of, although now we all have to wait for an insurance company to come assess the damage. Of course, the large amounts of very hot steam then leaked out through windows and a door, outside the building, making it look like the band room was actually on fire to people standing outside.
So, today, rumors were running wild. "I heard there was a huge fire" "I heard their was a massive flood that spilled down the stairs like a waterfall" "I heard it was so hot the trumpets melted and were spilling out of the room like molten lava" "I heard there was blood on the stairs" - I'm pretty sure that last rumor actually involved a gun fight with the band director protecting all the instruments in a massive fight. To quote her reaction, "You all play too much Halo". So, 5th grade band was basically a long explanation, constantly repeating what really happened, answering questions about instruments, telling them what's going to happen now, as far as we know.
Of course, there were still so many random questions that the other band director (who splits her time between the high school and the middle school) finally just went (with massive storytelling theatrics). "Fine! If that's the way you want it, here's how it went: The pipe burst! Water is flooding like a massive waterfall into the band room (I start pantomiming the falling water). Mrs C desperately tries to save all the instruments, but can't! Finally, she tries to paddle out of the band room" (Mrs C starts miming being in a row boat) A kid shouts out "On a baritone case!" The band director continues: "Yes! She's paddling out of the band room on a baritone case, down the waterfall on the steps!" And at that moment, the 100 students in the 5th grade band start singing Row Row Row Your Boat to accompany our theatrics. So, I gotta say, at least one good moment came out of the whole thing.
Still, they were fixing the heating system all day, apparently only parts of the school really had heat, some had too much, some too little. The fire alarm was pulled once, their have been other leaks throughout the building... Craziness. *Fingers crossed* That things actually manage to get taken care of quickly. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Musician Doo doo de doo waaaa doo de doo! (<-- That's you playing something.) Everyone appreciates the band/orchestra geeks and the pretty voices. Whether you sing in the choir, participate in a school/local band, or sit at home writing music, you contribute a joy to society that everyone can agree on. Yay! Welcome to actually doing something for poor, pathetic human souls. (Just kidding.) | | Artistic Nerd | | | Drama Nerd | | | Literature Nerd | | | Social Nerd | | | Gamer/Computer Nerd | | | Anime Nerd | | | Science/Math Nerd | | What Be Your Nerd Type?
Quizzes for MySpace |
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| Ok, don't normally do these things, but I found this fun. And, it gave me a chance to play around with "Gimp" (my computers version of photoshop). As it turns out, I suck with both of them, as much as I like the idea, I apparently can't communicate with computer program type things and they just frustrate me.
Anyways, it's a create your own CD thing
follow these steps:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
the first article on the page is the name of your band
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
the last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album
3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
the third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.
4. Use the graphics program of your choice to combine these elements and post the result at your journal.
And here's the only one on which Gimp cooperated with me even a little bit:
(Sadly, this is also the one where I slightly cheated, and chose a different picture, because it was so much better than 3 brightly colored bowls)
And this one almost worked (except that I couldn't figure out the smudge tool, and the text wouldn't move):
Anyways, woohoo fun instead of work! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 12:02 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/twotone/hamsters/tired_hammy.gif) tired |
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| | Soooooooo tired. A day of teaching + 8 hour shift at sbux is too much time on my feet. This is not the way to start a week, especially considering that it looks like I'm going to be busy about all day every day until Christmas. (Thinking: don't need to call in sick tomorrow, really should work all my shifts, but :( ). I really do enjoy both jobs, and both were really fun today (besides the disappointment of no snow day), but too much. Need sleeeeeeep. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Stupid accompaniment stuck in my head | | Subject: | Job stuff | | Time: | 10:39 pm |
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| So, I may have a part-time general music job soon, or something. It's all very confusing. So, I've been a sub for Copley, a school district near me. It's been a pretty slow/long start, I was going to apply to Akron City Schools, as with many more buildings I figured many more opportunities. But then, this Thursday, I was called to sub in high school history. (At least 3 people thought I was a student, including the teacher I was subbing for. He was apologetic, I was amused.) So, I introduce myself to the music teachers in the school, and they briefly mention that there may be a 'half-time' position opening up at the middle school, and I should look into it. Which was very cool, I planned to. Then, the next day, while I was out an about (with Rachel, yay!) I get a message from some lady at Copley, asking if I'm available for a week long music sub position, also mentioning the future potential half-time position. Of course, I said yes. And, through messages, never a direct conversation, I was told to report to the school on Monday, as a sub, and look up two of the music teachers in the building, that is all.
