Awesome, Something Else to Worry About All Day

| May 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Found this quiz over at Suze’s. Based on my last post, the results were as expected.

Your Score: The True Neurotic

You scored 70 anxiety, 85 awkwardness, and 51 neuroticism!

Congratulations, you are The True Neurotic, you nail-biting, conflict-avoiding worrier, you. You’re plagued by self-doubt and anxiety, which makes social activity hard–even though you may be well-liked, you feel under a storm of silent criticism. It doesn’t help that people give you funny looks for organizing all your pens by color or sharpening your gnawed pencils to a delicate point.

Your high anxiety score implies that you are unable to relax, worry about the future often, and probably are plagued by irrational fears and self-doubt.

Your high awkwardness score implies that you are socially inept, probably stick out from the crowd, and feel uncomfortable in large groups of people, such as at parties.

Your high neuroticism score implies that you exhibit neurotic behaviors–probably organization, fanatic obsessions (can you recite the entire first LOTR movie?), repetitive mantras, constant checking, or orderly rituals.

Link: The Neurotic Test written by littlelostsnail on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test
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Memoir, Abridged

| March 3rd, 2008 | 6 Comments

If you’ve known me for any length of time, you are probably aware that I’m not one to embrace memes (that’s a hint never to tag me unless you enjoy being disappointed). However, there are exceptions to every rule. In this case, I found the Six-Word Memoir Meme (which I discovered over at A Curious State of Affairs . . .) too thought-provoking and fun to skip.

The inspiration for the meme came from the book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Famous and Obscure Writers, which in turn was based on an anecdote that Hemingway once bet ten dollars that he could sum up his life in just six words. His memoir was reduced to: For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Tending to be wordy myself, compressing my whole life into such a short span seems a worthy challenge.

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Posted by Stacey in Meme, Memoir