{"id":12717,"date":"2008-02-19T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/19\/yet-another-personality-quiz.html"},"modified":"2008-02-19T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:49:07","slug":"yet_another_personality_q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/19\/yet_another_personality_q.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet another Personality Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which are, of course, an excuse for folks to talk about about themselves, in the guise of (publicly) talking “just answering the quiz.” Pandora’s meme via BD<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A. Absotively. And quite happy to be there, too.<\/p>\n

2) What was your dream growing up?
A. At various times a lawyer, a teacher a computer programmer, a journalist, a history professor ….<\/p>\n

3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. I wish I were better with casual people skills.<\/p>\n

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. At a lunch, most likely iced tea. If a soda, a diet cola (preferably a Coke Zero). If a wine, a Zinfandel (red, natch). If mixed drinks, a gin martini, very dry, with a twist.<\/p>\n

5) Favorite vegetable?
A. Corn, most likely.<\/p>\n

6) What was the last book you read?
A. Just today finished Jim Butcher’s latest Harry Dresden novel, White Night <\/em>(review likely to follow soon).<\/p>\n

7) What zodiac sign are you?
A. Capricorn. If one believed in such things, one would point to my relative conservatism (not so much political as existential) as proof of that.<\/p>\n

8) Any Tattoos and\/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. None. Needles and other flesh-piercing bits are so not my bag, baby — and my tastes vary such that getting a tattoo is almost a guarantee for lifelong regret. I can imagine, were I not a Professional at an Engineering Company, possibly getting an ear stud, but it’s all generally unlikely.<\/p>\n

9) Worst Habit?
A. Followin my innate fear of making a fool of myself.<\/p>\n

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. I generally dress nicely and look friendly, even harmless, so — assuming I actually got up the nerve to hitchhike — probably so.<\/p>\n

11) What is your favorite sport?
A. Golf.<\/p>\n

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. I have an innate optimism about people and things. I also tend to be contrarian, so in the midst of other optimists, I’ll be the one pointing out all the possibilities of things going wrong.<\/p>\n

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Engage in idle chit-chat. Talk about families, passtimes, etc. If you decided to be anti-social, I’d likely have a book with me I could read.<\/p>\n

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. Dealing with a profoundly mentally\/emotionally disturbed spouse for, oh, two years or so. Ironically, in some ways, also the best thing that ever happened to me (in terms of outcomes and personal growth).<\/p>\n

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. My brother-in-law and I were born in the same hospital — and my wife and brother were also born in the same (different) hospital, only a few weeks apart..<\/p>\n

16) Do you have any pets?
A. Two cats, at the moment..<\/p>\n

17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. Nngyeah, politeness, hey-how’s-it-going, but likely somewhat antisocial behavior in my part. I’m an introvert (people close to me roll my eyes at the understatement) and tend to react less hospitably than I think I should when thrust into social situations I’m not expecting or prepared for.<\/p>\n

18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm…careful!)
A. [Okay, at this point I have to presume it’s the person I inherited the quiz from.] Big smiles, sense of humor \/ bon mots, wide range of interests.<\/p>\n

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Never have gotten into the scary-clowns meme.<\/p>\n

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. For the love of God, please do something about my complexion.<\/p>\n

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. Conscience, most likely.<\/p>\n

22) What color eyes do you have?
A. Hazel.<\/p>\n

23) Ever been arrested?
A. Nope.<\/p>\n

24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Individual serving bottles > cans > 2L bottles.<\/p>\n

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Fix the thrice-bedamned sewer line problem in the front yard.<\/p>\n

27) What’s your favorite place to hang at?
A. Home.<\/p>\n

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. I am rational enough to mistrust others’ anecdotal evidence, and romantic\/emotional enough to be influenced by my own.<\/p>\n

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A. If pressed to a single thing, read.<\/p>\n

30) Do you swear a lot?
A. More than I used to, and less than I used to. Having a 7-year-old daughter makes one sensitive to such things.<\/p>\n

31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. I have a zillion of them. The first that comes to mind (though I sense it’s not the “biggest”) is kids commercials \/ shows where the point is to show what idiots adults \/ parents are. Folks who mistake aesthetics for morality are probably a bigger one, though.<\/p>\n

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Nice. (If I had two words, I’d probably fall back on the Douglas Adams “Mostly Harmless.”)<\/p>\n

33) Do you believe\/appreciate romance?
A. I am a hopeless romantic, yes. Though, in the face of others being romantic, that contrarian streak tends to come to the fore.<\/p>\n

35) Do you believe in God?
A. Yup. Though I tend to be more than a scosh heterodox in what I think She’s like.<\/p>\n

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A. QED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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