So, I get there this morning, and I'm not really subbing, I'm filling in this half-time music position which isn't really fully formed yet, but hired as a sub. One of the teachers I was told to go to wasn't there, the other knew what was going on, and helped fill me in, and is still taking care of things, but still wasn't who I ended up working with. I ended up having 'team teaching' with someone, as my classes had to be fit in with hers.
Apparently, the school switched over to block scheduling this year, which is working great for the 'core' classes, but has not really been organized for the 'special' classes, resulting in extreme overcrowding problems for the existing teachers. The teacher I'm working with primarily right now told me at the beginning of the year she was given 120 students in a general music class, many of whom had not signed up for music. She wasn't given any real roster, there wasn't enough room, homeroom teachers just kept bringing groups of students to her. Since then they've switched how 'specials' classes are organized 2-3 times, Shifting around large groups of students in all the classes, so now there are at least reasonable numbers. But there seems to be complete chaos as to who and what the students have had and been doing until this point. Part of the new solution for this 'rotation' is that a part time teacher is being hired to teach three general music classes, mine, at least temporarily. However, there's no actual room set aside for these classes. (We were told the idea was to put them in the keyboard lab, not going to work). So, for now, these three classes are sharing a room with other general music classes, hence the 'team teaching', with the woman I'm mostly working with.
It's all quite chaotic. I came in with literally nothing, no teacher plans to work off of. For the moment, I can't really do my own thing, as we're sharing a room, and teaching two entirely different music classes in the same room right next to each other wouldn't work too great. For now, we basically just went with her plans and such, seeing as that she has plans, which feels reminiscent of student teaching, and odd because that's supposed to be over. I was generally introduced as 'the new general music teacher', and spoken with about planning how I wanted the curriculum for these classes to go, when, technically, I'm only hired as a sub for a week. (Good to know that it seems that my chances of a more permanent position for the year is a good chance if I want it though.)
Anyways, rambly. I had also just agreed to accompany a musical for my brother this weekend, only just got the music for it today, so I have to work that and rehearsals into my schedule for the week too... plus piano for church, plus Starbucks. How on earth does so much end up happening so fast?? | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Your Score: Micah Sanders You scored 54 Idealism, 33 Nonconformity, 45 Nerdiness
Can we play Scrabble tonight?Congratulations, you're Micah Sanders! You're good-natured, intelligent, perceptive, and naturally inclined toward technology. You're also quite innocent and loving. You've got a fondness for computers and Scrabble. Your best quality: You're extremely perceptive Your worst quality: You can be a little demanding at times
Oddly not surprising, even if he's a character I'm not incredibly fond of. I have heard he's supposed to be an amazing pianist though:) | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| Exciting day at work... or at least it was up until right before I got there, but it's just too good not to share, so I'm going to recount as it was told to me.
First of all, when I showed up there were 3 cop cars around the store, lights flashing, and many more cops than we usually ever have. They were however, drinking coffee and appeared to just be talking so I wasn't tooooo worried, but still kind've slow in approaching. One of the guys I work with was talking with them, so I went to ask him what was going on, he just laughed and said not to worry about it, so no need to worry, everything really was fine.
The story he later told: (complete with a lot of acting out that made everything so much better)
Apparently, maybe an hour before I got to work, as things were going fairly slow, just a couple customers, the two people working are mostly just standing and chatting as they get a few drinks, and suddenly a guy runs into the store screaming that a man is chasing him, trying to kill him, and has a gun. All anybody manages to do is stare as he runs to the back, ducks down behind the bar and then army crawls into our back room. A moment later he sees a guy in the parking lot looking around and holding a 'black object' in his hand. So, everybody's trying to stay calm, he's hoping that they're not all going to get shot as the supposed guy with a gun is trying to get to the man in the back room, and he calls the police. So, the message the police get is something about a man chasing another man, with a gun, at the store.
Well, nothing happened, the guy in the parking lot seemed to disappear, so my co-worker goes to the back room to check on the other guy. The man's hiding in the corner with a pastry tray and a couple boxes in front of him. Co-worker assures him that everything's ok, nobody's in the store trying to kill him. So, the man comes out of hiding, and then starts to tell this long story about living with his girlfriend, and some problems that has caused said girlfriend to hire someone to follow him around all day and try to kill him. In the meantime, by the way he's acting, my friend at work's getting the idea that either this guy hasn't taken some kind've medication he should be on, or has taken too much of something. In the middle of all this, the first police officer gets on the scene and tries to get in through the back door (which causes an alarm to go off if not done a certain way), he's a regular customer, and very sweet, we all know him well, and my co-worker immediately recognizes him and manages to get the door open with out the alarm going off, and then sees that he's trying to stealthily enter, with his gun drawn. So, co-worker immediately assures him there are no guns in the store, everything seems to be ok. Sweet police officer puts his gun back, and then looks over to see the man who's been hiding in the back room and says, 'Oh, not him again!'. Apparently, he'd been dealing with this man, who really was just crazy, all day.
But, still, the police had gotten the message 'Gunman is here'. So moments later, the store is surrounded by six cop cars, with sirens/flashing lights, and many police officers.... They seemed to enjoy their coffee.
And I came by right before the last of them left.
Notes: - The guy in the parking lot was just a delivery guy from the next door pizza place, carrying a cell phone.
- Right before coming in, crazy man had been in the parking lot as a random man decided to go into the pizza place for an application. He came out to find crazy man crouched by his car copying down his license plate. When he asked him what he was doing, crazy man stood up and started screaming that he was trying to kill him, ran into our store, and that's when everything started.
So, that's what I have to report after a long hiatus. I hope everybody's lives are interesting and well:) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Baby crying on the street | | Time: | 04:51 pm |
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| I was given a very nice camera last Christmas, and am only now taking pictures off of it. Well, maybe it's the third time since then, but there are still more than 200 pictures to go through and it's rather annoying trying to get all of them organized. *sigh* Anyways, there should be new albums of summer happening, plus more on facebook very soon.
Edit: Chicago pictures are up! Complete with running commentary:) More to come. Note, it only took me so long because I also made a quiche. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Random
I should actually update this at some point... ah well. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Nicole's wedding was beautiful, and yaaaay for seeing people again!!! I can't vouch for everybody else, but I had a wonderful time, and am now quite tired. I'll post pictures when I remember how to transfer the few I have from my camera, and then when I apprehend the ones taken by Chae and Nadia (Nicole's cousin/photographer). | | comments: Leave a comment |
| A cute random dog (king spaniel we think) just wandered into my house as I was walking in. It's lacking a collar, so we're trying to figure out how to find who it belongs to. So far it's been happily following Toby around, so we sent them outside to play where cute dog will be visible, although Toby seems a little put out at needing to "babysit".
Ino other news, Dana just officially graduated!! Yay her! We will soon be off to continue the constant grad festivities at a friend's house, yay for good free food. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| The Memorial Day weekend family visit event was fun as usual, made even better by added family coming from Florida. The Indy 500 people were apparently partially rained out, but Monday was a fabulous day at the cabin. I really should put up pictures, it had an idyllic quality to it, especially watching the three little boys (6,4 and 3, I think) fishing off the end of the dock with a little black lab puppy trying to steal what they caught.
Today I had a screening interview for Louisville, which would be the interview to do over the phone considering the distance, but seeing as that I was already in Indianapolis I felt I could do in person. I'm still not entirely sure it was worth the cost of gas (ugh) but it was nice to see the area. Discoveries: I hate questions about 'techniques to build a rapport with students', as if it's something that should come with a manual, or 'students' are a predictable being, or there's a methodology behind it. Kentucky is very nice to drive through. 'Yes, ma'am' sounds much better when said by somebody further South. And I should never drive with Dana unless I'm willing to be scared shitless at random points by truckers who like to honk their horns. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Time: | 12:10 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/twotone/hamsters/smiling_hammy.gif) chipper |
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| Just saw Pirates 3, and overall, I'm quite happy:) No, it's not as wonderful as the first, but I don't think it could have been. There are also parts I have issues with, and I'd like to go back sometime and make notes about motivations so I can figure out exactly who was doing what and how/if things really fit together, but overall yay! It made me laugh, it brought back great characters, it referenced the ride, Cpt. Jack Sparrow finally became himself again!! (I wasn't happy with what was going on with him in the last one) And the ending... :) Loved it.
One problem - no dressing up fun, that will probably be amended in some way with Harry Potter events to come.
Ugh, I sound like a stupid teenage girl, shutting up now. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
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